Power Rangers: Pirate Raid 3
"Well," Lilliac rose from where she was dozing on the couch suddenly, "it's time for me to go meet a guy."
"What kind of guy?" Joe rose an eyebrow, and she shrugged, waving her hand dismissivley as she jogged towards the ropes that would take her to Earth.
"He said he can help us," grabbing her rope, she slid down before anyone else could ask.
The man was restless as he passed back and forth in the restroaunt. Where was that space pirate girl? He had to get back to his research...
"Daddy, who is this girl?" his young son, Jason inquired innocently enough from where he sat eating some curry rice. Like the space pirates, they didn't quite obey the Zangyack, and yet they were mostly overlooked, since they obviously weren't causing in problems and were discrete enough about it.
Besides, most other people were too afraid to do that.
"She's one of those space pirates," he replied, ruffling up his brown curls that always fell in his coco eyes, "go on, eat the rest of your food. She doesn't know us really well."
"But why?" the seven year old titled his head to the side curiously, and his father bit his lower lip, pulling his hat back over his eyes.
"Just go with it," he mumbled as Lilliac entered, "I'll tell you when she's gone."
"Mr. Joe...you like rather hot..." Delaney was a bit concerned for the Blue Pirate Ranger as she watched him do his exercises.
His hair, you see, was long and a deep, deep brunette. It was somewhat jagged as it fell down his back, and his bangs always seemed to stay in his eyes. When he wasn't reddening in the face and toning his muscles while sweating out a bathtub full of sweat, it was cool and old-school like. But now it was clinging to his face, making him look miserable but detirmined.
"That could be taken one of two ways," Chad grinned from his captain's chair as he threw darts at the doorway in front of them that led to their personal quarters.
Ignoring his captain as she blushed lightly, he replied to her, "I'm fine. Don't worry about me."
The small girl suddenly got a flash of an idea. Smiling to herself, she quickly rose to go fetch what she would need from her room and hoped he wouldn't fight her too hard.
"Hey," Lilliac slid across from the man in a chair, "so...what do you know about the greatest treasure in the universe?"
He laced his hands together after opening up the front of his overcoat, revealing a green t-shirt. Under the rim of his hat, she saw his brown eyes dark with seriousness.
"In order to obtain the treasure, you need Ranger keys, and then you need grand powers," his voice was low and urgent, "you know your Pirate Raid keys?"
Reaching into her yellow jacket pocket to fell it, she nodded, "Yeah...so what?"
"There are keys from all the past Power Ranger teams," he told her, "they are spread throughout Earth. First, you and your team will go find them. Then you will need to find at least one member from each team to entrust their Grand Power to you."
Danny wiping his forehead with his green plaid sleeve as he fixed lunch. Living on the same ship with Chad meant cooking food most of the time because he ate pretty much all of it, so he had to fix enough so everyone else left full. And then he had to cook...and clean...and be a mechanic when needed.
Yes, his job was a hard one. But he wouldn't have it any other way.
Even if they did beat him up sometimes because they could be real bullies...at least Delaney didn't...
"Hmmm..." he thought as he stirred the broth, "I wonder what she's doing..."
Delaney pulled out a ponytail holder that was solid black and a plastic-bag tie looking hair clip with another smile, "Mr. Joe?"
"So when we've got all of that..." the Yellow Pirate grinned hiesatantly, "we get the greatest treasure in the universe?"
"That's right," the man rose now, rebuttoning the overcoat, "I must go now. Don't forget."
"Wait a minute!" the black haired girl with blue and green highlights jogged through the lunch rush crowd, trying to keep up, "why Earth? HEY!"
"We're not putting my hair in those," Joe was not amused about the idea of wearing a ponytail, but Chad was greatly.
"Oh, come on, Blue Boy," the confident blonde snickered, "your hair is the right length and everything."
"Men wore ponytails on my planet..." Delaney's eyes were kind, patient, and hopeful doe-browns', "please, Mr. Joe. I'm sure you would be much cooler, and it would look pleasent."
"I beg to differ..." he turned, trying to exit her room and resume his chin-ups, but Chad had other ideas...
