Primal Protectors

Chapter 4: Player - Optimist

Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers or the source material for this fic, Doubutsu Sentai Zyouhger or any other things referenced such as certain games.

The characters appearing were made by: AyatoHattori, Dash master 48, KidF1ash, bobmanv2.0, Thewhatzupwriter26 and Me. Gadget The Critic is the man behind the monsters.

Within the Racer command ship, Pivillinous sat, sipping from his chalice. At the left side of the room was Fuse, while at the opposite side stood Hexagon. In front of Pivillinous was a new addition to the Racer's ranks.

The alien looked like someone in green and gold clothing, wearing an oversized pink and white tiki head with green and yellow checkered eyes with crosshairs in the middle. To top it all off, the monster was lumbering a large pink crossbow around.

"Good to see you again Beeven. I was disappointed that you didn't come join my team at first, but news of Pike's defeat spread fast and you came running along like you always do." Pivillinous said to the alien known as Beeven.

Beeven spoke up in a strangely accurate Australian accent for an alien. "Aye mate, Heard there's some new players that took my pal out. Thought I'd see what the whole thing's about."

"Good to here. Now go get some rest. We've got some contracts to fill out before you can start playing. In the meantime I trust you two can keep the game going." Pivillinous told the two team leaders.

Fuse and Hexagon quickly left, once out of sight of their leader, Hexagon lifted Fuse by the scruff of the neck. "Listen tin can. I don't like you. But this guy's an idiot. He's supposed to be a replacement for Pike, but he said he'd do it for nothing. I'd be fine with that if it wasn't for us getting less prize money and his share going to the boss."

Fuse nodded. "I see. So a pile of blocks like you is worried about money. I thought honour was your first priority."

"I get paid peanuts as it is. Even I have to make a living some how. And I won't go back to… Modelling." Hexagon shuddered at the thought.

"Now there's an image I won't get out of my head any time soon. But I understand what you mean. Thankfully if we give a good enough lie to Beeven, he'll go down to earth and cause some destruction. But I'm sure that power rangers nuisance can take care of him. I mean look what they did to old Pike. That's why old players should retire." Fuse suggested as the two villains plotted.

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It was now the weekend in LA and the rangers had gone back to their temporary living spaces until Flynn had a more permanent solution for getting the rangers to stay. Meanwhile, Valerie Dawson had returned to her apartment in the city, where she lived with her twin sister.

In her bedroom, her alarm sounded off to signal the start of the day. With a groan, she reluctantly rose up from the covers, her hair was bedraggled as she slowly opened her tired eyes.

"What time is it?" She groaned, looking at the alarm clock on her bedside table. The time read 10:30 am. "Still too early." Val complained, dropping back into her bed with a tired yawn.

Unfortunately for the white ranger, her sister wouldn't let her sleep in. "Val, I made breakfast!" Gabrielle called. Val rose up and groaned again as she got out of bed to get ready for the day ahead.

After getting changed, Val was now eating pancakes at the table with her sister. She was now wearing a more casual outfit compared to the one she was wearing almost a week ago. It consisted of blue jeans, a white top underneath her grey hoodie and she wore a pair of white shoes.

"Hey, Val, I've heard you've found yourself some new friends recently. Got a good look at a couple. They looked pretty cute." Gabrielle laughed.

"You always have to be the weird one don't you?" Val replied, Gabrielle proceeded to tap her in the shoulder playfully.

"It's fun teasing you." She smirked. "So anyway, I was thinking going shopping today. Wanna tag along?" Gabrielle asked. Val took a few moments to think about the offer.

"Sure, as long as I get to go in the game shops if you're fine with that." Val answered. Then an almost devious smile crept across Gabrielle's face.

"As long as I get to meet these new friends of yours," Val finally understood what she was hinting at with that facial expression.

The white ranger let out a laugh. "Oh god you're promiscuous. Fine, just don't try anything."

"Is it okay if I think about trying anything?" Gabrielle asked in a more sarcastic manner, although Val couldn't tell whether or not she was being sarcastic. Even though this was the case, she let out a laugh at that statement.

