Martial Strike
Crazy Love
Disclaimer: I don't own power rangers or the concepts it owns. Any views in this are part of the personality of the characters or a joke on certain topics such as evil billionaires. All characters, in chapter 1, are owned by me and any other concepts are also mine. Thanks to decode9 for the use of the true legend war story concept.
Overview: rangers have always saved the world. Years after all of the rangers lost their power in the last legend war, corporate rule has come to pass over the city of Novaton. Now, a business owner, and past ranger, hopes to fight the evil corporation and save others like him from their money filled grip. Finding aid in a young street thief, they begin bringing spirit back to a hollow city through martial arts. Can they take the fight to the corporation? Watch as a new chapter in ranger history begins.
It was Valentine's Day in Novaton and Dan, being bored whilst waiting for breakfast, decided to stick on the old TV he 'procured' a few days ago. He gave a sigh as he attempted to flick through the channels only for the same thing to come on each time.
He gave a sigh. "Fine, I'll have to deal with this garbage being on." He said as he watched the TV.
An announcer's voice came on as the screen switched to something else. "We interrupt our regularly scheduled corporate programming to bring you a special message from our corporate master." The voice said as the Corporate King stood there.
"Oh we're rolling now?" He asked and was given a firm yes from the director before he turned to the camera. "Hey citizens! This is the Corporate King here and have I got a deal that you can't refuse. Literally!" He enthused rubbing his hands together and thinking about the money he was going to make. "For today and today only, the only food offers available are my corporate cereal, pink edition. So get it now, and remember, anyone who doesn't buy any at all will be severely persecuted. I mean prosecuted!" He corrected as he signalled for the camera to be cut off. After he did, the show returned to normal.
The shows announcer came back on. "We now return to the corporate office."
Dan gave a sigh and shut the TV off before throwing the remote at it. "I really hate that guy." He said getting up. "And there's no way I'm eating that cereal, probably made from 'recycled' paper for all I know." He finished.
Orika and the other rangers entered with their shopping bags. Sora groaned as he dropped a bag by the door.
"Today was a bad day to restock the fridge." He complained.
"Tell me about it, I had to punch the guy behind me because I decided I wanted the last cushion in stock. It is a really comfy cushion though." Trouble said as she pulled out a rather comfy cushion, sat down in their lounge area and put the fluffy blue cushion behind her back and relaxed.
"That was pretty funny, he acted like a little girl till we left." Ella laughed.
"Why do you guys only do fun stuff without me?" Dan asked. Orika came over.
"I think most of us find you annoying." She remarked, tapping him lightly on the face.
Alyssa came over to where the others were. "I heard there's a fair going on in the city centre. Maybe after this we should go see what's going on there." She suggested.
"Only if I get to steal some stuff." Dan said, half-jokingly. The other five laughed.
"Typical Dan." Sora said as they laughed.
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The Corporate King was lounging in his sleek brown leather desk chair in his CEO office when Oily Bill, the oil tycoon behind the monsters, entered his boss' office.
"Sir, your new plan is working perfectly. Appointing cops to make sure everyone bought the cereal is working like a charm. Now they're sure to eat it up sir! And when they do, all they need is a little tweak to make them all love you." Oily Bill informed his boss.
"Excellent!" The Corporate King praised, whilst finishing off a bowl of his own brand of cereal. "Now take this and make a monster out of it, I want it to work its magic and make sure that the first person the people see are me, then they'll fall madly in love with me and spend every last cent at my stores, which will all go to me!" The King raved, handing Oily Bill the cereal bowl.
"Yes sir." Bill obeyed, walking out of the door and heading to the elevator.
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The five rangers and Orika, after most of them having breakfast, had gone to the city centre which was filled with old styled market stalls where people sold many different things, and other almost circus like activities dotted the scene. At the entrance to the event, where the rangers were stood was a large pink sign, Dan read it aloud.
"Welcome To The 2027 Novaton Valentines Fair" He said in a moderate voice as they entered.
"Never been here before. Anything good here or is it all junk?" Trouble asked as they walked into the site.
"There's some good things, if you want, I could show you." Sora offered.
"Sure, but try anything and I'll end you." She lightly threatened as they walked off.
Alyssa turned to Ella. "I don't suppose that you've been here before either. Come with me, I know the best places to have fun and cause some mischief." She told her pink clad friend.
Ella gave a laugh. "Sure, fun and mischief are what I live for."
Dan and Orika were now left on their own. "Looks like the rest have gone off. I'm gonna go steal some stuff, you don't mind if I leave you on your own do you?" Dan asked. Orika gave a frown.
"You aren't going anywhere. We're all here to have a good time, not ruin other people's days." She told him. "Now come along with me. You can carry things I buy." She ordered, not giving him a choice.
Dan sighed. "Someone, anyone, please shoot me now." He complained as he walked behind Orika.
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Jason was sat in the empty dojo thinking to himself when his work phone buzzed and he looked at the text he received.
"Meet me behind the dojo URGENT - B"
Jason read it over. "Who the hell is B?" He asked himself as he got up and exited through the back door to meet the mysterious person who sent him the message.
