Power Rangers: Pirate Raid 4

To most, nothing was wrong with Chad.

He woke up late, ate half of the kitchen, and then napped in his chair most of the day. It was normal for him to do such, so everyone found no reason to worry.

Except for Delaney.

She was the nicest one of all of them, other than Danny, and she saw by the way his eyes were dulled, he was upset about something. She figured, however, that it was because Danny had a hurt ankle. She didn't think that he could possibly be upset over her being with their Green Pirate...

Of course, it wasn't as if they were dating, but it didn't matter to the Red Pirate. He was still jealous.

"Hey...we need more food," Danny came in from the kitchen as the captain roused drowsily from where he was napping...again.

"Then get going," he slurred out, trying to return to sleep and ending up standing when she offered to 'join him on his journey on Earth.'

Danny was walking with his hands stuffed in his pockets, looking at the ground as the two of them walked. The air between them was icy, silent, and still, so he found it incredibley awkward.

It was even worse because of Dasrae. If he hadn't positoned himself a little more to the left...they would have won. It was his fault...He gingerly touched the scar on his shoulder as tears stung his eyes. His fault...

"Hey!" Chad barked sharply, and the timid blonde jumped in alarm, remembering they were supposed to be buying food and that his thoughts wandered off in the middle of reading the list.

Suddenly, a figure bolted right between the two friends, making both of them stumble back and make the curly-haired blonde fall into the apple bin. After Chad recovering from his laughter, he realized the figure was a man who looked ten types of petrified.

"You people have to help me..." the two didn't know it, but this was the man Lilliac had met the past day, "the Gourmin are after me!"

Sure enough, a steady stream of Gourmin was after him, probably about ten of them. The confident blonde shook his head, shrugging at the plea from this man. He figured this guy was just smart-mouthed, like him, so he was willing to go raise a little cane with those dumb metal heads. Cracking his knuckles, he charged in almost head-first, grinning and looking like he was having the time of his life already.

"Come find me," the man who was running for his life only moments before spoke to Danny now, tipping his large hat and taking off down the street again.

"I do wonder what Mr. Chad was upset about..." Delaney bit her lower lip a bit as she sat on the couch in the main room of the ship. Joe shrugged from where he was doing sit-ups beside the couch on her right side, and Lilliac set down her tools for making jewlery on the table on the far top right corner of the large main room.

"I dunno..." but her smirk said she did know.

"Ah...only two?" Dasrae almost sounded disappointed when he seemed to appear out of thin air, right after Chad had brained all of the Gourmin, "oh well."

Danny's muscles tensed with fear at the sight of him. Just the sight of him brought on bad memories of helplessness...and anger. Narrowing his eyes, he grabbed his leader's arm and slunk behind him as he barked out his threat.

"We'll kill you!" Dasrae laughed when the Green Pirate spoke this, his eyes glowing yellow-red as he stepped closer as he spoke himself.

"Oh? Because I think you'll destroy yourself more," as soon as he'd said it, he shot out two beams from his eyes at the two easily, grinning evilly.

The leader blonde had enough sense to dodge it with a backflip, but the timid one got hit dead on by the Zangyack Commander...again.

Since two of their five members were gone, Delaney felt compelled to spend time around the other two. Being the newest member to the team, she was wide-eyed and curious about how their lives completley worked and was still learning earestly.

"You make jewlery, Ms. Lilliac?" she inquired sweetly, sitting down beside her older sister figure and titling her head to the side, making her light brown hair that was held up high in a white ribbon swing with it ever so slightly.

"I sure do," the older girl held up a bracelet with blue and pink beads in it, slipping in on the younger's thin wrist, "here. This one would look great on you."

The other smiled. This was much better than how she treated her when she first became a member of the crew...

The Green Pirate shakily rose to his feet, his big brown eyes that matched Delaney's darting around nervously and frantically. The place he was suddenly in was dark...it was very dark.

