The green hooded girl ran as a fast as she could away from the monster, he moved slowly on account of his armored legs, but soon the girl hit a dead end
"you've got no where the run now girlie"
The girl dropped her hood, showing her black pigtails, and her pretty face "Watashi wa hantā o jikkō shite ita, watashi wa wana ni anata o yūwaku shita"
The Hunter looked up to the top of the wall and saw 2 boys standing waiting they like the girl were Japanese, and wore there colors blue for the first boy, and black for the other
The jumped and landed next to there comrad, the boy in black glared at the hunter "Junbi ga dekite!?"
The other 2 smirked "Junbi ga dekite!" they yelled in union
"Sorehana Morphin jikandesu"
The Command Center
Toby was busy typing away on the super computer when he heard the door alarm ring, he rolled his eyes and opened the door for Bobby
"Yo Tobes what's up?"
"working"
"On what?"
"y'know new morphers"
"you need to get out bro"
"yeah yeah, Marcus has already told me that"
"you should listen dude"
Toby went back to his digital blue prints, as Bobby raided the fridge, luckily like Bobby, Marcus had a sweet tooth and kept the fridge filled with candy and sodas
Molly and Carly were the next ones to enter, Molly rolled her eyes as she saw Toby working on the computer, Carly leaned over "Hey Toby whatcha doin?"
"working on new morphers"
"Cool…what you got so far?"
"well they'll act as communicators, and for Bobby they'll have games"
Carly smiled and walked over to the fridge, she leaned over to Bobby "We need to get him a girlfriend"
Molly smirked "look who's talking miss Hyman Club"
"Shut up!" Molly and Bobby giggled at Carly's embarrassment, then Bobby grabbed another root beer "by the way Mol what are you talkin bout?"
"what do you mean Bobby?"
"Well as the only ranger here with a girlfriend….I say your all pretty pathetic even Marc….and he's standing right behind me isn't he?"
"nice observation genius….and I had a girlfriend until she was killed…so yeah thanks for dragging that up"
"whoa sorry bro, no disrespect man"
"Whatever…by the way you kids shouldn't be eating all the crap"
He sat on the couch "So Toby give any thought to what we talked about last night?"
"No"
"C'mon you can't be here 24/7, you gotta get out and do som….wait hold on Marcus Rylander how can I….oh it's you…yeah we can meet you guys…sure see ya then"
"What was it Boss?" Bobby plopped right next to Marcus, Marcus shoved him off "We gotta meet with some other rangers"
"Wow really?" Carly then lowered her head
The Woods
The 4 rangers leaned against Molly's car, Carly missed Toby "Hey why didn't Toby come with us?"
"it's a rangers only matter"
"So why isn't Toby wit…" Molly then realized and stared angrily at Marcus
Bobby tapped his morpher from boredom "Your one cold dude Boss"
"Not my idea"
They noticed the tricked out black car zoom in, as soon as it stopped the 3 rangers stepped out, the girl and the blue jacketed man stood at attention as the black jacketed man spoke to Marcus in Japanese
Bobby leaned close to Molly "You got any idea what there saying?"
"Not a clue, I took French"
After the 2 spoke Marcus approached his 3 teammates "Okay Kenji told me what's up, some monster named the hunter attacked there team took out 3 of there teammates, Molly you take Mariko to the command center then meet us a Pierce Manor…you got that?"
"Yeah"
The Command Center
The ride to the center was quite Molly couldn't speak Japanese and what she could tell Mariko couldn't speak English
Molly gestured for Mariko to follow her, she hit the ringer and the door opened, Mariko looked around in amazement
"Wow!"
"Yeah pretty big right?" Molly looked and saw Toby standing behind them, Mariko turned and smiled
"Yes it's huge!"
"wait you speak English?"
Mariko smiled "I was raised in America, I moved to Tokyo after my mother died"
Toby smiled "So what's up Mol?"
"Marcus said to keep Mariko here while the rest of us take down the Hunter"
"Yeah no prob, good luck hunting the hunter"
Mariko took a few seconds then started cracking up "your funny"
"thanks"
Molly ran out the door, and Mariko sat on the couch "So?"
Toby turned his chair around "So what?"
"we're not really gonna stay here the entire time are we"
Toby laughed and turned off his computer "of course not, I was just waiting for them to leave!"
The Park
"Wow your grandpa's the Tommy Oliver!?"
Mariko chomped down the pretzel Toby bought "yeah he was the great and powerful Tommy Oliver"
"I think your thinkin of Oz"
"Same different, especially with there fat heads"
Both laughed and kept walking, they eventually laid down on the grass "So Mariko…why did your brother bench ya?"
