Chapter 21: A Trainer's Bond
It was a December afternoon and the schools of Hopes Town have ended for the day. Jake and his Pokémon, Luxray and Kangaskhan were playing around on the now snowy central park. Jake was wearing a red winter jacket, a black cap of Mareep wool and a pair of blue gloves.
Lucria came by and saw them play. And she got a thick wool jacket, a big cap and a blue muffler.
"Hi Jake," she cheered and waved.
Jake was on the ground with Luxray, buffing his nose against his face could only laugh and waved back at Lucria.
"I see that you spend good time with your pokémon when not fighting team Crono," said Lucria and put her hand at Kangaskhan's belly and rubbed it, which the big pokémon seemed to like.
"Yes she does. Both of my pokemon like to be petted and snuggled," said Jake while rubbing Luxray on his head.
"You must be a good trainer, because I have heard that it's no easy task to take care of a big beauty like her," said Lucria. She looked up at Kangaskhan. They both smiled at each other.
At the same time at the Holon Lake, Milon was together with Noosu and Shireff, searching for the next treasure.
"Are you sure that you will find the next treasure here?" asked Noosu, looking around a bit scared.
"Don't worry, there are only a few Delta Pokémon here. There's nothing to be afraid of," said Shireff.
"Yes, the only thing to be afraid of is getting a cold," said Milon, sneezing after his response.
"Oh, behave. Get down in the water and find that treasure," said Shireff.
Milon looked down at the ice cold water and backed off.
"I remember how it was at the hospital, and I didn't like it at all. So I'm not gonna risk it," said Milon.
Shireff sighed and gave Milon a slap on his face with his leaf hand. It's super effective!
"I can't believe that I have to work with idiots!" yelled Shireff.
Milon rubbed his chin and jumped down into the water.
"I don't think that Milon will be able to do this alone," said Noosu.
"Of course, therefore I am sending down this monster to help him," said Shireff and opened a box which contained a Politoed looking creature, but with more of a human head wearing a full gas mask and goggles and with a motor sticking out of its back. And it got a harpoon gun as its left arm.
"Dyka at your service, captain," said the monster with a bubbly voice.
"I want you to look out for a pink emerald in the lake. And you can do anything you want, if needed," said Shireff.
"Roger that," said Dyka, giving a salute to the generals. He jumped into the lake, causing a major splash. While that was happening, there was a shadowy figure that saw the morphs. The figure ran deep into the forest so that it could make a call with its phone.
"Hello, is it Poképower?" the figure asked with a somewhat feminine voice.
Andrea was in Percy's office to install new software in the president's computer until he heard the phone ringing. He picked it up and heard the figure asking.
"Yes, this is Poképower and you're talking with the technician," said Andrea.
"If you are the technician, then where's the president?" the figure asked, aggravated that the official president wasn't there at the time.
"He's at some business at the moment. It's classified," Andrea answered.
"Ok... but there are some strange figures at Holon Lake searching for something. I would feel relieved if the Poké Rangers came and investigated it immediately," said the figure.
"OK, I understand, miss. The rangers will be there right away," said Andrea.
Andrea hung up the phone and then picked it up to call the other rangers.
Ten minutes later, Jake, Lucria, Binnie and Bash came to Poképower.
"Hey Andrea, where's Percy and the mouse boy?" Bash asked.
"They are at my place trying to convince my parents to take care of Claese even though he's a pokémorph," said Binnie.
"I see. So, we're one Ranger short," said Bash.
"That doesn't matter. The fact is that we have a mission to do. So brief us Andrea, if you please," said Lucria.
"Of course," said Andrea and cleared his throat. "I got a message from someone that Team Crono is at Holon Lake. I suspect that they must be searching for something there."
"Well, the president should have let us gone on that mission, and Percy did let me decide if we will go," said Lucria.
"So, what are we waiting for?" Bash asked.
"Yeah, we have to go and stop Team Crono before they do something bad," said Jake.
"Just like Goody two-shoe said," said Bash, sarcastically. Jake turned around and looked at him with his piercing eyes that caused Bash to be a little scared.
"Let's go!" said Lucria. They all went to their Pokébikes and rode on them down to Holon Lake
Meanwhile, Milon and Dyka were under the lake searching through rocks and pokémon to find the treasure.
