Chapter 21

In another dimension there happens to be another power ranger team called the RPM rangers who fight to protect their world from evil robots threatening to harm it. Currently the red ranger leader of the RPM rangers was doing a standoff with an evil robot by the name of Professor Cog; a minion to General Venjix's forces. Just when it seemed the red ranger defeated the evil robot, Professor Cog tricked him and pulled a surprise attack. With the red RPM ranger down, Professor Cog used this chance to makes his escape to leave this dimension and to another.

The dimension that the evil robot traveled to happened to be home to the samurai rangers. Turns out that Professor Cog arrived to the place by using a subway train and is currently finding a way to Master Xandred. At this time a nighlok was attacking the city causing Jayden and the others to take action. Upon arriving at the area of the attack, the rangers looked around in confusion since they're not able to find the nighlok.

"The gap sensor went off right here…" said Emily

"Yeah…But where is the nighlok?" wondered Kevin

Not at all fazed by this, Jayden cautiously looked around "Stay sharp, he must be close by…"

Once he said that the building right in front of the rangers exploded, the force of it made the group fly back. As the dust cloud slowly disappeared there stood the nighlok the rangers were looking for.

"He just destroyed that building!" cried Mia

"We have to stop this!" exclaimed Emily

The rangers quickly back up on their feet and drew their spin swords just as the nighlok named Sharkjaw approached them "Samurai rangers! I'm like a force of nature, a twister and a shark bite, wrapped in one and ready to fight!" before the rangers could charge at the monster, Antonio showed up and got in front of them "Hey wait for me!"

"You're late!" Kevin pointed out

"Sorry but this will be worth the wait!"

The gold ranger then faced Sharkjaw with his sword in hand "Hey Sharkjaw! Get ready for a barracuda bite!"

With that said Antonio charged at the nighlok who did the same and while those two fought, Professor Cog happened to be watching them from a far "Rangers are in this dimension too? Those pests don't matter that monster will lead me to Master Xandred."

The battle continued on with Sharkjaw proving to be a difficult nighlok for the rangers to handle. Antonio tried to fight Sharkjaw one on one but proved to be no good, just as the nighlok was about to attack the other rangers Nariko showed up slashing Sharkjaw with her naginata.

"Nariko you're here!" exclaimed Emily

"I figured you needed a bit of help so I came."

Sharkjaw took a few steps back, clutching his chest "Oh no I'm drying up! You rangers got lucky!" and with that the nighlok made his escape through a gap, back to the Netherworld.

"Perfect! Now that I know where the entrance is, it's time to pay Master Xandred a visit!" said Professor Cog to which he did so

Once Sharkjaw was gone from their sights, the rangers powered down and went over to the Yamada princess. "Nice work there Nariko." Said Mike "Thanks…But I didn't do much…" "Hey you showed up and that matters." Told Mia, Nariko smiled at her "Thanks…" Emily skipped over to the princess' side and grabbed her arm "And since you helped us with that nasty nighlok I say we go for ice cream as a treat!" "That sounds real yummy Emily." "Well let's go then!" while the yellow ranger bounded off with Mike, Mia and Kevin following after her, Jayden held out his hand to Nariko "Shall we?" she giggled a bit and grabbed her fiancé's hand, letting him lead her away to follow the others.

10 minutes passed and the group received their delicious, sweet treat. Currently they were walking down the sidewalk, eating their ice cream except for Kevin who was munching on some carrot and celery. "Kev we beat the nighlok this is a celebration!" told Mike "I am celebrating Mike!" "Why didn't you get ice cream like us?"

Emily lightly hit the green ranger's arm "Mike stop picking on him!"

"But he's eating veggies!"

Kevin munched on his carrot "I've been feeling a little sluggish lately Mike, so it's back to a strict samurai diet!" Mike pushed away the carrot Kevin was eating and waved his ice cream in front of the blue ranger's face "Wouldn't you rather have mint chip?" "No!"

From out of nowhere a car fell right in front of the group which greatly surprised them. Jayden immediately held Nariko against him just as the event occurred, he looked down at her "You all right?" "Yeah…Just a bit scared from the car's sudden appearance…"

Mia looked up to the bridge above them and saw some activity going on; she pointed this to the others "Up there!" "Let's go!" told Jayden, they quickly made their way onto the bridge and to their surprise found some strange mechanic creatures causing havoc and emitted a strange sound.

