Road Block

**Road Block** is the third episode of *Power Rangers Energy Chasers which* introduces Scortron's Type Beta Gigadrones. This episode also marks the debut of the Energy Cannon and the Wheeler Zord's Gorilla Mode.

## Synopsis:

Julie tries to convince the citizens of Coral Harbor to use Morph-X powered bikes called X-Bikes instead of cars, but Blaze uses this opportunity to execute an evil plan.

## Plot:

At Grid Battleforce headquarters, Doctor K finishes reprogramming the coding in the Energy Saber and Energy Blaster. Doctor K then demonstrates to rangers the Energy Cannon when she walks into the lab. Julie pulls Doctor K aside to ask if her X-Bike is ready. Doctor K shows her the bike, which Doctor K says was built to her specifications. Julie asks Doctor K if he can create more X-Bikes fast enough, which Doctor K assures her that he can do that by adding a tube of Morph-X into the X-Bike.

At a nearby forest, Julie begins riding on her new bike. Nearby, a reporter tells her viewers that Commander Park is planning to cut through the forest by constructing a new road. Julie arrives and rushes in front of a bulldozer to rescue a lizard, which startles the reporter, who reveals herself to be Julie’s mother, and Commander Park. After Julie rescues the lizard, she makes a plea to protect the forest ecosystem to the Commander. Park tells her that traffic in Coral Harbor is a nightmare and that he doesn’t see any way around it. Julie tells him that she sees an alternative, explaining as well that she isn’t afraid of big problems and that she solves them. After giving her plea, Julie presents to the Commander her X-Bike, which runs on clean and renewable Morph X. While fascinated by her bike, Park doesn’t understand how it fixes the city’s traffic problem. Julie tells him that they can place bikes all over the city for people to use and that the city would save a lot of money by funding her bikes. The Commander tells Julie that she has one week to get people to ride her bikes in order for the Commander to cancel his plans for the road. Julie agrees and her mom expresses her pleasure to Julie that she has a story to cover and that it will be big. Her mother tells Julie that she is proud of her becoming a ranger and it takes a big responsibility.

In the Cyber Dimension, Scorton apologizes to Venjix for not having enough Morph X to send Gigadrones to Coral Harbor. After Scortron places the blame for the lack of Morph X on the two of them, the Syntron tells Venjix and the robot that they found a way to get a lot more Morph X. Syntron tells the two that the Rangers are building Morph-X powered bikes for the city and that they will be vulnerable during that time. Venjix approves of the plan and tells the Avatars and Scortron to go to the city and retrieve enough Morph X from the bikes to get him out of the Cyber Dimension.

In the city, Julie with Kayden and Arthur start campaigning to the citizens of the city to start using Julie’s bikes, for which the citizens of the city don’t want to use. Meanwhile, Entron teleports behind the bike rack and uses Scortron’s equipment to create a syringe/needle-themed Robotron named Syrentron, by infecting a bike pump. After creating Syrentron, Entron takes him into a Power Plant Building which is a build that changes the grid energy into clean useable Morph-X as they start taking hostages. Commander Park calls the rangers and tells them to locations of where Entron is.

In the power plant building, the rangers arrive to the building and start to infiltrate the area, They find the workers being turned into robots before being forced to fight them. They find Entron, who explains that causing humans to suffer is part of his directive. Doctor K calls them telling them that if they don't stop the Robotron then Carol Harbor will lose their clean useable energy in sector 5. Kayden sees Arthur provoking Julie about her age before the two start butting heads. The three eventually find the head chief of the building being chased by Tronics, the rangers morph to save him. The head chief reveals that Syrentron is draining the Morph-X. Entron overhearing Kayden's plan to restore the building's Morph-X levels while the others deal with Syrentron, Entron sends more Tronics while putting the building on lock down. Managing to make it out, Kayden calls Doctor K to send his Wheeler Zord and Buster. Kayden reaches his Zord and enters while the others fight their way through the Tronics as Julie saves a little girl. She manages to get the girl to safety as Arthur tells her that she made a great save. Julie looks at him and tells Arthur that she is not a rookie until him but she will be by his side to help the team complete their mission, Arthur nods as they both reach an understanding with each other as they find Syrentron and knock the Robotron out of the hospital before destroying him.

Outside near the building, Kayden and his Wheeler Zord assume Gorilla Mode to transfer Morph-X from the tower for transport to the building, Kayden is stopped by the Gigadrone as it attempts to steal the Morph-X from the Wheeler Zord. Kayden calls for backup towards Arthur as Arthur and Cruise reach him quickly in the Racer Zord while Doctor K calls Julie that someone is stealing Morph-X from section 1 and Julie uses her X-Bike to reach the area. Julie reaches the area and sees a new avatar as she introduces herself as Syntron, Syntron and Julie fight for a bit.

Back in the fight against Syrentron, Kayden states that the Wheeler Zord’s energy is draining fast. Arthur arrives in the Racer Zord and blasts the Beta Gigadrone away. Taking the fight into his own hands, Arthur uses his zord’s sword to slash at the Gigadrone and transforms the Racer Zord into its Battle Mode. Arthur presses on his morpher to boost his final attack and performs the Cheetah Strike’ finisher to slash and destroy the Gigadrone.

Back in the fight against Syntron, Julie continues fighting against Syntron. Explaining to the avatar that she’s tough, Syntron sends a blast past Julie, thinking that Syntron missed. When Syntron tells her that she didn’t miss, Julie realizes and rushes towards her bike contained with Morph-X. Seeing that the Morph-X container is damaged, she throws it back towards Syntron. Thinking that she missed, Syntron realizes it’s next to a barrel of Morph-X and it explodes. After Julie concludes that she and Syntron are both tough, Syntron teleports away and tells Jax that she needs a carrot after her energy drains out.

The next day at the forest, Julie comes and asks her mom where Commander Park is at so that she can show the Commander her new bike designs. When Julie’s mom tells her that the Commander is running late, Arthur tells her that his dad is stubborn and that he’s not going to change his mind just because she improved the X-Bikes. Not wanting to give up, her mom shows how proud she is of her and hugs her. When Commander Park arrives on one of Julie’s X-Bikes, the Commander tells Julie that a viral video showing her riding on the X-Bikes has caused everyone else to want an X-Bike as well. Pleased at what she sees, Commander Park declares in the end that the road construction project is permanently cancelled and that the city is ordering 5,000 X-Bikes. After Commander Park departs on his bike, Julie thanks her mom for the viral video. Not wanting the credit, Julie’s mom tells her that she made the bikes look fantastic. Kayden asks Julie on if her opinion changed on Arthur as she explains that she is warming up to him even though he is a rookie, Arthur says that this rookie has a lot of tricks under his hat as Kayden chuckles softly then Julie that not too long ago she was a rookie and had to be taught. Julie smiles then nodded while replying touche.