A/N: Hello everyone. Have you missed me? After much planning, procrastinating, and more planning, I think I am finally ready to bring you the second season of The Little Samurai. So, I am gonna shut up now and let you get on with the first chapter. Leave a review at the end and tell me what you think, please? Thank you.
Chapter One: Super Samurai
I don't own Power Rangers Super Samurai. But I do own any original characters that are of my own creation.
Title: The Legend of the White Samurai
Summary: Follows The Little Samurai. In order to finish the battle against the evil Master Xandred, Ava must finally learn the secret that her family has kept from her for generations. Will she fully understand the true meaning behind her Samurai destiny before it is too late?
Ava ducked as Jayden's sword missed her by a few inches. Her breathing was heavy from the intense training session, as it seemed Jayden was pulling out all the stops, and not taking it easy on her. She couldn't blame, after all, she had asked him to train her at a level higher than what she was used too.
He had been hesitant at first. Unsure that she could keep up with the natural progression of a higher level, but after a few days of constant pouting he had caved, but only if she had promised that she wasn't doing this to simply prove herself to anyone.
It had been a few days since she had lost a training match to Kevin. He had annihilated her within the first three minutes, not that that was any surprise, Kevin was only a step down from Jayden for being dedicated to his Samurai destiny, where as she was right at the bottom of the Samurai food chain.
It was annoying at times but Jayden had made it clear that she was just as good as any of the Samurai.
"OK, I'm done," she sighed, collapsing onto her knees. Her sword hit the mat beside her with a muffled clang.
"Are you OK?" Jayden asked.
Ava paused. Her body ached from head to toe, and she felt more tired now than she did when she woke up. "No," she answered, her head bowed towards the floor.
"I told you that you weren't ready," Jayden said, lifting her head up so he could see her face.
"You don't have to rub it in." Ava replied.
Jayden smiled and run his thumb across her jaw. There had been an attack a month ago, the Nighlok had been strong, stronger than any they had faced before, and he had managed to demorph Ava on her first attempt at fighting him, and then attacked her in civillian form, resulting in a nasty cut to the left side of her face.
The scar was now invisible but Jayden could still feel the remains.
Ava shuddered as Goosebumps erupted over her skin. It had been almost seven to eight month since she had broken up with Luke, and since then she and Jayden's friendship had been tighter than ever. She knew that Jayden didn't like Luke and that Luke wasn't particularly fond of Jayden, they had only seemed to tolerate each other because they both wanted to please her.
But now that Luke was out of the picture, she and Jayden were closer than ever.
"You promised that you weren't doing this to prove yourself," said Jayden, breaking the silence first.
"I know," Ava sighed. "I just thought -"
Jayden's morpher chirped, indicating an incoming call.
"Don't the Nighlok realize that it is a Saturday?" Ava complained, her thoughts changing swiftly. She knew that Jayden would come back to the training conversation later, but that didn't mean she wasn't thankful for the intrusion.
"They don't care," said Jayden, getting up. He put his sword down and picked up his morpher. "We'll be right there."
Ava blinked and looked up.
"Be right where?" she asked.
~*Super Samurai*~
Mia shook her head as she knelt beside the pool of red water. She had been training with Kevin when Mike had called saying that she needed to get over to the park right away, she had been curious to find out what Mike and Emily had found, so curious that she had convinced Kevin that it was more important that training, which, ironically, it had turned to be.
"I can't believe this is happening," she said, looking up at Kevin, Emily and Mike. They were waiting on Jayden and Ava, who had decided to stay at home and train. Mia often wondered if the break-up with Luke Anderson had devoured Ava's confidence, and that was the reason she refused to leave the Shiba house anymore.
"Jayden," said Kevin. He got to his feet and left to meet his team-leader, who had finally arrived.
"How bad is it?" Jayden asked.
"You're gonna have to take a look," Kevin answered. "And judge for yourself."
"That translates into really bad," said Ava, running off to join Emily. She stopped beside the pool of red water and hissed. "Make that really, really bad." She muttered.
Jayden sighed and knelt beside the pool of water. Using a two pronged twig, he poked the surface, the wood burned upon impact. This only confirmed his suspicions.
"Sanzu River water," he said, looking up at his team. "I was afraid this would happen."
