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Power Rangers: Camelot

So, this is not a full story. Each chapter will only give an overview over an episode. Chapter may accumulate more detail over time. The idea is to broaden the possibilities of Power Rangers a bit by using other settings than modern America or generic space.

And one idea I had is to go for Arthurian lore. And I mean, go there directly. This is set in Camelot. Arthur is the Red Ranger.

There will be few physical descriptions of the characters as the idea is that they could be played by real actors who are not yet cast. (Obviously, that won't happen. For more than one reason. It's just part of the fun for me.) There personalities should also mostly arise from the plot.

There will be more characters than are tagged right now, as well as relationships. I will add more when they come up. There will be so many that the actors alone would not fit into a Power Rangers budget anymore.
(And even more extras. Like, Bors the Elder is around from the start and Bors the Younger joins later, but I am barely mentioning them in the current draft as they are basically just background knights ...)

Obviously, this will not be historically accurate. Or mythologically accurate. It is as accurate to Power Rangers as I could manage, as it is supposed to be set in the continuity of the tv show. It ignores Hyper Force, treating that as a different timeline, either from the start or because of time travel nonsense. So this Camelot will not match the one from "A Ranger at King Arthur's Court".

For now, there are no warnings. Sooner or later a "Major Character Death" may be necessary, because ... well, it is Arthurian Mythology, characters die. And it is Power Rangers, so villains die. But fewer major characters than you might expect.

Some people may ask what I am doing here and if I shouldn't work on my DuckTales stuff and to that I can only say, I am working on it. My newest is Legend of the Chaos God which I posted as part of various shows, as it is the big crossover movie.

The overall plot is for this show is worked out, suggestions for details are welcome.

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We get setup. At first in the style of a storybook. The land of Britain that is divided in many kingdoms. Human kingdoms and the two realms of the Fey, Fae or Sidhe, that are on no map, as they are everywhere and nowhere: The Seelie and the Unseelie. The Seelie have the rule to not get involved in human affairs, except under very specific circumstances. The Unseelie have no such compuctions. Especially Dragons and Giants are just taking whatever they want and fey Sorcerers make deals with the worst of humanity.
Merlin, half human, half fey, wants to change things and since he is not fully bound to the Seelie court law, he does. When Uther Pendragon, king of Camelot [we are calling the kingdom Camelot, because that's the name the kids are used to, I mean, what kid has ever heard of "Logres"?], impresses him, Merlin gives him a blade forged by the greatest fey blacksmiths and connected to a power source older than humans or Sidhe. With that, Uther fights the Unseelie and forges alliances with the neighboring kingdoms.
But something goes wrong. Uther falls, his sword thrust into a stone. The last time anyone saw Merlin was when he appeared at the court of Camelot and announced that whoever can pull the sword from the stone is Uther’s true heir.

Switch to live-action, as we see who tells this story. It is Sir Ector, speaking to his sons Kay and Arthur. Both are older teens / young adults, Kay is the older one. Kay points out that he knows the story, that’s why he wants to try pulling out the sword. Ector then adds that ever since Uther’s death, Queen Ygraine can barely control the knights and other nobles who govern Camelot, the alliances with the neighbors have been broken and nobody stands up to the Unseelie and other threats. And nobody has managed to pull the sword out of the stone yet.
We see a bit more of Arthur and Kay preparing for the trip.
Optically everything is a bit more technologically advanced than would be historically correct and much more polished.

The Unseelie Court. Dark place, typical Power Rangers villain lair. It has a bit of plastic sci-fi feel. The representatives of the different Unseelie kinds are there (we see a knight in dark armor, the face hidden, a bearded giant, a snakelike water dragon and … not sure what the sorcerer looks like, but they can’t have a visible human face, probably a full face mask that looks like a strange alien face) but they don’t all get introduced by name here. Queen Mab does. She has a visible human face and wears an elaborate dark costume. Wings? Maybe. And the representative of the Sorcerers is important because they inform Queen Mab that someone special is on the way to pull the sword from the stone, someone who might possibly succeed.
[Viewers might think that they are referring to Arthur. They are not.]
The representative of the giants, Ysbaddaden, suggest to just send someone to take the sword together with the stone. Mab agrees and orders him to send one of his warriors.

We get to the stone. Big stone, sword sticking in that looks like in the storybook, but now that it is real you can see that it is clearly a PR prop. Plastic. A root coming from somewhere is coiled around the stone. There are lots of people here, not just a line of candidates but also lots of onlookers. Kay and Arthur arrive and so do Guinevere and Lancelot. The latter two should be very obviously best friends. Think the versions of Glimmer and Bow from "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power".
The characters get a bit of time to know each other when Kay disagrees with G and L over who arrived first and should therefore take the next place in the line. We also see the line get shorter when people try and fail to pull the sword out.
And there is a person in the hood who arrives a bit later in the scene. Is this the fey warrior? No.
The fey warrior is way more obvious. A Giant (who is not that giant yet, but still big) with some gimmick who just crashes into the scene. A simple gimmick like, one especially big hand. He plows through the dispersing crowd and tries to lift the whole stone.
Arthur, Kay, Guinevere and Lancelot all fight the Giant, but we soon see why normal people have problems with that. Kay gets hurt, taken out of the fight, Arthurs weapon, not a sword, maybe a dagger, does nothing. Lancelot and Guinevere manage to outmaneuver the Giant and seemingly destroy him – but the Giant gets up again and grows bigger.
Arthur grabs the first weapon that he can get his hands on … and pulls the sword out of the stone. Everyone is surprised by that, the hooded figure pulls back the hood (it’s Morgause).
The Giant assesses the situation correctly and tries to smash Arthur, but is too late – Arthur has a transformation sequence and becomes way harder to kill. We have our Red Ranger.
Arthur is completely disoriented, but then he hears a voice (Merlin) telling him what to do.
The sword contains two more morphers, blue and yellow. Since Kay is out of commission, Arthur tosses them to Lancelot and Guinever.
Those morphers are a tiny quarterstaff (blue) and mace (yellow) who quickly grow to normal size. Of course, like the sword, they contain jewels in the corresponding color.
The Giant is smarter than you would expect and knows something that the humans don’t know. He grabs the root that wraps around the rock and severs it. Merlin’s voice is gone.
Now, there are no Zords yet, so three Rangers have to fight a giant monster in their normal form. They end up using the severed root to make the Giant stumble and fall so Arthur can stab him with the sword and destroy him.

Mab gets the news and the dialog reveals that the fey were worried about Princess Morgause, not some random kid. But either way, they now have a problem.

At the stone, Morgause begrudgingly declares that Arthur (she has to ask for his name) is now king of Camelot.
And on that note, we end the episode.

