Chapter Eleven. The Deal With The Demon.
Previously On Poké Rangers Genesis Overload...
Having been badly beaten by the Cobra Rangers in battle, the rangers tried to regroup the best they could. Duo even training with Lance for an improvement. Meanwhile, Bill and Lance heard from the rangers that one of the artefacts was in Holimar City. As Katie, Duo, Luke and Nahir went there, they discovered that it was down a sewer. Despite the insistence of Bill that there was nothing there, the four of them went for it. As they discovered a plinth of flames, Katie accidentally dropped her Magma Rock in there, the result quickly becoming the first artefact, the Eternal Flame. Before they could leave, they were attacked by both the Cobras and the Coppinger monster, Carmagro. Managing to escape, they formed a brand new weapon in the Pentasis Blaster. Using it to blow up Carmagro, they realised that the Cobras could form their own Megazord. After a brief battle, they retreated, leaving the rangers to revel in the victory...
"Hmmm..."
Reaching out to root through a rusty trash can, the brown robed figure desperately scrabbled at the layers of garbage within it. Hoping to find something even slightly edible. Something that he could close his jaws around, put off the insatiable hunger until he had the chance to search for something more sustaining. In his current condition, he wasn't going to be able to hunt for anything. Fatigued from the ordeals, ever since that day over six months ago had passed. Unnoticed by many, he had been one of the few to be most affected by it.
"Rotten Oran Berries," he said, his voice cracked and hoarse as he brought the food in question out of the metal can. "Oh joy. Bonus."
Moving the palm full of spoiled foodstuff up towards his mouth, the figure made to tip them down his throat...
Only for a hand to grab him by the shoulder, whoever had snatched at him easily able to hurl the weakened figure across the alley. The stained brown robes coming away from the body, revealing a monstrous visage underneath them. A thin Gallade-like figure, his helmet black with bright red stripes. Instead of at his elbows, the blades the Pokémon usually possessed were at his waist, while he wore some faded grey battle armour across his gaunt body. Marked with a strange insignia on the breast. Glancing up at his attacker, his hand quickly went to one of the blades at his waist. Cobra Red quickly stamping down on his forearm to stop the action taking place.
"Thought I heard something out here," he snarled. "Look at this. You're not a monster. Not a Coppinger one, anyway. You aren't the sort of thing that they would come up with."
"He's a demon," Cobra Blue remarked, folding his arms behind Cobra Red. "Thought they were all destroyed."
"You might as well destroy me, Poké Ranger!" the demon growled. "My life isn't worth living. Not since some more of your kind destroyed the Shadow World and robbed me of my power! Go ahead, I'm not even going to resist."
"Well, that makes things easier," Cobra Red commented, grabbing the demon up by the throat. Bringing his fist back to crush him...
Only for Cobra Blue to reach out and grab Cobra Red's hand.
"Wait," he said. "I'm interested. Tell us more, strange demon. We aren't Poké Rangers, we're out to destroy them. And anything else that stands in our way to getting to the Genesis Book."
"Well," the demon replied. "Where to start...?"
Gen-esis Over-load.
Season logo appears. Lightning crackles in the background, followed by rain and then fire. The Psychic, Grass and Dark symbols appear behind them.
Poké Rangers! Go!
Cities and towns of Verger appear. Peace occurs throughout.
Coming together to fight the evil
G-Force rangers face Regli. SDI rangers face Queen Misteria.
They will always save the day.
Katie flips through the air, firing Heat Blasters. Other rangers pose with weapons.
Poké Rangers! Go!
The Overload Megazord falls through the air, battling Garbot.
But then they lost their edge!
Rangers fall to the ground, old costumes vanish away. Dogbots celebrate their victory.
Poké Rangers! No!
The Coppinger logo appears on the horizon. Shadows fall across the land.
Gen-esis Over-load
Lance appears with his Dragonite. Bill and the Silver Gyarados appears behind him.
It's time to battle...
The rangers arrive on Ragnar Island. Rock shows them to the temple.
Poke Rangers! Go!
Xavier picks up the Water Stone. Xavier Jackson. Blue Genesis Ranger. Created by Blazin' Saddles.
Power of the Eevee!
Ryan picks up the Leaf Stone. Ryan Leopard. Green Genesis Ranger. Created by Hotrod198.
Poké Rangers! Go!
Nahir picks up the Thunder Stone. Nahir Moon. Yellow Genesis Ranger. Created by Famousgirl01.