"This is not good," said Kevin, stating the obvious.
"We've seen the netherworld break through to ours before," said Emily, trying to calm the situation down. Maybe things weren't as bad as they seemed. That was always a possibility, right?
"I know," Jayden nodded. "But this much water is really dangerous."
"And with the pools like these," added Kevin, "the Nighlok can rehydrate without even going back to the Sanzu River."
"Guys, over here!" Mia called. She had broken away from the group as another pool of water caught her attention. This time it was gushing out of a storm drain.
"Last time this happened," said Kevin, looking thoughtful. "Mentor said it was a sign that the Nighlok were growing stronger."
"Uh," Ava stammered, "it gets worse."
"How could it get worse?" Mike asked.
Ava pointed to something on the ground, leading away from the storm drain pool. "Footprints," she said, simply, shooting the Green ranger a look.
~*Super Samurai*~
Emily, Mia and Ava linked arms as they followed behind Mike. They had been following the footprints since they had been found a few minutes ago, the revelation of the fact that the Sanzu River was rising quickly and seeping into their world was one that threw each and every one of them into overdrive. They needed to find the pools of water and plug them up quickly.
"These footprints are definitely Nighlok," Mike confirmed. He had squatted down next to one in particular to study it.
"But no gap sensor went off," said Mia, trying to make sense of the whole predicament.
"I don't think it came through a gap recently," said Jayden. "This Nighlok has been here a while."
"There is only one Nighlok that's ever got away from us," said Ava, "and that was in Japan."
"Could it have followed you home?" Emily asked.
"It would have had to go through a gap to do that," Ava said. "And then to come back into our world it would have set the Gap sensor off."
"It could have come through while we were in battle with another Nighlok," said Kevin, "which is why it went unnoticed for so long."
Mike nodded. "So how come it's not returned to the Sanzu River? How hasn't it dried out?" he asked.
"If the Sanzu River is seeping into our world," said Kevin, the puzzle piecing together in his mind, "then the Nighlok wouldn't have to return to the Netherworld to rehydrate, it could just use the pools here in our world."
"Now that's a scary thought." Mia shuddered.
"Where's Antonio?" Ava asked, turning to Jayden. Why hadn't he shown up after getting the call? Did he even get the call? If so, what was he doing that was so important?
Jayden squeezed her shoulder, halting her thoughts. "Mentor's got him working on the Black Box," he said. "If there are Sanzu River pools all over the city, we're going to need its power to deal with them."
The White ranger nodded and turned to Mike, who was, reassuringly enough, in charge of tracking down the monster that had made the footprints.
~*Super Samurai*~
Trekking through the forest was not how Mia had envisioned spending her Saturday. She understood that they had to find the Nighlok before it did any more harm, but why did it have to detour away from the city, more importantly, why did it have to detour into the forest? She had nothing against forests, but she was a city girl at heart and preferred to be in her comfort zone.
The last time she had been in a forest was when she had gone to Japan with Ava, Jayden and Antonio. They had been sent to collect the Black Box from the Tengen Gate, a place of rich Japanese culture and Samurai history; she had enjoyed her visitor there, except for the minor fact that she had taken a beating from Arachnitor and spent most of the time in bed.
"Have you lost the trail?" Jayden asked from ahead of the group. He had been following Mike had a closer pace than she or the others. Ava, who was practically hanging off of Emily's arm, looked uncomfortable with the distance that the Red ranger had put between them, and looked eager to rush forward and be near him again.
Mike paused and then pushed off to the left. "This way," he said, leading them out onto a wooden bridge and back to civilization.
"Good job, Mike," said Jayden.
"Yeah," Kevin nodded. "These footprints disappeared a long time ago."
"The forest is my turf," said Mike. "I can still track him."
"RUN!" someone from the cul-de-sac shouted. Seconds later several people rushed into view, followed closely by a weird looking monster. He looked familiar, but very distorted.
Ava winced as she watched a young man, no older than mid-to-late 20s, sail over the handlebars of his BMX. Good thing he's wearing a helmet, she thought as she followed Jayden towards the monster; she and the others morphed as they raced forward.
"Hold it right there, Nighlok." Jayden ordered.
