Well here it is, the next chapter in the exciting story, its alot better I promise. And some interesting events that will be sure to turn a few heads. Enjoy!

CHAPTER 11: SCHOOL DAZE (PART II)

The shadows circled the two rangers and just waited, leaving their defenses down. But the rangers however kept their guard up ready for any attack that could possibly happen within the next few seconds. And within those next few seconds it happened.

A shadow ran at Joey who delivered the first extreme blow to the shadows' face. He watched it flip over to its side from the force of the punch. Joey swiftly reacted again by lifting his leg up and throwing it to the back of him knocking back another shadow figures. Bringing his defenses back to the front of him he waited for the next.

Justin on the other hand did the exact opposite and launched himself at two of the shadows. His speed was incredible, the wind brushed his hair back as he rammed his shoulder into one before using an inside crescent kick to incapacitate the other. Justin snapped his head over Joey's way and leaped up in the air connecting the bottom of his sneaker with the covered face of a shadow.

While Justin had leaped Joey dropped to his knees and tripped one up, then leaping back to his feet he kicked it. The pressure of the kick caused it to fly back into a locker. As it peeled itself off there was a rather large dent in the lockers' steel door.

The shadow onslaught had quickly ceased, on them that was. It only took a few seconds for more students to come screaming out into the halls, from mass panic.

The rangers looked at each other and assumed that the shock of dimension travel had finally hit the students. But when a male student hit the ground it soon became apparent that the situation was much more complicated than the rangers could have even thought. As he lay a shadow bursted from his body causing blood to cover the floor, walls, and passing students. The shadow bared in hand the boys' heart. It clenched its fist before placing the bloody organ in its own being.

Wind brushed passed as the shadow began to shift in form and mutate. Its figure bulked out, hunching over it took a bit of a hulking look. Its back seemed to quickly harden over, followed by its hands becoming two long sharp razor blades, its eyes bugged out becoming wide. Lastly it formed a mouth and horns. Inside the mouth was two rows of drooling white teeth that looked as if they could tear through the steel of the lockers, and maybe even the brick of the building.

"What the hell!" Justin freaked out looking at Joey.

"So they can consume human parts to mutate into some kind of insect. Lucky for us insects can be squashed." Joey smiled

The creature leaped up and stuck to the wall. It desperately searched for another victim. Locking onto another target it leaped from the wall speeding into the crowd. It watched the teens run from it, but it wouldn't matter. Speeding through it pounced on its target. Bringing its blade up while pinning the screaming human female down with the other, it was ready for the kill until it was tackled. It wrestled with the human until it crashed into a wall. Quickly recovering it now stared at Joey. Striking fiercly with its blade Joey leaped back before countering with a ferocious uppercut, which he followed up with a powerful punch that ripped through the abdomen and exited out it hardened back. The monster fell over.

"Got you, you son of a bitch." Joey was pleased with his victory.

However his victory quickly ceased as five more shadows took physical form and found random teens to steel from. Within seconds more of those insect creatures roamed the halls.

Justin ran over to Joey pushing through the crowd. "Dude, I think under these circumstances we need to go go Power Rangers." Justin sang it softly.

"Man perfect time for Amber to go to a private school." Joey was sarcastic looking around at the creatures.

"Don't forget about Kory, he dropped out last year." Justin added.

Joey quickly understood it was just Justin, Ali, and himself. But it would have to do.

ALI

She looked around all of the chaos not locating Joey or Justin anywhere. But she would find them. She ran through the crowd being pushed and shoved. Ali then quickly looked into the distance to see some kind of shadow figures. She stared in horror as they ripped out the hearts of students, consume them, and mutate into deadlier creatures.

"Damn!" Ali was in shock at the site of the blood, but she pulled herself together.

Running through she noticed a creature about to kill another person. So she jumped in the air landing on its hardened back. She began to rain down a series of strikes that had no effect on the monster. Instead she was whipped around and thrown into a wall. Ali watched the monster approach her. However instead of it killing her, the monster was shouldered knocking it off balance.

Ali couldn't tell, but someone gracefully roundhouse kicked the creature, before receiving a front kick to its head. The person then threw one more side kick before flipping over the creature, wrapping their hands around the creatures neck, and snapped it. A loud crunch echoed through the halls as the creature fell over.

