A/N: Hello everybody! Welcome to our newest update of 'Power Rangers: Ninja Strike'. In our last update, Johnny was given motherly comfort by Rosita, who told him that just because his father made him do bad things doesn't make him a bad animal. Ash also gave Johnny the first kiss of their relationship, so yeah, a little Red Ranger x White Ranger romance for ya. Ferra-Khan's spy has also discovered the identities of the Power Rangers, as well as their hideout, and revealed that tonight is the night of the full moon. Now, we pick up where we left off. Enjoy!
(Normal P.O.V.)
Inside the abandoned foundry, Ferra-Khan watched as the steel pieces of his 'Excavator' had finally been welded together. The entire body of the monster looked like a traditional Samurai's armor. The tip of the helmet had three spikes on top of it, one in the middle of it's forehead and extended to the back of it's helmet, as well as two (one for each side) that did the same on the left and right sides. It's face gave the appearance of a demon like an ancient Samurai's mask normally would. The shoulder pads had sharp blades as well as on it's forearms that extended further like swords build into the arms, and it's feet looked like a T-Rex's feet. In the very center of the chest was a circular hole with a slot inside it that was meant to carry something inside it.
"The construction is now complete, my lord" one of the possessed sets of armor from the museum said to Ferra-Khan who now gazed down upon his creation.
"You have done well. It's mask will strike fear into the hearts of all those it shall soon slay to make room for the new population" said Ferra-Khan before he looked up and saw a crane carrying a large glowing green crystal vat and held it right above the hole inside the Excavator's chest.
"Shall we place the Power Crystal inside now, master?" the stone hippo slave who was operating the crane asked. When Ferra-Khan escaped the Spirit World and attacked the museum, he discovered a crystal vat that had carried a great deal of power inside, he figured for his plan it would be perfect to use it as a power source.
"No, save it for when the full moon is in the sky tonight. I want to savor every glorious minute of when it finally emerges from it's lifeless slumber and squashes every animal in this city under it's cold steel feet" Ferra-Khan said, tapping his claws on the railing and making clinking noises as each claw tapped the metal. His thoughts were interrupted when he saw his stone raccoon scout come up the stairs and bowed at his hind paws to him.
"Master, I have returned with good tidings. I have discovered the identities of the Power Rangers" he said. Ferra-Khan began to smile even wider than before and knelt down to his scout's eye-level to speak with him.
"Really? Tell me, I'm just dying to get to know who they are before I crush them" Ferra-Khan said in a manner that sounded both polite and sinister all the same.
"The Red Ranger is a gorilla named Johnny, his father has just been arrested and placed in prison. The White Ranger's name is Ash, she's a porcupine and she's having affectionate feelings for the Red Ranger. The Yellow Ranger is an elephant named Meena, she values her new friends and family more than anything. Mike is a white mouse, and the Black Ranger, he has a girlfriend named Violet. The Pink Ranger is a pig named Rosita, she had twenty-five children as well as a husband. And the Blue Ranger is a pig as well, named Gunter" said the scout.
"You've done me a great service, my slave. Now, I know how to lure the rangers out of hiding so I can destroy them" Ferra-Khan said as he placed his paw on his hip where his sword rested inside it's sheath. He then turned behind him to see a stone elephant, panda, gorilla, and polar bear who bowed down before him.
"Go out into the city, capture the loved ones of Johnny, Mike, Rosita, and Meena. We will use them, and Nana Noodleman as bait. Once they are here, I will trap them, take their powers and make them my slaves as well" ordered Ferra-Khan.
"A very well-conceived plan, master. We shall leave immediately" said the panda before all four of them ran outside the foundry to do their assigned tasks. Ferra-Khan then hatched a wicked idea from his mind and began to follow them.
"I think it's time I met one of these new rangers and have a little heart-to-heart with them, wouldn't you agree?" the tiger asked one of the possessed sets of armor.
"Of course, master" they replied. And with that said, Ferra-Khan walked off to the city.
(Meena's P.O.V.)