"Nighlok with lasers?" wondered Emily

"Those steam punks aren't nighlok." Said Mike

"They're machines, that explains the sound." Told Nariko

"Either way we need to stop them." Declared Jayden

The five samurai rangers brought out their samuraizers and morph while Nariko summoned her naginata. "Let's just see how tough these roadblocks are!" said Jayden and with that said the group charged the strange machine creatures who charged back.

While fighting with these machines, the group was having difficulty fighting them off. "Ugh! These are tougher than moogers!" exclaimed Kevin "That just means we'll have to kick it up a notch!" said Mike, he slashed at some of the machine creatures but the attack prove to be no effect on them "They're wearing armor!"

"They're wearing armor, they are armor!" exclaimed Emily

Mia kept attacking the strange machine creatures but none of her blows were affecting any of them "No matter how many hits I land these things won't go down!"

"Remember never give up!" told Jayden while continuing to fight the machines, Nariko did the same but as she was distracted, one of the machines kicked the princess hard in the back.

She fell to the ground with a grunt, Jayden saw this and tried to go to her "Nariko!" to his dismay more of the machine creatures got in his way. The Yamada princess looked up to see the machine creatures charging at her with their weapons, raised up high.

Nariko immediately held up her arms, bracing herself from the oncoming attack. Though before the machines could do any harm to her, from out of nowhere the machines were shot at from an unknown source. Nariko put her arms down to find a red ranger standing in front of her, though she quickly realized it wasn't her red ranger "What?...Another ranger?"

"Why hello there!" greeted the red ranger who turned out to the RPM leader, his sudden appearance also happen to surprise Jayden and the others once seeing him.

The red RPM ranger looked to the samurai rangers "Hey they're made of metal, so your swords won't cut it, but watch this!"

With his gun in hand the RPM red ranger charged at the machine creatures and began to shot them all down without breaking a sweat. Once all the machine creatures were destroyed for good, the RPM leader made his way over to Nariko.

He held out his hand to her "Are you all right?"

She nodded and took his hand "Uh…Yes I'm fine, thank you…"

While helping her up the RPM leader couldn't help but ask "What's your name?"

"Nariko…My name is Nariko…"

"Well nice to meet you Nariko, glad to see that you're ok."

The Yamada princess smiled a bit at this then turned once hearing someone call out her name. It was Jayden who had powered down along with the others and approached the two. Nariko immediately went to her fiancé "Jayden!" the couple hugged each other tightly, relieved to see that the other is not hurt.

Jayden then protectively held Nariko close to him as he looked towards the other red ranger "Who are you?" "Well I'm a power ranger just like you, but where I come from they call me ranger red." Noticing how the group was silent at this, the RPM leader approached the samurai rangers "What? Oh! You're mad because I took out those Grinders for you…Well…They're robots from my dimension I wasn't sure if your old school swords would handle them."

The leader held out his hand to Jayden "You can call me Scott…Please to meet you…"

Jayden slowly grabbed Scott's hand and shook it while firmly saying "I'm sure we'll have met until I can look you in the eyes." "Ah…Not right now…I have my reasons…"

Kevin leaned over and whispered in his leader's ear "Jayden…A lot has been going on today…I don't think we should just trust him…"

The red samurai ranger glanced back at him before looking the other way in thought. Then turned his attention back on Scott "Ranger red…You say you come from another dimension, so how did you get here?" Tired of how cautious her fiance is being, Nariko got out from his hold and stood by Scott's side "Jayden enough already! He's obviously a friend."

Emily quickly stood on Scott's other side taking a hold of his arm "Yeah! He can tell us everything when we get home!" Mia nodded at this "Yeah! I'll cook something for you!" with being said the girls began dragging Scott away having the guys watching.

Minutes passed and the group arrived back at the Shiba household, there in the front yard is Ji polishing his motorcycle. He looked up from his bike once hearing the gates open, to his surprise the samurai mentor watched as Mia, Nariko and Emily led Scott inside the household. Mia soon went ahead of the group declaring "I'll get dinner started!"

While Nariko, Emily and Scott pass Ji, the RPM leader immediately spotted the samurai mentor's bike "Oh! I thought you samurai just ride horses, now that is more like it!" both Nariko and Emily giggled at this as the three continued on inside. Ji looked to Jayden, Mike and Kevin "Who's our new friend?" "That's what we're gonna go find out." Answered Jayden who couldn't help but toss a light glare towards Scott as they went in.