"Found anything yet?" asked Milon.
"Nothing yet," replied Dyka.
Above the surface, Shireff was looking down at the water waiting for them to arrive. However, he didn't know that the figure who watched them earlier decided to keep on watching.
"They will come and stop you from taking the treasure," said the figure, and suddenly he felt a hand that was hard as a rock when touched. The figure turned its head and Noosu appeared from the shadows. Quickly, she kicked him in the groin, but it didn't seem to hurt him.
"Ho ho ho. Little one, you can't hurt me like that," said Noosu and then threw the figure out to Shireff.
"Well, well, what do we have here? An intruder I guess," said Shireff and touched the figures head with his left hand.
"Leave this lake or else face the consequences," said the figure.
"Heh, the only thing that frightens us are the Rangers and its Megazord." said Shireff. He cackled loudly, until he heard something. He turned his head and saw the Rangers helicopter with the Rangers jumping out of it. He sighed in disbelief at their timing.
"Crono grunts! Get them!" he said. Tons of Crono grunts came forth from out of nowhere and they were heading toward the rangers. Quickly and hastily, the rangers fought with the grunts. While all of that was happening, Dyka and Milon heard it and came out of the surface to see what was going on.
"The captain is in danger. I gotta help him out," said Dyka and shot with his harpoon at Bash, but it missed and hit a grunt instead.
Bash turned around, but didn't see anything because Dyka and Milon dove down in the lake. He then turned back to keep on beating the grunts.
Milon stared at Dyka with lightning coming out of his eyes.
"Ok, I made a miscalculation when aiming. But these harpoons are mostly for self defense," said Dyka and then went up to the surface to aim at Jake, who was jumping on the grunts heads.
Dyka aimed and shot his harpoon, but before it could hit Jake, Jake's Kangaskhan came out of her pokéball and grabbed the harpoon, but with the speed of the harpoon, it impaled into the kangaroo pokémon's skin.
"KANGASKHAN!" Jake shouted. He took forth his pokéball and called back his Pokémon. Just as several other harpoons came flying toward him, Andrea arrived in the way with his Bastishield.
"Jake, are you ok?" asked Andrea.
"Yeah, but my Pokémon isn't," said Jake.
Suddenly, the figure appeared to be covered in a pink force field and snapped its fingers, which caused the rangers to disappear with the figure.
"Whe where did they go?" asked Shireff in shock, "Can someone explain this in a scientific way?"
The rangers, now in their normal forms, together with the mystic figure came to a glade. The five of them looked around.
"Where are we?" asked Binnie.
"This used to be a natural research center for finding Mew, but you know how well it went, natives of Holon," said the figure.
"Yes, Delta radiation was invented by a fluke and mutated all pokémon that lives on this region," said Andrea.
"That's correct. And because of that, I can't let anybody destroy this region and the world," said the figure.
"What do you mean? That the region is already as destroyed as it could be?" asked Jake, not understanding what it meant.
"You will find out sooner or later. But what about your Kangaskhan?" it asked.
"OH!" he remarked and picked up his Pokéball which contained Kangaskhan. The big Pokémon was critically injured as it lay down on the ground, trying to breathe.
"I don't understand why she came to protect me at that moment. None of my Pokémon had done that before." said Jake.
"Yeah, it's really strange," said Lucria and faced Kangaskhan, "How come you did get out of your ball like that?"
"Skhan, kanga askhan. Kangaskhan kan(Jake has taken good care of me for a long while, and I wanted to help him as best as I could. For I wanted to have a purpose to be his Pokémon.)," the big pokémon said.
"I see. I understand your love to your trainer," said Lucria.
Jake petted Kangaskhan. No words were spoken between them because they saw in each others eyes that they both wanted to do their best. The figure pointed its index finger at Kangaskhan and its wound was being healed until it looked like nothing ever happened.
"What the heck was that? Are you some kind of magic healer?" asked Bash. He tried to get a good look at the figure. But it shied away from him.
"My appearance isn't important. What's important is that you stop team Crono from finding the treasure," said the figure.
"That's right. So... if everyone feels ready, we will go and fight," said Lucria.
"No damage taken, so let's fight," said Andrea.
"Let's go and put an end to this," said Binnie.