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The Los Angeles shopping district was a fine attraction with many stores unique to the shopping district. It was said that the entertainment stores were the best in the country. Unfortunately for Val, she was only half way through the shopping trip and was currently in one of the many clothing stores waiting for her sister to try on every dress in the pile she had picked out.

Then, among the racks and shelves of clothing, she spotted a familiar face, looking kinda lost. What made matters more interesting was what they were doing. Demetri Black was standing in the centre of the woman's clothing section, with a piece of paper in his left hand. As he examined the many different outfits, he tried to keep his business as discrete as possible, to avoid any incidents. Unfortunately for him, Val had other plans.

She walked up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder, causing him to freeze in place. "Hey Demetri, fancy seeing you here." Val gave a laugh after finishing her sentence.

The red ranger turned around slowly after realising who it was. "H-Hey… Val…" He said in a nervous manner.

She looked at him with a smug face. "So, what are you doing here exactly?"

Demetri stuttered again, trying to think of something. "I-I um… This isn't the game store is it?"

Val laughed at his terrible lie and snatched the piece of paper from his hand. "Hmm… A designer dress. And wow is that not cheap."She said then a sly smirk came across her face. "So what do you want this for? Doing a bit of crossdressing?" She asked, obviously being sarcastic, but in an effort to embarrass her friend.

Demetri's face became red at the comment. "No! No! It's not like that. My cousin came with me and my mom here to visit LA. Because she and my mom are off dealing with something else, I have to go buy a stupid dress for her." He grimaced.

Val laughed at the predicament he was in. Then someone behind her cleared their throat. The two rangers turned to see Gabrielle stood looking at the two.

"So Val, is that one of the friends you were talking about?" She asked, causing the white ranger to sigh as she knew where this was going.

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Near the outskirts of a city, on a hill overlooking a freeway, Beeven stood clutching his bright pink crossbow. "The hunt's gonna be fine today, mate." Beeven spoke in his stereotypical Australian accent. "I'm gonna enjoy myself here."

Beeven lifted his crossbow with one hand and aimed it at the passing traffic on the freeway. Firing rapidly, bright green bolts struck vehicles and tarmac alike, causing trucks to explode and cars to flip over.

"Let's get in there!" Beeven enthused, jumping into the air and landing on the freeway where the area was already in anarchy.

He blasted the vehicles a few more times, toppling larger vehicles such as vans and motorhomes. Citizens fled in terror at the destruction. The Racer jumped from place to place like a kangaroo, blasting everything in his path with his crossbow.

Finally he landed back atop the hill from where he began his attack. "That was fun. We'll have to do that again some time, mates." He gloated, pumping the air with his fist which also held his crossbow. When he turned, he saw three individuals stood opposite him.

Darren, Penelope and Kyle stood side by side. Their morphers in hand.

"So, who ordered the joker with extra pancake face?" Kyle asked in a mocking manner.

"Let's just beat this creep up already!" Nel enthused.

"Shouldn't we wait for the others?" Darren asked, skeptical of their abilities to take the Racer on without their full team. Nel and Kyle shook their heads.

Ther three flipped open their Rubik Primers and pressed their individual buttons and the central red one.

"Two, Shark!" "Three, Lion!" "Four, Elephant!" "Beasts ready!" The morpher called as they closed it up, ready to morph.

"Primordial Powers, Awaken!" They called, twisting the top to form the beast image before morphing into their ranger forms.

"So you lot are the power rangers that beat my bud. Well, you'll have a job on with me!"

Beeven jumped up and down as Darren attempted to take the Racer down. Despite his efforts, Beeven side stepped his attack. Kyle threw his fist downhill, only for it to be met by Beeven's crossbow. Beeven once again turned to dodge, this time, sending the blue ranger past him while knocking the green ranger back. In that short space of time, Darren recovered and tried to grab ahold of Beeven's arm, only to be slung around.

"This guy's tougher than the last two we fought, that's for sure." Nel told them as Kyle once again slung his arm downhill to connect with the crossbow before his arm was once again thrown off.

"He's fast too,I don't think we can outpace him here." Kyle observed as he tried to swing at Beeven's head.