Once entering the household Emily, Nariko, Jayden, Kevin and Mike let Scott check out the place. The RPM leader was a bit surprised while he looked around "What in the world? Uh…You guys really do live a Spartan life don't you? There's no TV or video games…Interesting…You guys are really about being old school…"

"Old school? Are you even aware at all that you were this close to cutting off my head?" exclaimed Kevin who began advancing towards Scott

Jayden grabbed the blue ranger's shoulder and pulled him back "All right that's enough…Scott cut to the chase, educate us." Nariko went over to the RPM leader and placed her hand on his shoulder "Yeah why don't you demorph, make yourself at home and tell us about yourself?"

"Ok…I'm here to hunt down a robot…His name is Professor Cog…He's looking for a way to wipe out the last people left in my dimension…But…To answer your question I can't demorph because I don't know if I can breathe the air here…In my dimension we've been forced to live in a dome city just to avoid the toxic atmosphere to the robots have created…Well it's been a long day so…I'd appreciate to have some privacy…Is there somewhere I can go?" said Scott

Nariko looked to Jayden who nodded at this "Uh…Yeah sure…There's a spare room down the hall." "Thanks." Said Scott, he gently took Nariko's hand off his shoulder and patted it before taking his leave. As the group watch him walk down the hall, Emily couldn't help but say "Wow…I feel so bad for him…" Mike shook his head and stood right next to the yellow ranger "Yeah well…I still don't trust him and I don't like the way he looks at you."

Taking a moment to think over what Mike said, Nariko looked at the green ranger "Mike…He's wearing a helmet…"

"Yeah…How could you tell even though he looked at Nariko?" wondered Emily

Realizing his little slip up Mike quickly said "I could just tell."

Hearing what Emily said about Scott looking at Nariko, Jayden went over to his fiance and grabbed her hand "If you'll excuse us." Not waiting for any of them to reply, the red ranger headed outside the garden bringing his fiancé along.

Not liking how her red ranger is acting right now, Nariko pulled her hand from his grasp. This caused Jayden to stop and turn "Nariko what-" "What's wrong with you Jayden?"

He turned away from her and made his way over to the garden bench "Nothing is wrong."

Nariko quickly followed after him "Yeah right, like I'm going to believe that."

Jayden took a seat on the bench and the Yamada princess immediately sat next to him "Jayden…Tell me what's wrong?" "Why do you assume that something is wrong?" "Because you started acting strange ever since Scott showed up."

Nariko stopped and thought for a bit then looked at the red ranger "Jayden…Are you jealous of Scott?"

The Shiba boy looked at her in surprise "What? What makes you think I'm jealous of him?"

"Jayden…If it's not jealously then what is it? Whatever is troubling you I want to help but I can't since you're not willing to tell me nor can I read your mind."

The red ranger sighed and rubbed the back of his neck "You…You were right about me being jealous of Scott…I couldn't stand the thought of him having an interest in you or being near you Nariko…Along with you taking an interest in him."

Nariko smiled a bit and gently grabbed her fiancé's hand "Oh Jayden…You don't need to worry about any of that, there's no need for you to be jealous of Scott…Because you're the only one I'm interested in…You're the one I love so much." "Nariko…"

The red ranger then hugged the Yamada princess, laying his head upon her shoulder "I love you too…And you're right there's no reason for me to be jealous of another red ranger since we've been together for quite some time."

Nariko giggled a bit and returned the hug "Exactly."

2 hours later Kevin, Emily, Mike, Nariko and Jayden had gathered in the kitchen for their meal. Currently they were sitting at the counter watching Mia cook and laid food before them. At this time Scott showed up at the doorway, Mia who was putting down another dish on the counter spotted the RPM ranger "Hey Scott, come and eat!"

The others looked at the ranger who looked around for a bit, not uttering one word to them. Disliking his lack of response, Mike picked up his for which had some food on it and held it out towards Scott "Here have some!"

Emily quickly pushed his arm down and scolded the green ranger "Hey! Be nice!"

The group then watched Scott leave the kitchen without saying a word, Mike scoffed a bit and turned away "Guess he'd rather starve…The helmet is genius though…From now on whenever Mia cooks I'm wearing my helmet." with that said Mike ate the food on his fork and immediately made a gross face.

The Gap sensor went off this time causing Kevin, Emily, Nariko and Jayden to get up from their seats and quickly leave. Mike also followed after them but not before spitting out the food back into his bowl. Mia turned around while taking off her apron and huffed, following after her friends "My meal!"