The Nighlok snarled at them.
"Does anyone recognize this creep?" Mia asked.
"I do," Ava nodded.
Emily nodded too. "He's the one you fought in Japan! The one who got away!" she said.
"That's fine," said Jayden. "This time we'll finish him off!"
The others nodded and prepared for battle, unknown to the fact that they were being filmed from nearby.
Arachnitor growled as he made quick work of Kevin and Mike, neither of them had fought him before and weren't sure of how powerful he really was. Jayden, Mia and Ava, the only there who had dealt with him before, were a tiny bit more cautious on how to approach him, the only problem being; the last time they had fought him he had looked like a regular Nighlok.
"Emily!" Ava cried kneeling beside her friend after Arachnitor made easy prey of her. The White Ranger ducked as the Nighlok swiped at her with his new sharp talons, scraping the top of her helmet but not leaving a scratch; after he had fallen back, Ava sprang up and stabbed her Spin sword forward at the creature.
He howled and jumped backwards to avoid her blade, he then considered her for a split second before turning and fleeing the scene.
"Wow, that monster's really strong," said Emily, as Ava helped her back to her feet.
"Yeah," Mia nodded. "Plus he mutated and now he's out of control... I don't think he can handle the excess power his mutated-self has."
Ava looked nervous.
"What's worse is that he's not drying out," said Mike.
"He must be using a big pool of river water," said Kevin.
"We need to find him before he hurts anyone else," said Emily. "How are we going to track him down?"
Ava turned to Jayden.
"Well, we won't find him standing around here," said the Red ranger. The others nodded and run off after their team-leader.
Ava sighed; she had a bad feeling about this.
~*Super Samurai*~
Antonio sighed as the Black Box rose into the air and then landed with a light bump on the pedestal. He was standing in the dojo trying to unlock the key weapon that had the power to enhance his and the other Rangers strength. He didn't know exactly what it would do to them, but it had been super important if Mentor had sent all but three of them to Japan to retrieve it.
During his work Antonio could hear his friends talking in the other room. He had already been informed by Mentor that they were searching for Arachnitor, the same Nighlok that had attacked him and Mia in Japan, and later returned, fully mutated, to take on him, Mia, Jayden and Ava, he often wondered what had happened to that Nighlok.
Where had been hiding? How had he managed to survive long in the human world? Why hadn't they found him before now? There was no way he would have just lain low, right? He was a Nighlok, he had to cause terror in order to survive, plus he worked for Master Xandred so he was practically bound to the Master to cause havoc in the Human world in order to raise the river.
"There are many spots where the Sanzu River is seeping into our world," said Mentor from the other room. "It looks like Xandred may be planning to flood the Earth."
"We'll have to work as a team," said Kevin. "Even harder."
"The Nighlok have tried to ambush us before," came Jayden's voice. "But this time it's our turn. We'll ambush him."
"But how?" Emily asked.
Antonio paused in his work to listen. Even he was curious has to how Jayden had managed to figure this one out. Movement beyond the door caught his attention, causing him to look up, he smiled as Ava hurried inside, closing the door behind her. "What's wrong?" he asked, noticing the look on her face.
"I don't know," Ava said. "I just have a bad feeling about Arachnitor being in the Paranoma. I mean, how did he get here from Japan? Why was there no alert with the gap sensor?"
"What does Jayden think?" Antonio asked. "Or haven't you mentioned this to him?"
"He agrees with Kevin," said Ava, "who believes that the Nighlok slipped into our world while we were preoccupied with another battle."
"But you disagree?"
Ava shrugged. "I don't know what to think," she admitted. "It's really confusing... and I don't like being confused."
Ever since she had become aware of her feelings for Jayden, and when she had admitted to him that she loved him, and he had admitted that he loved her, and then there had been the whole messy break-up that wasn't a break up because they hadn't been dating; and then she had started dating Luke but still retained her feelings for Jayden - Ava had started to hate being confused.
"Well you have to make sense of your thoughts before you can assume anything solid," said Antonio.
"You're no help, you know that?" Ava sighed. She crossed her legs and flopped down onto the floor in front of her friend and the Black box, she could still here the others making plans from the other room, but her head hurt enough with everything rational and irrational thought speeding through it that she didn't want to add more confusion.
