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Trev found Jeanie in the park, sitting at the picnic table they habitually took over when they were in the park. They'd been going to the park less and less often. Another thing to lay the blame on Pleance's shoulders, Trev thought, along with everything else.
Jeanie sat on the bench, head buried in arms braced on the scarred wooden table. Her hair spilled over her shoulders and arms, hiding pretty much everything but revealing the back of her neck. It was this Trev ran the very tips of his fingers over as he sat down next to her.
She didn't look up but she tilted her face so one bright blue eye peeked through. He wondered when she'd dropped her glasses and began wearing contacts. He wondered why he hadn't noticed before and wondered if he'd purposely chosen not to notice. "Hey."
She didn't answer and it hurt him more than he cared to admit. So he gathered the calm, the cool, he'd inherited from his father, translated it into expressionless on his face. "I gather your talk with Eric didn't go as planned."
She shrugged, and that bright blue disappeared. "We're over."
Trev forced himself to lift an eyebrow. He knew she couldn't see it but it was the principal of the thing. "Wasn't that the whole point?"
"No!" Suddenly she sat up and he saw, a shock to his entire system, that she'd been crying and was starting to again. "You don't get it do you? We're over. As in finished, done with, terminated. He dumped me."
Something in him broke at the miserable look on her face, another part of him crowed at the fact she was free and single at last. He squashed the latter and let the former take hold. It had him reaching out, gathering her into his arms – not without resistance. He rubbed her stiff shoulders, leaning his chin on the aforementioned shoulders and told himself it was inappropriate to bury his face in her hair. "I'm sorry," he said. "We both know I didn't much like Eric, liked less you going out with him, but you liked him and that's what matters, so I'm sorry."
She broke. With a muffled gasp which she hid in his shoulder, her arms came up, hugged him tight, her shoulders shaking as she cried. Trev held her tighter, rocked them both and wished like hell he could do more.
The monster appeared suddenly, without Frissons. Trev flung out his arm, yelled, "now!" and pushed off the bench, making sure to land on the ground with Jeanie on him. He rolled on the ground, away from the picnic bench, as the monster's laser seared the spot they'd sat. Jeanie's head jerked up and she stared with wet wide eyes as the other rangers – fully morphed – attacked the monster.
"What?"
"Sorry," Trev said, still beneath her. "We couldn't tell. We didn't want you to worry."
"This was…" she glared down at him, narrowed her eyes in a look he well recognised. "You planned this."
He couldn't hide the wince. "I'm sorry. It was the only way."
She lifted her fist, thumped him in the shoulder hard enough he knew he was going to bruise. "You idiot. You could have been hurt! What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Well, I didn't and it worked. Come on, the others'll need our help." He pushed at her until she shifted and he could sit up. "Are you going to get up any time soon?"
"One minute."
When she lifted her hand again, he braced himself. And was still caught completely unawares when she cupped his cheek, leant in and brushed her lips over his brow. "Thank you," she whispered. Then she got off him, looked down. "Ready?"
He sat still for a moment, just a moment, staring up at her. Then her lips curled in a smirk and his sense snapped back. He scrambled to his feet, assumed the position. "Ready!"
"Unicorn Rider, Ranger Form!"
"Centaur Rider, Ranger Form!"
Lights in their respective colours enveloped them and when they faded away, the two rangers were fully morphed and revving for action. They launched themselves into the fight.
Frissons had appeared and Eva was battling them with Ris. Jeanie, unusually, ran past them, knocking away any Frissons that got in the way. Her target was obvious; the monster.
"That's not like Jeanie," Ris commented, jumping into the air to avoid a Frisson sweeping her off her feet, performing a roll in mid air and coming out of it with her leg thrust out, slamming into another's face.
"It's personal this time," Trev said, simple dispensing of the Frisson attacking him with a punch to its jaw.
Eva grabbed another Frisson's shoulder, locking it so its arms – with their deadly sharp claws – waved madly to its sides while she punched it on its nose. "It's always personal."
"More this time," Trev amended. "She wants revenge. And I know Dayton says we shouldn't fight for revenge but you know what?" He kicked a Frisson on the knee, lashed backwards with his other leg to catch another on the belly and whirled, slamming his fist into its face. As it shattered, showering him with glittering remains, he finished; "I say let her have her revenge."
Jeanie jump kicked, aiming for the monster's head. She hit her target and bent her body mid air so she landed on her hands and pushed up, landing on her feet. David kicked the monster on its side, Jay pummelled its torso with his fists.
With a roar, it threw them off, tried to launch another laser which they easily avoided. Jay fell back panting. "You know what?" He swiped his helmet, where his mouth would be. "I'm getting really sick of this. I want to blow this asshole to smithereens now."
"You know Jay," Jeanie said, fists lifted as she watched the monster and David go one on one, "for once you and I are in perfect agreement. Unicorn's Slings!"
"Minotaur's Sabre!"
David, too, called for his weapon; "Dragon's Sword!"
David and Jay attacked the monster, while Jeanie provided cover fire. They kept their attack ferocious, so it was too distracted to think about transporting itself up. While Jeanie swung her slings, and a ball of pink form in the space the rubber cradles would be, the others came up.
"Now that's an idea," Eva commented. She held out her hand. "Griffin's Bow!"
"Phoenix's Daggers!"
"Centaur's Staff!"
Ris and Trev threw themselves into the battle with the monster while Eva and Jeanie provided more cover fire. Pink and blue lasers raced over the monster's body while it bled from the slashes from David's, Jay's, and Ris's blades.