Power of the Eevee!
Katie picks up the Fire Stone. Katie Myers. Red Genesis Ranger. Created by Blue Bongo.
Genesis Overload!
Duo picks up the Dusk Stone. Duo Roronoa. Black Genesis Ranger. Created by JMB2NAMI.
Poké Rangers!
Luke picks up the Sun Shard. Luke Sunderland, Purple Genesis Ranger. Created by MakubeDaKiddX.
Genesis Overload!
Paige sticks her head through a wall, smiling. Paige Martinez. Created by Famousgirl01.
Power of the Eevee!
The six rangers morph on the Coppinger Aerial Platform. Dogbots attack, and lose the fight.
Poké Rangers! Go!
The Hover Chasers carry the rangers into battle. Explosions occur behind them.
Verger needs you!
Mal and Tim look around, inanely. Before being chased by Golbat.
To fight that evil!
Dennis, Arbok and other enemies appear. Dennis holds the Genesis Book up high.
And save the day!
Rangers search for artefact's. Dorlinda appears.
Poké Rangers! Go!
The six rangers transform into their Eevee forms. Then, they transform into their Zords.
Power of the Eevee!
The former rangers wave at the camera, before fading away.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Win!
The Overload Megazord begins to form. It fires the Genesis Blaster.
Power of the Eevee!
The Coppinger Aerial Platform crashes to the ground and explodes.
Poké Rangers! Go!
Camera pans out to show the rangers relaxing on the Silver Gyarados. Dorlinda watches over them.
Genesis Overload!
Poké Rangers Genesis Overload created by Blue Bongo. Verger region created by Blue Bongo. All other rights reserved.
Poké Rangers! Go!
"So, Paige..." Luke said, glancing over at the ghost loitering about at the other end of the room. "How's things? The whole spectral thing mainly."
"How do you think?" she retorted, angrily. "Annoying as ever. Can't affect anything around me physically. All I can do is yell out helpful suggestions and even they're ignored most of the time."
"Only because they are usually aren't helpful," Ryan offered. "Besides, we've usually already come up with a plan and it goes against what we have planned."
"That's true," Duo said. "Normally, it doesn't help matters, but just complicates things."
"I'm sick of being a ghost!" she exclaimed, dropping down into a seat. Trying in vain to steady herself as she fell straight through the seat, again going straight through the floor.
"If you're sick of that, then doing something like that that's just going to remind you of it is pointless," Duo remarked. "Honestly. Although, I can't comment on it. Not being a ghost."
Finally managing to bring herself to a halt on the bottom deck of the Silver Gyarados, Paige couldn't help but count her blessings that she hadn't carried straight on through the bottom of the tatty looking cruise liner and dropped into the ocean.
"Small mercy," she commented, dryly. "I hate this so much. So so much."
Getting up to her feet, however unsteadily, she glanced at the surrounding area. Wondering where about on the boat that she had landed, needing to regain her bearings. Examining the room, she realised that it must be some sort of storage area close to the engines. Several useless or discarded items cast down into the room, long since forgotten. Looking over to the door, she could have sworn that she saw a Gamecube next to it. The console starting to glow as she looked at it, the ghost instantly taking a step back in surprise. Before remembering that no matter what it was, there wasn't much chance of it being able to hurt her.
"Spooky," she remarked, folding her arms. "Yet, I'm so not impressed. Whatever you are."
"Sorry about that," a voice said. "Allow me to..."
Following the disembodied voice, a pair of strained grunts rang out through the air. Paige still not impressed as it spoke up again.
"... Dislodge myself," it finished, a ball of smoke emerging through the cracks in the Gamecube lid. "Sorry about that, I appear to have been trapped in there for quite a while. What year is it?"
"2010," she replied. "You can't have been in there that long. It's not that old a machine."
"I'm sorry, but aren't you at least a little surprised at my presence?" the smoke ball asked. "Normally, people usually are shocked."
"Takes a lot more than that to shock me," she replied. "So, keep on trying."
"What's wrong?" the ball of smoke asked, this time surprising her with the question. "Because you seem sad about something. Distressed even. In fact, I'd say that you were on the verge of a breakdown."
"Nah, not really on the last part," she said, casually. "But, I'm not happy. Not really."
"Anything in particular," it wondered. "Or, is it none of my business?"
