"Why are we here?" Madison asked her mother.
The two of them were sitting in a coffee shop. Madison ordered a latte, with a bagel. And her mother, Monica, got a breakfast sandwich and a smoothie.
"Is it too much for a mother to ask to see her daughter?" Monica asked.
Madison frowned at her mother. "If you wanted to see me so bad you wouldn't have kicked me out." Madison said with venom in her voice.
"We simply asked you to break up with him. Is that one boy really worth your home? Your family? Why can't you date a boy your own age?" Monica asked.
Monica did not approve of her daughter behavior and she let it be known all the time. The sad part as that she was the nicer one of her parents.
"Don't act like you care about me! The only thing you care about is your image. That's probably why you're here. Let me guess a reporter is doing an article on you, and the family doesn't what anyone to know that you guys kicked me out." Madison snarled.
Judging by her mother's face Madison knew she was right. "Screw you." Madison said.
She got up from her chair and started to walk off. "Your brothers are such a success! Why do you have to be such a disappointment?" Her mother asked.
Madison ignored her question. She stormed off. She waited till she was inside her car to start crying. She would never give her mother that satisfaction.
Nao enjoyed being out of the hospital. After months of lying in that bed, due to her disease she was glad to walk around on her own two legs again. She would forever be thankful to Apocalypse for doing that for her. As of now Apocalypse was mediating, searching for his new horsemen. Nao out of boredom decided to watch Dr. Zuko work.
Dr. Zuko was fun to be around. He always had his foot in his mouth and said the wrong thing at the wrong time. He was very funny.
"Hey Doc." Nao said.
"Hello Pestilence. I'm just creating a latest monster to fight the rangers." He said.
"Oh really. What does this one do?" Nao asked.
Dr. Zuko grinned. "You're going to love it."
It was lunch time and as usual Madison sat with the cheerleaders, the mean girls, and the popular girls. Also known as the Perfects. Her 'best friend' Julia noticed something was wrong and frowned.
"What's wrong Maddie?" Julia asked.
Madison was daydreaming, so she ignored her friend's question. Julia frowned and held her hand in front of her face and started snapping.
"Hello Earth to Madison." Julia said.
Madison instantly woke from her daydream. "Yeah Jules." Madison said.
"Are you okay, you seem a little tense?" Julia said.
"I'm fine. I just came back from a rough meeting with my mom." Julia winced.
Julia knew how much Madison hated her parents. Julia grinned when she came up with an idea. She went into her purse and grabbed a metal flask.
"Maybe some alcohol can cheer you up."
Madison frowned at her friend. She knew that Madison didn't like alcohol. "Jules, you know that I had problems with alcohol freshmen year, and that I try to stay away from it."
Julia groaned. "Come, one swig won't change who you are Mads." Julia said.
Madison sighed. "You're right."
Madison took the flask and took a sip. Then another, then another, then another…..
"I can't believe it." Tiana said sitting down sighing.
Sitting next to her was her friend Zephyr aka Z.
"What's wrong Tiana?" Z asked.
Tiana sighed. She glanced a couple tables over where Alex sat with his new girlfriend.
"Alex is dating someone. I really thought he liked me." Tiana sighed.
Josie walked by their table and decided to take a seat. "Hey Tiana, hey Tiana's weird friend." Josie said.
"Hi Josie." Z said enthusiastically ignoring Josie's comment.
Josie noticed Tiana was upset and looked at her friend closely.
"What's wrong?" Josie asked.
"Alex has a girlfriend." Tiana sighed.
"Congralations." Josie said.
She held out her hand for Tiana to shake, but she didn't. She noticed Z and Tiana were awkwardly staring at her.
"Why do I feel like I'm missing something?" Josie asked.
"The girl's not Tiana." Z said.
Josie gasped. "That pig."
"A couple days ago weren't you saying that I should make a move, because he was my soul mate?" Tiana questioned.
"Screw what I said, you need to get a boyfriend ASAP. A cute one too. Preferably rich and donates to charity." Josie said.
"That sounds good in all, but why do I need a new boyfriend?" Tiana asked.
"To make that creep jealous." Josie said.
Just then their armbands ringed. Tiana and Josie looked at each other, both knowing they had to go. Z however was trying to figure out where that noise came from.
"See you later Z, Josie and I need to go." The two girls took off.
Madison however did not notice the armband ringing due to amount of alcohol in her system.
"Damn Mads, you sure know how to chub a bottle. Four to be exact, are you sure you can make it through the whole day?" Julia asked.
"Don't worry about meeeeeeeeee, Jullllllles. I'm a b-b-b-big girllllllll." Madison drunkenly stated.
Then Julia heard a ringing noise. "Mads is that your phone?" Madison realized it was her morpher.
"Oh no, that is very bad." Madison said.
She got up but stumbled, and started to walk to town square. Everyone in the cafeteria watched as the drunk pink ranger skipped lunch.
