1x09 – Girls Be Ambitious!
"What is Aquator doing?" asked Neptunous, sitting on his throne with his arms crossed while Dimitrious was down on one knee with his head lowered.
"He is still working on the maze project. Shall I summon him your highness?" he asked.
"No, let him keep working. I want him to finish as quickly possible. But you may summon Scorpedo,"
"Scorpedo?"
"Yes, the poisonous venom from his tail will be able to poison and eventually destroy the citizens of Pointcreste. With him I'm sure we'll be able to take out the BraveMan team,"
"Your highness, if you're trying to take out the BraveMan, why is it necessary for Aquator to work on that maze?"
"It seems the BraveMan are unaware of their greatest accessory. However, after the destruction I caused against that ship years ago, my powers are still too weak to destroy it. That is why I must prevent them from reaching their strongest piece of technology," said Neptunous.
"What piece of technology are you talking about?" asked Dimitrious.
Neptunous waved his hand in a circular motion, creating a circular screen, transmitting a live feed from underneath the colony. Dimitrious' eyes widened. Although he couldn't see the details due to the colony blocking the sun, Dimitrious could see an outline of a gigantic robotic figure secured underneath the colony by chains.
"Unbelievable..."
-BMH-
Early morning at Animal Sitters 4 U:
"I'm Lizzy! From now on I'll be working part time here at Animal Sitters! Nice to meet you!" smiled the youthful, energetic petite girl.
Mrs. Johnson was stunned and her eyes widened in shock as Winston walked entered the store.
"Is Margaret not here anymore?" she asked.
"Margaret?" asked Lizzy, looking up, trying to remember if she knew any Margaret.
"She doesn't work here anymore," he said quietly, making his way to the backroom.
There he found Fatima sitting in the round table in the middle of the crew room, drinking water through a transparent cup. It looked like it had been diluted with some sort of substance.
"Is that... salt?" he asked, trying to observe it.
"Yeah," she said in a faint voice.
"Is everything all right?" Winston asked.
"I don't know if I can do this anymore," she replied, placing her hand on her pink watch.
"Do what?"
"The other day, with that bomb guy. I couldn't do a thing," she said quietly.
Winston shrugged and pulled up a seat and sat down beside her.
"You were just shocked. That's all. Dr. Ava wouldn't have just chosen you if she didn't believe in you,"
"How would you know?"
"Well I... uh..."
"I just feel so useless. Even if I wasn't there, you guys probably would've been able to destroy that thing,"
"Don't say that. Without you, we wouldn't have been able to assemble the Brave Gunner,"
"I guess..."
"Just don't think too much about it. You're doing fine on the team,"
"All right. Well I guess I'm just gonna go take a walk and rethink a few things," said Fatima, smiling faintly as she left the crew room.
-BMH-
"Okay Richie, finish your juice now," smiled the Nurse.
Inside one of the dull white hospital rooms was a young boy around the age of 9. He had a silky brown mushroom cut and laid comfortably in his bed wearing light green pajamas. With him was a nurse in uniform, sitting across from him, making sure he was eating. In his tray was a glass of orange juice and a plate with a square slice of lasagna.
"Knock, knock!" said Nicole as she walked inside, dressed in a white skirt and a yellow t-shirt.
"Nicole! Come in," he smiled.
Nicole took a seat on the boy's left while the nurse took his food tray and left.
"How are you Richie?" she asked.
"I'm great. Have you been watching the news lately?"
"Um, I guess. Why?"
"Have you heard of those brave people?"
"Hmm?"
"You know, there's three of them but recently a fourth one was revealed. There's a black, a blue, a pink and a yellow one! C'mon, you should know about them,"
"Oh! The BraveMan you mean,"
"Yeah. Aren't they awesome?"
"I think they are,"
"My favorite is their new member: the yellow one. She's so dreamy,"
"Haha is that so? Well guess what Richie, I got you a gift," said Nicole, reaching into her white purse and pulled out the metal clover pin she had bought at the market.
"What is it? It's so cool!"
"It is isn't it?" asked Nicole as she poked through his pajama shirt and secured it, preventing it from poking his skin.
"Thank you Nicole. I love you," smiled the boy as he bent over to give her a hug.
"Aww, I love you too Richie,"
-BMH-
Ava was walking through the park, thinking about the red watch and the sixth one she had been working on. She recalled the note that had been written to her: "I know the truth".
'It can't be. They're on the colony too?' she thought to herself, looking around.
Suddenly a purple liquid shot onto her from the right. She screamed as she fell on her side. She reached onto her pocket for her phone and slowly made a universal call to the four rangers.