Jason tried to scoot past Lilliac, trying to keep up with his father, "Daddy! Wait for me!"
"Hang on, kid," she grasped the back of his blue-jean jacket easily, "do you know why Earth is where the powers are?"
"Um...I just know Earth is where the Power Rangers fought to protect," he smiled to her kindly, "and the value of Earth and treasure is the people."
And then he was free to run to his parent, smiling, and leaving Lilliac in his wake, confused and pondering.
"Get off of me..." Joe growled from the carpet as Chad pinned him down best he could when he was fighting with a good amount of force.
"Sorry to use force..." Delaney pulled back now with a smile, "but the ponytail looks nice."
Looking in her mirror, his cheeks light up a pink, "Uh...thanks, I guess."
It would just be awkward to admit he loved it...
"Listen up, space pirates!" the Action Commander Deserae was talking through a megaphone up to the Galleon when Lilliac came walking near, "you are all under arrest for denial of the Zangyack rules!"
"Oh, REALLY?" Chad smirked as he called out of the window, "well...that's a nice offer, but I think I'll past."
"We are the Zangyack!" the Gourmin chorused their 'gors' behind him, "do you know what happens when you defy us?"
"Yep," Joe smirked from where he stood beside his friends, "we don't care."
"We are not listening to anything you have to say," Delaney spoke in her royal floruish, and Danny scrambled out of the kitchen.
"I hate you all, too!" he shouted behind the Pink Pirate Ranger, and she had to smile a bit as Joe rolled his eyes.
"Let's go make this a show!" Chad strode over to the ropes, and they all dropped down easily, pulling out their keys and Moterbites.
"Pirate Raid: Transform!" they yelled together, turning their keys as they were clad in their suits.
"Pirate Red: Chad! Ready!"
"Pirate Blue: Joe! Ready!"
"Pirate Green: Danny! Ready!"
"Pirate Pink: Delaney!"
"Power Rangers Pirate Raid!" they slashed down and posed, "set sail!"
"Let's make this showy!" Pirate Red grinned like a mad man, charging in and going for the Gourmin.
"Pirate Yellow: Lilliac!" Lilliac smirked as she transformed, eager to be joining in the battle. The Gourmin were easy enough...but Dasrae was a new matter.
"You can't catch me!" he boasted, zipping around with his arrow-dinamic body, "just try, you'll fail! Come with me and it would be a lot more easy!"
"Danny!" Pirate Red looked to the Green, and his face flushed under his mask.
"Oh...right!" he blushed, taking off at Dasrea's heels, keeping up with the best time of all of them. He finally manages to grab the neck, jerking him back long enough for the others to attack.
Unfourtunley, he was hit, since he positioned himself wrong. Gasping, Delaney instantly dropped to her knees, holding him in her arms as he bled.
"He can not fight like this!" she called worridley to her comrads, and Pirate Red grunted a bit.
"Stay with him," Joe ordered, getting his sword in fighting stance, "we'll take care of it."
"Just rest, Blondie," Lilliac smirked just a bit at her joke as the three scrambled to find the Action Commander, who'd sped off but left a blood trail.
"Hurry up and get back here!"
A low, evil voice hissed Dasrea's ear inwardly as he covered his tracks with frost that blende in with the rest of it on the ground.
"Yes, Lord Jogi," he nodded quickly, urgently returning through a portal, "those damn pirates don't know what hit them!"
"Whoah!" Lilliac cried out as she slipped on frost, "hey! The blood trail ends here!"
"He knows we're looking for him..." Chad sneered, "and just when it was gettin' good."
"Hang in there for me, Mr. Daniel," Delaney was doing her best to reassure the hurt pirate, thumbing his palm gently and motherlylike, "they'll find him..."
"This is my fault..." he looked like he was about to cry, and she gave his hand a squeeze.
"Shhhhh..." she just didn't know how jealous Chad got when he came over the heel and saw her with him.
Author Note: Sorry I messed up on the morphing sequence in the last chapter, lol. I thought my team was named something else ;P
