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The Keese on Hayashi's left taunted him, lashing out a bristly arm. The one on the left sprang at the Green Ranger, but was met with a twist kick to the head. The hero with the power of the dragon then ducked down and flipped into a no-handed cartwheel to evade his opposition. The pair left standing lined up and charged the Ranger, mouths agape and crying out. The first Keese didn't fare well at all since it was felled by a slash through its neck with the Dragon Dagger. The second one rose above the flames that remained and got out of the way of a stab from Hayashi, clutching his gilded, padded shoulders and hoisting him off of the ground.

"Hey! Let me go!" Green Ranger ordered, trying to grasp at the monster's ankles, but to no avail. He was being carried off toward the overcast sky, and the only Keese left on the roof of the hospital also took to the air, turning during its ascent to meet him.

Hayashi's pulse quickened even more during this sight, but he knew there was only one way to head off the threat. With his arms free under his Dragon Shield, he swung his right up, Dragon Dagger in hand, and cut across the Keese's left ankle. It squealed and released half of its grip. Though he dangled, the Green Ranger was able to slice the Keese's right ankle, allowing him to drop and crash into the other enemy, sliding down its rough frame and clutching its calves. The Keese feverishly flapped its wings, but the two fell past the last three floors of the hospital. Green Ranger shifted his body in midflight enough to fall into the broken window of the second floor, crumpling into the hard ground and shards of glass, making everyone in the room stop what they were doing.

"Green Ranger!"

"Are you alright?"

Hayashi tried to gingerly rise up on his burning feet, accepting the hands of the people who spoke: Wendy and the Blue Ranger. A pair of Dredwing's minions stood before them in the far left corner of the room.

"Glad you could drop in, partner," Tracey said. "These guys don't know when to quit."

Green Ranger halfheartedly scoffed at being called the Blue Ranger's partner, pointing to their schoolmate and asking, "Is she alright?"

"I'm fine," Wendy said in a low voice; she was in between both Rangers. "But you didn't answer me, Blue Ranger. You said the Red Ranger found Mike and my cousin."

"They're in good hands, Wendy," Tracey replied, fastening his Tricera Lance back together and pointing it at the Keese. As soon as Blue Ranger made it to the second floor, he immediately bumped into Wendy, who escaped the downstairs danger at Mike's urging. He saw his father whisk through the hall and into one of the rooms, only getting a few words out to his disguised son.

"Nurse!" Blue Ranger had called out as he ran to see him, hesitating a second before so he wouldn't call him "Dad." "We need to move everyone that's able downstairs and out of here!"

Oliver Matthews turned around, motioning a few visitors out the door and pointing to the Blue Ranger. They looked at him in confusion and fright, hearing the thrashing and squeals of some of Dredwing's victims from the next room.

"Triceratops and the Red Ranger are downstairs. They'll protect you!"

Those words motivated the people to move to the escape route, and others within earshot spied upon what was happening and joined them. Meanwhile, Tracey and Wendy approached Oliver, who was tending to patients. He touched his father's arm, but he brushed it off.

"I'm fine, and I'm not going anywhere," the man spoke, taking a towel and dabbing at his sweaty face. "I've got my eye on the monster's victims, too."

"But Mr. Matthews!" Wendy interrupted.

"You get out, kiddo," Oliver said to Wendy, pacing to the other side of the room and trying to raise some of the machines; the power surges had disrupted more than the lights in the building. "And you should probably get anyone else you can out."

He gazed at Tracey with a serious, concerned look and bloodshot eyes, and the Blue Ranger nodded, but not before handing him a box of the healing adhesives Zordon had created. A short time later, the Keese had broken in.

Both he and Hayashi frowned, and Wendy, sensing something wrong, turned her head and sucked in a breath to keep from crying, but looking outside the broken window changed that.

"Look out!" she screamed.

Green Ranger whirled around, and the vampire that he had cut twice was soaring down to feed, but its journey immediately ended when the Green Ranger threw his Dragon Dagger straight into its chest. The winged horror cried out and crashed onto the hospital floor, vanishing in a colorful blaze and leaving the blade behind.

While this was going on, the other two Keese advanced on Tracey, leaping back as he swung his lance across his body. One of them was brave enough to go in and latch onto the Tricera Lance, holding the Blue Ranger at bay with its surprising strength.

Hayashi ducked down to retrieve his Dragon Dagger and join the fight, but another scream from Wendy stopped him in his tracks. The fourth bloodsucker was holding onto the ledge of the second floor window with one clawed hand and had her right foot in the other, scratching it open. It started to pull itself up and her back, extending its tongue to try and lap up the fluid escaping Wendy's body. The Green Ranger dove for his Power Weapon and stomped low, stabbing the clawed hand and freeing the girl.

"Get to the corner!" Hayashi shouted, pointing to the near right corner of the room.

Wendy nodded and ran to safety, but not before hearing a slimy slap and the exhalation of "Gah!" She looked back to see the vampire's long tongue wrapped around Green Ranger's right wrist and arm, stopping him from using his blade. He tried to use his left hand to assume his Dragon Dagger, but the Keese ensnared it with its right hand. The monster flapped its wings with two massive movements and took to the air, biting into the crook of Hayashi's arm while it flew into the hospital.