"The... park... " she said slowly before passing out.
Standing meters away was a half man half gigantic scorpion. The human part was covered in fur except the face while the scorpion half had brown armour and a tail that could spin like Onyx the Pokemon. At the top of the tail was a sharp spike where the purple venom shot out of.
"Mwuahaha! Run while you can people of Pointcreste," he laughed as he shot poison onto more citizens, causing them to fall in pain and eventually lose consciousness.
"Stop right there!" yelled Winston.
The three others, morphed, arrived at the scene.
"Fish knights appear!" Scorpedo called and with a blink of an eye, about nine of them appeared.
"Holy mackarel!" said Winston.
"Did you really have to say that?" asked Gabriel.
"Whatever, let's take these guys!"
Gabriel ran left while Nicole took right and Winston headed forward.
"Brave Mace!" yelled Nicole as the weapon appeared in her hands.
She swung it in the air like a lasso before throwing it around a knight's neck and whipped him into the air, landing on another one. She turned around and quickly kicked another who tried to strike from behind. With the ball and chain still wrapped around the same knight, she hurled him across and took out another two.
"Brave Blaster!" yelled Winston.
"Level 2: Double Brave Shot selected,"
Winston shot at one before squatting and sweeping the leg of another.
"Watch out!" yelled Nicole as she smacked one behind Winston with the ball of her mace, causing him to fly into the air.
"Thanks!" he grinned as he shot the one in the air multiple times.
"Mind lending me one?" asked Gabriel.
"Go for it," replied Winston throwing him one.
"Brave Shield!"
"Level 1: Brave Spinner selected,"
Gabriel quickly threw the shield onto the air before jumping on it, grabbing Winston's blaster and shooting at a number of fish knights.
"So cool!" cheered Winston before Scorpedo attacked him from the side, slapping him with his tail.
Winston moaned as he hit the floor.
"Winston!" yelled Nicole as she began to swing the mace again.
She threw it and wrapped it around Scorpedo's tail. However, the creature was too strong and ended up swinging her around, throwing her onto Gabriel.
"Useless rangers! And now for the finisher!" he laughed as he aimed his tail at all three of them and shot out poison onto them.
"Now that I'm finished with you three, I must search for the fourth one," he said, walking away.
The rangers de-morphed into civilian mode as they began to turn pale and sweat heavily.
"Guys!" yelled Fatima as she quickly arrived to the scene, still untransformed.
-BMH-
"What's happened to them?" asked Fatima.
The three rangers, as well as Ava and countless civilians were at the Pointcreste infirmary. The hospital had already been filled it up with more poison victims.
There had been so many victims that the stretchers were all squeezed inside the white room, limiting any walking space.
"They've been shot at with some sort of poison. However, there is no info of it on any of our past records," said a frustrated doctor.
"Fa... Fatima," said a weak Ava in a weary voice.
"Yes? What is it Doctor?"
"If... if King Neptunous is a mythical creature, there should be some sort of info on this one too."
"Fatima," said Winston as he grabbed her wrist from behind.
"This, this is your chance. We believe in you," he said in a faint voice.
Fatima closed her eyes and focused on what she had to do. She then turned to one of the doctors checking up on the patients.
"Excuse me, is the captain around?" Fatima asked.
"He's at the command center,"
"Thank you,"
'He's right. I need to get it together and prove not only to them, but to myself, that I can do this. I was meant to be BravePink.'
"Captain James!" she said as the command center's door opened.
The captain, who was by one of the computers, talking to a subordinate looked at her.
"Fatima?"
"I need to borrow a computer. It may be the key to finding out the cure to this poison," she said as she hurried inside.
"The BravePink? Of course! Dorschner, quickly find her an available one,"
"Yes sir,"
-BMH-
Fatima used the computer in Dorschner's dorm. She quickly opened the search engine and typed in "Scorpedo" onto the search engine.
"Whoa! How do you know the name of the monster?"
"Hm? Uhm... he said it... I guess?" she said trying to dodge the question.
"If you say so," said Dorschner, unable to figure it out.
Fatima scrolled down through the results until she saw one involving the legend of Scorpedo. She double clicked the link and began to read.
"Found something?"
"I think so," she said slowly.
"There," pointed Dorschner on the monitor, "the only way to defeat Scorpedo and to free its victims of the poison is to inject the poison onto Scorpedo itself,"
"Well that's weird, how am I gonna get that thing to shoot poison on itself?" she asked.
Suddenly the alarm began to ring all over the facility and Captain James ran to the two. He held one arm on the door as he tried to catch his breath.
