Samurai in Angel Grove

Summary- A Nighlok enters the human world through a crack. The only problem is, the crack it entered through is not within the Samurai Rangers signal district. This issue prompts a retired ranger to call on his friends to fight, unmorphed, until the Samurai Rangers arrive. But will they?

Disclaimer- I do not own-

Sanzu, octoroo, "ooo ah oo", Xandred, Dayu, Deker, Nighlok, Shiba, Samurai, Moogers, Angel Grove. Or Power Rangers and anything you might recognize as being from that show.

AN- I do own however, Ghoulator who I know sucks but I suck at making up monsters. I am much better at thinking up things than putting them down. If you are going to criticize my Nighlok, don't bother. I know he sucks. If you are going to criticize me, also don't bother, there is nothing you can tell me that I don't tell myself. I don't need flames. They do not help. And by most authors, they get ignored anyway.

AN- I do not mean to sound horrible but I am being honest. I have been without power for 8 hours, and have had little sleep. I am sitting in my car with an adapter plugged in so I can have SOMETHING to keep me from going insane. OOOOH it's back! Yay electricity!

Chapter 1-

A Wrong Turn-

Things are not always, what they seem; a loyal follower of Master Xandred knew this better than anyone. She used to be a beloved queen, until she made a horrible deal with Master Xandred to save her Husband. He saved her husband, but in return cursed them both to be Nighlok, with a human side. He cast the husband out, but he kept the woman. This woman was Dayu, and she was stuck. Forced to serve Master Xandred while her beloved walked around morphing between his human and Nighlok side seeking the ultimate duel.

Dayu stood at a window on the junk in the middle of the Sanzu River watching the waves on the water. The water had not risen in weeks, Master Xandred was furious and taking it out on any nighlok who dared to cross him. He had already destroyed two. "Thankfully Xandred is asleep finally. I get some peace."

"He'll be worse when he awakens and finds there is still no rise in the river. Ooo ah ooo I wonder what he will do when he finds you've done nothing but sit and mope over Deker."

Dayu growled spinning around to face Octoroo "I have not been moping over Deker, but if I was it is better than you who have done nothing, at least I was considering Xandred's enemy!"

"Do you two do nothing but fight?"

Octoroo and Dayu both turned towards the voice but seen no one and Octoroo poked his staff out until it hit something that they could not see, "Ghoulator. Who called for you?"

Dayu turned her smirk evident in her voice, "I did. The Rangers cannot fight what they cannot see."

"Ooo ah ooo, Xandred is going to be upset with you!"

Dayu laughed mirthlessly, "on the contrary you old squid, Master Xandred will be very pleased by the rise in the river."

Octoroo glared and turned his back going to his desk "what if he fails. The river will lower even more, and then, you are in trouble." Dayu refused to favor this with a response.

What Dayu did not know that Octoroo was not telling her, was that Ghoulator had a horrible sense of direction. In addition, the odds were that without scaring anyone, he would lose his ability to be invisible, therefore being fairly easy to defeat. Without the water from the Sanzu, Ghoulator would dry out quickly unless he scared someone. When he dried out, instead of having to return, he became visible, and even scaring someone then would do no good unless he had been to absorb more of the Sanzu.

Octoroo hummed a little to himself. He knew that Ghoulator had gone off in the wrong direction, and that no matter where he entered the human world at, he would not be able to return unless he was in the territory of the Samurai Rangers. There was a reason Xandred had never used him. With his horrible sense of direction, he was a one-time use monster. He would use up Moogers and scare away, causing the Sanzu to rise, but he would be destroyed by the Rangers before he could ever retreat.

Xandred had been saving him for the last push the river needed. Also, something Octoroo had neglected to tell Dayu. With any luck, this mistake on her part would be the last straw for Xandred and he would destroy her, as he should have done all those years ago. In Octoroo's opinion, Deker was a much better ally for them. A skilled fighter; driven by his quest for the ultimate duel. If Xandred had kept Deker instead of Dayu, made himself get along Deker, the Sanzu would have flooded the Human World by now.

A crack in the floor of an old building glowed red, growing brighter before fading away like it was never there. The building creaked and moaned in protest as a shadow of a figure not there moved through it. The shadow slowly became visible revealing itself to be a fairly odd, plastic looking creature. Large black eyes with no pupils looked in a mirror taking in the shape of himself as its transparency was lost and it was left with a purple body with bones and odd flesh looking items covering it, sticking out at odd places. A hand stuck out of his hip, one finger stuck out of where his ear should be; his ear was on the back of his leg. At his buttocks, was a foot? Master Xandred's humorless attempt in his creation of the creature he had named Ghoulator.

Ghoulator had no special attacks, his only weapon was his power to be invisible, a power Master Xandred thought so grand that he gave him nothing else. He hadn't accounted for the creature being so location challenged, nor had he accounted for the fact that his creature he called ghoulator, when visible, was a down right scaredy cat.

Ghoulator tried in vain to re-enter the crack and go back to the Sanzu, but he had come out in the wrong place. He really hated that when the Samurai Rangers had sealed them away years ago that they had managed to make some portions fairly strong. The city surrounding the Shiba House, the Samurai Headquarters, had been the last place to be sealed; this made it easy for Xandred to crack the seal. The cracks in the shield had spread to cities outside of Shiba, however while the Nighlok could exit the Underworld by those cracks, they could not re-enter.

"Great, looks like I'm stuck. Why can't I ever think to bring a bucket or a bottle of the water with me? I cannot go out and scare people like this! They'll laugh at me!" Ghoulator paced around the building trying to decide what to do. "If I can't get back in, then there are no Rangers around. I do not have to go out, I can send out the Moogers and allow them to create the Fear and Sadness that the River needs to rise up and flood this world. And then, I will be invisible again and can scare humans like I want." Ghoulator smirked, his sick face twisting into a weird form as he watched out the window as the Moogers popped out of the cracks and the screams started. It would not be long now.