Once there he saw a man, his upper body and face shadowed by the lighting in the alley, yet the sun shone on his light grey uniform and a shield with a dog printed on it glinted in contact with the sun too. On the right side of the uniform there was a red vertical stripe going upwards but the rest was obstructed by the sun.
"Hello Mr. Scott." The young man said.
Jason got into a defensive stance. "Who are you? How do you know who I am!?" He demanded, not letting his guard drop for one second.
"My name isn't important. I know who, or rather what, you are too and I know about your team of power rangers too. Quite a bunch of rookies, but they'll shape up soon." He said, going off on a tangent.
"Why are you here?" Jason asked, continuing with his interrogation.
"I represent a certain organisation with an invested interest in helping this city. To do that, we need to take down the CEO here. We can't legally do anything at all. But you and your team can. That's why I'm here to offer you our support. The government made a mistake many years ago, my organisation is supposed to remedy that, for that to happen we need your help. Before you say anything, think about it. I'll be in touch, when I do, be prepared. We can do a lot for both you and your team." He explained before walking off into the shadows.
"Wait! What do you mean!?" He called out, trying to run after the man, yet he had already left.
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After a while, the six teens regrouped, to hardly anyone's surprise, a few of them were in worse shape than when they left. Sora was rubbing a black eyes he had received.
Dan laughed at the sight. "What happened to you man?" He asked.
"We were having a moment and I got a bit too eager and she smashed her fist into my face." He said. Trouble frowned.
"We were Not having a moment." She denied, folding her arms and kicking Sora in the leg who winced in pain.
"I seem to be doing better than Alyssa at least." Sora said, looking at the black ranger.
She was completely soaked from head to toe. Ella had a knowing smirk on her face. "When she decided to take a rest on the side of the fountain over there, I shoved her into the freezing cold water, it was hilarious!" Ella laughed, recounting the events.
"I'll… I'll get you… Next time." Alyssa promised, shivering as she did so.
"But by far I think you and Orika look the worst out of all of us." Trouble said looking at the two.
Dan was being forced to wear all kinds of ridiculous merchandise event clothing and looked like the mascot for the whole thing, whilst Orika had melted chocolate smeared all over her face.
"Yeah I know, I look like the Corporate King's whipping boy, laugh it up." Dan sighed as the others did so.
"Wait, what's wrong with me? Nothing happened to me, why are you all laughing?" She asked, oblivious to what was on her.
Sora spoke up. "You've got a bit of something on your face." He said. With this, she pulled out a small mirror to examine her face. Then her neutral face turned to one that was slightly angry.
"Dan! You Jerk!" She exclaimed kicking his backside.
"It took you a while." He laughed, as did the others. They all had a good laugh about it for a few minutes.
Sora turned to the others. "I gotta go to the bathroom, you guys okay waiting here?" He asked, they all nodded in reply before he walked off to the toiletries.
As they hung about, they all heard a commotion as people ran away screaming. They turned their attention to where it was coming from and soon enough, the fair was deserted. Before the four rangers and Orika stood a large monster.
It was in the shape of a cereal bowl with large silver limbs with a face printed on the bowl. In its hands was a large silver spoon which it was using as a weapon.
"Hey mind if I fight this guy?" Orika asked. The other four shrugged. "Better than a no I guess, I'll take it." She said, running at the monster and hitting it a couple of times.
"Oh I'll get you for that girl! Let it be known that Cereon isn't above hitting women!" The monster, known as Cereon declared, swinging at Orika with his spoon.
She dodged the spoon as it came around, but didn't see the monster's next plan as it swung around and hit her causing her to fall to the ground.
Dan stepped forward. "Looks like we'll have to take that thing out, ready?" He asked the three girls.
"Ready!" They all confirmed, activating their Martial Harnesses after Dan.
"Martial Spirit, Strike Out!" They all called, being enveloped in energy of their colours. When it died down, the four of them stood in their ranger suits, weapons out and ready to fight.
Alyssa and Ella ran in first. Alyssa tried stopping the large spoon with her scythe but Cereon slid his weapon down the blade of the scythe and hit the black ranger on the head, who fell to the ground and demorphed. Ella was up next. She hit Cereon with her staff yet it cost her as the oversized spoon came around and hit her too causing her to suffer the same fate as the last two.
"You fools! You've doomed yourselves, eating my masters cereal means that you'll fall under its power as soon as I hit you!" He explained, giving it away.
Dan ran in with his nunchucks, tying the oversized spoon in the chain of his weapon. Yet he got struck by one of Cereon's arms and staggered back. Whilst he was injured, Cereon struck Dan in the stomach with the end of the spoon and knocked the wind out of the red ranger who fell to his knees and demorphed.
"Looks like it's you and me Blue!" Cereon laughed as Trouble charged forward with her Sai's.
Cereon swung his spoon with and overhead strike down at the ranger. She just managed to stop it with her two blades when Cereon kicked her legs out from under her and made her fall to the floor, where he proceeded to strike her with the spoon and force her to demorph like the others.