"Fatima! You're our only hope! That scorpion thing attacked again at the dock this time. We tried to fight it off but it was no use,"
"I'll try," said Fatima, getting up from her chair.
As she ran to the docks, she pressed the large button on her watch. A bright flash of pink light appeared before revealing a morphed Fatima.
She finally arrived to see Pointcreste soldiers on the floor, sweating and turning pale. She looked around as the monster was no where in site. She suddenly heard a laugh and looked up. Scorpedo had hid on top of a crate and had shot down more poison from it's tail. Fatima quickly siderolled out of the way.
"Brave Kix!"
"Level 2: Brave Neon selected,"
Fatima's foot armor began to glow a bright plutonium pink. She leaped into the air feet first and began to bicycle kick upwards until striking Scorpedo on the chest, causing the crate to shake. They both looked up and realized it was being held by some sort of metal wires wrapped around the crate connected to a crane.
The monster groaned as he regained his balance and Fatima kicked with her left and then right on each side. Scorpedo was able to grab her right foot, attempting to swing her off the crate. Fatima caught one of the metal ropes and hung on, her feet unable to find a place to grip on. Scorpedo slowly approached her and crossed his arms.
"Foolish woman," he said as he raised his tail up and curved the end in order to point it directly at her.
"It can't end like this," she said as she continued to struggle.
"Ah!" screamed Scorpedo in pain as he felt a large sharp object penetrate his back.
Fatima quickly placed her feet on the side of the crate and pulled herself up as Scorpedo aimlessly rampaged around the crate.
"Die!" she yelled as she ran upwards on thin air, kicking Scorpedo in the face with her plutonium kix.
Scorpedo screamed as his tail moved all over the place, out of control. Fatima jumped onto the tip as it continued to wave around.
"That's it!" he yelled.
'I've got it,' she thought to herself.
As the poison began to shoot out, Fatima yelling with all her might she forced the tip of the tail onto the back of Scorpedo's neck.
"No!" the monster screeched as it fell of the crate, landing on it's stomach.
Its head began to increase in size while turning grey until it finally exploded splattering venom everywhere until it eventually ran out. Fatima jumped off and watched as the creature twitched before ceasing movement. It then turned white before disappearing, leaving the lodged weapon on the ground. Fatima bent down and picked it up. It was a red and black axe, similar to the Black Ranger from Mighty Morphin'. She looked at the handle and there engraved on it was "Brave Project".
"No way," she said to herself as the soldiers began to get up, cured of the poison.
"I believe that belongs to me," said a deep voice.
Fatima turned around and her eyes quickly widened.
-BMH-
"Those Brave twirps are seriously getting in the way!" yelled Neptunous as he slammed his fist on the armrest.
"I'm sorry your highness! I promise you we will get them next time!" assured Dimitrious.
"Where are the three forms of Neris anyway? I want to speak with them?"
"Your highness, I haven't seen them yet! The last time I saw them was when they were all merged in one form as Neris," replied Dimitrious.
"Then it's time for me to call in another general," Neptunous grinned.
"Your wish is my command,"
-BMH-
Fatima hurried back to the infirmary to see her teammates and Doctor Ava healthy and up on their feet. Nicole quickly ran and hugged her.
"You did it!" she smiled.
Ava, Gabriel and Winston followed with Ava also hugging her and Winston placing his arm around her shoulder.
"See? I knew you had it in you,"
"Thanks guys but that's not all,"
"What do you mean?" asked Gabriel.
Fatima turned to the doorway.
"Come in," she said.
A tall man walked in carrying a brown messenger bag walked in. The bag's strap sat over his peach shirt while the bag itself rested on his ripped blue jeans. On his head was a straw coloured fedora, covering his short brown and blonde hair.
Winston, confused, looked at Ava, then at the man. The other three brave warriors too had no idea and were left with confused looks.
"It's... you," said Ava quietly, "but it can't be,"
"It's about time," he replied with a grin on his face.
Well this, again is long overdue. As much as I don't like doing it, editing takes a while T_T. Anyway I hope you enjoy this one. The action scenes are always hard to describe. I just thought I should note that the scenes with the plutonium kix, just think of wire fu. I tried to convey that image but it was very difficult. Anyways hope you enjoy! The first major arc is soon coming to a close =0. I'm also working on another pr fic but I plan to write a few chapters in advance for this one so that I can start writing the first couple for the next fic. Look out for it!
Oh and to answer, Ava was so insistant on Margaret being the next one because she couldn't trust the Pointcreste ppl after what they did to her lab, and she didn't wanna pick any random civilian to do it. I'm pretty sure I wrote that in a previous chapter but I can't remember which -.-