"Not particularly," she replied. "So... unless you're some sort of magic ball of smoke who can help me out with my problem of being a ghost..."
"You're a ghost?" the smoke asked, sounding surprised. "That's something I can relate to. I'm a ball of smoke, in case you hadn't noticed."
"Yeah, I had."
"And it's funny that you should mention it about being able to help you out," the ball of smoke remarked. "Because..."
"Because what?" Paige demanded, a surge of hope in the pit of her stomach. "What are you saying? Trying to say?"
"I have an interesting offer for you," the ball of smoke continued. "One about your affliction. I collect... Rare abilities. And I'm interested in one that you can provide."
"I'm listening," she said. "What are you talking about?"
"For a small price," it remarked. "I can make you what you were. No more hanging around this boat like some sort of loner."
"Okay..." she said. "And that's what you want?"
"But, am I the sort that's going to lie to you?" it asked. "All I promise is that you will no longer be a ghost by tomorrow. All I want is the permission to take that which you can offer to me."
"Then, I give you permission," she replied. "Go for it."
"It shall be done," the ball of smoke said, a sinister tinge in its voice. "Thank you, Miss Martinez. You have been most helpful."
Even as he finished speaking, Paige suddenly felt light headed. A sensation that she hadn't experienced for a while, ever since becoming a ghost. Staggering back, her vision started to swim around her. Slowly starting to go black, until she collapsed to the ground and passed out.
Her eyes flickering open, she found herself laid in a bed in one of the cabins on the upper floors of the Silver Gyarados. Able to feel it against her skin, the sensation one of the best that she could remember feeling for a long long time. And in that moment, she was unable to keep her relief inside.
"Yippee!" she yelled, leaping up out of bed and punching the air. "I'm back! Oh yeah!"
"Keep it down in there!" Nahir yelled from the room next door. "Trying to sleep. You've been back from the dead for quite a while."
"I'm solid again!" she shouted through the wall. "Oh yes! How about that? I'm not a ghost any more!"
"What?"
"Well, after six complicated tests..." Bill began to say, looking at Paige in front of him. "I think that..."
"I'm sorry, why the need for six complicated tests when tapping her on the forehead and not seeing it pass through would probably be good enough?" Duo wondered, as the PokéManiac put his scanner down.
"Because, it could be any number of things," Bill continued. "It could be temporary, it could be just be surface effects, meaning that her internal organs are still spectral. It could be..."
"Okay, we get the idea," Katie said. "Paige, how did this happen?"
"Who cares," she replied, picking a file of papers up to flick through. "I'm back. Everything's fine and brilliant. I am feeling so great right about now. Anyone notice how corporeal I am?"
"Yeah, we get the idea," Luke said, rolling his eyes. "Jeez."
"Oh, can't you be happy for me?" she asked. "Mind you, it doesn't matter. As soon as we hit dock, I'll be on my merry way."
"Nice for you to decide to abandon us at the first available opportunity," Xavier commented. "Jeez, Paige, I thought you were better than that."
"Hey, everyone else got the chance to go off on their own, their tenure completed," Paige retorted. "Until recently, the only thing keeping me here was the fact that I'm a spook. Now, I can weave my merry way along out of here. You guys are the Poké Rangers..."
"Technically, you still are," Ryan pointed out, gesturing to the G-Force morpher on Paige's wrist. "So..."
"That's not what I meant," she replied. "I don't morph by yelling out Genesis Overload."
Before the argument could escalate much further, the alarms rang out across the ship. Everyone present jumping to attention, as Bill rushed over to his computer. Bringing the sight of the Cobra Rangers attacking a city in Verger up onto the screen.
"Guess your escape is going to have to wait a few," Lance commented, glancing over at Paige. "You guys better ranger up and stop them."
"Okay, let's go!" Katie said, the six of them bringing their morphers up. Ready to activate. "Genesis Overload!"
And nothing promptly happened. Much to the surprise of the six rangers. Duo took his off and started to bang it against his leg, before pressing the activation button again. To no avail.
"What happened to our powers?" Katie asked, trying her own morpher. Finding it still not working. "Uh oh."
"You want the bad news first, or the good news first?" Bill asked, having finished running his scanner across the morphers. "Because, the good news is that the stones you draw your power from aren't damaged at all. They're still in the same condition as ever they were. The bad news is that there isn't any power running through them. That they're essentially expensive rocks right now. Nothing doing for us, no way of powering up the morphers."