So ...
An introduction for some of our characters. For now, the villains are just generic PR villains, not that deep. As usual they will gain some depths later. Arthur is introduced as brave (immediately springing into action against the Giant), humble (he never intended to take the sword) and clearly inexperienced. Lancelot and Guinevere are more accomplished fighters (they beat the Giant initially) and have known each other for a while, though they appear to be no older than Arthur, not much more is revealed yet. And Morgause, slightly older than Arthur, more Kay's age, is a bit mysterious for now, as is Merlin who so far only appears in a storybook and as a voice. Kay is ambitious but also heroic. He clearly loves his younger brother, but he may underestimate him a bit, as it never occured to him that Arthur could try for the sword.

And here I will put the rare bit of casting plans that may show up here and there: ideally, Lancelot is played by a trans man. It isn't necessary, but it would match my vision best. Also, ideally Arthur and Lancelot are both the same ethnicity, for reasons that will apply in the very end.

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The castle. It is notably more modern than Sir Ector’s. Still medieval in style, but clearly magitek-infused. We meet Ygraine, we meet a bunch of knights and staff.
There is some debate what pulling the sword from the stone really means, but Ygraine insists that Uther trusted Merlin and so does she, if Arthur could pull out the sword, he is the one Uther chose as his heir.
The court overall takes this as Arthur being Uther’s son and Arthur and Kay can confirm that Arthur is adopted, so it is possible.
Queen Ygraine decides to not comment on that. Morgause questions her on that in private and if it has not been cleared up that Morgause is Uther’s stepdaughter, it is now. Ygraine insists that Arthur must be Uther's rightful heir and to Morgause questions if she had a son she abandoned, she prefers not to answer. Morgause has to let it go eventually.

We meet some knights who are already at the court, some from Uther's time, some younger. One of the knights that we meet is Sir Caradoc who fought on Uther’s side back in the day and does not believe that Arthur really is the rightful heir.
While Arthur gets used to all this, the news spread and some answers from various nobles arrive. Not everyone is happy with that random boy becoming king.

We cut to the villains. The Unseelie Court debates and decides to do something more subtle this time. The Sorcerer tricks Caradoc into a deal. Caradoc gets some sort of power, like superhuman reflexes, and also convinces some other knights to join him in an attack on Arthur.

More Arthur preparing for the coronation, finally we get to the coronation, attack happens.
In this fight we see that Caradocs preferred weapon is the dagger. It seems like just a stylistic detail now, but will come up later. Since their opponents are human, the Rangers first don’t transform. Caradoc uses his power in a subtle way. But then the powers are revealed and the other knights stop supporting Caradoc. He goes full cursed form and maybe even loses control over himself and we get a Power Rangers battle. For the first time, Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere use the season's finishing move together. No giant form this time, though, when beaten, Caradoc just returns to normal.

There is some more stuff to handle and the coronation can finally take place. Afterwards the Rangers talk and Artur says that the whole thing is still confusing to him and he wishes he could just talk to Merlin. Lancelot suggests just visiting Merlin. Guinevere points out that nobody knows where Merlin is. That’s news to Lancelot. He knows exactly.
And on that note we end the episode.

So ...
Yeah, naming the kingdom Camelot leaves the castle nameless. I'm sure that can be worked around.
While Ygraine should obviously be cast to be believably Morgause' mother, she does not necessary have to look like she could be Arthur's mother as one easy read of her behaviour (that of course would not be spelled out in PR) is that Uther cheated on her and Arthur's mother is someone else.
It is not part of the plot so much, but obviously we get some more from Lancelot and Guinevere here. Both are obviously used to being at a noble court, but Guinevere moves a bit more carefully, like she isn't used to being on this side of the equation. She certainly doesn't appear to be the daughter of King Leodegrance in this version.
Arthur is willing to take the throne, but not exactly enthusiastic about this. He doesn't care about power and just wants to do a good job. His humility is almost too perfect ... certainly won't be a weakness later on.
We see a bunch of people who don't get named here, but will be later. That older knight is Bors the Elder (who will never be important to the plot, though), that guard is Dinadan (who WILL be important to the plot) and that young knight is Ywain (who was in the character tags from the start, so ... guess).
At some point we should have a mention of Ygraine's first husband, Morgause' father, Duke Gorlois. No details about him yet.

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Arhur, Guinevere, Lancelot and Kay go see Merlin.
Realistically, they would ride horses and maybe they do. But in Power Rangers we have people going on quests on foot a lot, so that would be keeping with tradition ...
Lancelot explains that Merlin got too involved in human affairs – he doesn’t know the details – and as punishment was imprisoned in a tree. His mother told him about it and also where that tree is.
Morgause insists on joining. And she points out that the forest where they are going is the home of bandits.

To absolutely nobodies surprise, they get attacked in the woods. While Morgause tells them to take the bandits seriously, they decide to not transform. Turns out to be a bad decision as everyone but Morgause gets overwhelmed by sheer numbers. When Arthur finally tries to transform, he gets interrupted and knocked out. Only Morgause escapes.
Obviously she could go home and get more knights. But that would take some time and also nobody knows where the bandits’ camp is. Merlin is much closer, so Morgause follows Lancelot’s description and gets to a giant tree with a face.
First she talks to the tree face, but then the mouth opens and is actually a door.
The inside is clearly tree but also high tech cave.
She meets Merlin inside. Classic beard-and-pointy-hat Merlin. Well, right now he has a beard. This Merlin ages erratically and over the show will be played by four different actors, a child, a young adult around the same age as the Rangers a man in his forties and a man in his sixties or seventies, which is the form he appears in right now. I will not mention which form he has in any given moment unless it is important to the plot. Morgause explains the situation, Merlin says he can’t get too involved and also can’t leave the tree, but he knows where the bandit camp is and also … he as a spare morpher lying around. The black one. A dagger.
[Tom Thumb might be here as Merlin’s tiny lab assistant. If not, here, then in a later scene. He exists.]

Arthur wakes up, he and his companions are tied up, the bandits rummaging through their stuff. We meet Hueil mab Caw who is probably very Scottish. (But not wearing a kilt. Anachronisms are the norm here, but there are limits.) Where he comes from, plundering your neighbors is just business.
Some back and forth, some bandits trying and failing to use the morphers, Hueil realizing that he has the king here and wondering how much ransom he can demand – then the Black Ranger attacks.
At first it is still a fight, but then Morgause manages to free the others and as soon as they morph the bandits just run.

And now the whole team (and Kay) go to meet Merlin. Merlin clears a few things up and refuses to reveal others. Also Merlin tells them how to find something that they will need: Zords.