Darren and Nel came in from either side and tried to hold onto the alien's arms. Yet using his overwhelming strength, they tumbled to the floor. Darren got back up as Kyle tried to land another punch on him. From the side, Nel had recovered and was about to attack Beeven, but the Racer caught wind of her plan and used the oversized crossbow to block her. He then took the crossbow around to strike Darren in the gut with it. With a swift jump, Beeven landed a few feet away from the rangers. He lifted his crossbow and aimed it at the three rangers.

"I had a good time playing this game, but vengeance must be served. Say hi to Pike for me!" Beeven called to them as the rangers reared up to endure the attack.

The ranger fired at the rangers, sending three laser arrows on impact with them. While the rangers endured the first wave, Beeven send another set straight at them, blasting them head on. On the third and final blast of arrows, the three of them collapsed backwards as the laser arrows struck them.

Kyle clutched his arm. "I miscalculated. He isn't just fast, he's too fast." The green ranger groaned.

Beeven stood there in disbelief. "You haven't blown up yet? Maybe my crossbow is faulty. Time to go fix it. Bye for now power rangers!" He finished, jumping into the air.

"Get back here coward!" Darren exclaimed, running after the fleeing racer. He leapt over a ledge, but the distance was too far and began tumbling down a hill. When he reached a levelled area, his head was on the floor with his legs bent over the rest of his body. With a burst of yellow energy, he demorphed and laid himself out on the grassy plain.

Val and Kyle, now also demorphed, headed over to their teammate. "Hey, Darren, you okay?" Kyle asked, concerned about his wellbeing.

"I wasn't ready. Hey, one of you mind helping me up here?" Darren asked holding his hand up towards the other two rangers.

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Pivillinous sat upon his throne, at the corner of the room, where the bar was, Meizong was mixing drinks. In front of the viewing screen, Hexagon stood, watching replay footage of Beeven's fight with the rangers. Fuse walked on in to see what was happening.

Then Pivillinous spoke up. "I see that Beeven was a little eager to go out and fight." The villain gave a sigh. Either way it's a win win for us. He is kinda a loose cannon after all. I trust you had something to do with this Fuse?"

Fuse tried his best to look shocked. "Why, sir, I would never do something like that!" The robotic team leader gasped. "If anyone its that block head over there." Fuse finished, putting the blame on Hexagon.

Hexagon slammed his cubic fists together. "Unless you want to be target practice for the rangers next. I suggest you keep your mouth shut, kettle."

Meizong walked over and gave Pivillinous a drink. "I love to see you two idiots bicker as much as the next, but at this rate neither of you are gonna get my prize." The leader told them, causing the two to freeze in mention of such a thing.

Meizong walked over and offered a drink to Fuse. "Just take this and stop whining you box of spark plugs." She sighed.

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After introductions were made and a long shopping trip, taking Demetri along with them. The twin sisters were ready to head home. Demetri was carrying a mound of bags while the two twins were freehanded. Except for Val who was staring intently at a retro game in her hands.

"I can't wait to play you." She told the videogame, not taking her eyes off it.

Just as the three of them reached a crossing, Demetri realised something. He stood next to the white ranger and whispered to her to avoid attracting attention. "Hey, Val. You got your morpher. I left mine at home. What if the others needed us and I didn't know." He grimaced.

Val took her eyes off of the game and looked at her. After a brief search through her bag, she revealed no results. It was at this point, the signal turned to green for people to cross over.

The two rangers were still stood at the edge of the road. "Crap… I forgot it." She told Demetri, neither of them realised that the signal had changed yet.

"We have to got to the arcade and see if anything happened." Demetri told her. Val gave a nod.

As the light turned to red and before Gabrielle reached the other side, she turned to see the two rangers talking. She began walking over and was about to call out to them when from the side a car ran straight into her, sending the young woman to the ground.

A commotion began and it caught the attention of the two rangers. When they turned to see what was going on, they could see a car that had skidded to a halt, with Gabrielle lying unconscious on the ground. Val's eyes widened as she saw her sister on the ground. She hurried over and knelt beside her, trying to hold back tears that began to well in her eyes.

