Power Rangers In Retrograde - Mystic Force – Trick 37 What's That? What's That? Part 1

Vida panted, fear across her brow as she ran, some shadow persuading her, 'Need to get to Rootcore, need to warn the others.'

A bubble chases and envelops her and she stops, confusion spreading across her face, her features shifting as she places a hand on her pounding chest, "W-What's going on? W-why is my heart racing?"

"Get down!" a voice called out as Vida was tackled to the ground, a figure in black and yellow looming over her as an unknown Yellow Ranger confronted the avian monster as it approached, a staff with a large circle coming atop it in the monster's hand.

"I can handle this Robert," The Yellow Ranger stood her ground summoning a high tech canteen that she swung over head like a mace.

Vida's heart races as she looked into Roberts eyes as he helped her to her feed, guiding them away, "Are you alright? What's your name?"

"M-My name?" She flusters confused, "I-I don't remember."

"Oh dear," Robert said softly as he lead Vida toward a van, one hand to his ear, as several of the Mystic Force came charging into view.

"Who's the new girl?" the (female) Yellow Ranger purred as she slid up next to Roberta.

"Bot of you get to safety!" the Blue Ranger (Madison), falls back to Robert and Vida as Red (Kat), Green (Nick), and Orange (LeeLee) gathered up next to the 2 Yellow Rangers.

Madison didn't even recognize her own sister.

"That's the plan," Robert nods as he and Vida leap into his van and drive off just as the monster launches a bubble at the new Yellow Ranger.

Everyone scatters as Roberta is caught in the attack and demorphs going limp, her features shifting during the demorph, not that it matters any to the Mystic Force.

"Hey you okay?" Yellow waves her hand in front of Roberta.

"One down," the monster laughs, "four to go."

"Reestablishing connection," Roberta says mechanically, "Error Memory banks are empty syncing to backup."

Charlotte just looks confused, "What are you...some kind of Robot Ranger?"

"Chip look out!" The Orange Ranger calls as another bubble rushes toward them, forcing her to leap in the way.

The bubble envelops her and she demorphs, dropping to her knees, features shifting.

"Memory Banks synched," Roberta announces as she straightens up and turns to the engine on her wrist, "Rev up! Shift into Turbo!"

And The Yellow Operation Turbo Ranger returns, cracking her canteen mace at the monster that steps back with a glower, "No one's ever broken my spell before...we'll finish this next time!"

With a hiss the new monster summons a Dark Spell seal and vanishes.

"LeeLee?" Nick is the first to reach her, shaking her gently, "Hey LeeLee you alright?"

"Caution: Enemy's attacks erase memories, your friend 'LeeLee' has a high probability of..."

Roberta never finished her sentence as LeeLee's eyes shot open, glowing red as she hissed, baring her fangs and transformed into her Vampire Queen form, pinning Nick under her.

As the other Rangers jumped back in surprise Roberta sent LeeLee flying back with her mace, "Peculear, secondary effect categorized. Enemy has the ability to alter the physiology of it's victims."

"Don't hurt her!" Blue calls but Yellow closed the distance unleash a flurry of punches that LeeLee did her best to block with her heightened reflexes but for each blow it seemed Roberta was getting faster as the dial on the odometer on her chest slowly grew.

"Enough!" The Green Ranger shouted as vines erupted from behind him and bound both Roberta and LeeLee

LeeLee hissed, snapping even as Charlotte slipped the mack from Roberta bound hands and used it to tie up LeeLee even tighter as the Green Ranger grunted, summoning up roots from the ground to wrapp around and hold LeeLee in place.

"Nice job Nick!" Blue laughs demorphing to give his a peck on the cheek as the other all slowly demorph, her gaze turning to Roberta, "See we have this covered Robo Ranger, we'll restore LeeLee's mind.

"Understood, I had no intention of destroying her though, so please remove our restraints."

Nick stepped over to Roberta curiously, "But you were on full offense."

"You're 'LeeLee' was acting violently, I needed to restrain her, sometimes the only way to restrain a person is to knock them out or exaust them."

Nick coughed as he scratched his head, offering his hand, "R-Right that makes sense, Nick Russell...Re...er Green Mystic Ranger."

Charlotte on the other hand had made his way over to LeeLee, tilting her head and slowly bringing her wrist to LeeLee fangs.

"I must advise against that," Roberta cautioned as Nick dispelled the vines binding her. "This mutation could be contagious."

Charlotte winced as LeeLee sank her fangs deep and drank with a hungry hiss, Nick laughing nervously, "Y-Yeah...about that..."

Roberta rose a brow, "Judging by your heart rate, pulse, and harmonics I can tell you are dancing around a subject. Probability is high that initial observations are wrong. Statement: I was wrong. Assumption: LeeLee was already a vampire. Is this true?"

Nick nods nervously as Charlotte painfully pulls her arm away, Nick summoning vines to bandage the puncture wounds as LeeLee stops resisting."

"I feel so much better, that was a good meal," She says suddenly, a confused look on her face, "Who are you people?"