"Timeeeeee to beeee a heroooooo." She gleefully stated.
"Where the hell is Madison?" Josie said as she stabbed several demons.
"No clue." Jaxon said as he fired silver blasts of energy from his trumpet.
A large fire ball is thrown and all the demons scream as they turn to ash. Alex spots Tiana on the ground and goes to help her up, she growls at him. "I'm fine." She snapped.
Alex was surprised by her attuide change. "Is something wrong Tiana?" He asked.
"I'm fine, why wouldn't I be Alexander." Tiana said as she fired blasts of energy.
"Damn you know she's pissed when she calls you by your full name." Owen grinned as he shot several demons.
"Not helping Perez." Josie said as she kicked a daemon in the face.
She then threw her daggers at their chest, causing them to turn into ash.
"Is it just me or every time we're in a fight we're talking about Tiana and Alex, or someone's late?" Josie said.
She charged at several demons and sliced their heads off. A few feet away Jaxon was punching the demons in the face.
"She does have a point. Statically speaking we speak about Alex and Tiana 70%, someone's late 29% of the time, and 1% of the time do we actually talk about something else." Jaxon said.
"Thanks for those interesting facts Brainiac." Owen said as he fired at several blasts of white energy at a nearby demon.
Just then Madison showed. She stumbled when she walked towards the rangers. She forgot to morph so instead of her blaster, Madison held up her flask like a weapon.
"Get away mooooooonnnnnsters! I am a toooooooooough piiiiinnnnnkkkk ranger." Madison slurred.
Owen turned and whispered to Calev. "What the hell is wrong with Madison?" Owen asked.
Calev shrugged. Madison ran but tripped over her feet and fell.
"Pink ranger to the rescue!" She said cheerfully, before throwing up.
Many of the others turned away while Josie and Alex frowned.
"What the hell Madison? You were drunk during battle!" Alex yelled.
It was the day after the battle and the seven of them and Gondu sat talking to Madison. The waited a day so Madison could get her head straight and would remember Alex yelling at her and Josie attempting to kick her ass.
"I'm sorry guys, but could you please not yell? Hangovers are a bitch." Madison groaned.
"Aren't you underage?" Gondu asked.
"Can someone get the kid out of here, before he gets any bright idea? Last thing we need is for Master Famine to yell at us for getting the kid addicted to alcohol." Calev said.
"Agreed." Jaxon took Gondu into the next room so they could look at the monitors.
"But I want to see them yell at Madison." Gondu whined.
Josie glared at Madison. "I'm going to kill her." She lunged at Madison but was held back by Owen and Calev.
"What were you thinking?" Alex asked.
Madison sighed. "I just had a rough meeting with my mom. I needed the alcohol for me to get over it."
"Alcohol won't solve your problems. You're just finding a way to ignore it, and sometimes it has severe consequences." Owen said.
The other rangers were shocked by Owen's comment. It was the most serious thing that has ever came out of his mouth.
"Did he actually give good advice?" Josie said stunned.
"Its official hell has frozen over." Calev announced.
"Ha ha, but seriously alcohol won't solve your problems." Owen said.
Madison got up and looked at her teammates. "You're right. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that." Madison said.
"Great now my family has another reason to think I'm a failure." Madison said as she hugged herself.
A single tear dripped from her eye. "What are you talking about?" Tiana asked.
"Remember when I told you guys I moved out of my parents place because I loved Josh. Well I lied, they kicked me out because I was dating Josh." Madison sighed.
"He's only 23. What's the big deal?" Calev asked.
"I know! All my life my parents had such high expectations. They wanted me to be stars like my brothers. Soon I started to drown in their expectations. I lost myself in trying to be the perfect daughter and trying to be myself. I turned to alcohol in the freshmen year to help me get over it. One night I was at a party and I started drinking. I was too drunk to even get off the couch. Then Josh, who was a senior at the time, picked me up and said he would take me home. Not because he wanted something for me, or he had some hidden agenda, he did because he was a good guy." Madison said.
"Then the two of you fell in love." Tiana said.
Her eyes wandered over to Alex. For a minute their eyes locked, but they looked away before anyone noticed.
Dr. Zuko grinned. "My monster is complete!"
"What is it?" Nao asked.
The Asian horsemen was curious on what the new creation would be to destroy the horsemen.
"The perfect thing to destroy the rangers."
The door swung open and standing there was another Nao. The first Nao gasped.
"What the hell?"
"My monster that will destroy the rangers…is a shape shifter."
I know this chapter was a little short, but it was more like a filler chapter to create the Halloween Arc. Which will be divided into three parts
Next Time: It's Halloween! Owen asks Josie out, but complication arise. Tiana and Alex wonder where they stand. Madison's alcoholic problems get worse, and Tiana's friend Z wonders why Tiana keeps ditching her. Meanwhile the shape shifter strikes.
