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Ghost Galleon
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- centuries-old sea vessel to take teens to Muiranthias (500-TPRM)
500-TPRM
In the Power
Chamber, Zordon told the Rangers to take their Turbozords across the "great desert" to the sea; there they would find
the Ghost Galleon, a phantom ship which would take them and their Zords to the Nemesis
Triangle.
Zordon said the combined
power of the Rangers' keys and the galleon would see them safely
through the Nemesis Triangle.
Zordon told the Rangers that neither the galleon nor the Turbozords would be detectable by Divatox, but he neglected to mention that the Rangers would be detectable, at least in
unmorphed form.
There was a human
skeleton among the old boxes on the Ghost Galleon's dock.
Tommy spotted the galleon, but how the other teens had failed to see the enormous,
conspicuously backlit galleon is unknown.
The teens somehow got
the Turbozords aboard the Ghost Galleon's
lower cargo area; it wouldn't be until much later that the Turbozords' ability to drive across water
would be demonstrated.
A door on the Ghost Galleon slammed by itself as
the teens explored its upper deck.
The galleon appeared to be very old, and there
was at least one human skeleton on it.
On a podium on the upper deck of the galleon was
an ornate box; inside were five keyholes.
Once the five Turbo
Morpher keys had been inserted into the keyholes and turned ninety
degrees, white light shone up from the keyholes, and the ship prepared
itself for and embarked upon its voyage.
As the galleon prepared itself, the compass
moved, the sails rose by themselves, and a bell rang itself several
times as if tugged by an invisible force.
The next day, the teens
watched the ocean as the Ghost Galleon sailed itself.
That night, the four
teens were studying a map on a table
downstairs, seemingly in the cargo area, yet the Turbozords were nowhere to be seen.
Lightning bolts struck the masts of the Ghost
Galleon as it approached the Nemesis
Triangle the next day.
There were two different stairways leading into
the lower level of the galleon, where the Turbozords still weren't shown.
An off-balance barrel hit Justin's leg, making him drop his key, and it slid into a hole in the wall.
After Justin had
retrieved his key and the teens had activated the keys, the shimmering wall of the Nemesis Triangle passed through the galleon
and the teens as the ship went through.
In the crow's nest some time later, Justin used a pair of black binoculars to spot Muiranthias.
The galleon's control box was still open at this
point, and the keys appeared to be back
in the keyholes.
The teens must have had
their keys in their possession by the
time they came upstairs strapping on their Power Boxes, since, after this point, Adam, and soon the others, would leave the
soon-to-be-destroyed Ghost Galleon in their Turbozords.
Immediately after he'd gone downstairs, Adam was shown, from through a grating with sunlight
on it, getting into Desert Thunder; this
indicates that the Turbozords were indeed
in the one lower cargo area, and that they should have been down there
all along whenever the teens had gone
downstairs.
Two torpedoes
launched from Divatox's subcraft blew the Ghost Galleon into flaming
bits; this explosion was verified in the flashback in 501-SIT1.
"Ghost Galleon."
Updated 5/8/05.
Edited by Joe Rovang. Content owned by Disney, used without permission.