So ...
No monster fight this episode, just a brawl with some bandits. Probably a good showing of pseudo-medieval martial arts. Hueil mab Caw is somewhat menacing here, but mostly a humorous character who is no real threat to the morphed Rangers. Since the Rangers are fighting unmorphed for a good time here, Kay can keep up with them, too.
We get our fourth Ranger. I chose Black over Green for reasons that should be pretty obvious. And of course that cements Morgause as a main character, not an antagonist. You probably saw that coming.
According to Wild Force the term "Zord" was already used around 1000 BC. Given that it comes from "Zordon" we can therefore assume that they were named after him when he was still active, not when he returned in the 1990s, so the term has been around for at least 10.000 years. Long story short, we are calling the Zords Zords here.
And ... Merlin. We will get the whole story what he was punished for and why he has the black morpher later on. For now, he fills the mentor role, being unable to get involved personally as he is imprisoned.

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We start in the castle. One of the background knights from episode two, around the same age as our protagonists so far, gets introduced as Ywain.

Arthur and friends are searching and finding the place that Merlin described to them on a map. It is a cave in the mountains. They plan their travel there and Arthur asks Kay to stay behind, both because they might need him here and because Merlin says this could be very dangerous and they should be wearing their suits the whole time and … well, Kay does not have one.

This leads to a B-Plot with Kay and Ywain in the castle while the Rangers go search for the first Zord. (Ideas for a B-Plot are welcome, I don't have any yet.)

Cut to the Unseelie Court. Mab does not like the idea of Arthur getting a Zord and ends up sending a dragon. More specifically, she gives the task to Caoránach, mother of dragons, (the snakelike water dragon) who sends one of her children. The dragons are mostly animalistic. Caoránach is one of the few who can speak and this may be the first time she does, until now she could have been a pet. The one she sends is not the traditional western fantasy dragon, because … you will see. It’s a wyrm. Snakelike like Caoránach but visibly more earth themed. Armored with stone scales and such.

The Rangers are traveling and reaching the area, transforming before exploring. They find the cave Merlin mentioned. And are greeted by a huge blast of fire. Good thing they transformed before coming here.

And here we have it. A real big red western fantasy dragon. Right now looking organic, not like a Zord. It wants to attack, but then Arthur raises his sword and the dragon hesitates.
Arthur explains the situation, but the Unseelie wyrm shows up and Caoránach speaks through it, trying to convince the red dragon that Arthur actually stole the sword.
The red dragon does not talk, it makes its position clear through body language. It clearly understands every word. Caoránach calls it one of her children, but we don't know if that is meant literally. Things go back and forth, the Rangers finally fight the Unseelie Dragon without the Red Dragon intervening. They beat it, but it grows giant. And fighting a giant dragon is certainly different from fighting a Giant, the Rangers find themselves on the back foot, until the Dragon Zord (because of course that's what the red dragon is) makes up its mind and lets Arthur ride it, thereby turning mechanical. (Being knights, the Rangers sit ON their Zords this time, not IN. The Megazord will be the exception, obviously.)
Dragon vs. Dragon fight, of course the Rangers win.

First Zord acquired.

So ...
A rather unusual fight against a non-humanoid monster. We can have those occasionally.
So this Zord is a real dragon who is transformed by the Morphin Grid. We will get background for it later.

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The search for the other Zords has to wait, there is trouble at home.

A bunch of neighboring kings have come to Camelot, among them the young Pellinore and the older Marc of Cornwall (who has his nephew Tristan with him), as well as Urien of Rheged (with his daughter Morfydd). Add some other kings from Arthurian lore, not really important which. And there is Caradoc, who apparently initiated this by writing to them all. He still doesn’t like Arthur as king. The other kings are similarly skeptical. After all, they only have Merlin’s word that Uther wanted whoever draws the sword as his heir and where is Merlin anyway?

At the same time, Ywain has his own plot, as Urien of Rheged is his father (and Morfydd his twin sister) and expects Ywain to support him, but Ywain's oath makes him a knight of Camelot ...

When a mysterious Red Knight appears at the castle, together with a beautiful young woman, and starts wreaking havoc, the other kings demand Arthur proves that he can do what Uther could and fight that guy alone. Arthur agrees, but as it turns out this Red Knight is Esclados, a Dark Knight send by the Black Knight of the Unseelie Court. Arthur hopes that he can still deal with him in morphed form.

While the fight happens, Ywain gets to talk to the woman Esclados brought with him. Her name is Laudine, she is Esclados’ wife and effectively prisoner. And she knows that Arthur can’t beat the Red Knight alone, but she has something to help out. She gives Ywain the pink morpher, a bow.

So, yeah, Esclados has a trick up his sleeve – he can summon water springing forth from the ground that totally gets Arthur off balance. Ywain transforms and the Pink Ranger is the first to get involved in the fight (first subtly, using the bow, but soon openly), followed by the others.

The united kings and lords protest, but then the Red Knight turns giant and they are suddenly all in trouble. Luckily, the Red Dragon Zord is close by.
The Rangers and the Zord beat the Red Knight, Ywain finishing him off with the bow after Laudine tells him about a weak point in Esclados' armor.

Pellinore and his allies have to admit that Arthur is a competent warrior, but that does not make him a good king. They leave - for now.

Laudine thanks the Rangers for her freedom and gives Ywain a kiss before vanishing.

Over the episode we also have some developments towards Arthur/Guinevere (Arthur's willingness to fight the Red Knight alone might be motivated by proving himself to her as much as to the other kings), with Lancelot being caught off-guard by this but for now, dismissing it.

So ...
Pellinore is Arthur's age here to have them as foils. That means, of course, that his children will either not be knights for over a decade (and the show won't cover that much time) or will not be his children in this version. We will see.
So, our core team is complete now. Five Rangers in five episodes. And I am going with the original colors. No green. For now.

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We are back with Merlin who confirms that the pink morpher is part of the set.
Merlin also gives them the location of Guinevere’s and Lancelot’s Zords, the Griffin and the Hippocampus. They are at a place that Lancelot knows well.
Yes, we are going to Lancelot’s home at the lake, a place where even Guinevere hasn’t been before.
All five Rangers go there, leaving Kay in charge of the castle.

We skip most of the travel and go right to the arrival. And we see why Lancelot usually doesn't bring his friends here, the whole place, ruled by Lancelot’s adoptive mother, Lady Viviane, is really weird and otherworldly. It isn't obviously magical, but it has a strange vibe. Like, the royal palace is not on the shore or an island, it rises from the lake. You can go to the lower stories and see the underwarter landscape through the windows.
[Obviously, Viviane is the Lady of the Lake, but we don’t learn that in this episode.]
Also here is Lancelot’s childhood friend Elaine, who is obviously deeply in love with him – well, it is obvious for everyone but him. When he is clearly more into Guinevere, she gets a bit jealous.