Ali's vision was blurry, but she could have sworn that it was Joey, but the style was completely different. She had no idea until the person was in her frontal view. As the person drew closer she found out who it was exactly.

"Are you okay?" Troy asked looking up and down her checking on any possible injuries.

Ali nodded, "I'm fine, thanks Troy."

"Anytime."

Ali quickly gave her savior one last look before running off to find her teammates.

LOS ANGELES MUSEUM

All was quiet in the late hours in the museum. The only things that could be heard were the crickets and few cars that passed by every now and then. It was so peaceful that the guard decided to go ahead with a nap.

Placing his hat over his eyes he was no engulfed in darkness, a sweet darkness of rest; at least until he heard the beeping of an intrusion in the Egyptian Artifacts section.

In the Egyptian section Repteal and Lizarda looked around the room. In frustration Repteal knocked over some of the artifacts, destroying many ancient priceless items.

Lizarda quickly called to his master and they now both stared at a staff. The Staff of Anubis to be more precise. It was the tale that this golden staff was the link between the land of the living and the realm of the dead. But it was only part of the puzzle. The staff had some kind of scarab relief imprinted into its shaft.

Repteal smashed the glass and retrieved the staff. "Soon my Lord Drakonus, soon."

Unfortunately an intruder cut their joy short.

"Freeze!" The human guard yelled pointing a gun at them. But as soon as he saw the two dragon-humans he was too stunned to move.

Lizarda smiled as he chanted a simple spell before launching a flaming projectile at the human, whom was once again in dark. Only this time it wasn't so sweet.

JOEY AND JUSTIN

The two rangers desperately searched for the companion but to no avail. At least until they heard, "Guys!" A sweet sound to their ears the sound of Ali.

She quickly pushed through the still screaming crowd. But at least the three of them were together.

"Okay," Joey spoke, "the plan is power up and kick all these monsters to hell and back."

"Now we're talking!" Justin was excited.

The three of them searched around them and located an empty classroom. After shutting the door the three assumed their positions and stances. In unison they cried, "Master of the Dragon!" The streaks of light once again shined over them transforming their clothes into powerful suits of armor. Once the light lifted they were the Power Rangers.

"Man I never get tired of that." Blue Ranger was joyous.

"Let's go!" Red Ranger gave the command.

Upon exiting they already had their blasters at the ready. One creature tried to get the drop on them but they just stepped aside and let it smack to the floor. It was Blue Ranger however who smashed his boot into the creatures head. But his boot was now covered in goop.

"Eww!" He tried rubbing it off. "I hope these are machine washable." He joked.

The Yellow Ranger ignored the joke and lifted her leg up as one ran at her. Once it was kicked she left it dead with a blaster bolt in its head.

From a distance Red Ranger carefully aimed and fired taking out two on the wall. However the one running through on the ground he couldn't. It was too risky to fire the blaster at that level. Putting it back in the holster he ran at it but quickly found he was lured into a trap of three more. He waited until one struck before rushing in with a quick chop using the spikes on his gloves as weapons. Catching another ones blades in his glove spikes he separated them which broke off the bladed limbs of that creature. He then brought out his blaster once more and put it out of its misery.

The Red Ranger failed to notice the third one come in for a strike but as he turned it was quickly placed into an arm lock. Hearing some tearing he noticed the monsters' arms rip off. The creature bled out and died. Dropping to the ground he saw Blue Ranger standing there.

"I had it." Red Ranger said as his way of thank you.

Blue Ranger understood and smiled under his helmet, "You're welcome."

As that was the last of the creatures the rangers noticed that all of the students had calmed down.

All seemed well until more shifting of the surroundings around them began again. It was over in seemingly seconds.

One student opened up the door to see the nighttime of their city and their home. It was over.

The entire school area was covered with police, newscasters, and hundreds of concerned parents who began to cry for joy at the site of their children. However as much joy as there was some parents only cried as word soon spread of the casualties. It didn't take long for the names to get across.

The rangers had already powered down and stepped into the circus. They looked at one another. All seemed good. The rangers began to walk their separate ways.

Ali quickly noticed Troy and approached him. "Hey." She greeted.

