A/N: Yes I am finally updating again, I am so proud of myself. I know I haven't updated since November, but with school almost done I think I may update once or twice a week during the summer. Anyway, here is the next chapter.
Ep. 8- Face Fears
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It was a few weeks after the disastrous nature trip, that almost resulted in the rangers identities being revealed. This day the rangers had yet another school assembly.
"Why the h*** do we have ANOTHER assembly" Zayna asked James.
"From what I've heard. This is about 'facing your fears without showing violence or doubt'. " James quoted from a poster he had read the other day.
"Really. This will be weird" Zayna said as they got to the gym and sat with the other rangers.
"Hello Cottonspirit High" The guest speaker said, "I am Joshua Rusk and shall teach you how to face fears courageously without fear or doubt".
"This guy is SO cheesy" Malia whispered to the others, who laughed.
"So. Who shall be out first guest!" Joshua said prancing around the gym floor, looking at all the students.
"How about...YOU!" he said pointing at Lena Stonsen.
"Me?" Lena asked.
"yes come on down. And tell me your fear" Joshua said. Lena slowly climbed down and said,
"Well I'm afraid of falling".
"Ahh well that's a good fear. Now it's time that you learn to face this fear. For this, I want all of you to close your eyes and imagine your falling...do it now" he said. With mumbles and grumbles, all of the students closed their eyes and listened to the crazy fear-facer.
"Imagine you are falling down a hole, deeper, and deeper, and deeper. Now imagine you hit the ground with a SPLAT!" Joshua said, shouting the last word. Almost everyone jumped, and opened their eyes.
"Woah" Zayna said, blinking.
"Get into it a bit to much" James lightly teased the dark-haired girl. Zayna just stuck her tongue out and re-flicked her right wrist, deactivating the morpher.
"Now I want all of you to think, how realistic is it that that will happen to you" Joshua asked.
"Not very" Lena said slowly.
"Precisely, unless your fear is something that could really happen, it's kind of irrational to fear it" Joshua said.
"Well then we should be afraid of everything, we're already on a hit list" Timothy muttered. The others nodded in agreement as Joshua called other students down and had them explain their fears. While this was happening, Ahriman was watching them through his magic bowl.
"Mal! Come here" Ahriman shouted. A tall, Devimon-like thing appeared.
"Yes master" Mal said.
"I have an idea to get rid of the pesky rangers, I need you to create Fearizer, the monster that uses fears against the victims. " Ahriman commanded. "
Yes master, I'll go do work on it" Mal said, bowing.
"Good, good. Now those pesky rangers won't know hit them." Ahriman thought, laughing evilly.
-Later that day-
Later that day, when the final school bell rang, the rangers were packing up their things to go home, when their phones went off simultaneously. Quickly, all nine rangers pulled out their phones and read the message from Duša.
come to the Grove now! was what the message read.
"Crap" David muttered, shoving his locker closed and meeting up with Calleigh.
"You got Duša's message?" She asked. "
Yeah. Lets go. Hopefully the others will have gotten the message and will meet us there." David said.
"They will" Calleigh said confidently, quickly leaving.
-Grove-
"Duša what's wrong" Zayna asked.
"I have a feeling that a monster will be attacking soon. I want you guys to be ready in case we need your powers" Duša said. The rangers nodded and sat around at the stone table and worked in their school-work. Fifteen minutes after they got there, the animals started screeching. Duša rushed over to the tree and found a monster attacking the city.
"Rangers! DM at the mall, go now" she commanded. The rangers nodded and changed into their 'ninja suits' and ran off to the mall.
-Mall-
"Dummy Men scare them" a monster, that had had a changing look to it (it changed whenever someone looked at it to their fear), and so the DM did.
"Stop right there" Timothy said, he had been shopping a bit and saw the DM and Fearizer attack, so he quickly changed suits.
"Pesky ranger. When will you learn" Fearizer cackled, commanding then DM to attack. Timothy quickly took a fighting stance and started to defend the civilians against the DM, who were seriously starting to scare them.
"Dummy Men. You're not gonna win" he shouted.
"Oh but we will and you are all alone" Fearizer said. Tim turned his gaze to him and looked on in fear as one person he loved died before his eyes again and again.
"No...no" he whispered as a blast of energy fired from Fearizer hit him and knocked him back.
"Urgh" Tim groaned, slowly standing up.
"Silly humans can't beat me" Fearizer cackled.
"Think again" David said as he and the other rangers ran to the scene of the attack.
"Don't...look...at...him." Tim panted.
"Why?" Malia asked, pushing a DM before glancing at Fearizer. The blonde stumbled back in fear as Fearizer turned into a shark and came after her.
"What the h*** is happening" Zayna hissed, rushing over to their yellow ranger and helping her up.
"No watch out for the shark!" Malia screamed, pushing Zayna out of the way.
"Malia there's no shark here" Aaron said, fending some DM off of her.
"No Aaron go away. The shark will kill you!" She said, trying to move him.
"It's just Fearizer" Aaron said, trying to comfort the yellow ranger. The green ranger's attempts were fruitless, though, because at that moment he looked at Fearizer. "
No" Aaron whispered, not being able to see anything.
"What is happening to the others" Calleigh shouted.