"What could have caused it?" Ryan wondered. "I mean... This shouldn't just happen like that. Not without a catalyst."
"Well..." Bill said. "Obviously that would be the most logical explanation. AKA, the one that makes the most sense. Have any of you spoken to anyone strange lately. Anything that could possibly remove your powers. Anything at all? Strange, mysterious, possibly dangerous but definitely mystical?"
"Uh oh," Paige said, hearing the PokéManiac speak. "That can't be... Uh oh..."
"Uh oh what?" Luke asked, giving her a dirty look. "Something that you're not telling us?"
"Maybe..." she said, slowly. "I can't be sure."
"What did you do?" Xavier demanded, glaring at her. "How did you exactly did you become solid again?"
"Well..." she said, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly. "It's quite a long story. And an interesting one as well."
"Oh crap!" Bill exclaimed, as Paige finished her story. "On my damn boat, jeez!"
"Is that really the most important thing out there right about now?" Lance asked. "Because..."
"No, I mean it," Bill complained. "How dare whatever did this invade the privacy of the Silver Gyarados. We have a certain set of rules. No demons, monsters, mutants and no border patrol checking the holds below deck."
"Yeah, I noticed there's some crazy crap down there," Paige remarked. "But, not the point. So, you think this ball of smoke might have had something to do with it?"
"I'd stake my reputation on it," Lance said. "What I don't understand is how you giving permission could result in this thing taking all of the ranger powers. Surely you are the master of your own power."
"You would think that, right?" Katie asked, as the alarms went off again. "But, we're running out of time. The Cobras are still attacking. We've got to do something, powers or not."
"You can't be serious," Bill said, the satellite pictures showing up on the monitor behind him. "They cleaned you out when you faced them last time. That was with your powers. Without them, it's going to be like sending out a Caterpie to face a Charizard."
"So, which are we?" Ryan wondered. "The Caterpie or the Charizard?"
"The Caterpie!" Lance exclaimed. "Were you not listening?"
"Apparently not," Luke commented. "As much as it pains me to say it, we do have to go."
Throwing out his hand, a packet of papers came sailing through the air towards him. The purple ranger easily catching them.
"And we do still have our none ranger powers," he replied. "Somehow."
"That makes no sense," Ryan commented. "Oh well... Can't you guys use your old powers to battle them? Your SDI and G-Force powers?"
"I've still got the G-Force powers," Duo said, tapping his wrist. "But, these guys gave their Defense Morphers back to SDI. They don't have access to them, and by the time that..."
"I get the idea," Ryan groaned. "Okay... Well, I wouldn't have that anyway. Let me guess, it'd take too long to get them back from SDI."
"Correct," Nahir said. "We need to get going, right now!"
"I'm not looking forward to it," Xavier admitted. "This isn't going to be pleasant."
"It's okay," Katie remarked. "We'll be fine. Bill, you need to try and fix this. Without the powers..."
Letting the sentence hang in the air, the six of them began to head for the exit. Leaving Bill, Lance and Paige stood alone on the bridge. The roar of the Hover Chasers erupting out across the ocean, as the six vehicles left deck.
"It's not good, is it?" Paige asked, folding her arms.
"Unless they can get their powers back," Bill said, looking at the video images in front of them. At the way the Cobra Rangers were attacking the people of Agueros Town. "The Cobras are going to slaughter them. It's suicide that they even went to battle them."
Stroking her chin for a few seconds, Paige finally made her decision. Standing up straight, she brought her G-Force wrist morpher up to her mouth. Speaking into the communicator part of the device.
"Dorlinda?" she asked. "You there? I need your help with something."
"Time Hole hasn't changed much," she remarked, looking around at the room as Dorlinda tapped away at the console in front of him. "You've got a great place here, Dorlinda."
"I know," the Lord of Time replied. "You might have paid a high price for becoming solid again, Paige. What were you thinking?"
"Short answer, I wasn't," she admitted. "I just... Hated being a ghost so much. It's horrible."
"At least you're alive," he said, still sounding annoyed. "You did get a second chance. Millions, make that billions don't get what you had."
With that, the room went silent very quickly. The only sound being the hum of the monitor and the clack of the keys.
"The energy readings that were being given off at the Silver Gyarados about nine sixteen last night..." he said. "They are currently in Agueros Town. If I had to take a guess at it, that's where the thing that did this to you and took the power of the other rangers currently is."