Antonio smiled, somewhat sadly, at his little sister, and sat beside her. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and squeezed her reassuringly. "You'll find the reasons," he said. "There'll be a real easy explanation and you'll be left wondering why you didn't see it in the first place. Remember what your dad used to say. In times like this you really need to relax your mind."
"Daddy will be pleased to know that you do listen to him," Ava smiled, resting her head on his shoulder. "But thanks, Antonio."
"For what?" Antonio asked. Now he was confused. What had he done to receive her thanks? He hadn't done anything of value, had he?
"For being there for me," Ava said. "And helping me through the confusion... even if you didn't do anything or ease the burden. I just needed someone to talk to or I felt like I was gonna explode."
Antonio kissed her forehead tendily. "What are big brothers for?" he asked. "Now I have to get back to work before your father comes in here and kills me."
Ava giggled. "Daddy wouldn't kill you," she said. "It's not his style. He'd just probably take away your fishing equipment for your slacking."
"He wouldn't, would he?"
"How else is he supposed to punish you?" Ava shrugged. She jumped to her feet and quickly left the room.
Antonio watched her go before he hurriedly returned to his task. If his precious fishing gear was in danger then he had to work quickly in order to save them.
~*Super Samurai*~
Jayden glanced back at Ava as she followed him and Kevin through the warehouse. She had been acting strangely since they had discovered that the Nighlok was the same one from Japan, he knew something was off with her but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was. He had noticed she had disappeared from the living room while they had been formulating a plan to catch Arachnitor, he didn't know where she had run off too, and only that she had come back giggling silently about something.
Kevin didn't seem to have noticed the change in Ava's behavior, but then again he never did notice anything different, unless of course it was to do with a Nighlok or something Samurai related. Jayden knew that Kevin cared about Ava, but maybe not to the extent that he did. Maybe Emily, Mike or Mia had noticed something? If they had, why hadn't they said anything?
Unfortunately, no matter how bad Jayden wanted to stop and just talk to Ava, to try and figure out what was wrong with her, he knew that he couldn't do it until Arachnitor had been destroyed and the pools of River water had been sealed up.
"This must be the source," said Jayden, walking up to the ledge overlooking the trickling pool of river water below. Kevin stopped beside him and Ava joined them soon after. "When he shows up. He's in for a surprise."
Kevin nodded as Ava merely sat at the base of a support beam. She rested her head back against the cool stone and closed her eyes, her thoughts were still buzzing, jumping around inside her head and making it almost impossible to put them into an understandable context. Antonio had told her to relax her mind, but how could she relax her mind with everything that was going through it?
A weight landed beside her.
Ava opened one eye and smiled as Jayden sat beside her. She smiled and laid her head against his arm.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" Ava countered.
"You've been different," said Jayden. "This morning you were fine, but now..." he trailed off, unsure of what to say. He knew something was wrong but he didn't want her to feel pressured into saying anything if she didn't want too.
Ava sighed. "It's nothing," she said. "I just..." she paused, hesitating, would he believe her? Would he even consider the possibility that there might be another explanation on how Arachnitor got from Japan to Paranoma without passing through a gap? Would he just dismiss her theory and say that she was worrying about nothing.
"Just what?" Jayden prompted.
"I just have a bad feeling," Ava admitted. "I know we already discussed how Arachnitor could have got from Japan to here without us noticing him, but I really think there is more to it. I mean, if he did come through a gap, regardless of whether we were busy with another Nighlok or not, Daddy would have got the alert back home and he would have told us about it. When have you ever known Daddy to forget a gap alert?"
Jayden frowned. While he wanted to believe that the Nighlok had escaped under the radar, he couldn't deny that Ava had a very good point. Mentor wouldn't have forgotten about another Nighlok in the city? And it was impossible to escape under the radar with the gap sensors all over the place. "So, what's your theory?" he asked.
"I don't have one," said Ava. "My thoughts are so jumbled they're giving me a headache!"
"Is that why you disappeared earlier?"
Ava nodded. "I went to talk to Antonio," she admitted. "I didn't know if I could come to you with this. I wanted to talk to someone outside the group, and while Antonio is a part of the team, I felt like he would understand where I am coming from a little more because he has been busy all day, and didn't know of what was said earlier. I'm sorry..." she added quietly.