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Back at the Arcade, the three beaten rangers sat about trying to think of a counterattack for fighting Beeven. It had been a few hours since the accident, Gabrielle was stable now, but she was still under. Demetri had left Val to look after her sister while he went back to the Arcade. A weary eyed Demetri entered, looking stressed out from the whole thing.

'I still feel like it's my fault…' he thought to himself as he headed over to the three other rangers.

"You look terrible." Darren said to the red ranger as they greeted him.

"We could've used you a bit ago. While you and Val were gone, we were beat by a cocky Racer. Any explanation for the whole thing?" Kyle asked, mildly irritated.

"I ran into Val and her sister this afternoon. After some time, we got to a crosswalk. Because I got distracted, her sister got hit by a car. She's on medication and recovering. But if it hadn't been for me…" Demetri trailed off.

The others looked at him with an understanding expression. Nel spoke up. "Go back, keep Val company till her sister wakes up. We'll handle that alien."

Before Demetri could decline, Kyle told him something. "If you feel guilty, you're better off making up for it. It'll compromise you in the battle otherwise." While the words came from the tactical side of Kyle's mind, there was truth in it. The guilt would eat away at him if he didn't try to make amends, even if it wasn't directly his fault.

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A short time later, Demetri found himself in the recovery ward of the hospital, he was directed to a small area lined with hospital beds, some occupied, others not. At the very end, he saw Val sat down next to a bed by the window. He hurried over to where she was and pulled a chair up.

"You're back early. Something happen?" She asked, seeming calm compared to when the accident first happened.

"The others told me to come, try to rid myself of my feelings of guilt." He told her as he gave a sigh.

"Don't feel bad about it. It's not your fault." She told him, trying to keep optimistic.

As they quietly argued over the blame, Slowly, Gabrielle opened her eyes. And looked over at the two. After a few moments, they came completely into focus.

"Hey." She said quietly, only just loud enough for them to hear.

"You're okay!" Val exclaimed, wrapping her arms around her sister. After a few moments, she let go.

"Listen. I have something, it's in the bedside table. I saw it in that oriental shop. The person running it said it would fit you so I bought it. Just thought I'd have a better time to give it to you…" She trailed off as VAl opened the drawer and took out the object.

It was a cube, primarily dark grey with an orange core and many strands of the outer section being missing, giving it a resemblance to one of the cores of the ranger's primers.

"Hey doesn't that look like?" Demetri asked, Val nodded it and handed it to him.

"Take it to Flynn and have a look at it." She told him. Demetri gave a quick nod before heading out of the area with it.

Val turned back to her sister. "Thanks sis. Demetri's just taking it to a safe place for me. Is there anything I can give you in return?" Val asked, immediately regretting her choice of words as she saw the smug look on her sister's face.

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As Demetri waited at the bus stop, he heard his name being called. He looked around to see that Val was walking up.

"Did something happen?" Demetri asked as she stood beside him.

She shook her head. "I lost track of time. Visiting hours are over for now so I'll have to come back tomorrow. Thought I'd get a ride back with you, see how the others are doing." Val told him.

After a few minutes of waiting the bus arrived and the two got on. Sitting down, Demetri pulled out the orange and grey cube and began studying it, reading every little detail. Then he turned to Val.

"Hey Val. You seemed strange back there. Is something up? Did the accident scare you back there?" He asked, handing the cube back to her.

"I'm trying to keep positive, but I can't for everything. I know that she's okay now but I'm still a bit frustrated for what happened. I feel like it's my fault." She sighed.

Demetri was surprised as he hadn't seen her like this till now. Even if they'd only known each other for a brief time, it was interesting to see she wasn't always optimistic. "I get it. I've been blaming myself too. If I hadn't have thought about losing my morpher, things might've been different. But listen. You don't have to worry about something if it isn't your fault. I know we're blaming ourselves, but there's an idiot out there who can't drive that's to blame. So don't blame yourself for others mistakes. Just keep being optimistic, like you always do. I hate seeing you being depressed, even if you do put on a smile."

