The JKP was completely full of kids playing games , chugging down soda, and stuffing their faces full of pizza.
"This is crazy." Allie said as she took another pizza from the oven. "That's like my third pizza in the last minute."
"RJ, are we going to have enough dough?" Theo asked.
"You mean enough drinks." Lily corrected as she and Casey looked out over the crowd.
"The real question is where did all these kids come from?" Casey asked.
"It's the perfect storm, the new toy store down the road has revitalized the new pizza business." RJ replied brightly. "Not that I care about money, but I'll be out of the red in five years."
Suddenly there was a loud explosion from the back making them all jump and Fran came stumbling out covered in flour.
"Sorry, my bad." She said with a weak laugh.
"Maybe six." RJ corrected himself.
"Come on Fran, I'll help you clean up." Allie said as she followed Fran back into the kitchen.
"Thanks Allie." Fran said.
"No problem." Allie replied. After they finished cleaning Allie got back to work waiting on tables. She had just walked out of the back with another order of pizza and was almost knocked down by a kid running by. "Watch it kid."
"Hey! That's my five bucks!" Casey called out as he ran after the kid.
"Casey what happened?" Allie asked as he ran by her.
"That kid stole my tip." Casey replied running out the door. "Cover for me!"
"Ok." Allie replied with a shrug and delivered her pizza and went around gathering the orders from the other tables.
"What happened to Casey?" Theo asked as he worked the register.
"A kid stole a five buck tip and he's chasing him down." Allie replied handing him the money from her table just as their morphers went off.
"We got to go." Lily said as they ran upstairs grabbing their uniforms.
"Did you catch the kid?" Allie asked as Casey he ran up to them.
"Yeah, but I gave him a choice." Casey replied as they all grabbed their vines and swung for the exit.
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"Jungle Beast Spirit Unleashed!" They called out together moving through their katas as they transformed. "Power Rangers Jungle Fury!"
"Look out." Allie called pointing to the two cars about to slide into each other. They just managed to get between them and keep them from hitting.
"That was close, come on." Casey said as he led them down the street.
"Here they come." The Eel said gleefully rubbing his hands together. "See how you like this?"
"What is he doing?" Allie asked as the eel performed the worm on the street.
"Just when I think these monsters can't get any weirder." Lily commented.
"You said it Lil." Theo agreed.
"Yeah, come on guys." Casey said and they all prepared to fight when the eel transformed into his beast mode. "Jungle Chucks."
"Jungle Chain!" Allie called out joining Casey as they ran forward. Casey attacked with his chucks, but the eel was to slick and all of his attacks had no effect. Allie wrapped her chain around the eel and pulled hard. "Now I got you."
"Think again." The eel said as he spun making the chain slip off then he blasted Casey back into Allie causing them both to hit the ground.
"Jungle Tonfa." Theo called out.
"Jungle Bo." Lily said as they ran in to attack, but once again it was no use, all of their attacks slid right off of him some even hitting one another then they too were hit to the ground.
"Our attacks keep slipping off of him." Lily said.
"It's the slippery slime on that slob!" Casey said then held out his chucks in front of him. "Jungle Chucks!" Casey sent wave after wave of fire from his chucks at the monster then the last big one, but each one was avoided. "How did he do that?"
Casey tried to attack again only for it to be useless and then once again thrown back.
"Casey!" Lily called out as they all ran over to him.
"All slime all the time." The eel said as he once again performed the worm. "Prepare for a slippery situation."
"This guys a freak." Lily said as she stood up.
"Let's send him back to where he came from." Casey said.
"Sounds good to me." Allie replied only for all of them to get blasted back by a wave of slime sending them sliding down the street.
"Oh now that's funny." The Eel said as he watched them go.
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"RJ." Allie called out as she, Theo, and Lily made their way into the main room slipping and sliding as they went until Theo really lost his balance and fell to the floor bringing Allie and Lily down with him.
"Ow." Allie grumbled.
"Oh, wipe your feet man, this is my home." RJ complained seeing the trail of slime and the slime puddle they were leaving on the floor.
"Sorry." Lily said as they took of their shoes and tried to shake the slime from themselves.
"This slippery eel is impossible to beat." Theo complained.
"He's covering the city in slime." Lily said as she dumped the slime from her shoe to illustrate her point.
"Where's Casey?" RJ asked.
"Said he had something important to check on." Theo answered.
"Well we better find a way to de-slime this slippery serpent before the city slips away." RJ said with a laugh as he sat up in his chair.
"Certainly." Theo said as they tried to stand again only to fall again.
"Nice hiku by the way." Allie said from where she had landed on her back having not moved since she fell.
"Thanks." RJ replied as he walked over and tried to help them stand.
