Chapter 5
"So you two are good now?" Mayumi asked both Alice and Michele with a smile. She was drawn to the room that they had gone to talk by the moans. "Oh, uh, hey," Alice said not sure of what she should say. Because it was clear even if you hadn't heard the two of them that they had just made love. And Alice knew that Michele and Mayumi were dating each other and wasn't sure if they were exclusive or if it was the same deal that she had with David. Alice just wanted to do something sweet for Michele when she had come up with the idea of sleeping with her. She didn't have the chance to ask Michele if it was alright.
"Hi, baby," Michele said with a smile and gave Mayumi a kiss. "Hi, yourself sweet thing," Mayumi said with a smile. "Did you like...PLAYING together?" Mayumi asked with a smile. "Yes," Alice said with a smile now knowing that Mayumi wasn't mad at her. Mayumi gave her a kiss. "Thank you for forgiving her. We will figure out how to make you apart of this group." Mayumi said looking at her. "I know," Alice said with a smile.
"I'm just glad that you got that out of your system before she arrived," Mayumi said with a smile. "Who's she?" Alice asked looking at her. "My cousin Saito Seki is coming for a visit. She is supposed to be here in a couple hours. So I'm glad that she didn't arrive to moans and groans coming from the unused briefing room thanks to you two." Mayumi said with a smile. "Sorry." they both said with a smile. "You better be sorry...you didn't invite me," Mayumi said with a smile. As the three of them left.
"Hi, there cousin," Seki said with a smile as she entered the base. "Small fry," Mayumi said with a smile hugging her cousin. "How was your flight from Japan?" Mayumi asked her. "It was fine though we had to land at this small airport outside of town thanks to the latest monster attack. Now can you introduce me to some cute guys?" Seki asked with a smile. "I thought that you were dating someone?" Mayumi asked with a smile. "Key word there is were. He dumped me about a month ago." Seki said with a frown.
"What happened?" Mayumi asked looking at her cousin. "At first we drifted apart. Then I walked in on him sleeping with the next door neighbor. Our MALE next door neighbor." Seki said looking at her. "Oh," Mayumi said not sure of what to say. "It's all good now. And we stayed friends in the end. It just sucks because when I first met him I thought he was the one you know. But I can't stay mad at him or stand still forever. So cute guys pronto." Seki said snapping of her fingers. "I'll see what I can do," Mayumi said with a smile.
At this point, there were sirens going off all around them. "So soon?" Mayumi asked looking around her. "What's going on Mayumi?" Seki asked. "You need to stay with me and don't touch anything," Mayumi said as she lead them to the war room. "What is going on?" Rex asked as him and the other Rangers arrived in the war room at the same time as Michele, Ellie, and I. "It's the Black Cross Army they have sent another monster down here." Dr. Holland said to everyone.
"But they usually wait at least a week before they send another one down. And it's only been a few hours since we defeated the Mineral Brothers." Percy said looking at him. "This one could have been here for longer than that." Colonel Douglas said as he brought up the map. "As you know we have been tracking these monsters thanks to the radar that Mayumi, Ellie, David, and Dr. Holland invented after we defeated the first monster. Somehow a monster has bypassed that radar and has been here for God knows how long," he said looking at everyone.
That's when he pulled up a picture of the monster as it killed a man. "Oh, God," Seki said covering her mouth. "I'm sorry. I didn't think that he was going to show us this." Ellie Duan said trying to shield her cousin from the pictures. "It's not that," Seki said with tears in her eyes. "What is it, young lady?" Colonel Douglas asked her trying to be gentle because she looked like she was about to collapse right now. "The man being killed...he's my ex-boyfriend," Seki said as she started crying.
"Do you need anything else?" I asked her giving her some tea. "No," she said looking up at the ceiling. "Why did it kill him?" she asked looking at the tea. "We don't know. Was there anything different about him the last time you saw him?" I asked. "No. He was happy. He had come out of the closet not just with me but with his family too." she said looking at me. "He was gay?" I asked.