"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" said Bash, wiping his gun-blade.
"I'm ready Lucria," said Jake.
"Ok, let's fight," said Lucria and they all transformed into their Ranger forms.
Then so did the figure snap its fingers and teleported them back to the lake.
"Good luck, Rangers," said the figure.
Back in the real world, Team Crono was still trying to find the treasure. However, Dyka noticed something shiny. He walked over to find something really neat that he anticipated looking for. And indeed, Dyka found a gemstone between two rocks.
"I found it! I found it!" remarked Dyka and dove closer to the rocks and moved them so that he could get a hold on the treasure. When he did that, he submerged to the surface and arrived on land.
"Here I am captain," said Dyka, but he became terrified to see the Rangers there instead of Shireff or the other members of Team Crono.
"Sorry, but we beat your bosses asses when you were gone treasure searching," said Bash pointing his gun-blade against the diver monster, "In other words, they fled."
"So we are now going to take that treasure from you," said Binnie.
Dyka walked backwards and then jumped down into the lake.
"I don't know if anyone's weapons can shoot someone under water, but if you can, just aim and shoot," said Lucria.
"Wait, I will go after it myself." said Jake and sprang toward the lake.
"No, the suits aren't able for underwater combat," said Lucria, stretching her hand out.
"I know that, but if I don't, then he will escape, and the whole region will be in danger," said Jake as he dived into the lake with full force.
As Dyka was trying to swim away from the other rangers, he never expected to see Jake, the Red Luxray Ranger, heading toward him full force and ready to attack. Quickly, Dyka turned around and tried swim away using his motor.
"Let's try this out," said Jake took out his Luxrod and began to spin it around which made him move forward faster. He then stuck the Luxrod into his engine, which exploded into pieces.
Next, Jake grabbed Dyka and swam up toward the surface where the other Rangers were waiting.
"You could have died Jake!" said Lucria with a thundering voice.
"I guess that I could, but I was positive that I could do it," said Jake and then stared at Dyka to let him drop the treasure. It was a turquoise-emerald color as it hit the ground. Binnie looked at it and smiled as she rushed over toward it.
"Oh, it's beautiful." said Binnie and took it. Lucria rolled her eyes, and then turned to see Dyka, yelling and grunting.
"Oh my," said Lucria.
"Grrrrrr.... AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" screamed Dyka and suddenly he began to grow to a giant.
Jake pressed a button on his transformation watch to communicate with whoever that was at the president's room at the moment.
"We need the zords!" he said.
And suddenly, all the six zords came with Claese in the Mightyena Zord.
"Hey, what did I miss?" he asked but he saw the giant Politoed looking monster shooting harpoons at the zords.
"Let's talk later," said Andrea as they all went into their respective zords and began to combine them all into the Pokéking Megazord.
The Rangers stood face to face against Dyka, who seemed at first afraid of the sight of the great Megazord. But then he started shooting harpoons at it.
The Pokéking Megazord answered it by using the guns on its waist to shoot him down.
"KING'S BLADE OF JUSTICE!" they all shouted and a sword came into the Megazords arm. Dyka tried with a last desperate try to attack by running towards it. But the Megazord slashed the monster in half with the swords and the remains of Dyka exploded.
The Rangers were back at the PokéPower building where they all looked at the two treasures that they have gotten so far.
"So when we get all the treasures, then something special will happen?" asked Claese.
"It seems so. What I understand anyway." said Andrea scratching his chin.
"When I was training, I heard some kind of story like that. But I'm not sure how many there were." said Bash.
"Wait, where's Lucria and Jake?" asked Binnie.
"Strange, they were here not that long ago." said Claese.
At the same time Lucria, Jake and his Pokémon were playing around in the snow with the mystic figure was watching them.
"It's good that Pal was able to protect them so that they could last this long," said the figure and suddenly it changed into a Mew and flew away.
"Good bye Rangers," it said before disappearing.
The end.
Well, that was another chapter. And Claese didn't appear that much in this chapter, but that will be redeemed at the next one where he and someone's sister have a central role.
I know that there was a contest for monsters that would appear in this one and three chapters after the next, but... I'm sorry. But the contest still goes on and if you're lucky then you will be able to submit a monster and in that way help me in my stories.
So until next time, see ya!