"A pity. I have more work to do. I'll just leave this issue of Corporate magazine for you all to see." He said planting the magazine, with an image of the Corporate King's face on the front, on the floor before running away.
Dan was the first to get up, followed by the girls, in the order they went down, who all stared at him.
"Is everyone okay?" The red ranger asked, wondering why they were all staring at him.
Orika ran to him first. "Dan! Are you okay? That mean monster didn't hurt you did he?" She asked looking him up and down.
He was about to speak when Alyssa ran up. "Hey what do you think you're doing? Get away from him!" She ordered the other girl.
Ella then joined the budding argument. "What's wrong with you two? Go on, get out of here, you don't even deserve to be near him!" She argued. Dan had a scared expression on his face as he observed what was going down.
Trouble was the last to join in. "Back off girls, Dan is mine!" She told them, grabbing onto his arm, the ranger was in shock.
"This isn't happening." He said quietly to himself.
Then the four girls began arguing over the red ranger, who in turn slowly walked backwards out of fear.
Sora walked up next to Dan. "I was gone for five minutes. Five minutes. What did you do?" He asked as the girls began, hitting scratching and pulling each other's hair.
"It wasn't me! There was a monster, he beat us and then this happened. We've gotta get out of here. Who knows how long it'll be before they pull me apart fighting over me." Dan told the white ranger.
Sora gave a nod. "Come on, I've got an idea." Sora said, running off, as did Dan.
Then the commotion the girls were having died down.
"Hey where'd he go?" Trouble asked, the others shrugged.
"It's all your fault." Alyssa said, looking at Orika.
"I'm blaming all of you." Orika said as they all got up and ran to find Dan, shouting his name as they did.
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Later that day, the four women sat arguing over Dan while Sora sat there trying to think of a way to defeat the monster, then a light went off in his head.
"Girls." He said trying to get their attention as they argued. "Girls." He said again, still to no avail. "GIRLS!" He yelled over the top of them, getting them to look at him. "If you all quieten down. I'll tell you where Dan is." He said. After he finished his sentence they all did.
Sora paced around the room till he remembered what he was going to say. "You see, Dan didn't run off. You know that monster you were fighting earlier. He captured Dan, and the only way to save him is to defeat the monster." He lied, they all looked at him and got up.
"Then we're gonna go and destroy Cereon" Trouble informed Sora as the four girls headed out of the dojo.
After a minute or two, a muffled voice spoke up. "Are they gone?" He asked.
"Yeah, you can come out now." Sora confirmed, after a couple of seconds, Dan emerged from the basement entrance.
"Thanks man, I'm not sure I'd survive if they knew where I really was." Dan gave a sigh of relief.
"Yeah, as evident, women are really crazy." Sora laughed as he and Dan headed off to monitor the upcoming battle.
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The three morphed rangers and Orika arrived at the park where Cereon was causing problems. Trouble was leading the group.
"Ready girls?" She asked, the others gave a nod and charged in. Ella stopped the spoon from being swung using her staff, while Alyssa came in with her scythe and slashed at Cereon's left arm, which caused the monster to jump back and shake his arm in pain.
"That hurt!" Cereon whined as the girls closed in on him.
Trouble, using her Sai's, began puncturing the monster as she ducked low to avoid the spoon. Orika was also occupying the monster, using her fist's to wear it down, she landed a roundhouse kick on it and the four regrouped.
"Let's finish this piece of garbage so we can get Dan back!" Trouble enthused, the others gave nods.
The four ran at Cereon, whose eyes widened in fear. "Oh, dear… This is gonna hurt, isn't it." He said as they came closer.
He was met with a barrage of attacks from the four girls and exploded in front of them.
"We did it!" Ella cheered, as did the others.
"Great work." Sora said.
"I just hope they're back to normal now." Dan said to his teammate, which the others heard on their comms.
"Dan, Sora? Why the hell are you back at the base?" Trouble asked, slightly annoyed her teammates had stayed behind.
"We can explain!" They both said.
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The Corporate King was outraged that his plan had been foiled again. "This is horrible! They're all loving each other and not me. I'm Furious! Why won't any of these imbeciles love me and give me all of their money!?" He rampaged.
"I love you sir." His Texan underling said.
"Shut up Bill." The Corporate King ordered, giving him a light slap on the head.
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That is Chapter 8 finished. Pretty hectic episode, let me just say now that these rangers love to prank each other and I may dedicate an episode to that in the future.
Now something I haven't entirely stated and should make clear is that Martial Strike takes place in 2027 unlike my other two fics which take place in the modern day. Now that's out of the way, it seems that Jason had a run in with a particular person, I'm pretty sure it's obvious to guess who it is. And that's going to be implemented into the chapter after the next one, which is a villain focused chapter which was requested, which will set the stage for a lot of things. That's all for now and I'll talk to you all later.
Next Chapter: The Corporates
Synopsis: The Corporate King has left Novaton for the day allowing the rangers to relax for a bit. Our lovable Villain goes to his family home as part of his annual family get together where he talks, and fights, with his relatives who dislike him. Hilarity is sure to ensue in this Villain dedicated chapter. Next time on Power Rangers: Martial Strike.