"it's so stupid!"
5 Hours Ago (Translated)
Kenji glowed black and appeared in his morphed form "Black Bat Ranger!"
Shinji glowed bright blue and appeared in his morphed form "Blue Shark Ranger!"
Mariko glowed green and appeared in her morphed form "Green Elephant Ranger"
"We Are The Jungle Fury Rangers!"
Mariko was the first to charged at the Hunter, she wasn't gonna give him the chance to beat her like he did the others, he merely leaped out of the way and snapped his whip at her, as soon as it struck, her power was drawn out of her, he then let go and laughed
"I summon you Elephant Zord!"
The Elephant Zord obeyed his command and appeared, The Hunter then struck it with his whip and it was drawn into him, and then a green armored plate appeared over the Hunters chest
"another pelt for my collection!"
Now
'Whoa he stole your Zord?"
"Yeah, but it's fine once we destroy him, my Zord will be freed….they just think I'm to into it"
"You were close to the rangers he killed?"
"Just one Casey"
"well I'm sorry he died"
"oh…yeah thanks"
"Come with me I wanna show you something"
The School
Mariko was amazed at the view, and how carefree Toby was, she had over heard the others mention he was a nerd, but now just watching the clouds with him, it felt right
"So why aren't you out there with the others Toby?"
"None of there morphers worked on me"
"Wow"
"Yeah….they think I need to get a life, they think I'm to obsessed with the ranger thing, but I'm just trying to help them the only way I can"
"I understand…don't worry your time will come"
"thanks Mariko"
Downtown
The Hunter ran he felt the rangers were on his trail, finally yellow and pink blocked his exit, he turned and red and black were there then the 2 jungle rangers
"my my, it seems like I've been outsmarted….but a hunter always come prepared"
He whistled then suddenly 3 tiger skeletons appeared, "Like em?….there all that's left of your 3 friends!"
The tigers punched at them, Marcus and Bobby handled one of the them, Molly and Carly handled another, Shinji was overpowered by the last, Kenji saw The Hunter getting away
"Ani wa watashi o tasukete!"
Kenji watched the hunter get away and turned to save his brother
The School
"Now isn't this just Darling!"
Mariko leaped up when she heard the Hunter, "oh don't get up on my account"
"It's mor…." he struck her he flung a dagger at her sending her flying against the wall, "Oh I guess I don't know my own strength!"
Toby really wished the others were here, He looked at the Hunter then at Mariko, it was time to act and he knew it
He ran to the unconscious Mariko, he removed her morpher from her wirst and strapped it to his own
"Relax Toby you can do this"
He took a deep breath "It's Morphing Time!"
He glowed bright green and the large elephant form engulfed him, when it faded he appeared in the suit
"Green Elephant Ranger!"
"Oh this is priceless, not only to I get to kill the green jungle ranger, I get to kill the great Tommy Oliver's grandson!"
He flung his whip, it curled around Toby's wrist, Toby jerked his arm back sending the Hunter flying toward him, without thinking he punched him as hard as he could sending the Hunter against the wall
"Oh I guess I don't know my own strength1" he walked toward the downed Hunter, he picked him up by the throat and began punching him, finally after a few strikes, one which covered Toby's hand with blood he stopped and dropped his opponent
He turned to help Mariko
"Wha….what are you waiting for…..kill me!"
"No….I won't stoop to your level"
"COWARD!"
Toby removed the knife holding Mariko to the wall, and carried the unconscious girl down the stairs, when he made it to the parking lot he saw the other rangers waiting
"Nani ga okotta no ka?!"
Toby handed Mariko over to her brothers, Marcus stared at Toby "Toby is that really you?"
"What can I say, when I go out…I go all out"
That Night
Toby sat at the computer rubbing his wrist, he felt so weird not having the morpher on, Mariko was on her way back to Tokyo with her brothers, she promised to see Toby soon
"Hey Toby"
"Hey Marcus" Marcus sat right next to him "So….details"
"on what?"
"C'mon you spent the entire day with her and you expect all of us to believe nothing happened?"
"that's the truth"
The Underground
The Hunter was chained to the ground, he didn't even see who had abducted him, he heard a heavy door slowly opened then the large blue armored man came in "The Hunter I presume?"
"Azure"
"Good you've heard of me….that's good, will make this go allot easier"
'What allot easier"
Azure's hand went right through the Hunters chest, soon the energy started being drained from the Hunter and into Azure
Azure laughed as he grew stronger, he then removed his hand from the Hunters chest and watched as his 2 shadow slaves dragged what remained of the Hunter away