"Can you teleport me there?" Paige asked, sounding apologetic about the circumstances. "I need to put this right."
"Well, at least you're doing that," Dorlinda commented, a slight hint of bitterness in his voice. "Well done. Sending you to the coordinates right now."
Pushing a button on the console, Paige vanished away in a streak of pink energy.
"Hey, Cobras!"
Looking around at the sound of the challenge, the six Cobra Rangers saw the six unmorphed rangers stood watching them. Ready to challenge them.
"Where's your powers?" Cobra Purple taunted. "We're expecting the Poké Rangers."
"You've got us!" Ryan shouted. "We're just..."
"Look at that," Cobra Green smirked. "That demon actually managed to do what he claimed. They're all powerless."
"Can't even class them as Poké Rangers then," Cobra Yellow remarked, bitingly. "What shall we do."
"Attack," Cobra Red said. "That's what we swore to do. If they're stupid enough to show up without their powers, then that's their decision."
At the words, and the sight of the six evil rangers starting to run towards them, the powerless Poké Rangers mentally began to steel themselves and wait for the inevitable battle. None of them even having the slightest feeling that it was going to be pleasant.
Cobra Green reached Ryan first, hitting the powerless green ranger with a powerful two handed strike that threw him straight to the ground. Already groaning in pain, Ryan slammed his hand down into the ground.
"Try this for size," he muttered, as six large thorny vines erupted out of the grass, ready to impale Cobra Green. Only for the evil ranger to bat them aside, kicking one of them straight back into the ground before turning his attention back to Ryan.
"Okay, I did that," Cobra Green smirked, leaning down to grab him by the throat. Easily picking the powerless ranger up off the ground. "What's your next party trick?"
Meanwhile, Nahir was battling against Cobra Yellow. Using her super speed to streak in onto the evil ranger and land attacks. Her opponent unable to track her movements, until the demented Cobra Ranger brought her arm up and got in a lucky strike. Catching the powerless yellow ranger square on the forehead, easily catching Nahir on the forehead. As she went down, Cobra Yellow struck out with a foot, kicking her in the ribs. As she rolled away, Nahir managed to jump up to parry the next strike. Cobra Yellow's boots bouncing off her wrists. With the Cobra Ranger slightly off balance, Nahir kicked out to send the enemy ranger down to the ground. No sooner had Cobra Yellow hit the grass, she was already in motion again. Her legs flailing up, knocking Nahir off her feet.
Grunting with the focus of keeping his defense up, Xavier felt Cobra Blue repeatedly land attacks onto his body. Taking them, he continued to bide his time, before attacking back. Hitting out into the midriff of Cobra Blue, the evil ranger's interest taken at the way that he'd avoided damage from the strikes.
"Impressive," he remarked, as Xavier threw another punch towards his head. Bringing his palm up, he easily caught the intended attack in his hand. "But, how good's your concentration?"
Kicking out, he struck the powerless blue ranger in the side, forcing him to the ground.
Across from him, Luke didn't have time to notice what was happening with the other rangers. Instead, he was having to deal with Cobra Purple, desperately trying to block the frenzied blows she was hurling at him. Bringing his leg up, he kicked her back in the stomach, before glancing around at the surrounding area. Spotting a huge rock nestled in the grass, the powerless purple ranger quickly reached out with the power of his mind to send it smashing it against her body. The evil ranger standing firm to take the blow, the stone shattering against her body. As she roared in pain, she charged like a wounded Ursaring, the body check throwing him back through the air.
No sooner had she left the Time Hole, Paige found herself in some narrow alley in the middle of Agueros Town. Much to her irritation, the smell of some week old curry ripe through the air.
"I have to correct my mistake," Paige muttered to herself, folding her arms. Before raising her voice, hoping to attract the thing that had cured her. "Hey, where are you? Smoke ball guy?"
Right on cue, the spectral ball of smoke appeared out of nowhere, floating next to her.
"Oh, it's you," it said. "What do you want?"
"Give those powers back, right now!" she snapped. "I'm really not in the mood for screwing around with you."
"You agreed to it," the ball of smoke replied. "So no refunds. Bye bye."
"You took something that you had no right to take," she warned. "Something that I shouldn't have been able to give."
"Yet, you did," it responded. "Now, if you'll excuse me..."
