"I'm coming! Hold on!" Yellow Ranger exclaimed. The faraway plaintive screaming continued, and the heroine's feet pounded the ground, pushing her closer and closer to the danger.

"Wait for us!" Black Ranger urged, but his teammate was already far south. The other nine bats swung back from chasing Misty and started toward the other five Power Rangers.

"Those aren't regular bats!" Brock reminded everyone within earshot. Doors were starting to open, and Riko townspeople started to creep out, but Brock yelled, "Stay inside!", and only the Rangers stood in front of the winged beings.

Pink Ranger scoffed and held out her hands, which were immediately filled with bright pink light that formed her Ptera Bow and a handful of arrows. She drew one of the projectiles back, shutting her left eye and lining up the arrow's point with where the lead bat's chest cavity would be in five seconds.

"I'll drop these rabies babies for you guys," she said.

Blue Ranger, who had been continuing to monitor his HUD scan, ran up to Lia and grabbed her arm, saying, "Wait! You can't shoot them!"

Lia grunted and elbowed Tracey off of her. "Get your hands off me, dweeb!" she snapped. "Just watch me!"

Tracey ignored her insult and responded, "My scan says they're human! Don't do it!"

The Power Rangers on the scene gasped and steadied themselves. Each one had to fight the urge to move as the nine bats folded their small, furry wings into their chests and extended them. As they came down, their bodies turned from jet black to sallow and nearly yellow, their wings extended into trembling human arms, and their rodent-like faces morphed into ones with bloodshot eyes and pointed teeth.

Five beings dropped onto the Rangers, sinking gnarled hands into their shoulders and trying to dive their teeth into their necks. The Rangers retaliated by grappling back and tossing them down. The other four attackers came next, tangling with those in front of them as their brethren got back to their feet.

Two grabbed Tracey by the arms, clawing at him. One got right in the Blue Ranger's face and bared her teeth, saliva dripping from her yellowish fangs and onto his mask. While the hero tried to shake her off, the man on his arm bit into his bicep. Tracey shouted as the man tried to rip into his protective suit and chew his body; he tried to grab him, but only tore at his ragged, dirty shirt.

Black Ranger had already thrown one of the fanged menaces into the wooden steps of a nearby building and was trying to pry another off of him. Grunting, he ambled over with the assailant on his back, twisted around, and bulldozed the person into the one biting Tracey. The woman clinging to the Blue Ranger was then swept off her feet and then shrieking into the dirt road as Blue Ranger's boot bashed into her calf.

"Thanks buddy," Tracey breathed, holding his sparking shoulder.

"You bet," Brock said, pulling his friend to the side. "You okay?"

"He didn't bite through the suit," Tracey responded. Another warped human charged him, but the Ranger lightly pushed him down with his foot. "I don't know how vampire-proof they are though!"

Three vampires were tangling with the Green, Pink, and Red Rangers. Red Ranger ensnared one from behind and whirled him to the ground while Pink Ranger took another down with a headscissor takeover.

"Hey!" Green Ranger yelled as he swept a thrashing fiend down; he then sprinted over to his companions and poked Ash's chest. "Not so rough! They're human, remember?"

"Just like that sweep, huh?" Ash shot back. "Oh, just set 'em down…"

"Get down, you morons!"

Before the argument could continue, Lia yelled a warning and took her forearms and shoved them into both Rangers' upper backs. As the two fell to the ground, two more vampires who launched themselves through the air ran into each other. Lia then threw one to the ground by the belt loop of her jeans, but she was then pinned down by another. The vampire chuckled and hissed at the Pink Ranger, scratching down the pterodactyl head of her helmet and down her visor with sharp, dirty fingernails. Lia gritted her teeth and bucked her hips, which jostled the attacker off of her but onto his feet. Pink Ranger wrapped her left arm under his and went to slam her right onto the left shoulder, but the vampire slid out of her grip and went around her back and over her shoulder, plunging his dirty fangs into the top of her right pectoral.

People inside the buildings cringed and shut their eyes as Lia screamed. A man inside the store yanked away the shovel the owner was holding and headed for the door. But as he saw the Power Rangers try to bolt to their comrade as they were swarmed, he stopped in his tracks. His whole body trembled and he sank to one knee. He took a look at everyone else inside the store, and their eyes were just as wide.

"Get off!" Blue Ranger snarled. He shot the side of his left hand to the biter's throat and pushed his right palm into his nose. The vampire gurgled, his mouth filled with black goop that covered Lia's chest, and fell to the ground.

"This is just too insane!" Black Ranger breathed, pushing another creature of the night back. "We need to cage these freaks!"

"I'll get 'em…" Lia coughed out as she shoved Tracey aside; thankfully, much like Tracey, the fangs had not gone through her suit. She then summoned her Ptera Bow once more, readying an arrow for the vampires menacing Hayashi and Ash.

"Come on, get back! You don't want any of this!" Ash urged. He swung his Tyranno Sword in wide swipes, the point keeping the creatures at bay. One of them became brave enough to leap forward, and Ash rose his sword vertically to cut straight through the head, but Hayashi intervened.