Roberta sighs, "Amnesia still present," Then she looks off to one side, "My partner is reporting that the civilian we rescued just before you arrived is also reporting memory loss, he is looking after all for the moment and has suggested o offer my full cooperation to you."

Chip just smiled as Madison and Nick look confused, "Robot Ranger….cool."

Roberta takes Nick's hand, smiling warmly, "My name is Roberta Knight, Operation Turbo Yellow Ranger." Then she looks to Chip, "Your assessment is incorrect, I am only partially cybernetic, my construction is primarily organic in nature. Cultivated from cells grown from my partner who the Yellow Energy synchronized with."

"So...what?" Madison says confused, "Operation Turbo has 2 Yellow Rangers?"

"and how come your memories arent gone like LeeLee's," Chip adds.

"You can explain on the way, we need to get LeeLee back to Rootcore," Nick advises, "Maybe U….Lieonna can restore her memories."

Chip smiles as Madison helps her stand while Nick and Roberta move to flank LeeLee who looks confused as they start to lead her off, "Who are you people."

Charlotte smiles, "Your friends LeeLee."

"LeeLee?" She says confused, "Is that my name?"

Charlotte nods.

"To answer your questions," Roberta continues as the Ranger summon their Mystic Speeders and load on with LeeLee riding with Nick and Roberta with Charlotte, "The yellow energy only responds to female users, but my partner was the only one who they found who resonated with it so I was constructed to fight by proxy in his place as well as serve as a direct extension of his consciousness when the situation calls for it. While I am capable of acting independently I am most efficient when my partner is remotely control my actions directly. As for how I resisted the memory wipe, once my internal system detected a memory fail they resynchronized with my partners and our main database to rebuild my neural pathways."

"So basically you reinstalled your operating system from a backup?" Charlotte smiles.

"Correct."

Madison looks worriedly over to LeeLee who was leaning closer and closer to nick, closer to his neck, "Wish it was that easy to restore LeeLee's memories."

"Agreed," Roberta adds, "There is at least one other victim and we know about and no knoledge of any others."

Nick looks back to LeeLee especially the hungry look in her eyes, "Just hold out a little longer alright? Then you can have some of my blood alright?"

LeeLee licks her lips, "I'll try."

"Can you change back to your human form," Chip says flying up beside her, "Doesn't that lessen the hunger?"

LeeLee hissed and closed her eyes, "I-I'll try."

Madison was the first to gasp when LeeLee changed back, and saw her new face, "Oh dear."

"Please elaborate," Roberta inquires as she examines LeeLee's body, "I am detecting lowered biochemical reactions conductive with reduced hunger."

"Y-Yeah I see it too," Charlotte says uneasily, "That's not LeeLee's normal face."

"Not only that I think she's a little shorter."

"Now to you mention it," Nick adds, "She feels closer, part of me even wondering if her breast shrank," he laughs nervously, "LeeLee has hugged me enough times I kinda notice when her boobs are smaller."

"Troubling," Roberta adds, can we land I would like to confirm if my physical parameters have changed any as well."

Nodding the Rangers touch down in the forest as Charlotte rummages around in her purse and take out a compact, handing it to Roberta, "Well?"

"Confirmed, my physical parameters have changed as well. Which means a simple face scan will not allow us to identify my partner's companion, or to identify any other victims in the city who have lost their identities."

"Damn it," Nick growls just as LeeLee pounces him singing her fangs into his neck,

"S-Sorry but I can't hold out any longer!"

Daggeron wasn't sure what to expect when he emerged at the lake side but almost a dozen Nicole's curled up in a pile sleeping was not it.

"Ahem?"

The Nicole with the Navy highlights woke first, "Daggeron? What are you doing here?"

"Me? I thought you were sealing the Master then coming home. Why are their 8 of you."

"Well that should be obvious," the Green Nicole yawns, "We're Shadows."

"All of you?" Daggeron's eyes grow wide.

"Well no," One of the 3 pinks says softly as she and the other two look to a Pink Hilight Nicole who was still fast asleep, "She's the original, sealing the master took a lot out of her."

As if on clue the Master Bellowed and the land shook.

"But we aren't sure if it will hold, we were gonna give it a few days."

The original snorts, sitting up as she hold out her Black Morpher, "Quit yer whining you baby."

"It's fine, its fine!" The others all said in unison as they grabbed her arm and lowered it, one of the Pink's softly stroking her hair as the others lay it in her lap, "get some sleep."

The original yawns, looking over to Daggeron, "Oh hi Daggeron, what bring you here?"

he presents an orb necklace that glowed with gold, blue, orange, silver and yellow in the bauble at it's center, "I cam to bring you this."

"Thanks" she yawns closing her eyes, "But I already have a boy/girlfriend, Xander, remember?"

Daggeron shakes his head, "It a gift of energy from Clare, LeeLee, Chip, Toby, and myself."