Her patience finally having snapped, Paige reached down to grab up an old iron bar from the ground. Swiping the makeshift weapon away through the smokey creature, whatever it was letting out a scream of pain before vanishing. And on the ground in front of her, was a Gallade-like demon with bright silver battle armour. A crest in the middle of it, heavily polished to perfection was also visible.
"How dare you attack Erlainia, warrior of the house of Misteria," the figure roared, springing up to his feet. "How dare you!"
"Yeah, I dare!" she retorted. "I thought all you demons were destroyed when the Shadow World imploded."
"I managed to escape," Erlainia said, proudly. "Managed to get out in time. But, I was weak. My power was destroyed as I was cut off from the source. I was forced to live in squalor, just trying to survive until the moment I had my revenge. Even that didn't warm me up at night, and eventually I was ready for my own destruction. Which I thought that the Cobras would grant. But, instead they gave me just enough power to turn into the form I tricked you with. Now, with the powers of your friends, I am back to my full glory. I no longer wish for death, but instead to deal it out."
"If that's what you were looking for," Paige replied, her hand going for the wrist on her other arm. "Then, I'll be happy to oblige you with destruction."
Snickering at the thought, Erlainia brought one of the swords up from his waist. Pointing it at her with a smirk.
"You and what power?" he asked, smugly. "Excuse me if I'm not shaking with fear."
Returning the smirk, Paige brought her wrist up. Revealing her G-Force morpher. Much to the surprise of Erlainia.
"This!" she yelled, before activating the device with the punch of a button. "Go G-Force!"
For the first time in a while, the item started to glow with a bright pink light, before the mystical spirit of the Clefable erupted out of it. The Pokémon doing a u-turn, before crashing into her, creating her armour. Her costume being dark pink with shades of lighter pink on the arms. The lower part was also a dark pink, although the hem of her skirt was a light pink. The belt and boots were the same colour. Her pink helmet's visor was the shape of a Clefable's mouth, and she had the curly quiff of the Fairy Pokemon atop her helmet, as well as the white mouthpiece.
"Oh, it's like that, is it?" Erlainia asked, still brandishing the blade at her. "Because..."
"You're going down!" she warned. "Hard."
"Go ahead then," he taunted, lowering the blade slightly. "If you think you can..."
Not waiting for him to finish, Paige leaped forward to strike out. Hitting him with a flying kick, she watched the demon stagger back before hitting the ground in a heap.
"You're not so tough, are you?" she taunted, carrying on towards him. "I was expecting at least a bit of a challenge."
"Oh, I'm not the challenge here," he replied, swiping at her with his sword. The blade missing her by a few centimetres, the pink G-Force ranger responding by kicking him in the stomach. Her boot clanging against his armour, she couldn't help but feel a strange sensation growing in her stomach. A feeling of unease.
"Then do inform me what the challenge is," she said, sarcastically. "Because it sure as heck isn't you. I've faced tougher challenges than you."
"Like I said," Erlainia replied, throwing another attack at her with his blade. "Maybe I'll get lucky. Probably not. I'm not a fighter, my strength is rather with subterfuge. But, you destroy me and all I've done gets undone. You'll be a ghost again."
As he had spoken, Paige had been getting ready to attack again. His words stopping her mid motion, Erlainia using the moment to hit her with the blunt side of the blade, the strike causing her to double over in pain.
"How's that grab you?" he taunted. "You can defeat me, but can you defeat yourself? Everything that..."
Cutting him off mid sentence, Paige hit him in the face. Bringing out her Metronome Daggers, she contined out on the assault. Their blades biting away through the armour, digging deep into the skin. Erlainia howling in pain, as she hit him with a spin kick.
"You can't destroy me," he challenged, a sadistic look on his face. "Not without destroying yourself in the process."
"My friends are about to die because of you," she retorted. "So, you can forget it. They're the important ones here. They're the ones that are doing good. Which is way more important than anything else right now."
Even as she finished speaking, her Metronome Daggers began to glow with brightly coloured energy. Black for the dark type, and grey for the flying type. Hurling herself forward, Paige struck out with the twin strikes. Cutting a massive cross into the middle of the armour, Erlainia staggering back in pain from the extreme damage. As she landed, Paige was already in motion again. Throwing herself back at the demon, her body began to glow with a bright pink wave of energy, the sight coming to a head as she crashed into him. Feeling the recoil run straight through her, Paige gritted her teeth under her helmet.
"Clefable Double Edge!"
