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Chapter Fourteen: Deception

A/N: Hello people! So this is the next chapter! Please review! Please!

"Hurting someone can be as easy as throwing a stone into a sea, but do you have an idea how deep that stone will go?" -Unknown

Jayden ducked as a mooger swung its sword at his head. He kicked it in the chest. He looked around for something to defend himself with. He backed up, drawing the some of the moogers away with him. He looked over at Kevin who was now morphed and fighting.

Jayden looked around again. He grabbed a pipe and held it up. It wasn't as ideal as a sword, but better than nothing. He used it to block another hit from a mooger. He swung it, hitting the mooger in the head. It shook its head and stumbled backwards. Jayden continued to use his make shift sword to protect himself.

Kevin spin around, hacking at the moogers. "Stupid moogers," he said. They were interfering in the search. "Damn nighlocks," he said as he ruthlessly attacked them. They'd taken Antonio; he knew it. "You took him!" he said as he slashed another across the chest.

He felt angry with the nighlocks. They'd taken Antonio when he was already injured and scared and were doing who knows what to him. "It's not right," he said destroying more. He looked and saw Jayden was knocking them out with a metal pipe. He smirked. Even without a morpher Jayden was still an amazing fighter.

A mooger snuck up behind Kevin and got him across the back. "Ahh!" the blue ranger cried out in pain. He spun around and struck it down before it could react.

Lauren ducked as a mooger tried to decapitate her. She kicked it in the chest, then slashed it with her spin sword. She stumbled back as a mooger punched her in the stomach. At least Bugzoid isn't here, she thought as she blocked a mooger sword. We'd have no chance of defeating him without Antonio. She destroyed another.

"Behind you!" Mia shouted. She quickly took down a mooger who had tried to sneak up on Lauren from behind.

"Thanks," Lauren said, destroying another.

"No problem," Mia said swinging her sword. She ducked and moved away from Lauren, drawing several moogers with her. As if we didn't have enough going on lately without these creeps adding to it. Mia jumped to the side, narrowly avoiding losing an arm. She swung her sword, destroying another mooger. She looked up and saw Mike and Emily arriving. Bout time, she thought.

The green and yellow rangers quickly morphed and joined the fight. Emily ran to help Mia, drawing more moogers away. "Nighlocks," she growled. She funneled some of her own anger for Mike's comments earlier. She slashed her sword, taking down several in a single blow. Take my friend, she thought. I'll show you.

Mike ran to help Lauren. He round-housed a nighlock in the head. He slashed another across the chest with his sword. "Where's Kevin?" he asked her.

"He and Jayden are dealing with the same problem by the docks," Laure replied blocking another blow.

"But Jayden still doesn't have his samuraizer."

"Like that'll really stop him," Lauren said.

"Touché." Mike blocked another blow. He around, taking several out at once. "Take that," he said kicking one backwards. As he destroyed the last few close to him he looked around. Mia and Emily had defeated the moogers near them, as had Lauren. They all de-morphed. Lauren's samuraizer went off.

"Kevin?" she asked answering. "Are you guys ok?"

"Yeah," he said. "Are you guys ok?"

"Yeah. We took care of the problem."

"What's with the random attack?" he asked her.

"I don't know. An attack isn't unusual, but in the places we happened to be?"

"You think it means something?"

"Like what?"

"Maybe we're getting close to finding him and they want us to get away."

"Maybe," Lauren said. "Just keep looking, but be back at the house before dark."

"Got it," he said before hanging up.

Lauren tuned back to the others. "Kevin thinks that maybe we're close to finding Antonio."

"Why?" Mike asked.

"Because of the moogers. If we're getting close the nighlocks would want to drive us away."

"Then we're on the right track," Emily said. "He must be in a warehouse then."

"Come on," Mia said. "If we keep looking we might get even closer."

Lauren nodded, new hope rising inside of her. "Lets go." They divided into their respective pairs and walked in opposite directions, resuming their search. "Hold on Antonio," Lauren whispered. "We're coming."

Octoroo watched all of this from a gap. He smiled when the female red ranger told the others of the blue ranger's idea. "Oo aa oo, very good," he said. "With them distracted we'll be able to start on my plan." This made him a smile even more. "Oo aa oo. Master Xandred will be pleased. Once we do this, we'll be able to destroy those samurai once and for all, and the gold ranger will be to weak to live."

He continued to smile. "Oo aa oo. That gold ranger has caused nothing but trouble for me since he showed up. He makes them more powerful. He liked to give the rangers power ups, lets see how he liked giving a nighlock a power boost." He laughed evilly and went to Master Xandred's junk to prepare the next part of his plan.

dum, dum, dummmm!