"Why are you sorry?" Jayden frowned.
"For not coming to you,"
Jayden laughed lightly and hugged her. "I'm not mad at you," he promised. "You have every right to go talk to Antonio. If you thought he'd have a better perspective or understanding of what you're trying to say then go talk to him. I just hope you know that I'd never shun you or shoot you down for having a different opinion to me and the others."
"I didn't want to contradict anyone," Ava shrugged.
"Hey," Jayden said, lowering his voice so only Ava could hear him. He knew she was still feeling self-conscious about herself on the team, despite it having been a year since they had come together. She was still feeling her feet in training and sometimes even in battle, but he knew that she had it in her to be the best. "Don't ever be afraid to speak your thoughts. I'll listen." He promised.
Ava smiled and nodded.
Kevin, who had been oblivious to part of the conversation and more focused on getting the Nighlok, sighed and turned to his friends. "Where's that Nighlok?" he asked. "Is it possible that we could be wrong?"
Jayden glanced down at Ava, who did her best to conceal a grin. "The map definitely identified this site," he said, poking her in the side.
Ava squirmed and giggled. "Just because the map identified this site doesn't mean it means this general area," she pointed out. "What if there's another pool? A bigger one?"
"It's worth checking out," Jayden nodded, getting to his feet. He held his hand out to Ava and pulled her up beside him, as Kevin walked away from the edge.
They then run off in search of another pool.
~*Super Samurai*~
"I hope Jayden, Ava and Kevin are having more fun than we are," said Mike. He, Emily and Mia had been staking out a pool of water for over an hour, but there had been no Nighlok visit within that length of time.
"If they had found something they would have called us," said Emily. "I'm guessing they're just as bored as we are."
Mia nodded in agreement. "Yeah, relax, Mike, something'll happen soon," she said.
No sooner had the words left her mouth, her morpher jingled in her pocket. She snapped it open and answered Kevin, who relayed that he, Jayden and Ava had found the pool and the Nighlok.
The Pink ranger snapped her morpher and turned to her companions. "You wanted excitement," she said, "We've got it."
Emily and Mike exchanged looks before following Mia out of the warehouse and towards the other's current position.
~*Super Samurai*~
Ava ducked down behind another stone pillar as Arachnitor stopped his splashing around in the water and looked in their direction. She had the eerie suspicion that he could sense them there, he may not have been able to see them but that didn't mean he didn't know.
"MOOGERS!"
"So much for the element of surprise," said Ava, as Octoroo appeared out of nowhere behind them. He waved his staff and several groups of moogers materialized around Arachnitor.
"Things just got a lot tougher," Jayden said, standing and walking out to face the small army of Nighlok.
Kevin and Ava followed him as the others arrived.
"Don't worry," Kevin promised. "We've got your back."
"Samuraizers! Go, Go Samurai!"
Each ranger traced their symbols in the air and slashed through them, but nothing happened. The symbols fizzled out but the team remained unmorphed.
"Huh?"
"What's wrong?"
"This hasn't happened before," said Kevin.
Jayden turned to Ava. "Was this somewhere inside those worries of yours?" he asked.
Ava shook her head, looking around. "No, but it's all kinda starting to make a bit of sense," she said, trying to see what could be blocking their powers.
"Care to explain?"
"Uh... only got the basics."
"Tell us anywhere."
Ava looked at the others to see them staring at her. Suddenly she felt self-conscious and wished they would look away. "Uh... OK... Um... well, we know that Xandred re-captured Arachnitor in Japan, right? I mean, Antonio said he saw Arachnitor being pulled through a gap after hearing Xandred's voice, yes?" the team nodded. "Well, what's to say that Xandred punished Arachnitor and mutated him into that -" she pointed at the Nighlok opposite, "and then sent him back to our world to cause terror?"
"That still doesn't answer your question on how he got here undetected," said Jayden.
"I thought we agreed that he slipped under the radar?" Kevin asked.
"Ava has another theory," said Jayden. "She just hasn't figured it out yet."
