The Rangers finally manage to find Zayto and Aiyon's homeworld of Rafkon, but Aiyon makes a risky decision that endangers them all.
Tropes:
- All Planets Are Earthlike: Rafkon looks amazingly like New Zealand. And is entirely comfortable for humans (barring what might be an odd smell).
- Apocalypse How: Zayto mentions the Sporix Generator is tied into Rafkon's core. Trying to remove it would destroy the entire planet.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Ollie doesn't believe in prophecies or any form of future vision, even though he hangs out with two mind-reading aliens and a cyborg dinosaur.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Zedd gets the Sporix Generator and beats the Rangers.
- Big "WHAT?!": Zedd when the Rangers are saved by a force field at the last moment.
- Break the Haughty: Aiyon assumes thanks to the Green Master's warning about Zedd that he is untouchable and destined to win easily, even though she never said anything of the sort. As a result, he really fouls up and gets his best friend mortally wounded.
- Call-Back: Ollie brings up how prophecies are like psychics, which, in his experience, are total frauds. Amelia brings up how Madame Indigo predicted that they both would have a long and happy relationship back in "Lost Signal." Ollie says that was simply a lucky guess.
- Cliffhanger: As Zayto lies there, badly wounded and fading fast, the Green Morphing Master appears inside the Rangers base. Cue credits.
- The Comically Serious: Zedd takes up Void Knight's absence in the role, when Scrozzle suggests he could fix up the Sporix Generator with a touch of glitter.Zedd: WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR GLITTER!
- Company Cross References: Thanks to Hasbro owning the series now, the Capture the Flag game is being fought out with actual Nerf guns (apart from stickers over the logos, the guns are instantly recognisable).
- Foreshadowing: Solon stays behind at Dinohenge while the Rangers go to Rafkon, joking that turning the base into a spaceship is "harder than it looks". As we will learn next season, Solon does have blueprints for doing just that, and making it happen becomes a key part of the central drama in Cosmic Fury.
- Friendly Fire: Zayto deflecting Zedd's attack sends it flying into one of Zedd's own guys, destroying him in an instant.
- Ghibli Hills: The state of modern day Rafkon. Gorgeous rolling green hills and forests, a vast step up from the volcanic deserts previously seen in flashbacks.
- Ghost Planet: There's also absolutely no-one around, or even the barest sign that anyone's been there in the last sixty-five million years, save for Zedd and his cronies.
- It's All My Fault: Aiyon blames himself for Zayto's condition at the end of the episode, but Amelia quickly tells him blaming himself isn't going to help.
- Kick the Dog: Before blasting him, Zedd suggests Zayto make like the rest of his people and go extinct.
- Lampshade Hanging: As in other seasons, the desired object is countless years old but still in excellent working condition, regardless. Ollie questions how something 65 million years old could possibly still work, but Aiyon says it happens more often than one would think.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Aiyon, thanks to a dangerous case of overconfidence, decides to charge Zedd's forces without a plan.
- Mood Whiplash:
- Between the sombre moment of Zayto getting to come home and having to come to terms with everything he knew and loved being gone, there's Jane and J-Borg having a ludicrously intense game of Capture the Flag.
- The villains are revealed to be secretly following the Rangers and have a good laugh over the heroes unknowingly leading them right to the prize. Sizzurai then says he really has to go to the bathroom, much to Zedd's irritation.
- Perfumigation: Izzy jokes that the odd smell they're sniffing on arrival at Rafkon may just be Javi's cologne. He gets defensive.
- Ragnarök Proofing: The Sporix Generator's more or less working perfectly even after sixty-five million years.
- Shout-Out: The CTF game ends with Jane doing a Skyward Scream that's straight out of Platoon.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Between Sizzurai saying he has to go to the bathroom (despite being a robot) and Scrozzle going on about glitter, a frustrated Zedd openly acknowledges this.
- Too Dumb to Live: Jane following her Assumed Win. She shows what would be Suicidal Overconfidence were the Capture the Flag game a real war, by choosing to dance back to base, allowing for J-Borg’s teammates (namely, the robot) to get in position and shoot her.
- Visual Pun: The CTF game starts out when a delivery guy wheels in a massive box with a horse drawn all over it. Turns out Team J-Borg is using it as a literal Trojan horse.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: So close for Zayto, who gets to go back to his homeworld... and finds no-one's there.