"Hi." He greeted back.

"I just wanted to say thank you again." Ali told him.

Troy smiled feeling joy in that. "No prob. So I guess your boyfriend is waiting for you."

"I actually have a confession," she came clean, "Joey's not my boyfriend. He's just a friend."

Another smile came to Troy's face. "So then it wouldn't be inappropriate for me to ask you out sometime."

Ali leaned in close to Troy and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

Peering off in the distance Joey saw everything and clenched his fists. Anger began to swell up into him much like when he was still around his father.

The ground began to shake a little at first but gradually increasing with power. It soon became apparent that a giant monster was marching through the city. The three rangers quickly regrouped and once behind the school powered back up. Once back in the public they saw a giant flame ball. But what was odd it didn't come from the monster. It was flung at and hit the monster.

High in the sky the Pink and Green Dragon Zords soared in for a quick landing. Creating a mist of smoke as they did so kicked up some more dust making the city seem like a ghost town.

"Hey guys," Green Ranger used his comlink inside his helmet to speak to the rangers, "can we form the Megazord and get the hell out of here?"

The three rangers called forth their mighty colossal assault vehicles. The Zords rained down landing next to the other two, each ranger teleported inside their Zords to pilot them. It didn't take long to initiate the forming process.

The Red Ranger gave the command, "Initiate Megazord mode!"

The mighty dragons roared as they began to change. The green and pink shifted their legs inside themselves and began to stand on their head as they formed feet and legs. The yellow and blue did the same with their legs except this time four fingers and thumbs shifted from their mouths creating arms. The red Zord placed its bottom legs inside the green on the right and pink on the left. It then allowed the blue to attach to the left and the pink to the right. The head soon opened its mouth forming a face. The Dragon Flame Megazord was now complete.

Dimenshux began the battle with a large strike that slightly shook the great machine. But he quickly understood that its power was far greater than even he could have realized as the Megazord was able to counter with a large punch.

The master of dimensions however was not out of tricks. He shifted the Megazord out of its own reality placing it in the master dimension. The place where Dimenshux was the most powerful.

"Where are we?" Pink Ranger asked.

The entire atmosphere was different. The Megazord seemed to have just been standing on nothing. The entire area seemed to be an assortment of different colored clouds, which looked like paint.

The Megazord was immediately rocketed with a heavy strike from the monster, then another and another. The sparks flew everywhere. The Megazord took even more strikes and hits that made the Megazord drop in power.

"We're almost done here. The shield won't hold much longer." Yellow Ranger informed as she read the monitor.

"So what's the bad news?" Green Ranger asked.

Blue Ranger chimed in, "I got to pee."

"Shut up, Justin!" Green Ranger was angered.

"Enough!" Red Ranger silence them trying to think as another hit came. "Revert all power to the flame cannons." He had an idea.

With little argument it was done and the power all drained into the cannons. After Red Ranger pressed the button the Megazord shot out a wide circle of flame, which caught the monster. The dimension soon disappeared and they were back in the city.

The Red Ranger quickly gave the order to use the Flame Sword while the monster was dazed. In the next few seconds the command was carried out. The mighty Megazord held the blade. It powered up and with a vast strike the blade cut through the monster followed by a contained explosion that did very little damage to the city.

The rangers rejoiced jumping up and down, well all except the Red Ranger that was.

"What's worng, Joey?" Yellow Ranger asked.

"Nothing. Just leave it alone." Red Ranger told her.

She didn't bother him again. Yellow Ranger just looked down through her helmet wondering what was going on, but no answer came to mind.

DRAKONUS' LAIR

Repteal stared at the victory of the ranger. But to the surprise of Lizarda he only laughed instead of being angered like usual.

"Everything is going as planned." Repteal lifted the staff in the air, "Soon our lord shall return with incredible fury. Nothing will spare this pathetic planet. Only thing we need now is the Gem of Ra."

"Cairo," answered Mithcell as he walked in congratulating them on their retrieval of the staff. "I must say I'm impressed. Now nothing will stop you."

Repteal gave a twisted smile. Looking over at Lizarda he nodded that the time had almost come for them to drop the human. With the staff they would not only resurrect Drakonus but an militia of demons and creatures. They would control the most powerful army in the universe.