"Yeah. He told me that he first realized that he was gay when he was about seven. He and his father watched sports together and he started thinking that the guys were cute. But he hid it from everyone. His father and mother and all of his friends. He even started dating girls when he got into his early teens. When I meet him he had been hiding it for so long that he never thought that he could ever come out." Seki said with a sad smile. "That was until he met our next door neighbor. He was an ex-baseball player. And they bonded over the game that they both loved and then one day they became lovers." Seki said looking at me.
"It was with my pushing that he came out to his family. He was so happy the last time that we talked. His father and mother had excepted him for who he was. His father even had taken his new boyfriend to the ball game once last week." Seki said as she started tearing up again. "Why did this thing have to attack him?" she asked me with tears in her eyes.
"That's what I'm trying to figure out," I said to her taking her hand. "Do you guys deal with this thing all the time?" she asked. "Yes and no," I said to her. "What does that mean?" Seki asked. "It means that yes this isn't the first monster that we had seen kill someone. But this doesn't feel like the other times. That this has happened." I said to her. She looked at me with questioning eyes.
"When a monster attacks someone it is usually with an end goal in mind. This monster has been down here on Earth for a month and a half at least." I said to her. "How can you know that?" she asked. "You have seen the news about the Power Rangers right?" I asked. "Yeah. Mayumi said that you and she was working with them." Seki said looking at me.
"We are doing more than that. Your cousin and I are part of the power source that powers the Rangers. It's a long story." I said with a smile. "But this base is the home of the Rangers as you know. And a month and a half ago in one of the lesser known battles between the Rangers and the forces of the Black Cross Army, the Rangers met Skullatron." I said thinking about it. "And who is Skullatron?" Seki asked. "A monster that had escaped from the Black Cross Army. It was at that time that we found out that some of the monsters that the Black Cross Emperor Moldark has been sending were either test subjects using DNA of prisoners that he has captured from various other planets or those prisoners themselves.
"Skullatron had escaped with a few other test subjects and prisoners. Each was angry with both the Black Cross Army and us for taking down so many of there friends. We tried to capture as many of them as we could. In the end, we had to destroy Skullatron but with everyone else we caught and took into custody and with there accounts we thought we had gotten everyone that had escaped. But there must have been one more." I said looking at her.
"What has be been doing all this time?" Seki asked. "That's what all of us are trying to figure out. Your cousin has been tracking down that monster in the photo. Our other girlfriends Ellie Duan and Michele Vitagliano are trying to track down the thing that set off the alarm that you heard just after you got here. And the Rangers are out on patrol to see if they could find the monster. But there are still so many questions. Why did he attack ex-boyfriend? Why did the alarm come from the smallest airport in the city?" I asked.
"Forest Hill Landing Strip?" she asked. "Yeah, how did you know?" I asked. "That was the airport that I just landed at over an hour ago," Seki said looking at me. "Okay have you met anyone new over the last month and a half?" I asked looking at her. "No I-Wait a minute. There was this one girl." Seki said thinking about it. "What happened?" I asked her.
"Well after he started dating another man. I got a little bi-curious. And I met this girl. It was nice but after that one night stand, she got really clingy. She wanted to move in with me like right after we got dressed. It was like she needed something more than just a tumble in the hay. I told her..." Seki said then she realized something. "What?" I asked.
"Oh my God," Seki said to herself. It looked like she was about to vomit. "Seki tell me what you said," I said already having some kind of inkling. "I told her that I was still in love with my ex-boyfriend. And I couldn't start anything new right now because of it," she said taking a gulp. "I got him killed," Seki said to me. "No, you didn't," I said to her. "Yes, I did. I told her that I was in love with him and she targeted him because she wanted me. Oh God what have I done?" she asked looking at the ceiling as she started tearing up.
I went to her side and pulled her into my arms where she started weeping on my shoulder. "There is no way that you could have known that she was a psycho monster," I said holding. "But-" she said in between her sobs. "No buts. We had this information and we missed it. We failed you and him. YOU did not do this." I said holding her close to my chest as she wept on my shoulder. I just wished that I could do more for her.