"What the hell?" a small wave of relief came over him upon hearing his captain's voice. He might be okay now that he had his leader...

"I dunno..." the timid blonde shifting his wieght nervously as Chad stalked around a bit, "but we need to make a-"

"Let's go check this place out," and suddenly the older male grabbed the back of his neck, pulling him into the unknown pale-lite darkness as he yelped.

"Plan..."

Joe smirked a bit to the two sister figures. There was way too much squealing and crying when Delaney first came on...yeah, this was nicer.

Chad was getting quite annoyed at the clinging Danny was doing to his waist. That fool hadn't let go of him yet, and it was getting old real fast. Grabbing the back of his neck easily, the taller blonde pushed him back easily and kept walking in quick, easy strides, his his long red coat bumping against the back of his legs every once and a while.

"Chad..." the blonde with brown eyes' voice was soft, and the other rolled his blue ones.

"What is your problem?" he reached to pry him off of his waist...again...but his friend's next whimper made his hand freeze locked around the scruff of his neck.

"I'm afraid of the dark..."

The older felt a bit of pity deep down inside for his buddy. Besides, he cooked the food...the least he could do was show he had some empathy for fears. So he let him go, inside quickening his stride and smirking for him to 'keep up then'.

"Nice," Lilliac smirked a bit as Joe exaimed her jewlery, and she punched him in the stomach. Her punch, to most, would be painful, but his belly was toughed up enough for him to not mind.

"Want me to decorate that ponytail holder?" as she smirked, he actually blushed a bit on his tan skin.

"What the...?" Danny yelped, letting go of his leader's waist and darting into the darkness like a mad man before Chad could even register the random large boulder coming for them.

He charged after his frightened friend, feeling this wasn't cocienadental. Dasmae surely put them in this place by hitting them...was it coming off of their fears? Must be...Danny looked like he was about to cry.

But he was not scared.

He whirled around, stopping his buddy by grabbing his shoulder and throwing his sword into the ground in front of the two. He pushed them both down, and the boulder sailed above them, rolling off the sword and keeping on rolling away.

"I wanna go home..." the brown-eyed blonde whimpered, rocking slowly as he curled up in a little ball.

"But it's just now getting fun," the blue-eyed blonde smirked a bit now, grabbing his neck gently yet firmly as he pulled him back along.

"I wonder what's taking those two so long..." Lilliac yawned, and that's when the first Zangyack blast came from below, "damn it."

Danny's eyes went disk when his captain suddenly fell down.

He felt for a pulse instantly, and was quite horrified when he didn't feel it. His world froze in horror, sticking him between total and compelete terror. His heart was doubling, tripling in speed, and he was completley rigid. Every instict inside of him screamed for him to run, but his mind demanded for him to help his leader, even if he was already gone.

"Give it up, Green Pirate," Dasrae was suddenly in front of him, smirking evilly and holding a knife dripping with blood, "you can't win against me...or anything, really."

The Green Pirate looked down to his fallen friend and leader. He would keep going...so he had too, too. Grasping his Moterbite with a shaking hand, he pulled out his Ranger key and tried to smirk.

"I will avenge Chad..." he turned his key, "Pirate Raid: Go! Green Pirate, ready!"

He charged in, jumping onto the enemy's back and digging his knees into the lower part of it. Holding on tight with one hand, he used the other one to bang on his head with the butt of his gun, screaming when he was tossed off easily. He rolled a couple of times before shaking his head, rubbing the back of it and firing as fast he could. Darting to his leader's side, he grabbed his gun and fired both of them.

"Bang, bang, bang!" he crowed, ducking between Dasrae's legs and punching him as hard as he could in the jaw.

"What the...?" unknown to Danny, Chad's death was all an illusion by Dasrae, so now he was rallying and smirking at the sight, "ada boy, D."

"Well, this is a workout!" the Yellow Pirate called out as she slashed at another Gourmin's neck, "whatcha wanna bet Chad and Danny ran into Dasrae?"