Val nodded to him and gave a smile. "With moral support like that, I might as well make the effort. Thanks newbie, you're a good friend." She said, slightly teasing him with his nickname.

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On top of an overpass, Beeven stood, gloating about his triumph over the rangers. Travelling towards the overpass was a bus among other vehicles. Beeven grinned.

"Time to start the hunt back up again." He enthused, aiming his crossbow at the bus. He fired, yet narrowly missed the bus and blasted a car behind the vehicle. "Crikey, looks like I'll need to tune my weapon more, wouldn't want to miss again. But I'll save it for later." He observed.

Within the bus, the passengers, along with the red and white rangers, felt the shock of the blast and looked back to see the destroyed car as Beeven descended on the road and looked towards the bus. Val and Demetri looked through the back window to see the Racer turning in the direction of the bus.

"Looks like trouble just found us." Val said to Demetri who nodded.

Beeven leapt up onto a car and leapt off, blowing it up with an explosive energy bolt as he did. Back on top of the overpass, the morphed yellow green and blue rangers ran forward as Beeven landed in front of them, each of the rangers carried their Pixelators in blaster mode.

They shot at Beeven, sending shots his way, but the Racer dodged and blocked them with his quick reflexes. "You rangers haven't learned since our last fight." Beeven's train of thought changed quickly. "Hey I should take up river dancing." He said to himself as he observed his arms and legs moving in such a form.

"Time's up, my getaway bus is !" Beeven called, jumping up and landing on the bus as it passed under and came out on the other side.

Demetri and Val could see from the back window that the three rangers were chasing the bus, becoming exhausted in the process. Atop the bus, Beeven shot out energy bolts that hit the feet of the rangers, staggering them long enough for them to lose ground and causing them to tumble in the process. Beeven gave a cocky wave to the three downed rangers.

Demetri climbed his way out of a side window on the bus. Morphing as he got out. When ready he leapt towards Beeven with his eagle chain blade. The alien had only a few moments to turn around and duck as the red ranger swung his blade at him.

Demetri went past Beeven and stumbled as he almost fell off the back of the bus, only just managing to regain his footing.

"I heard you were the one to take out Pike. Well I'll make sure to take you out." Beeven told the red ranger as his opponent turned to face him.

"Try as you might, I haven't lost a battle, and I don't intend on losing today." Demetri remarked as he locked his blade with Beeven's crossbow.

Demetri kicked Beeven in the side as the two kept up the attacks with their weapons, neither one landing a hit with them. As the two parted and locked again, Beeven used his superior strength to lift up the red ranger and flip him to the other side. Demetri stumbled as he tried to regain his balance on the moving vehicle, letting out some slashes with his blade as he did. Beeven easily blocked the attacks with his fast reflexes.

The Racer grabbed the red ranger by the arm as the fumbled about, as the bus ran over a felled log as it headed outside the city, the two lost their balance and Demetri rolled off the edge.

"Primal Power up, Unleash!" The red ranger cried out in a bid to save himself from hitting the ground.

He gained his wings and was flying above Beeven and trailing just behind the bus. The Racer was about to fire from his crossbow at Demetri when three shots from a Pixelator came out of the roof of the buss, just nearly missing Beeven, however it distracted him and bought Demetri enough time to fly up high and swoop down to knock Beeven off of the bus and onto the concrete.

"Time to make an emergency stop." Val said as she opened up the bus door with the emergency release and barreled out of the vehicle.

Demetri swooped down and the two were now in the woods. "You could've at least given me a warning, I'm not too sure of your ability with a gun. You could've hit me." He complained.

Val just laughed at him. "I'm not that bad a shot. Relax newbie. If I had hit you, it wouldn't have been that bad." She attempted to reassure him, her words which were obviously poorly chosen, didn't help.

"Wouldn't have been bad?" He repeated, about to go into a fit.

Just before that happened, the three other rangers arrived on scene to see the rangers okay.

"Good to see you two okay." Darren said as he looked the two over.

"Where'd that Racer go?" Kyle asked, still concerned about the current threat.