Suddenly, Trev dropped down, swept it off its feet with a whirl of his staff. David slammed his sword into its paw – it let out a screech of pain – and pulled it out, dropping back to join Jeanie and Eva. The others followed suit.
"Spirit Cannon?"
"Duh," was Jeanie's opinion and they put their weapons together.
As the monster struggled to its feet, David called out, "brace yourselves. Ready…aim…"
"Bye-bye bastard," Jeanie finished and they pulled the trigger.
The monster gained its feet as a swirling mass of grey shot from the cannon's mouth, aimed straight for it. It didn't have time to even scream before it was enveloped and exploded.
David panted, leaning on his sword once it had separated from the rest. "Okay, guys, quick breather while Pleance resurrects the damn thing."
"Fucking asshole," Jay muttered.
Everyone wholeheartedly agreed as the monster's remains began to glow – marking its resurrection.
"Red Dragon Zord!"
"Black Minotaur Zord!"
"Yellow Phoenix Zord!"
"Blue Griffin Zord!"
"Pink Unicorn Zord!"
"Green Centaur Zord!"
The Zords appeared with a low rumble, a shaking of the earth. The rangers looked back and up and, sure enough, there they were. Red, black, yellow, blue, pink and green, with glowing gold eyes, they were massive, part creature part machine with one purpose. Destruction.
The rangers jumped, to a height no normal human could ever hope to achieve, and were drawn into their respective Zords' cockpit. The Unicorn, with Jeanie directing its moves with just a though, struck first, galloping forward with its horn down. "Pink Unicorn, Slashing Horn!" The Unicorn twisted its head from side to side, cutting an 'x' on the monster's chest. It skittered back as the 'x' exploded and the monster howled in pain. A laser blasted out, caught Jeanie and her Zord on the side. She went down, would have crashed into the ground if not for Jay and his Minotaur's Zord. "Steady," he warned.
"Yeah," Jeanie replied with gritted teeth. "Steady."
The monster was now blasting lasers liberally, hitting everything but the Zords. "Damnit." David steadied his Dragon after he'd rolled it in mid-air to avoid a laser. "It's destroying the park."
"Like it suddenly becoming a huge monster suddenly hasn't?" Trev asked, grunting as he forced his Centaur Zord forward, racing through the lasers. It grabbed the monster, grappled with it before pushing it towards Jay.
Jay ducked his Minotaur's head, so the monster landed on its horns. With a lift and a toss, the monster went flying. "Where'd you send it?" Ris asked.
"Where else? The quarry."
They arrived as one, just as the monster was struggling out of a crater. "That's new," Eva commented. "Was it there before?"
"No," Trev said. "I'm guessing the monster created it when it fell."
"Fat ass," Ris said and giggled.
Jay laughed and, his Minotaur's head down, charged. The monster grabbed it by its horns, literally swung it into the quarry wall. As the black Zord disappeared in a burst of dust, Ris launched her yellow one into the air. "Yellow Phoenix, Nova Blast!"
The stream of fire erupted from its beck, caught the monster in its flame. Eva's Griffin, circling overhead with the Phoenix, attacked on her own command; "Blue Griffin, Sonic Scream!"
The monster stumbled back as explosions raced over its body. Trev raced in, the Centaur's hands forming a cup from which its attack erupted. "Green Centaur, Mage's Fury!"
The monster stumbled back, roared and let out another laser that caught Trev head on. He went rolling head over hooves. Jeanie cursed, the Unicorn surged forward, and its horn sliced the monster on its belly. Jay's Minotaur charged from the wall of the quarry, shaking itself free of the dust as it did.
"Black Minotaur, Ebony Blast!"
The Minotaur's mouth dropped open, a blast as darker than the modern night exploded from it, slamming into the monster, sending it flying back. The Minotaur skidded to a stop and let out a low bellow.
"My turn," David decided and, with a sweep of its huge wings, launched his Zord in the air. "Red Dragon, Air Slam!"
Red filled the air as the wind swirled, and the Red Dragon swooped in, claws digging into the monster as David dragged it through the air. Cutting short the howling tornado with a sudden twist, the Dragon Zord released the monster, allowing it to plunge towards the earth.
As it hit the ground with another crater inducing crash, the rangers gathered their Zords at the quarry's side.
"Form the Megazord?" Jeanie asked.
"Form the Megazord," David confirmed.
At those words, the Zords moved of their own accord, shifting, changing and combining. The Minotaur Zord became the Megazord's legs and torso, the Unicorn and Centaur becoming its arms, the Phoenix and Griffin joining to becoming wings that exploded from its back and the Dragon began its head, with eyes that glowed fierce as any fire. And the rangers found themselves in the same silver cockpit with lines of their colours swirling and combining.
"Lava flame!" Trev and Jeanie called out the attack together while Ris and Eva sent the Megazord flying with one thought. In the air, the Megazord released its column of pure fire.
The monster, stranded on the ground, let loose a laser. The Megazord's lava flame easily decimated the laser, slammed into the monster. It rocked back as the ground surrounding it seared from the heat.
Jay shifted the Megazord's body, ad, working in tandem with everyone, had the Megazord charging the monster, its wings giving it a powerful thrust. As it approached the monster, David called for their weapon; "Spirits' Sword!"
The sword appeared from the tip up, the hilt solidifying last, its blade clear as ice and far more deadly than any man made weapon. The giant robot lifted it, held it with both hands, and the wings flapped faster and faster.
The monster let out one last desperate laser, which they deflected with the sword. Then they were on it.
The sword fell in one graceful arc, cutting the monster nearly in half. Its last bellow nearly deafened the rangers as it exploded.