Kevin shrugged and shook his head. He didn't have time for theories. He needed a practical explanation has to why he and the others couldn't morph. Looking around the warehouse, the Blue rangers gaze flittered from pillar to pillar before settling on a red charm a few feet away, he glanced around again spotting another on the otherside of the warehouse. "There!" he said, pointing them out. "We crossed an evil barrier!"
"OK, I'll admit," said Ava, "I didn't consider an evil barrier!"
Jayden drew his spin sword. "Kevin and I'll handle the barriers," he said, as the others followed suit. "You guys, be careful. There's a lot of Sanzu water here and its dangerous stuff."
Mia, Mike, Emily and Ava nodded and rushed off to deal with the Moogers, while Jayden and Kevin battled their way over to the charms.
Mike grabbed ahold of a near-by Mooger and jabbed him in the stomach with the hilt of his Spin blade, while Emily, who fought near-by slashed in a complete circle, slicing through her group of several Moogers with ease.
Ava jumped from one support beam to another, pushing off forcefully and flipping over the heads of several Moogers. She landed behind them and dragged her sword across their backs, sparks flew and the Moogers fell to the floor.
Mia, however, teetered on the edge of a pool of river water as the Moogers forcefully pushed her closer towards the water. The tips of her hair skimmed the surfacing, burning on impact.
There was a rush of energy and, within a split second, the six rangers morphed into their respective suits.
Mia pushed the Moogers away from her as her powers returned.
"Time to take out that Nighlok!" Jayden shouted, jumping over the rest of the team and leading the way towards Arachnitor.
"My pleasure!" Mia agreed.
"We're on it!" Emily added.
Ava screamed as a tentacle wound itself around her, pinning her arms to her sides and lifting her into the air. "Put me down!" she shouted, struggling for release. Her sword, which was still in her hand, was useless to her now.
Arachnitor roared as Mike's spin blade sliced through the tentacle holding the White Ranger and she dropped back to Earth like a stone.
"Man, this guy's like a super mutant!" the Green ranger said, recieving a sharp hit to the chest from one of Archnitor's talons. It was a hit for the damage he had caused to the talon that had captured Ava, it was now withering uselessly on the floor, Ava had crawled away the moment she had been free.
Arachnitor growled, slashed his talons over one another and fired two whizzing beams at the rangers. They were knocked off their feet as the ground exploded.
"He's too strong!" said Kevin, struggling to get back up.
"Man, this isn't good," said Mike, collapsing onto his back.
"Normally an 'I told you so' would be the right thing to say right now," said Mia, "but I honestly don't have the energy."
Jayden staggered back to his feet. "Stay strong," he told his team. "We can't give up now." He reached down to pull Ava back to her feet. She whimpered at the sudden movement.
"Guys! I did it!"
Antonio had finally arrived.
"Antonio?" Jayden questioned as his friend ran towards them. He was fully morphed and brandishing the Black box for his friends to see.
"Gold is good, but right now, Black is better." Antonio said, stopping beside his leader. "The Black box is ready!" he added handing Jayden the box and a power disk.
"Let's see what it can do," said Jayden, taking both items. He opened the black box, placed the power disk inside, and activated it. "Super Samurai mode!"
The Black box beeped, a green light flashing from its face. There was a flash of white and a long white sleeveless cloak appeared over Jayden's regular uniform.
"You're done for, Nighlok," said Antonio. "I've combined all the power disks into the black box and now we can morph into Super Samurai unleashing super powers you can only imagine."
Arachnitor roared.
"Scared?" Antonio teased. "You should be! He's gonna squash you like the bug that you are."
Jayden removed the power disk from the black box and put it on his spin sword inside, he then hooked the black box to his sword, and addressed Arachnitor. "Nighlok, you're about to meet the Super Samurai."
The Moogers charged forward and Jayden met them head on, leaving the others to watch. Ava grinned and jumped onto Antonio's back. "You did it," she said, hugging him tightly while they watched Jayden. "I knew you could do it!"
"So my fishing equipment is safe, right?" Antonio asked.
"They were never in danger," Ava giggled. "I just thought you needed a little encouragement. Words wouldn't have worked. Words never work, and I knew how much your equipment meant to you, so..." she trailed off with a shrug.
"You're a horrible person," Antonio told her.
Ava smiled and hugged him again. "I love you too," she said.