Roaring, Tracey tightened his grip on his Tricera Lance and buffeted one of the remaining foes in the face with the middle of the armament.

"I'm coming, buddy!" he yelled, but the other Keese grabbed him from behind and drove its fangs into his shoulder. Sparks flew, and so did the Blue Ranger after the Keese suplexed him back-first into a nearby table. Tracey reeled, but had enough wherewithal to grapple with the putrid being as it tried to make him its next meal.

"It's…your…turn…" he gasped.

Meanwhile, Wendy kicked off her light brown flats and seized the back of an empty gurney. The young lady heaved it to the side and pushed forward, releasing the gurney and letting it crash into the Keese that had attacked Tracey, making it double over. She then ran to the one trying to feed on Hayashi and wrapped her arms around its hoary leg, pulling with all her might, a rumbling noise emerging in the distance.

"Let him go!" she shrieked, ignoring the noise, but the beast continued to bite the Green Ranger while it hovered. Sparks from the Ranger's uniform flew past her face, and she caught sight of the Keese's black, slimy tongue. Wendy also saw the shards of glass on the ground with her peripheral vision, and she ducked to pick up a long piece and swiped the edge across the tongue. The appendage went limp and the Keese instantly let Hayashi go, making him slide against the wall and to the floor. However, the vampire whirled around on instinct and snapped, scraping two curved fangs across the very top of Wendy's chest.

"No!" Green Ranger choked out as Wendy cried out and sank to the floor along with the Keese. Summoning more strength from his weary body, he ambled to his feet and pulled the assailant away from Wendy, whose wounded tongue still tried to taste the cowering teenager's sanguine foot. The superhero wrenched the Keese's head back and brought his Dragon Dagger to its throat, but a gargling noise escaped its mouth along with ink-black poison that sprayed across Hayashi's visor, making him recoil. Hayashi slashed blindly, trying to concentrate on the heat signature that his HUD showed. The blade ripped across the target's right shoulder and chest and sent it tumbling.

Blue Ranger was still tussling with the two monsters in the other corner of the room, but his eyes stretched as far open as they could and he nearly lost his breath when he saw the girl fall. His muscles burned and felt like they burst when he broke free of their grip, spun, and slung a right heel kick across one of their faces. The Keese went flying, and its partner immediately wrapped its arms around the Blue Ranger's throat in a sleeper hold.

"Come on…Don't give up…" Tracey quickly thought. "What was that move Lia taught you this week?"

The Keese tightened its grip, widening its mouth and bringing its fangs to the top of the Ranger's smooth helmet, but a well-placed elbow to the gut shook it up. Tracey then twisted his arms around the monster's right and around its neck, bent over backwards, and dumped the enemy on its head.

With the two batty beings disabled, the Blue Ranger finally noticed the rumble in the distance growing louder and louder, and his eyes caught sight of Hayashi putting himself in front of Wendy, who could barely stand. The vampire in front of them staggered, trying to flick its elongated tongue at them. Unfortunately, the sightless creature was too distracted to notice the other Power Ranger charging at it, and it combusted once the third sharp prong of the Tricera Lance spun through its neck.

"Stay back, guys," Tracey said, twirling his lance in front of him. Hayashi and Wendy didn't object. Once their backs were to the wall, a prehistoric bellow ripped through the hospital window. The three humans looked over to see the large side of the Triceratops Dinozord roaring past them. The remaining Keese slowly rose to their feet, beaten but still hungry for blood. What they got was much different. The whirring of gears signaled the Triceratops' tail extending down several stories, positioning its double-barreled cannons in front of the window. Dredwing's spawn sensed an impending hazard, and the last thing they felt were two lasers absorbing their bodies, dissipating upon impact.

"Hohoho!" Green Ranger said, allowing himself to bump fists with Blue Ranger. "That was Morphenominal!" This made the Blue Ranger smile for the first time in a while.

"He sure came through…" Wendy added after a silent moment. She dropped to her knees and then to her side, never removing her tight grip on her chest.

"That creep didn't dig its fangs in," Hayashi continued, propping his school friend up against the wall. "It could've been worse.

Tracey's smile left him as quickly as it appeared. He saw two towels strewn about the floor and picked them up, pressing one to Wendy's wound. He handed the other to Hayashi so he could wipe the venom off of his dragon helmet. He then turned to the girl again.

"Analyze," he spoke. A scope on his HUD read the fang scrape, and a biohazard sign confirmed the bad news.

"It just got worse…the venom spray…"

Hayashi looked at Wendy, who gasped and tried to speak, but stammered. Tears escaped her eyes, and the Green Ranger kicked another nearby gurney.

"How many of those bandages do we have left?" he asked.

"D…the nurse has them," his teammate replied. No sooner than when the sentence was completed did an angry shout and the clanging of metal sounded out. The Blue Ranger sprang to his feet, ignoring all of the tiredness and pain, and he rushed to the door without a word. Another shout and feral growls entered his ears as he opened the door and went down the hall, passing a few doors and kicking open the one the noises were behind. Inside he found his father, face pale and body thrashing while two patients stretched out his arms and dug in with their teeth, streams of red and black running over his arms and dripping to the floor.

Rita Repulsa watched the whole scene unfold from her magical telescope on the Moon Palace balcony, smiling all the while.

"You can't plan for everything, Power Rangers," she said, breaking out into a cackle.