Cut to the Unseelie Court. Mab doesn’t dare attack the Realm of the Lake directly, but she sends the still nameless Sorcerer to steer trouble. This might be the first time the minions take an active role, Imps in this case, the demonlike minions usually encompanying fey Sorcerers.

Lady Viviane knows where the Zords are and gives Lancelot and Guinevere each a test to prove their worth. The Sorcerer stays in the background and makes the tests more dangerous. Elaine plans to help Lancelot if he doesn't make it, but he does well, until the Sorcerer intervenes and Elaine has to subtly safe him. When Guinevere is in danger for the same reason, Elaine hesitates for a second, but helps her out, too.

Arthur, Morgause and Ywain are only watching. It should probably be Morgause who uncovers the Sorcerer. For the first time the Rangers directly confront a member of Mab’s court – who immediately flees and leaves behind a horde of Imps who they summon directly into the Zords. The Imps take control, but Guinevere and Lancelot prove to be masters of their Zords, making the beasts eject the Unseelie minions. The Imps merge into a big demonic creature that the Zords make short work of. It splits into the imps again and Lady Viviane, seen by the audience but not the characters, easily banishes them from her realm.

In the end, Elaine gives up on Lancelot who is clearly more into Guinevere.
But Guinevere, celebrating her new Zord, kisses Arthur in the end. That could be trouble …

So ...
We are introducing the Lady of the Lake who poses as a human ruler. We don't yet learn how much Lancelot actually knows about his adoptive mother.
The ideal casting for her would be Shanez Aarron, who played the Warrior Goddess, guardian of the sword Excelsior, in "Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive". But it's just a small reference, not a necessity. We also get deeper into the love triangle. It is kinda an inevitable thing when you have Arthurian mythology. But this is still Power Rangers, so it won't be that much of a focus ... except in specific episodes.
The nameless Sorcerer is kinda awkward in text, they would obviously work much better on screen. I imagine an electronically distorted voice so you can't be sure of the gender. The Sorcerer does have a name, but that would be a spoiler.

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Mab is livid. Every attempt at stopping Arthur and his Power Rangers just made them stronger.
But actually … it isn’t like they really stopped all the Unseelie problems. And how would they? Uther could unite the humans against the dark fey, Arthur obviously can’t, the other British kings and even some of his lords don’t follow him.
Mab declares business as usual and each of her court goes on to do their own evil thing.

This episode is a bunch of different troubles. A Giant terrorizing a village. A Dragon blocking a river. Some random person making a deal with a Sorcerer. Can Arthur lead his Rangers into all these battles and at the same time rule Camelot?
None of these monsters turn giant, as they are not specifically powered up by Mab, but they are still hard to beat.

So, Dowager Queen Ygraine and Sir Kay step up and take most of the administrative duties. And at one point they fight some minions that manage to sneak into the castle. Ygraine’s weapon of choice happens to be a mace. Huh.

The Rangers have to split up for some of the problems that are showing up at the same time, so Morgause ends up fighting a sorceress who is basically a big anthropomorphic raven. After losing the fight, the raven claims to be not actually into evil deals, only pressured into doing them by Unseelie society. Morgause isn’t convinced, so the sorceress proves it, renouncing Mab and the Unseelie court, thereby breaking of the connection to her power source and turning into what seems to be an ordinary raven. Morgause, in a scene that should read as ominous, picks up the raven and takes her with her.

Arthur fights a goat themed Giant and her gang of Goblins and the Rangers have to come together after all as that Giant does grow giant (just because she's a Giant).

Mab is not happy. The Rangers still manage to solve more problems and destroy more Unseelie than she can afford.
And then she notices Pellinore fighting the Unseelie in his own realm. And it gives her an idea.
She orders her fey to let him win. Build him up as the great hero while avoiding Arthur whenever possible.

This episode is also where Lancelot finally gets to actually asking Guinevere out, but she is already dating Arthur. The courtship in this is completely anachronistic, because it's Power Rangers.

So ...
Not so much to say since this is only part one. What the show is clearly lacking so far are names for the individual monsters. Usually, each at least has one in the skript to make it more clear, even if it is never said on screen.

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The Unseelie causing trouble independently goes on, while at the same time Mab builds up Pellinore as the hero.

The Rangers have to split up again and we are following mostly Ywain and Morgause.
Ywain answers to a call abou to monsters fighting. He finds a lion with an unusually pinkish fur fighting a green dragon that is on the smaller side for a dragon but still a bit bigger than the lion. The lion is clearly loosing, so Ywain tries to break the fight up. The dragon attacks him and he morphs. The lion helps him drive the dragon away and behaves peacefully afterwards. He (the lion has an impriessive mane and is therefore clearly male) keeps following Ywain afterwards. Morgause learns some magic from the raven sorceress. Should she still talk? As a raven, she would be the most believable animal to talk, but also it would be kinda fun if she couldn't and was teaching magic with gestures and pointing at lines in books.

Mab arranges for Pellinore to find a magic sword – he even might pull it out of a stone – to get more control over him and to help make him the leader of the alliance.
(This ideally looks just like the Sword of Darkness that Rita Repulsa gave to Tommy in the original series. It is not the same one, because of course it will be destroyed, but the implication is that there are more swords like that than just Zordon’s and Rita isn’t the only one who can corrupt them.)

With a big enough following Pellinore dares attacking Arthur. His knights come to help and we have an outright battle. When Pellinore with the magic sword turns out to be a more dangerous foe than expected, the Rangers morph - and to their surprise, Morgause' raven and Ywain's lion turn into Zords and Pellinore's followers flee. Pellinore calls Arthur a coward for bringing those monsters to the fight, not listening to Arthur's insistence that it wasn't intentional.
Mab, angry that Pellinore had to flee, powers up the dragon from before and has it attack. So we get to see the two new Zords in action (and of course they win).

In the end, we get a denoument scene at Merlin's tree where he confirms that the raven and the lion are NEW Zords. They were already a fey in animal form and a fey-touched animal, but only when connecting to the morphers, they became Zords.

And of course the love triangle is going on as this continues from the previous episode.

So ...
Pellinore as counterpart to Arthur is firmly established, everyone in the team has a Zord, but there is one big thing still missing, isn't there?
And of course I had to put the story of Ywain and the lion somewhere. I think that makes him the first pink Lion Ranger? (No, sadly I had no chance to put an all-lions crossover in this. Maybe I could do it as a tie-in comic after I have the show itself wrapped up.)