"It doesn't matter," the Blue Pirate rolled off the back one, jabbing it in the chest along with two others, "Delaney!"

"Messaged recieved!" she spun around after firing at one, throwing up her sword towards him as he threw his gun. She jumped off two's backs, catching it and firing rabidly and grinning at her catch.

He caught it easily as well, jamming two into four's chests and spinning around for more. Lilliac nodded once at the two's work, finishing off 'her' little group and standing back-to-back with the two of them.

"Now..." she panted, "we find our team."

"Final wave!" Danny inserted his keys in the compartments on his gun and sword, making them glow green as he fired at Dasrae. The Action Commander yelled out, exploding in a firey way and making the timid blonde grin.

"Ada boy," Chad clasped his shoulder, and the curly-haired male gasped and clung to his waist.

"You're okay!" he breathed his relief.

"Never better," he smirked, but the last opponent for the two for them made even him break out into a sweat.

"What the...?" Lilliac's eyes were wide as Dasrae appeared, towering over them about twenty stories high, "damn again..."

"Jack?" the cocky blonde's eyes were disk as he stared at the man in front of him.

He had somewhat fluffy brown hair down his neck, and eyes were dark, seducive brown and a much deeper shade than his light brown hair. He wore a hat with a feather in it, like a pirater, and he wore a royal-like red coat, black shirt, and black pants with chains on them over matching boots. He was holding a gun and a sword, smirking.

"Been a while, Little Buddy," his voice was echoy, and the blonde with exciting hair gripped his own weapons.

"Don't call me that," he looked like he wanted to attack at the man he'd called Jack, but his feet stayed planted in one place, his muscles rigid, eyes hard and showing a deep fear.

But that's when Jack disappeared, disiolving into thin air before the two of their eyes. Since he'd caught onto the fact all of it was an illusion, Danny had a feeling the others had taken down Dasrae...or at least wounded him enough to where he couldn't power out these fears.

"Who was that?" he asked his captain as the two of them headed for the light down the tunnel, and Chad scowled.

"Shut up,"

So he found it in his best interst that he did.

"Holy..." the cocky blonde's eyes went wide as he looked up at giant Dasrae, "what the hell?"

"That's a good question," Lilliac shrugged, "let's just call the Ship and take care of this guy in Mega Mode."

"Let's," the captain smirked now, flipping open his Moterbite and dialing a couple of buttons. The Ship was over them suddenly, and the team grabbed the ropes easily, coming on and getting at their respective wheels.

They were instantly Mega Pirate, their giant battle Zord, and Chad exclaimed, "Let's make this showy!"

"Brilliant!" his evil voice echoed in the chambers, and the two young girls before him smirked.

"Nice job, Taylor," the one with dirty blonde hair and big brown eyes clouded over with a hint of darkness spoke to her friend with the dark red hair and wicked green fox eyes.

"Thank you, Primlily," she smirked, holding up the magical gun she'd made Dasrae huge with, "those damned Pirate are going down."

"This is getting us nowhere," Joe commented, sounding irratated at boxing around with Dasrae. This was getting real old real fast to all of them, especially thrill-seeker Chad.

"Nope," the cocky blonde cracked his knuckles, "let's finish this."

The team nodded as one, taking out their Ranger Keys and inserting them into the holes on their wheels and turning it, "Finisher! Let's go!"

A huge blast of all of their colors emerged from the front cannon on the chest, and Dasrae cried out in pain. Since he was already wounded, he was going down...down...

"Idiot!" Primlilly boomed to her friend as their Commander died, and the redhead just shrugged and scowled at the screen.

"So...who was that Jack person?"

Danny's question was innocent enough, but Chad punched him in the stomach and growled, "Don't worry about it."

"Mr. Chad..." Delaney bit her lower lip, and the captain's gaze softened at the sight of her.

"Just..." he sighed, then looked to the other blonde, "hey! Is that food ready yet?"

Author Note: Typical Chad...lol :)