As if by plot developing cliche, Beeven came down the side of a slope and stood behind them. "Game over mate!" He called out, aiming his crossbow at the group.

The five of them turned and lined up. They all keyed in their codes and closed them up. "Primordial Powers, Awaken!" They called, twisting the Primer to complete the beast image. Overlaid with a stream of pixels in their colour and with a white burst of energy, the rangers were morphed and ready to fight.

"Lord of the skies! Primal Protector Red!" Demetri started.

"Predator of the deep! Primal Protector Blue!" Nel called out.

"King of the jungle! Primal Protector Yellow!" Darren roared.

"Behemoth of the forest! Primal Protector Green!" Kyle pumped his arm.

"Stalker of the blizzard! Primal Protector White!" Val finished.

"Virtual Players, Real Heroes! Power Rangers, Primal Protectors!" They all called.

"So you're all here, looks like the match is coming to a close." Beeven commented.

Demetri wiped his helmet from top to bottom.

"Tell your boss from us. He sucks at games!" Demetri declared.

"He'll not be happy. Quarters, get em!" He called, flipping a coin in the air and summoning a group of henchmen.

Val jumped on top of a small tree with her catlike reflexes. Grabbing onto a Quarter and using it to flip down onto the ground, where they surrounded her. Using her claws, she slashed at the minions knocking them to the ground.

Meanwhile, Kyle was using his strength to ram a Quarter into a tree before proceeding to beat it relentlessly with his fists. He then got up to deal the same punishment to the rest of the minions around him

Darren jumped up and touched his feet against a trunk and flipping over back onto the ground whilst dodging the attacks from the Quarters around him. He went to the ground and used his feet to grab a Quarter's head in a vice hold and take it to the ground.

Meanwhile Penelope was being held by a Quarter, she used her maneuverability to turn the tables and send the Quarter to the ground. She proceeded to grab the head of another one of the minions and twist it using the force used in her special ability which caused its whole body to spin and knock it to the floor.

Demetri was fighting off Quarters using his chain blade, skipping from place to place as he did so. With swift slashes, he dispatched the minions as the other rangers finished off their remaining opponents simultaneously.

They were caught off guard as Beeven leapt in and fired a volley of explosive bolts at the team, knocking them to the ground as they tried to fend him off. However his overclocked speed was too much for them to handle.

"Game over." Beeven laughed as he aimed and fired at the rangers. Demetri got up at the last second and managed to use his chain blade to deflect the blows and send them in different directions.

"How'd you pull that one off?" Kyle asked as the others got up.

Demetri turned to them. "FPS tactic. When you're low on health, you take a deep breath and the whole thing just seems to slow down, if only for a second. Allowing you to rack up a kill and survive." He told the other rangers.

Val looked at the red ranger. "Not too shabby newbie." She said, grinning under her helmet.

Beeven tried firing again and this time Demetri extended his chain blade. He took a deep breath in as multiple laser bolts were sent towards him. Whether it was skill or a fluke, Demetri stopped them all.

"Let's cut him down to size!" Demetri called to the others.

"Primordial Power ups, Awaken!" They called, donning their animalistic power ups.

Nel transformed into a razor shell of water, battering against the Racer. Darren let off a surge of lightning with his claws Which struck Beeven. Kyle stomped the ground with his feet, causing a quake and staggering their foe. Val let out a snowy air cutting clash from her claws that knocked Beeven to the ground.

Each ranger pulled out their Pixelator in blaster mode. "Time to put his lights out." Val enthused. Each of the rangers switched to blade mode on their Pixelator. "Group attack" Val called.

"Primal bonds, beast slash!" The rangers called, jumping into the air to become a multi coloured claw of energy that beared down on Beeven, causing him to surge with energy and explode as the rangers turned to look away from the explosion.

Victory was short lived as, along with the deep booming voice, the words "Extra life" appeared over the downed Racer. With an explosion of coins, Beeven grew to large proportions. "Round two, mates!" He called as he was rejuvenated.

The rangers quickly pulled out their cube themed animals and raised them to the sky where they grew to large proportion before the rangers jumped inside.