Allie reached up grasping his offered hand and he helped her to her feet only for her feet to start to slip again sending her falling forward right into RJ. Everything paused for a split second when RJ wrapped his arms around her waist to keep her up. Allie quickly shook herself out of her stupor.
'He's your master, you're not supposed to get all crushy over your master.' Allie berated herself.
'She's your student man, you can't think like that.' RJ said to himself quickly.
"Oh, I am so sorry." Allie said as she stood up separating herself from him, but strands of slime were connecting her to RJ making Theo and Lily laugh.
"That's…ok." RJ said as his hand hovered over the slime hesitating to wipe it off. They were all finally able to make it up right to the showers and get cleaned up, just in time for their morphers to go off again.
"Oh come on, I just got clean." Allie grumbled.
"It nearly took all my soap and shampoo to get the slime off the first time." Lily complained as they dutifully grabbed their extra uniforms.
"Come on guys, let's get this over with." Theo said as they swung out of the main room.
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"There he is." Allie pointed out as they ran for the eel, Allie trying to use her spirit to punch the eel but slid right off almost falling face first into the ground.
"Where's Casey?" Theo asked as he slipped off the eel.
"He'll be here." Lily replied trying to landing a kick, but it was too slick. They attacked together and were deflected together crashing to the ground.
"Hey slimy!" Casey called out as he ran over flipping through the air with a piece of red cloth in hand. The others stood to their feet and ran over to him.
"Nice of you to join us." Lily said.
"Better late than never." Allie commented.
"We need to de-slime him, any ideas?" Theo asked.
"Yeah, how about a secret weapon." Casey said as he held out the red cloth.
"This time I brought some friends." Eel said as the Rinshi came at them. "Attack!"
"We'll deal with these guys, you go after the slime ball." Theo said.
"Right." Casey said as Theo, Lily, and Allie began to attack the Rinshi. "Time to clean up."
Casey jumped for the Eel and began to use the cloth to shimmy the slime away, then landed a powerful hit that caused the slime to fall from him. He used the cloth all of the Eel taking out the slime.
"Jungle Bo." Lily called out using it against the Rinshi.
"Jungle Tonfa!" Theo said,
"Jungle Chain." Allie said also using their weapons to defeat the Rinshi.
"Consider yourself clean!" Casey said as he finished off the Eel.
"Oh no. I've lost my slippery style." The Eel said as he rolled along the ground.
"Success." Casey said as the others ran over.
"The Rinshi are toast." Allie said.
"How are you doing?" Theo asked Casey.
"Great." He replied. "Let's send this Eel back to the lake."
"Claw Cannon, Charge!" Casey Theo and Lily called out forming the cannon.
"Call to the Beast inside, Calling out the Fox." Allie yelled her fist lighting up with her animal spirit.
"Powered by Animal Spirits, Fire!" They yelled.
"Animal Spirit Fox Strike!" Allie yelled thrusting her fist forward, her power joining the claw cannon blast hitting the Eel straight on.
"Toasted Eel, yeah!" Casey cheered. "That got him."
"Think again!" The Eel said as he grew in height.
"It's not over yet." Lily said as they ran forward.
"Guess not." Casey agreed.
"Animal spirits unite." They called out together forming their zord. "Jungle Pride Super Mega Zord!"
They formed a staff and beat the Eel back to the ground.
"Well since I'm down here." The Eel started to do the worm and launched into the sky coming down hard on them twisting around until he had them in a tight hold.
"He's got us." Lily said.
"I'm no good at yoga!" Theo yelled.
"My arm is not supposed to stretch this way!" Allie ground out.
They managed to reach around grabbing him and throwing him from themselves then charged up their power.
"Calling on the spirit of the elephant!" They shouted together calling forth the Elephant zord. "Jungle Fury!" The elephant landed in front of them. "Spirit of the Elephant combine." The Elephant joined with the mega zord. "Jungle Pride with elephant power! Jungle Mace Savage Spin."
They spun around rapidly.
"Now!" Casey said and they struck the monster down.
"Jungle Pride Super Mega-Zord!" The said together as the Eel exploded behind them.
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Allie and Fran were helping RJ put the to-go pizzas into their boxes, Theo and Lily were busing their tables, and Casey was chilling at the bar.
"How is it that all of our tables are clean and all of ours are a mess?" Theo asked.
"Easy, I have a helper today." Casey said as he looked back at Josh, the little boy he taught not to steal and to work for what he wanted. Josh came up and the two high fived. "Another quarter, that makes two-fifty."
"Awesome, you know the right choice feels so much better than the easier choice." Josh commented.
"I want a helper." Lily said looking to Theo.
"Me to." Theo said.
"It's a quarter a table." Josh said.
"You got it." Theo and Lily said together and Josh rushed off to clean their tables.