There was an explosion from ahead. Jayden had just finished off the Moogers and was ready to face Arachnitor.
Octoroo, who was watching from his safety point, raised his hands to his head and shook it. "Ooh, ah, ooh, now he's stronger too," he said.
Ava, Antonio and the others watched with anticipation and fascination as Jayden took on Arachnitor.
The Black box was everything they had dreamed it would be. More power meant many things to many people, but to them it meant one step closer to destroying Master Xandred, if they could get rid of enough of his Nighlok monsters then the final battle would be at hand, they could finish what their destiny needed them to do and then go back to their normal lives.
"Lion disc!" Jayden said, powering up the Black box with his own power disk. Arachnitor snarled and charged at the Red ranger, only to be met with a super blazing strike from his spin sword. The Nighlok rippled with energy and exploded.
The rest of the team laughed at the destruction and then raced forward to meet their leader.
"Wow, that Super Samurai mode is awesome!" said Kevin.
"Stay alert," said Jayden, as the explosion behind him grew smaller and smaller. The rangers knew exactly what it meant and seconds later Arachnitor returned, bigger and stronger than ever. He was closely followed by two spit fangs and a group of giant moogers. "Time to check out Super Mega mode!" said Jayden, preparing his Lion zord. "Mega mode power!"
With Jayden gone the others followed.
"Dragon Foldingzord!"
"Bear Foldingzord!"
"Ape Foldingzord!"
"Turtle Foldingzord!"
"Penguin Foldingzord!"
"Mega mode power!"
"Zords combine!"
After the zords had combined the Samurai Megazord stood tall.
"Man, you're new uniform looks awesome!" Kevin complimented as he looked Jayden over.
"Sweet!" Mia nodded.
"Yeah, dude," Mike agreed. "You look super!"
Ava rolled her eyes at the pun behind the joke.
"Thanks guys," Jayden said in return.
Emily and Ava exchanged looks. They didn't need to see each other's faces to know what the other was thinking. Their friendship had exceeded the usual expectations and had eerily supernatural, over the last year they had become somewhat like twins, they were sometimes even closer as twins than Ava and Antonio, and Jayden never thought that would be possible.
"Claw battlezord east! Ready!" said Antonio has he joined the party.
The Spit fangs snarled and fired fireballs at the two Megazords. The seven rangers ducked to the side to avoid a collision.
"Hey, Jayden," Antonio called "This is the perfect time to turn the black box up a notch."
"Good idea," Jayden nodded, linking the Black box up with the Megazord controls. He opened it and inserted a new power disk. "Super Samurai Combination!" he commanded, reaching out towards the Clawzord. There was another bright flash and the Clawzord dismembered, before combining with the Samurai Megazord.
The cockpit enlarged as another podium popped up between Ava and Mike. There was a flash of gold and Antonio landed between the two friends.
"Claw amour Megazord! We are united!"
"Fantastico!" Antonio said, looking around at the others. "The Black box combines all of our powers! Just like Mentor said it would. Golden, isn't it?"
Mike chuckled and patted his friend's shoulder. "You're the man, Antonio!" he said.
"Here they come!" said Emily, pointing out the now even more enraged Nighlok. The rangers had been so surprised with the new combinations that they had almost forgotten why they had needed them in the first place.
Using the power of the Black box, the rangers made easy work of the Moogers and Spit fangs.
"Double Katana!" Jayden commanded.
"STRIKE!" the rest of the team stated.
"How do we eliminate Arachnitor?" Mia asked. "He's a lot stronger now he's gone Mega."
Antonio smiled behind his helmet. "I think we could use a hand," he said, holding up his morpher. "Or a tentacle... or even a bunch of tentacles... Octozord!" he called for the white and blue octopus which enlarged the moment it was free of its confinements.
"Ava, Mike, Kevin, combine your zords with the Octozord!" Jayden said.
"Right!" the three in question nodded, replacing their respective power disks with their additional ones.
"Tiger Zord!" Ava said.
"Beetle Zord!"
"Swordfish Zord!"
The three zords in question shot out of the Megazord and combined with Antonio's additional zord. Together they formed one giant cannon.
"That's one big cannon," said Emily.