Organic beings turning into Zords was something that has arguably happend as soon as Lost Galaxy or maybe Wild Force, but explicitly happens in Mystic Force where the Rangers themselves turn into Zords. So, magic can do it.

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Arthur and Guinevere are dating now and Lancelot is not happy with it but also doesn’t want to get between them as they are both his close friends.

He goes on a ride outside town to clear his head and meets the guy who gets him out of his funk – Galehaut. Big guy, quite likable, seems not very clever (but that last part is mostly an act as we see later). Those two have immediate chemistry, maybe fight off an attack by Hueil’s bandits (that guy is pretty much a joke at this point) and Lancelot ends up bringing Galehaut back to the palace where he meets the others. Morgause has heard his name before, isn’t he the king of some island? Oh, no, he just has the same name.

Galehaut gets along pretty well with everyone, before he drops the act. He is King Galehaut, he is allied with Pellinore, he came to take over Camelot. But now he is not so sure about that as Camelot seems to be doing fine under Arthur. The court is taken aback by the revelation, but Arthur decides to stay diplomatic and continue to have Galehaut as a guest.

Cut to the Unseelie Court. Mab is watching. And Ysbaddaden knows something about Galehaut – his mother is a Giant. Mab asks if he can do something with that. Oh yes, he can.
The right order is enough to force Galehaut under his control.

At dinner, Galehaut suddenly attacks Arthur and Arthur soon notices that Galehaut is really strong and morphs to have a chance. It gets more dangerous and the other Rangers intervene. They still assume that Galehaut is acting on Pellinore's orders. After falling into the yeard through a window (probably breaking the glass) Galehaut suddenly grows giant (as a Giant, or half Giant, he can just do that without needing to be defeated and powered up first), the Rangers bring in the Zords.
Lancelot holds back the whole time and in the end that proves to be right as Galehaut manages to shake off the control and return to normal.

This event has convinced him that Camelot needs Arthur. Camelot and the Rangers can count on him as an ally.

And Mab is pissed that her plan backfired and takes it out on Ysbaddaden.

So ...
There isn't that much plot in this one. Most is just character interaction, plus a fun fight scene with a really big guy inside the castle.

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Pellinore and his people are back, but not foolish enough to try fighting Zords with an army. So Pellinore wants to settle things in a duel. What Arthur doesn’t know is that Mab gave him an enchanted blade. They fight, Pellinore’s sword breaks Arthur’s. Arthur, now unarmed, has to yield. He picks up the red stone in from the sword's hilt, now loose and dulled.

Pellinore and his people take over the castle, they will find a process to decide which of the local lords will be king.
Caradoc actually suggests Morgause, as she is, after all, Uther's stepdaughter. She isn't sure. She does not want to become Queen that way, but wouldn't it be better for her to rule than for any of the traitors?

Mab isn't quite happy. She hoped for Pellinore to take the throne for himself so she could rule through him. The Sorcerer points out that even if she gave Pellinore the idea to take the throne, many of his allies wouldn't accept it.
Ysbadadden has an idea. We don't hear his full plan, but Mab approves.

At the castle, Arthur is doubting himself. How could the sword break? Is he not Uther's true heir after all? Did he do something to become unworthy?
Then the news reach the castle that a Giant is attacking a nearby village. The knights go out to fight him, including the Rangers. Pellinore wants to go initially, but Mab, influencing him through the sword, makes him change his mind and stay in the castle. Arthur hesitates, as he is not only not a king, he isn't even really a knight yet and now not a Ranger.

The knights find Ysbaddaden terrorizing villagers. But he is not just a Giant, he can also do some magic and reveals a small army of Goblins that were hidden by illusions and now attack the knights before the Rangers can even morph.
One small detail in this battle is that one Goblin manages to cut Morgause with their weapon. It doesn't change the outcome of the fight, but it may be noticeable for viewers as we rarely see blood in Power Rangers (and when we do, it is plot relevant).
The knights fight off the Goblins, the Rangers have the opportunity to morph and confront Ysbaddaden. But the Rangers struggle without Arthur, especially since Ysbaddaden has some more magic tricks up his sleeve.
But Arthur decided to come after all and seeing the others on the back foot, he decides to get involved anyway. He gets his butt kicked, of course, but impresses the Lady of the Lake who rises from the nearest body of water and gives him the new and updated version of the fey blade – Excalibur. And there is a place to put the red stone in. Arthur does. He can morph again. And gets a slightly new Ranger form with some golden parts (similar to Tommy's Dragon Shield).

This convinces most of the neighboring rulers that Arthur is the real deal. He beats the Ysbaddaden in his smaller form and the Rangers call their Zords when of course he grows giant. For a while, the fight goes back and fourth, but then it looks like Ysbaddaden can hold himself even against all five Zords. He jokes that, if he had known that, he would have dealt with the Rangers long ago. But there, another thing Excalibur can do shows up – it allows them to combine their Zords into the Camelot Megazord (which they control from a cockpit, but the controls still resemble reigns). Ysbaddaden gets beaten up and exploded, but he can take more than a normal Giant and therefore survives the finishing move and escapes in smaller form.

Then Arthur has to deal with Pellinore, challenging him to a duel. This time he sees what is going on, that Pellinore's sword is also magic and that that is the reason it could break his. But Excalibur is stronger and ends up breaking Pellinore's sword, freeing him from Mab’s influence.
Arthur takes his throne again, Pellinore finally accepting him as a fellow king.

Mab is understandably not happy. But then the Sorcerer asks for a specific weapon. Yes, they notice, that Goblin did wound Morgause. Her blood is still on the blade.
Mab congratulates the Sorcerer for paying attention to that. This blood can be useful.

So ...
This is probably the strongest appearance of Arthur's biggest flaw so far. His humility, which is normally his strength, can turn into crippling self-doubt. This time he gets over it when he sees his friends in danger, but it will come back.
We are also at the half-season point, so the Red Ranger gets an upgrade. Well, kinda. Camelot is split into two seasons following the modern pattern of two seasons a twenty episodes, so we are actually just at the end of the first quarter. That's why I held off with the Megazord until now, I want to do the bigger upgrades later.
(In my first draft, Excalibur was more like a Battlizer and the Megazord came even later, but that seemed too slow and too fast at the same time.)

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The second half of the first season begins with Arthur and his now ally Pellinore establishing the Round Table. A lot of knights that we already know, the Rangers of course, and some of their allies like Kay and Elaine, but also former enemies like Pellinore himself, Caradoc and Galehaut, and the pretty neutral figures like Tristan and Morfydd are named knights of the Round Table. But we also get some new ones, namely Gawain, Palamedes, Dinadan, Lamorak (obviously he can’t be Pellinore’s son, as this Pellinore is younger to be more of a foil to Arthur, but the relations are not mentioned here anyway) and Accolon. There are other knights standing around that are not introduced to us, including a woman who keeps her helmet on and her visor down, so we don’t see her face yet. Clearly, some time has passed since the last episode. It is mentioned that Ygraine is not present, as she is on a diplomatic mission to spread the news of the alliance in the rest of Britain and make it clear that Camelot is not conquering the other kingdoms and is creating an alliance, not an empire.