"Hold up, Red!" he said, swinging his Dragon Dagger and clashing it horizontally with Red Ranger's blade. As soon as he did this, the pursuer's grin drooped into a gasp, and he cowered with his face to the ground.

Red Ranger took one look at the shape the blades made, then looked at Green Ranger. The two nodded and brandished the makeshift crucifix at the group in front of them. They hissed and screeched and darted their faces away from the swords. This gave the heroes a chance to regroup.

"Great thinking, guys," Tracey said. "Finally, some cooperation!"

"I put it together," Hayashi quickly quipped.

"Don't start…" Ash grumbled. Lia started laughing and Brock shook his head, placing his hands together.

"Just hold it together," he quietly said as he formed his Dino Crystal. Raising it to the sky and letting its shimmering black energy envelop him, the Black Ranger slid toward the nine vampires on a smooth path of ice. He kept gliding around the huddled enemies in a frigid circle, going airborne and thrusting his leg out until they were completely encased in the Glacier Flash.

CLASSIFICATION: UNKNOWN

Yellow Ranger's grip around her Tiger Daggers couldn't be any tighter when she read her onscreen scan as she ran and ran and ran. She was long away from the town square, dashing between trees and kicking up leaves and dirt.

"It can't be one of Rita's monsters," she whispered to herself. "But what drew this thing out to start attacking people?"

After a few minutes, she made it to a wide, wheat-filled plain; a lone barn stood fifty feet in front of her and a small house could be seen in the distance. Misty took a second to breathe, taking in the scene.

"Get away from my mommy!" a high-pitched voice squealed.

That's all it took to make Misty keep running. A big thump sounded out, and she burst through the barn door and saw a large, shadowy shape hunched over the ground. A stocky man was face-down on the ground shivering and clutching his neck, and a woman lay back-first against the pale blue walls of the building, sobbing and coughing up some kind of black liquid. Yellow Ranger bounded forward and propelled both of her weapons right to the center of the shadow, but it rose from where it was and disappeared, but not before tossing its victim, a little boy, to the side.

Yellow Ranger gathered the child in her arms, inspecting his body. He had a long cut below the curls of his red hair and was wailing, but he was otherwise fine.

"It's alright, sweetie," Misty softly said, going to check on the man. "It's alright."

She reached over with her left arm and hoisted the man up, sucking in a breath and composing herself. He had a large, bloody tear in the back of his neck and his skin was cold to the touch.

"We're gonna make it," Misty assured, moving over to the woman and grabbing her hand. "Ma'am, I'm going to get you all help right away.

The woman put a hand on her son's head, but didn't go closer to him. She moved strands of her hair away from her mouth and blackened right eye and coughed again, spitting out more dark goop.

"Rangers, this is Yellow," the rescuer spoke into her Wrist Communicator. "I've found the tenth monster here and there are people in serious need of help! Transmitting coordinates now!"

"Don't get close…" the mother hoarsely said, bringing her son's head into her chest and grabbing her husband's hand.

"I'm going to find this creep," Misty replied, pulling her daggers from her white belt. "He's not getting away."

"Don't get close to him!" the female snapped through tears and liquid.

A whisking flap of wind cut through the air. Yellow Ranger whipped her head to the ceiling. But before she could strike, she found herself taken off her feet and her Tiger Daggers fell to the ground. Misty grunted and wriggled and tried to do everything to get free, but she and her captor were already outside and high in the night air. Misty did not scream even as she saw the oblong face of her attacker, full of fangs and blood.

"I didn't want to meet you like this, Ms. Williams," he calmly spoke. In one fluid motion, he flung the Yellow Ranger into the air and floated toward her. With long claws and gnarled, bristly fists, he slashed and punched and struck her all over her head, chest, and neck. He landed two more blows, one to her Power Morpher and one to her mouthpiece, and the Ranger groaned as crackling electricity took over her body, her suit vanishing and leaving her in her regular clothes.

Dredwing smiled and grabbed the girl once more, caressing her slack body in midair.

"Much better," he said.

The young lady's breath hitched, and her eyes suddenly snapped open in a glare. She balled up her right fist and threw it straight for the monster's chest, but Dredwing caught it and clenched down hard, forcing Misty's hand open.

"Just a taste…"

Misty's eyes widened at those words, and she let out a short yell as three of Dredwing's fangs pierced her wrist. Blood flowed out of her body and over the vampire's teeth and tongue, and all Misty could do was flail her legs and left arm in an attempt to fight.

"Just a taste…" Dredwing repeated after removing himself from the wound. He flicked his tongue out and pressed his giant lower fang against the base, pricking it open. Misty's mouth hung open, but she soon sputtered as a drop of a black, viscous substance fell into her throat.

"Hey!"

Dredwing twirled in the air with his captive in tow and laughed as the shout from below filled his ears.

"Right on cue," he said. "I'll see you again, dear."

In that moment, Dredwing flapped his wide wings and took to the sky, letting Misty fall from his grip; he went higher and higher, absorbing laser fire as he soon vanished in a black haze. But Misty continued to plummet, her whole body burning. It was all she felt until the arms of the Power Rangers broke her fall, and then everything went black.