Training had officially ended, and I had to admit it was a lot of fun bonding with my Bear-Zord. This Power Ranger gig has a lot of awesome perks, like getting to know martial arts, sweet armor (despite me and the others not being able to morph yet), and the Zords too. I walked up to Johnny and got his attention by placing my hand on his shoulder.
"So, Johnny... you need a place to stay for the night? My grandparents and my mom always love it when they have company, and we have a little pull-out sofa bed for you to sleep on" I offered. Johnny just smiled and spoke back.
"That's very sweet of you, Meena. But, I'm gonna have to pass. Ash said she'd let me crash at her place for the time being until my dad serves his sentence" he told me.
"Aw, that's nice of her. You two must be really happy together" I told him.
"Yeah, we have a lot in common, and I think I may be falling for her" he told me. I kinda already knew that Johnny had a thing for Ash, and that Ash had a thing for Johnny since yesterday, the fact that they stood by each other the whole time whenever they were training, how they looked at each other, and how they talked frequently during their bonding with their Ape and Falcon-Zords.
"Well, I won't get in your way. I'd better get home, mom's making spaghetti for dinner tonight. See ya tomorrow" I told him.
"Bye Meena!" I heard him call before I put my headphones on and began playing a song on my phone. When I got on the bus, Halsey's cover of 'I Walk the Line' began playing and I took my seat on the bus and hummed along to Halsey singing the classic Johnny Cash song while waiting for the bus to complete it's seven mile trek from the theater to my house. The sky started to turn orange as the sun got lower and descended from morning to afternoon, we did spend a good few hours down in the caves bonding with our Zords today so this didn't really surprise me. By the time I got off the bus and stepped onto the sidewalk that was right across the street, I noticed now that it was about ten minutes to five o'clock.
"Home sweet home" I said to myself, not able to hear my own voice due to the music playing on my headphones and blocking out all other sounds. After I crossed the street I turned the song off on my phone and took my headphones off. I then noticed something off when I came up to the front door, the welcome mat was slightly out of place, and the door was slightly open, only a small glimpse inside our house could be shown.
"Well, good thing we live in a good neighborhood" I said to myself. Our neighborhood never had any burglaries at all, so we never really had to worry about security systems or anything like that. The living room was a complete mess, the glass coffee table was tipped over and slightly shattered with glass shards littered all over the rug, and there was a broken bowl with several grapes scattered all around it's broken porcelain remains.
"Mom? Grandma? Grandpa?" I called out, but got no response. I then walked into the kitchen to see the flame on the stove was still burning, but nothing was sitting on top of it.
"Guys? Hello? Is anybody home?" I called out.
"No, just me" I heard a voice whisper into my ear, as well as his warm breath as he spoke against my skin. I turned around to see a cloaked figure standing in my kitchen, chuckling. Before I could respond, he grabbed me by my shirt collar and tossed me across the room and my back hit the wall, leaving a large dent in it where my body hit it. Before I could try to attack back, it ran up to me faster than any animal I had ever seen before and gripped me by my throat and held me against the wall. They then took off their hood to reveal a white tiger wearing a silver mask on the topside of their face that looked like it was made of some sort of polished steel.
"Well well well, what do we have here? The Yellow Ranger, the master of 'Bear Style'. I've got you right where I want you" he said.
"How do you know who I am? Who are you?" I demanded, trying not to be choked by this tiger's strength.
"I was like you once, full of hope, full of dreams. But then Ninjor denied me the power which I was destined to have received and exiled me from that pathetic school of his, sending me out into the mountains to die!" he snarled. I remembered him now, his face, his fur color, it was all to familiar to me. The very animal we were training to fight against and put down for good.
"Ferra-Khan" I said. He just chuckled at me.
"You're so smart, no wonder the yellow coin chose you" he told me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, trying to break free from his grip, but all that got me was another slam back into the wall behind me, and debris covering my clothes.
"What? Can't a guy just have a little chat with a Power Ranger? Oh wait, you can't even morph yet, can you?" he asked me.
"H-How did you know?" I asked.