Beeven blasted two hills either side of the zords as they came towards him, causing a rockslide that trapped the tiger and elephant zords.

"Looks like we'll have to fight without them." Darren said as the three remaining rangers keyed in their zords to transform.

Once the zords had combined and the primal warrior was ready, the rangers wasted no time and rushed into the fight with Beeven. The warrior slashed at the Racer, yet their foe managed to block it with ease. In close proximity, Beeven showed off a formerly unused move where he shot purple lasers from his eyes.

"Woah, where's that come from?" Nel asked as their megazord stumbled backwards.

"I've got no clue." Demetri replied as they tried to hold on.

The megazord hit back against a hillside as Beeven let out another volley of explosive bolts. The primal warrior was struggling to keep up its fight. Another rockslide occurred and buried the legs of the megazord. No matter how hard they struggled, they were stuck. Just in time, the other two zords burst out and collided into Beeven, knocking him back.

"Hey Demetri, let's form up the Speedster megazord and show him what we're made of!" Kyle called. Demetri nodded and disconnected from the current configuration.

As the three zords connected, the three rangers called out. "Primal Speedster, player ready!"

This time when Beeven blasted at the megazord, it used its speed to take the advantage and dodged any incoming attack.

"You're not the only one's who can max their speed stat out!" Val called out to Beeven.

"It's not good though, we keep this up and this place will be ash by the time we're done." Kyle told the others.

Val looked down. "I wish we had more fire power. Maybe then we'd be able to take him out." Val pulled out the grey and orange cube as she noticed it beginning to resonate with bright orange energy. "Huh? What's happening?"She asked as it began to render and with a burst of white energy became an yellow animal cube.

"I'm not even gonna question the logic in this." Kyle remarked as he looked over.

"As long as it's a weapon we can use. I don't care if it's a unicorn that fires rainbows." Demetri said. It glew again and flew out of Val's hand and out of the cockpit, enlarging to become a cube almost as big as their usual animal cubes.

The cube had a large exclamation point on the front and rolled onto the ground and flipped open, morphing into a cubic giraffe.

"It's a giraffe!?" The three rangers called out, questioning who's idea it was. Quickly the giraffe zord rammed into Beeven and jabbed him in one of the eyes.

With an animal call, the giraffe zord began to transform once again. This time becoming what closely resembled a bazooka. It then slotted into the Primal Speedster's hand.

"I seriously think there's a higher power trying to mess with us. A giraffe bazooka, who thought of that?" Kyle asked clearly not impressed with the aesthetics of their new weapons.

"Who cares? It's a giraffe bazooka. A giraffezooka!" Val said, dubbing the new weapon thusly.

"Giraffezooka, unload!" The three called, placing their Rubik Primers into their control cubes.

A relentless hail of bullets fired from the nozzle, each hitting Beeven. "God blimey when will this thing stop!?" He squealed as he surged with energy and once again exploded and became a mass of pixels as the megazord turned away.

"Game Over!" The five rangers cheered as they defeated their biggest challenge to date, and received a new weapon. All in a day's work.

|Primal Protectors|

And that is it for the fourth chapter of Primal Protectors. I always come out of this and see that it's a lot bigger than expected. Mainly due to translating the fight scenes to text from the sentai footage, but the plot has to be there too right. But at least I always feel accomplished after a chapter of Primal Protectors.

I decided to make Val's sister be a bit promiscuous and after the male rangers so after she's recovered expect to see her putting the guys in awkward situations. Plus, this episode took a few jabs at me and the source material, so that was fun to do.

College is going well and I started my last assignment for the year, that will be finished off for next week and I'll only really have to do the game engine stuff which is more or less finished anyway. So we're close to getting back to our 'usual broadcasting' if you will. So I'm looking forward to that.

Next Chapter: Players - Fight

Synopsis: More of a dual character focus, this focuses on Penelope and Darren after they are captured by a fighting themed monster and forced to compete in his competition. They must work with each other to get out of there, but what will happen when they have to fight each other? Can their friends save them before one or both of them are eliminated? Find out next time on Power Rangers: Primal Protectors