Queen Mab is watching as usual. She asks the Sorcerer to send some monster. They have one. Arthur wants more knights? He can have one more.

We skip to the next day when Arthur is alerted to a problem, an unusually big wolf threatening the herds … and the shepherds. Arthur thinks this small time problem might be a good opportunity for the new knights to learn to work together. So, he sends some of the new ones, including Accolon and the helmeted woman, it is not important who else, and Morgause for oversight.

The wolf turns out far more of a challenge than anyone expected, as it is not just big, it is clearly some sort of fey monster.
When finally struck down, it transforms into a human man, still wounded. He explains that he is Sir Melion and that he foolishly accepted a magical ring from the fey that allowed him to transform into a wolf. But the ring was stolen and now he can’t turn back and is totally at the fey Sorcerer's mercy. And then he apparently dies … only for Mab to power him up so we have a giant werewolf.
Luckily, Morgause has her raven with her, who transforms into a Zord.
With the help of the other knights, she can beat the giant werewolf. He shrinks down again and she manages to use an ordinary ring to contain the spell, giving him back the control.

In the end, Melion becomes a knight of the Round Table and Mab is not happy with the Sorcerer – “Giving Arthur one more knight! Brilliant idea!”

During the whole thing, the woman with the helmet gets along well with Accolon and towards the end the start outright flirting.
And then, in the end, she takes off the helmet and everyone is shocked that she looks just like Morgause …

So ...
It should not be hard to guess who that woman is.
Also ... Gawain? How can he be here already?
Among the knights that aren't mentioned by name but are standing around in the background are both Bors (Elder and Younger) as well as some who will become important later.

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Lancelot is officially dating Galehaut now. He and Elaine are on an official mission to Lady Viviane and Lancelot takes Galehaut with him.

We get a few things explicitly that we could already guess. Viviane is the Lady of the Lake, leader of the Seelie Court. Lancelot was found by the fey as a baby. Another thing that we learn here is that in fey realms, time can flow differently. Specifically, if Lancelot met his biological parents now, he would be too old to be their child.
(This is setup for other things later, obviously.)

We are seeing the first signs of dissent in the Unseelie Court. Mab does not want to risk an attack on Seelie territory, but Ysbaddaden and Caoránach disagree. They secretly send a water dragon. We already did snakelike, so have it be more like a plesiosaur instead.

At the same time in Camelot we have Morgause’ doppelganger. She calls herself Morgana and claims to live with her sisters on the island of Avalon (that none of the others have heard about – Lancelot and Elaine probably have and Merlin has for sure, but they are all not here), but she is adopted, so if she is related to Morgause, she wouldn’t know. Ygraine would probably know, but they can’t ask her, as she is still on her mission and is not expected back for weeks.
We also see all the morphers spark weirdly at some points, usually when Morgana is close.

The storylines converge when Lancelot tries to morph and it doesn’t work right away. Instead, the other Rangers’ morphers all spark at the same time in their respective colors. He tries a second time and this time they spark heavier and they all notice it. At third try, the sparks fly off, fly the whole way to the lake and hit Lancelot’s morpher. He morphs now, but instead of his usual blue he gets parts from all five suits. (Helmet is his own for recognizability.) He is confused, but goes to fight the dragon.

The others know something is up, try to morph and can’t. The gems on their morphers don’t even glow. Can they still call their Zords? They can. So they ride off to the lake, knowing that Lancelot is probably in trouble.

He is not, actually. Using all the power, he beats the dragon with only the help of Elaine and Galehaut. Of course then the dragon grows giant and he is in trouble after all. Luckily, the others arrive with the Zords.
The Zords make short work of the dragon. And with all morphers together, they sync up and go back to normal.

Of course, at the end, we see that Morgana is in contact with Mab. She tells her that siphoning off the power from the morphers didn’t work, it just went to the other morpher. Mab tells her not to worry. She has more ideas.

So ...
Yeah, Lancelot and Galehaut are officially a thing now. I will add the tag as soon as I have posted this.
Together with the tag for Morgana, of course, now that she is officially here.

I have edited some older chapters a bit, mostly I fixed typos, but I also added more detail to how Ywain got the lion in "(Un)See(lie) No Evil - Part Two" and decided that the Red Dragon does not talk. And I added one of the rare casting notes to "Great Lake Rangers" that also applies to this episode: Lady Viviane is ideally played by Shanez Aarron, who played the Warrior Goddess in "Operation Overdrive". It's just a little nod and not at all necessary, but it would be fun.

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Duke Cador of Cameliard and his daughter Gwenhwyfach arrive at Camelot because the duke heard that Guinevere is here. There is no blood relation, as we learn Guinevere is the daughter of foreigners who died in the chaotic period after Uther’s death, but she grew up in Cador’s household. The way she tells it, she was raised more by the servants than by him. He did not care when she ran away, but now that she is a successful knight and dating the king, he wants to profit from the relation.
Guinevere is understandably pissed and Arthur who wants to be diplomatic, soon is at the end of his patience when Cador keeps asking for royal favors (and hiding it badly). That puts Cador into the perfect position to become victim of a Sorcerer, who gives him the power to read people's desires.
Gwenhwyfach is not really important here. She is younger than Guinevere, and Guinevere suspects that Cador gave her a similar name on purpose.

What we get is a comedy, until Guinevere sees through Cador's plot and the Sorcerer cranks up the magic.
So, we have a human-turned-monster once again who therefore does not grow giant. And while he is beaten and freed, he learns absolutely nothing and Arthur ends up throwing him and his daughter out of the castle.

In a B-Plot Ywain finds Laudine again. Which is surprisingly important, as he learns a bit about the inner workings of the Unseelie Court from her.

We also see some developments on the side, like Morgana dating Accolon. And Mab berating her for wasting time.
“I did not create you from the princess’ blood so you can flirt with knights.”

So ...
Yeah, I had to switch up some things on Guinevere's side to make the character work for this show. By the way, do you think Allie Gonino (who played Guinevere in Hyper Forde) is too old to play young adult Guinevere here? Or does that work with the usual Power Rangers casting? Of course then the other actors would have to be a similar age, at least Arthur's, Lancelot's and by extension Galehaut's and Elaine's ...