"Yeah," Kevin agreed. "But what does it do?"
"Just trust me," Antonio said, reassuringly. "You won't believe your eyes."
"But it takes a lot of symbol power," said Jayden. "We can only fire it once."
"One shot?" Mike repeated.
"One shot is all we need," said Mia.
"Then we better make it count," nodded Ava.
Arachnitor snarled and fired two spirals at the rangers. The ground around them exploded, but they remained standing.
"Wait for my signal," said Jayden, "we can only do this as a team."
Silence fell inside the Megazord as Arachnitor attempted to eliminate the Megazord again, but he failed again. The target locked onto the Nighlok and the rangers fired, unleashing the Zords at the Nighlok; they collided and Arachnitor exploded for the final time.
"Awesome!" Antonio shouted excitedly.
"Yeah!"
"We got him!"
"Thanks to the Black box." Antonio nodded.
Ava shook her head and hugged her friend. "Thanks to you, silly," she said. "Without you we wouldn't have the Black box. You deserve your moment of glory too!"
"She's right, Antonio," Jayden agreed. "We couldn't have done it without you."
"Aw, you're too kind," Antonio teased, wrapping his arm around Ava and hugging her.
The team laughed at his antics, as Ava hugged him back.
"Samurai Rangers," said Jayden. "Victory is ours."
~*Super Samurai*~
After the battle, the rangers were still at the construction site; Emily had been dragged into covering all the pools of Sanzu water so that no other Nighlok could use them to rehydrate. Mia and Ava were with her while the guys argued over the Black Box.
Mike, who had already stated that he was to use the power upgrade next was arguing with Kevin who insisted that he should be the one to use it next as he was second in command to Jayden.
The pool of Sanzu water bubbled thickly at the bottom of another hole. Emily tiredly raised her arm and drew a symbol over the hole. "Symbol power Rock!" she said, slashing through the yellow sign. Rocks materialized in mid-air, they crashed down onto the water, splashing it up into the air before disappearing completely as the rocks settled.
The Yellow ranger sighed and turned to her sisters.
"Good job, Emily," said Mia, helping the blonde up.
"Yeah, good job, Em," Ava nodded.
"Thanks," Emily said. "I don't think I have an ounce of Symbol power left in me."
Ava smiled. "Well, at least you can sleep when you get home," she said.
"I could sleep for a week," said Emily.
"I don't know if Mentor would approve of that," said Mia, with a slight laugh. "But you can try."
Emily shrugged. "Maybe he'll go easy on me when he learns I just covered thirty-four holes of Sanzu River water," she said.
Ava smiled. "Pull the puppy-dog pout," she said. "Daddy can't resist it!"
"I'll try," Emily said, feeling more and more tired as they returned to the boys.
"I don't care if you're second in command," said Mike, as the girls returned. "I called dibs. You can't over rule dibs!"
The three girls rolled their eyes and turned to Antonio and Jayden who were watching with smirks of amusement. Ava jumped up onto Antonio's back again, and snatched the Black box from Jayden.
"With all due respect," she said, interrupted Mike and Kevin, "I for one think Antonio should have it next."
"How do you work that one out?" Mike asked, before Kevin could protest.
"Because he did spent the majority of the year trying to unlock it," Ava pointed out. "It's only fair that he gets to feel the power behind all his hard work."
Emily and Mia nodded in agreement.
Ava passed the black box to Mia after she had finished with it. "Then I think Emily and Mia should have it," she said, smiling at the horrified looks on Mike and Kevin's faces. "I mean, four out of seven of us have additional Zords and Jayden has ten times more symbol power than any of us put together, Mia and Emily haven't had anything new since we started."
"Mia had the beetle disk," said Mike.
"Which she gave to you," said Ava. "She didn't even get to use the Beetle disk, remember?"
Mike muttered under his breath as his protest was shot down.
"It is only fair," Ava shrugged.
Kevin sighed and nodded. "She's right," he agreed.
"Of course I'm right," Ava giggled, jumping down from Antonio's back and snatching the Black box from Jayden, who had taken it from Mia. "But until then..." she grinned, looking around at her friends before running off in the opposite direction, "MIIIIIINE!"
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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Chapter updated Friday, March 22, 2013 at 03:21am