Again staggering back, this time Erlainia was downed. His body exploding into thousands of pieces as he hit the ground. Six coloured shades of energy erupting out of the remains and vanishing into the sky. Even watching them fade, Paige felt herself demorph, quickly realising that she was no longer corporeal.
"Crap."
Going with the flow, Katie and Duo had teamed up to try and have a better chance against Cobra's Red and Black. Wrapping her arms around the powerless black ranger, Katie felt the two of them turn invisible. While out of view, she tried to blast them with waves of heat, Cobra Red easily taking the blasts.
"This is hot," Duo whispered in her ear. "In all senses of the word. Seriously, I'm sweating like a Rapidash in a..."
"You want me to hold your hand," she retorted, quickly. "Then you'll know hot."
Unfortunately, the two evil rangers heard her. Both of them unleashing blasts of red and black poison type energy towards the spot where they were hiding. Both of them being thrown free by the blast, landing out on the grass.
"Oh bad luck," Cobra Black taunted, the two Cobras advancing on the powerless Poké Rangers. "Which is all the luck you have right now."
Right on cue, the six shades of light fell out of the sky. Instantly reacting with the morphers, the six devices instantly buzzing back into action.
"Oh, I don't know," Katie said, all of them getting back to their feet. Six identical angry looks directed towards the Cobra Rangers. "I think we just got pretty lucky."
"You'll need more than luck to defeat us," Cobra Green taunted, as they brought their morphers up.
"Which we'll find from somewhere," Ryan said. "Let's find out."
"It's time to saddle back up," Xavier remarked. "And about time too."
"Genesis Overload!"
Much to their relief, the six of them instantly transformed into their rangers suits. All of them taking up fighting stances to go against the Cobra Rangers.
"We're back in business," Nahir announced. "Whatever you had planned failed. Epically."
"Oh well, we shall have to remedy that," Cobra Yellow shot back, before Cobra Red spoke up.
"Shall we take this up a notch?" he asked, a smirk in his voice as he and the other Cobra Rangers began to glow with a white light. Quickly transforming into the Silent Strike Megazord, the robot towering above the newly re-empowered rangers.
"Why not," Katie replied. "Transformation time!"
At the command, the six of them transformed into their Eevee forms. The red ranger quickly giving another order straight away.
"Overload Zords! Megazord formation!"
Under the command, the six Zords turned into their robot forms and began to combine. The Vaporeon and Umbreon Zords laying down to the ground, their legs and tails retracting inside the bodies. Their heads went down to the ground, the rear part of their bodies raising up to form legs. Next, the Leafeon Zord came bounding down, its front and rear legs fusing together before joining with the top of the Vaporeon and Umbreon Zords. Next the Flareon Zord leaped down onto the top of the Leafeon Zord, its limbs and tail folding in, a humanoid head appearing out of the area where the tail had been. The Flareon head detached, forming a helmet around the top of the head. Finally, the Espeon and Jolteon Zords jumped up, attaching to the shoulders of the Megazord. Their bodies elongating out into a prone position, the heads formed the shoulders of the robot. The rear legs and the tail of the Espeon Zord formed the hand of the right arm, while the needle-like fur at the rear of the Jolteon Zord formed the hand of the left arm. The legs vanishing away into the robotic body. As the Megazord stood up straight, it stretched out its arms.
"Clash of the titans," Duo quipped, the two Megazords heading towards each other. "This ought to be very interesting."
Even as he finished speaking, the Silent Strike Megazord struck out with a punch to the body of the Overload Megazord. Not doing much damage, the attack was quickly countered with a kick. Neither of them willing to give an inch to the opponent.
"Psycho Punch!" Luke yelled, hitting a button in front of him. "Now!"
At the roar from the purple ranger, the Espeon hand of the Overload Megazord came up. Dealing a psychic type energy backed punch into the Silent Strike Megazord, the blow forcing the Cobra's Megazord back.
"They won't get away with that!" Cobra Black shouted, banging his fist against the console in the cockpit of the Silent Strike Megazord. "They think they can beat us!"
"They will think again!" Cobra Yellow said, smugly. "Tail Strikes!"
Under her order, the arms of the Silent Strike Megazord whipped out repeatedly to crash against the Overload Megazord. Sparks being created by the impact of metal against metal.
"I'm thinking Genesis Blaster," Xavier said. "Blast the crap out of it."
"Yeah, because that did the trick last time," Nahir retorted, sarcastically. "Think we should use the old Element Overload on it."