"I knew every single power that the previous rangers had. Your powers have blossomed quite nicely, but you lack the most important one of all... the power to morph. What good is a Power Ranger, without their armor?" he said. His voice was sickening, and his knowledge of ever single power that the other rangers and I possessed was kind of scary, then again, he was centuries old and was kept prisoner in another world for a long time.
"Let me show you something, what REAL power looks like" Ferra-Khan whispered. He then released me and dropped the cloak right in front of me. His armor was made from the same material his mask was made of, with spiked shoulder-guards, wrist and leg gauntlets, and a tattered up trashy Tarzan-like loincloth with tiny skulls surrounding the top like a belt. A green aura began surrounding him like streams of smoke, and his eyes glowed the same color.
"Believe me, this is what you wish you had" he said before I took this opportunity to attack. I kicked his crotch, where his loincloth covered and he screamed in pain before I leaped forward and pushed him. He was now pinned against the wooden grandfather clock that stood right beside the TV, and the entire thing was shattered to pieces when I pinned him against the entire thing with such great force. I had my eyes narrowed down and had him pinned against the wall by the throat, the same way he had cornered me.
"Please, let me go. You're hurting me, I can't breathe" he whined and whimpered like a kitten who was complaining about losing a game of kick-ball at recess. He then stopped and began to laugh hoarsely.
"I'm just screwing with you, Yellow Ranger" he said to me before he grabbed both sides of my head with his paws and then tossed me into the kitchen without even lifting a muscle. My body hit the fridge, and it dented the entire door.
"To think Ninjor could teach you how to wield such unspeakable power. Someone like me should have that power" Ferra-Khan said as he approached me and pulled out a sword that had a blade that glowed green, and surrounded itself with green mist. I now had an angry look on my face and tore the dented fridge door off the rest of it.
"Over my dead body" I said before I tossed it at him. Before it could even touch him, he slashed his sword in the air and cut the whole fridge door in half, both halves lying on the hardwood floor.
"Since you insist" Ferra-Khan snarled before he tried to stab me with the sword, I then reached into the cutlery and picked up a cleaver. It may have not been a ninja weapon, but at least it was good enough for defense, and began deflecting each attack he tried to inflict on me with the sword.
"You're pretty good, for a teenager. Too bad your mother and grandparents couldn't put up much of a fight as you did" he told me before he slipped the sword back inside it's sheath. My eyes went wide in realization, and I gasped, he took my mom and my grandparents.
"What did you do with them!?" I demanded, circling him while I still had the cleaver clutched tightly into my hand.
"Now now, don't worry. It's not just them, I took the Red Ranger's low-life criminal father and uncles, all the Pink Ranger's twenty-five children and her husband, as well as the Black Ranger's little girlfriend" Ferra-Khan said as he followed my angry glare while I circled him. He took my fellow ranger's loved ones too?
"You better let them or I swear to God I'll..." I was about to continue my threat but Ferra-Khan cut me off.
"You'll what, kill me? Oh, that's right... you can't. Because if I die, who else will there be to tell you where they are?" he said to me, he may have been a bad guy, but he had a good point there.
"Tell me where they are" I demanded after I dropped the cleaver onto the kitchen floor, the blade making loud clangs as it hit the surface.
"Tell the other rangers that I am keeping their loved ones captive inside the storage basement of the old foundry outside the city. It rests at the edge of the cliff at the old rock quarry. If they want them back so badly they'll have to come and get them" Ferra-Khan said before he held his paw out to the door and opened it without touching it as if he had telekinesis and walked outside and then shut the door behind him. After recovering from that brutal and shocking encounter, I picked up my phone out of my pocket and began calling the other Power Rangers.
A/N: Well, there you go. Meena vs Ferra-Khan in her own home. And Ferra-Khan has stooped so low as to kidnapping Johnny's father and uncles, Mike's Girlfriend, Rosita's husband and kids, and Meena's mother and grandparents into their conflict by kidnapping them and using them to lure the Power Rangers into what they don't know is a trap. So, what's gonna happen next? Read to find out in the next update! Please review, thanks!