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Morgana is snooping around in Camelot. She can’t go to Merlin, he would see through her, but she hopes to find something else interesting. She manages to steal Morgause’ morpher when she is not carrying it, but it doesn’t work for her (except as an ordinary dagger, of course).

At the same time, the Unseelie courtiers, without Mab's explicit order, work together to combine their warriors into a more dangerous creature.

The Rangers are alerted to a new foe terrorizing the countryside. They want to fight it, but of course Morgause can’t find her morpher and is frantically searching for it, while the others have to go off without her. What they find looks like an especially big and burly Dark Knight, but as it turns out soon, they have a spell or two up there sleeve and the horse they are riding is actually a sort of dragon.
The Rangers are not doing well until a mysterious Green Ranger wielding an axe (with a green jewel in it, so that's his morpher) intervenes. Together, they can keep the creature at bay, but still not beat it.

Finally, Morgana has to let Morgause find the morpher before she gets too suspicious. Getting it back without being caught takes some effort (slightly funny stealth scene intercut with speedy high-stakes fight). The Rangers win this fight, but the creature just gets even bigger. The Giant knight now picks up the still small dragon steed and uses it like a flamethrower (not that anyone there knows what that is). The Rangers call their Zords, but without Black they can't form a Megazord - luckily, there she comes, with the raven, so now they can.
The Rangers now have a real fighting chance, but the Giant knight/sorcerer has another trick - they can power up their dragon so that also grows giant.
Now the Rangers are struggling again. The Green Knight, as he calls himself, calls in his own Zord, the Green Chapel (that is basically a flying building) and with the help of this heavily armed Zord (it basically shoots a whole bunch of lasers) the Ranger finally win.

In the denoument, Morgana talks to Mab and tells her that apparently, you can't just use someone else's morpher.
Mab: "That you can't morph with it doesn't mean you can't use it."

So ...
Here we have the reason there is no Green Ranger on the main team. I couldn't do Arthurian knights as Power Ranger and not have the Green Knight, could I?
Obviously there are characters in the story that are not mentioned here. When Morgause searches for her morpher she of course talks to Ygraine and Kay, the two people basically managing the castle. Also other Knights of the Round Table are around.

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Pellinore goes on an important hunt and invites Arthur to join. Why is it so important? Well, Pellinore's family has been hunting this one beast for generations and Arthur stopped listening at that point. Anyway, as he explains to the other Rangers, it is important to Pellinore and Pellinore is an important ally, so he goes.

Mab sees a chance in this. She explains the underlying principle to Morgana: Excalibur is a fey blade and will break when it betrays its purpose. In this case, it was specifically made to to serve Arthur, hurting him would destroy it. Arthur being in the woods without many of his knights is the ideal opportunity.

Morgana manages to convince Accolon to have a date in the same forest where Arthur and Pellinore hunt. When she manages to slip away, she dresses as Morgause and finds the hunting party. She gets close to Arthur and takes Excalibur.

Pellinore and Arthur actually find the mysterious Questing Beast, but can’t catch it and Arthur notices that he is missing his sword.

Morgana gives Excalibur to Accolon, telling him that a fey-created doppelganger of Arthur is trying to get his hands on it.
When Arthur comes and sees Accolon with Excalibur, he demands it back. Accolon refuses, they fight.
Morgana tries to stay away from the fight, but feels bad about endangering Accolon and comes back – thereby ruining her plan, as Accolon is distracted for a moment and Arthur manages to strike him.
Going down wounded, Accolon doesn’t look good. Morgana, seeing the plan fail and her boyfriend possibly die, attacks Arthur herself. He has already picked up Excalibur before she reaches him, though.
During the fight, she shows her fey side, calling herself Morgan le Fay and Arthur morphs. Morgan proves to be stronger and manages to hurt Arthur, despite the Ranger suit.
Luckily, Pellinore arrives in time to help Arthur out. Mab watches from a distance and thinks there is one last chance to turn this around, as Arthur is without the other Rangers. So she powers Morgana up, she grows giant. Arthur calls his Zord.

The other Rangers, of course, see the dragon taking off and know Arthur is in trouble.

Morgana seems to just step on Arthur, when Accolon sits up despite his injury and accuses Morgana of betraying him. This already has an effect, when the dragon Zord also arrives, Morgana shrinks back to normal and flees.

The other Rangers come in the right moment to patch up Accolon before it gets too serious.
I
n the end, Accolon has enough of all this and goes back home while Morgana arrives in Mab’s lair and Mab chews her out – but Morgana doesn’t listen.
Also she notices some blood on her clothes. Is it Accolon’s? Arthur’s? Her own? We don’t learn yet.

So ...
Yeah, I let Accolon live. Having him die would have not been completely tonally inappropriate, but having him killed by the Red Ranger ... yeah, can't really do that. Still, he is out of the story.

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Morgana arrives at the Unseelie lair and gets a rather cold welcome, as Mab is not happy with how things went.
Both independently brood a bit and then each one decides to send a monster. Mab going to Ysbaddaden for a Giant, Morgana to Caoránach for a Dragon.

Ygraine is back, and asked by Morgause she says that no, Morgause does not have a sister. Of course given that Morgana is obviously part fey, the Rangers assumed as much. That was clearly a changeling. Lancelot knows how those work. The fey need some sort of sample of a person, then they create a copy. Usually they do that with babies, then exchange the copy for the original. Apparently it can be done with adults.
The Knights of the Round Table get two separate calls for help. They and the other knights that are available right now have to build two teams. Arthur leads one himself and Guinevere immediately joins that one. Everyone expects Lancelot to lead the other team, instead he immediately joins Arthur's and Guinevere's. An annoyed Galehaut joins too. So Morgause leads the second team with Ywain as the only other Ranger. The remaining available knights fill out the teams, only Gawain comes up with an excuse. (Several knights are not available because they are on quests, Palamedes, Dinadan, Lamorak and Tristan, for example, are notably absent, while others are on guard duty, led by Kay).

Arthurs team arrives at a village threatened by an Unseelie warrior: A blind Earth Giant can feel every movement on or in the ground and throws dust around that blinds others, giving it an advantage.