"That's not a guarantee of destruction," Katie pointed out. "Not on this thing."
"It's good enough for everything else," Ryan remarked, folding his arms. "Why should this be..."
"Plan A," Katie said. "Genesis Blaster! Psybeam!"
At the command, the Overload Megazord brought up the weapon from the compartment in the Vaporeon leg. Blasting out a multicoloured beam of psychic type energy towards the Silent Strike Megazord, the beam enough to send it stuttering back.
"Genesis Staff!" Katie yelled. "Now!"
"Serpent Sabre!" Cobra Red roared.
Under the twin orders, the two weapons appeared. The Megazords instantly locking them together in a clash, more sparks rising up as metal met metal. Breaking them away, the two machines clashed them against each other again.
"What the hell," Luke said. "Might as well try it. If nothing else, we'll cause some carnage."
"Element Overload!" Katie shouted, hitting the buttons in front of her. Readying the attack to be used, the blade began to glow with light.
"Toxic Slash!" Cobra Red roared, unleashing the Silent Strike Megazord's own finishing move. The blade starting to glow with a purple energy, before striking out to clash against the stomach of the Overload Megazord. At the same time, the Genesis Staff crashed into the enemy Megazord. For three, four, five moments the two of them hung there, locked in combat. The powerful energy attacks racing into the systems of each Megazord, the rangers inside desperately trying to hold on...
... Until a thunderous crash rang out across the two giant robotic structures. The explosive blasts throwing them both back, the Megazords disassembling under the force. On one side of the field, the regular Poké Rangers landed on the grass, while the Cobra Rangers landed on the other side. Everyone weakened by the attacks that had raced through their systems. Groaning in pain, Cobra Red got to his feet. Eager to continue the fight, but weakened by the assault.
"You got lucky this time, rangers!" he snapped. "We're going to retreat for now, but we'll be back."
"We're counting on it," Duo shot back. "Don't stay away too long. We wouldn't want to miss you too much."
Ignoring the quip, the six evil rangers vanished out of sight. Leaving the Genesis Rangers alone in the field.
"Thank Arceus we got through that alive," Xavier groaned. "Anyone else relieved?"
"Incredibly," Nahir said. "This was a messy day. At least we're all unharmed and all's well that ends well."
"Well, not everything," Katie remarked. "There still is one thing that I need to do."
"And what's that?" Ryan wondered, glancing over at her. "Anything good?"
"Seriously, Paige!" Katie said, angrily. The ghost stood in front of her on the deck of the Silver Gyarados, looking very apologetic. "What were you thinking? That was reckless, stupid, dangerous... I mean, how could you not see that the demon was evil? Was being corporeal really that important to you?"
"I accept it was a moronic thing to do," Paige admitted, quickly holding her hands up to stop the verbal barrage. "I'm sorry, okay."
"Well," Katie said, slowly. "I suppose you did remedy the situation. Seriously, don't ever do anything like that again."
"I just was sick of being a ghost," Paige groaned. "Not being able to affect the world around me..."
"We'll find a way to return you to normal," Katie insisted, picking up a bottle of water to take a drink. "Just be patient. That's all I ask of you."
"I think it might be managed," Paige remarked, a smile creeping across her face as she reached out towards the bottle. "Besides, I might have picked up a few new tricks along the line..."
Much to Katie's surprise, the ghost took the water bottle, easily able to hold it.
"Impressed, right?"
Author's Notes.
Well, a little blast from the past two seasons there. The demon from SDI and Paige's morphing into the old G-Force costume.
Promise that there is a point to what's happening with Paige. And as for any questions as to what exactly happened to the Genesis powers in this chapter... I also promise that all will be revealed shortly. Probably in about the next ten chapters.
Okay, so thanks for the reviews. All appreciated.
Anyway, the next one is entitled Inner Beasts. Preview below, up soon, yadda yadda yadda.
Just from the title, did anyone not guess that a demon was going to be in the chapter? Heh.
Okay, so thanks for reading.
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Chapter Twelve, Inner Beasts, preview.
Jake: Go forth and wreak havoc.
Luke: What was that for?
Nahir: You know what it was for.
Luke: I haven't seen you all morning.
Bill: Oh crap, there's two Luke's on the loose.
Lance: One with all his negative personality aspects...
Nahir: And the clone of him.
Luke: Very funny.
Coming soon.