"I don't know but we need to morph" David commanded. The rangers nodded and flicked their wrists.
"Ancient Animal Evolution!" They shouted, morphing in colored flashes of light.
"That's better" Liam said with a sigh of relief.
"It is" Steve agreed. Fearizer cackled and ran out to the city.
"Fearizer stop!" David cried, looking right at the monster. The moment David looked at Fearizer, he saw everyone he knew die. The rangers watched in shock as their leader fell to his knees.
"No...no" he whimpered.
"C'mon we need to stop this monster" Calleigh said. The others nodded as Fearizer fired a blast at them. The rangers dodged he blast as Calleigh shot a glance at Fearizer. All of a sudden she collapsed onto the ground. "Cal!" Liam cried, rushing over to the yellow ranger.
"I...I can't feel my legs!" Calleigh cried. Fearizer clashed his hands together in triumph.
"You silly rangers are no match for me" he cackled.
"Think again" Liam said, rushing at the monster. Like all the others, he too froze up when he looked at Fearizer. What Liam saw scared him, he saw everyone in pain.
"Stop" Liam cried, the DM attacking him.
"Guys we need to work together and beat Fearizer" James commanded. Stephen and Zayna nodded in agreement and congregated away from the monster.
"What are we going to do. The three of us can't stop him" Stephen asked.
"With Great Power anything is possible" Zayna said, drawing her sword and facing Fearizer with James and Stephen flanking her. Thankfully for them, they didn't look at the monster right away.
"James watch out!" Stephen cried, shoving the black ranger out of the way, and looking at the monster. All of a sudden, Stephen fell down on his knees, coughing violently.
"What's this monster's thing?" Zayna wondered. Fearizer turned to her and turned into a scorpion.
"Scorpion!" She cried, stumbling back in fear.
"Zay!" James shouted, running to her.
"Are you okay?" He asked, helping her up. Zayna shook her head and James faced Fearizer. To the black ranger's surprise, the other rangers looked at him.
"How could you James. You let the monster get away" David cried.
"I...I'm sorry" James stuttered.
"We trusted you! And you let him get away" Zayna said.
"I..he..." James stuttered, upset about his team hating him. Fearizer laughed and blasted the rangers, demorphing them with ease, before teleporting away.
"Duša how can we beat him, he's too strong" Timothy whined.
"It is not that he is strong, it is that he knows what can cause you to stop fighting" Duša said.
"Then how can we beat him?" David wondered. This question had all the rangers think in silence. The silence was broken by Stephen's phone going off.
"hey" he said, talking to his girlfriend. A few minutes later, he hung up with a smile on his face and an idea to defeat Fearizer in his mind.
"I have the perfect idea to beat Fearizer" Stephen announced.
"What is it!" Liam asked. Stephen explained his idea, using what Joshua Rusk taught them about facing fears.
"That's a good idea" Malia admitted. The green ranger grinned as Fearizer showed his ugly head at the park.
"Rangers Fearizer is at the park. Go now" Duša commanded. The rangers nodded and ran off to the park.
-Park-
"Fearizer stop!" Calleigh commanded.
"Rangers back again?" Fearizer sneered.
"We're back and better than ever" Aaron said, as the rangers morphed.
"Remember the plan, and try not to look at Fearizer" Stephen reminded them. The rangers nodded and the battle was on.
"Take this" Zayna shouted, swinging her sword at Fearizer and looking at him, allowing Aaron to stab the monster in the back.
"Argh!" Fearizer groaned, turning to Aaron, who confidently looked at him. As Fearizer blinded Aaron, Malia took her Bo-staff and hit Fearizer over the head with it.
"Why you little" he hissed, arriving in front of her. Malia wavered at the shark arrived, but James took his sword and stabbed Fearizer with it. Fearizer growled and faced James, only to be hit by Stephen.
"Stupid rangers" Fearzier grumbled, lunging at Stephen. Too bad for him, he was hit by Calleigh.
"Who's stupid now" Calleigh smirked, dodging Fearizer and allowing Liam to hit him.
"He is" Liam agreed, looking at Fearizer and seeing his fear. While Liam was witnessing his fear, David and Timothy doubled teamed Fearizer, weakening him enough.
"Rangers combine your weapons" Duša commanded. The nine rangers stood in a circle and held their weapons into the center. All nine weapons glowed their respective colors, and merged to form a blaster. David took hold of it and aimed it at the monster.
"Ancient Animal Attack!" the rangers cried, blasting the monster, who got destroyed. The ranger smiled and high-fived each other and went back to the Grove.
-Ahriman's Hideout-
Joshua Rusk arrived in his master's hideout.
"ļaunums why did you help out the ranger" Ahriman screamed at his minion.
"Sorry master. I did not know that they would use my advise to beat Fearizer" Joshua Rusk AKA ļaunums said, transforming into his demon-form, a handsome looking fallen angel.
"Next time you do NOT give anyone advise like that" Ahriman yelled.
"yes master" ļaunums obediently said, bowing his head. Ahriman nodded.
A/N: so there is the end of the chapter. Betcha guys didn't see that coming, Joshua being evil and working for Ahriman. So he will be in there more as a villain, and the rangers may recognize him. I'll try to update again soon. Next up, a football game where Calleigh has to march and a monster attacks. REVIEW!
