BILLY STEELE: KID RANGER--THE DARK SKULL'S REVENGE

Lester told the boy of how he was destined for greatness, for Lester possessed a shimmering black coin that would open the mine full of a magnificent power source. The black coin and mine was the young boy’s legacy from Lester.

The young Sidewinder had a small cameo containing a picture of The Knox family. And Lester used it to brainwash the boy into believing this was The Sidewinder’s family destroyed by "red savages," led by White Eagle.

Lester trained the young boy in the art of weaponry and combat, and more importantly, leadership. Lester obsessed that God had spoken to him and chose him to conquer the West and the world in his image. Lester as a megalomaniac was both possessed and then transformed into The Dark Skull. To go undercover to accomplish his mission, Lester played the cavalry’s bumbling cook while gathering vital information on how to take over the world. Lester knew that his life was in constant jeopardy so he raised the boy to become his successor if he should die during his struggle. The Sidewinder believed that Billy Steele killed the only parent he had known and that Billy had stolen the black coin rightfully belonging to him. The Sidewinder and his outlaws vowed to destroy Billy Steele, Holt’s Rangers and to lay claim to Billy’s mine and the power it held as their initial steps to conquering the West. Despite Lester playing the buffoon to distract suspicion away from his Dark Skull self, his indelible teachings to the young Sidewinder forged his son into a singular blade of vengeance. The Sidewinder inherited from his adopted father an awesome, fiery continence, and the obsession that he was destined to destroy mightily.

The Dark Skull poisoned The Sidewinder’s mind as he raised him. Lester convinced the boy that White Eagle massacred his birth family and that Billy Steele had stolen his legacy of the lost mine, and The Sidewinder’s destiny.

The day after The Sidewinder’s tirade to his outlaw troops, Billy’s best friend, the ancient Indian medicine man, White Eagle, had led the kid ranger to a secret cave in the heart of Pinto Basin. Billy urged Swifty, his golden pony to gallop as fast as he could. Billy wanted to get to his surprise that the Indian wizard promised him as soon as possible. Billy’s flop eared puppy, "Lasses, barked and yapped while his stout legs hurried to catch up to his master’s pace.

As Billy rode towards his "surprise," the boy reflected on all that had happened to him since, he was found by Holt’s Rangers, over a decade ago. How The Dark Skull and The Trinity Of Terror murdered his birth parents and stole their black coin. How he met White Eagle and through his own courage, Billy became the Native American super god, The Lightning Warrior, a super heroic fire storm and storm king whirlwind. How Billy found the map to his murdered parent’s lost mine, reclaimed the prized black coin and brought The Dark Skull and his followers to justice.

When Holt’s Rangers first found the two-year old Billy buried in a steel strong box surrounded by flames, it seemed Billy was entombed in a tiny coffin already left for dead. But Billy had risen from the ashes to achieve a god like greatness through his purity of heart, and Billy would save his family and country from the evil forces bent on his nation’s destruction. Billy was not unlike the mythological bird that likewise rose from the ashes to become a higher power for right, Billy Steele was the all American Phoenix.