Morgause' team confronts a Cockatrice that turns everyone to stone who looks at its eyes. It happens to one Ywain, Morgause manages to undo it (might be the first time we see her actually cast a spell) but of course every time that happens to a knight, they are out of the battle for a while and especially Morgause has to avoid it. The mysterious Green Knight Ranger helps out again so it is three Rangers against each monster, but it is still a near hopeless fight.
Morgause has an idea. She tries to use the jewel in her dagger like a crystal ball, communicate with the other Rangers. It works. Each team learns that the other is in just as much trouble. They get the idea to lure the Unseelie towards each other. Morgause' team retreats, the Cockatrice in pursuit, and reaches the village that the Giant is destroying. When the Cockatrice touches the ground, the Earth Giant assumes another opponent and attacks. It is immune to the Cockatrice’ power, because it is blind and the Cockatrice can not talk to clear up the misunderstanding. But since the Cockatrice can fly, it can get away from the Giant. If the Rangers let it. Thanks to the Earth Giant’s dust attacks, they can’t see the Cockatrice’ eyes either and can force the confrontation, beating both Unseelie in the end. (Killing the Cockatrice frees all its victims.)
We also have a few situations where Lancelot is clearly paying more attention to Guinevere than to Galehaut, at one point saving her from an attack that she could have tanked thanks to her suit, while missing that Galehaut gets hit.

When the knights all go back to the castle, Galehaut tells Lancelot that he has enough. He breaks up with him. Lancelot can come back to him when he stopped pining for Guinevere.

Mab and Morgana accuse each other of ruining the plan but come to the conclusion that they are both good at this and can win if they coordinate their attacks.

In a B-Plot, Kay gets to do something. He is basically managing the castle by now and has moved into a role like Alpha 5 or Solon. Not sure what exactly he does, except cleaning Morgana's room out.

So ...
Yeah, things change a bit with Morgana as an open opponent. She is kinda commited to Mab's cause of destroying Camelot's leadership so the Unseelie have freew reign, but mostly she blames Arthur for ruining her chances with Accolon.
We also get something wit Lancelot that will become a bit of a pattern - his romantic relationships don't work out. Usually for the same reason ...
And communication via morpher is established. Had she grown up in modern times, Morgause probably would have had the thought earlier.

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We haven’t seen Palamedes, Dinadan, Lamorak and Tristan in a while. Turns out the former three were escorting the latter to Ireland to fetch a princess named Iseult and get her to Tristan’s uncle, King Marc, for marriage, to get Iseult’s uncle, an Irish king, into the alliance.

They got her and are already back on Great Britain soil. There are two villains in this episode, Hueil mab Caw, who sees the chance for some big ransom and a fey Sorcerer who sees a way to sabotage the alliance by putting a love spell on Tristan and Iseult. (Though we see before that that Iseult and Tristan are already clearly attracted to each other and they have spent certainly more than a week together at sea and on the road.)

Hueil mab Caw is comically inefficient, but the Sorcerer (who is themed around love spells) is apparently successful, as Tristan and Iseult use the distraction of the plunderer’s attack to run away. After dealing with the bandits, the other three knights try to track them down. The Sorcerer doesn’t want them found, because „the knight you sent eloped with the princess“ is way to good a story to pass up, so he lures them to a cave where they can hide.

Big mistake, because in the cave they find something …
A mysterious multicolored stone, crystalline but apparenlty uncut. Playing around with it, they are suddenly wear Power Rangers suits, but off a different design than our main team. Iseult is Ruby, Tristan Sapphire.
Apparently becoming Power Rangers ends the love spell and the two notice how stupid it That protects them from the spell and they notice how stupid it is to run away.

They get out to meet back up with the other knights but run into Hueil mab Caw instead who thinks those two alone are easy. But they are Power Rangers now, so they easily fight the bandits off before getting back with the knights. The Sorcerer gets angry and attacks directly, but the multicolored stone reacts and makes the other three knights Rangers, too, Lamorak becoming Topaz (having the yellow position), Palamedes Alabaster and Dinadan Amethytst.

After the Sorcerer is dealt with it becomes clear pretty soon that even without the spell, Iseult and Tristan are still in love.
Luckily, they are also Power Rangers now and should get back to Arthur and any planned marriage is at least postponed (we deal with it in a later episode).

So ...
Obviously I had to do Tristan and Iseult. Doing it this way was fun.
Also I like the idea of putting a whole other team of Rangers into the story. Where does that stone come from? No idea, actually. Ultimately the Morphin Masters, I guess. Maybe I will give it a history at some point.
The knights could mention having met King Conchobar, as he is both the Irish counterpart to King Marc and a character in Mystic Knights of Tir na Nog, but this show does not have an actual crossover.
(Again, maybe in a tie-in comic.)

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We open just in the middle of the action. Lancelot fights a glowing orange lava spewing dragon alone and he wins, but he is injured and collapses on his horse on the way back.
A man who finds the horse recognizes Lancelot and leads the horse back to the castle. There, the man introduces himself as Dagonet. When Lancelot tells how he beat the dragon and lost conciousness, Dagonet weaves a tale about the dragon waking up again and Dagonet having to save Lancelot. But now the dragon is done for for real. Dagonet is hailed as a hero and Arthur invites him to the Round Table.

Mab, of course, watches. She finds the dragon is beaten but not fully dead and decides to power it up. Caoránach advises against it, this is a magma dragon, they are already unstable and now it is injured, too. Mab's power might be more than it can handle. Mab ignores her. She powers up the dragon and sends it to attack buildings right at the castle, so Arthur will see it.

Meanwhile Elaine takes care of the injured Lancelot and finally manages to communicate her feelings. He is not quite sure what to do with that yet.
When the dragon appears, Lancelot is not fit to fight yet, but of course they have Dagonet, right?
Dagonet confronts the dragon with the Rangers (minus Blue) and some other knights, but then panics and runs away.

The dragon is still spewing lava from several openings all over its body. And given that it is giant now, that makes it really dangerous. The knights can barely fight it, as they are busy saving people from getting burned and putting out fires. (Lancelot's Hippocampus would be really useful right now. Also, they can't have a Megazord without it.) Dagonet watches from a safe distance and then notices that the dragon is leaking lava from the wounds it had before. It is not spewing, it is bleeding out. He goes back to the fight and advises the other knights to not fight it at all and focus on saving the civilians - the dragon is already beaten. Indeed at some point it runs out of lava and what is left of the creature cools down quickly, hardens and crumbles. That’s why Caoránach didn’t want it to fight. When the dragon is destroyed, she is really mad at Mab.

Dagonet admits that it was Lancelot who beat the dragon. Both times. He announces that he will leave. Arthur is disappointed, but does not except Dagonet's resignation. He did give them useful information after all. He will find something to so for him.

During this whole thing, Tom Thumb has a subplot in between the roots of Merlin's tree, where he saves a fairy from a spider's web and gets a magical girdle in return. It works as a morpher and makes him a Power Ranger (silver) but given his size he can not really fight together with the others. He fights a big otherworldly centipede instead.

So ...
Not much to say this time. I wanted to do Dagonet and I wanted to prepare Tom Thumb as a minor (ha) Ranger because I will need him later and this episode had room. Also, Lancelot's love life takes another turn. I am sure everything will turn out great ...