Nicole's eyes went wide, but Red spoke first, "We could certainly use it, it took all of us working together, and separating our Pink energy into our own and Vida's the former of which was use to guard the original just to hold off the Masters assault, and we still barley got up the seal."

Daggeron's eyes grew winder as Navy took the orb from Daggeron and passed it to the Original who draped it around her neck as the shadows began to fade and the necklace pulsed, Daggeron quickly moving to act as Nicole's pillow.

Nicole yawned as she opened her eyes, the new energies joining her eyes as new speckles before drifting off to sleep. Daggeron smiled as he brushed her hair, slowly reaching into her chest as he pulled out her magic which was nearly as big as she was tall, though most of that was Dark Energy.

"That much magic, let alone that much Dark Magic and she's still focused. It's amazing."

He let the energy sink back into her body, and watched as she rolled over in his lap, a low purr escaping her lips as a soft pink tail make a hole in her pants as matching ears pushed though her hair.

'Of course,' Daggeron curses silently as he gently pet her hair drawing the purr out into a long train and a smile spread across her face as claws flexed at the tips of her nails, 'Toby energy is still tainted by that cat suit, which originally came from Nicole, I should have considered that and just got Madison's energy.'

"Nrowl," Nicole purrs softly as Daggeron frowns.

"Sorry Nicole," Daggeron sighs as he leans back, stretching out his legs and laying down, the hypnotic purr of Nicole's voice luring him off to sleep as well.

"Can you tell me your name?" Robert sat across from Vida uneasily, not sure how to proceed.

"My...name?" Vida tilted her head, looking confused, scared, "N-No...I have this nagging feeling I needed to warn someone about something but it's all a blank."

Robert sighs, "You were probably trying to contact the police about that monster that stole your memories and..." Robert paused, placing a hand to his ear, his eyes growing wide as he sighed in exasperation, "Well that's just PERFECT!"

"What's wrong?"

"My partner just reported in that the monster also steals characteristics, effectively giving each victim a new face. I can't even put your face on a milk carton as it won't resemble the real you!"

Vida started to tremble.

"Shit," Robert sighs pulling her close, holding her comfortingly, "I'm sorry that was really unprofessional of me."

Letting Vida go he smiles, "Don't worry we'll find a solution. One of the Power Rangers was hit too, and my partner, but she is immune to mind wipes. Between the Power Rangers and Roberta i'm sure we'll find a cure."

Vida's trembling began to slow, "T-thanks."

Robert takes her hand, smiling, "You know you can cry if you want to."

"I don't cry," Vida said defiantly.

Robert smiles, "Well that's good, it means some aspects of your personality have remained, but no seriously let it out. Your Life was just ripped away from you, don't bottle that up. Let it out, cry as long as you need too, then we can move forward without any regrets."

Vida paused, then leaned forward collapsing into Roberts arms as the tears flowed freely, her voice trembling, "I'm just so scared."

Robert just smiled and held her for the several minutes it took to work it out of her system before she sat up again, red eyed but looking far more confident.

"I needed that, I don't even know why, feels like I was holding in more then just this thing but I don't know what."

"Better?"

Vida nods, kissing Robert's cheek, "T-thanks."

He smiles back, "Good. Now are you carrying any sort of Id on you, maybe a phone?"

Vida laughs as she starts to pat herself down, "Great idea." eventually pulling a wallet from her pocket as well as her Mystic Morpher.

"Nice phone!"

Vida smiled as she handed it to Robert as she started to sift through her wallet, eyes going wide as she saw the edge of a ID and pulled out the small white card.

Robert flipped open the Phone, scanning the functions as he tried to find something useful like a adress book but they were all blank.

"Look!" Vida called out in alarm as she shoved her ID into Robert's face, the picture was of her new features and the details like height and weight all matched that, but there was one notable exception, her name and birthday were blank.

Robert handed back the Mystic Morpher as he examined the ID Card thoroughly, "You're phone was blank as well, I wonder if any identifying items are also re written when you are effected...though...the expiration date is still readable."

"How is that any use?"

"Well the expiration date is usually paired to the birth date, so we only have to extrapolate your age and then apply the expiration date's month and day...hold on..."

Robert reached into his pocket and slipped on some sunglasses.

"What are you doing?"

"Roberta and I share a private line of communication but I can't see what she sees, that's what the glasses let me do, connect to her Optical Systems and share visual information. It works both ways as well letting her see what the glasses see should something ever happen to me and she needs clues to find me….damn it!"

"W-What is it?" Vida asks nervously.

"I just got a good look at Roberta's new appearance, looks like she lost a few years. We might be able to estimate your age but it will have a few year margin of error."

"That's not so bad, how many girls could their be other there with my birthday and are within a few year gap of each other?"

Robert sighs, "Assuming the other information like blood type, hair color, eye color are the same in both states? And assuming your native to Briarwood? Even if we assume flawless records there is still a noticeable range of potential identities. And if any one of those details are changed we would have to expand the search range considerably."

Vida hung her head in defeat, "Oh."

Robert sighed, shaking his head, "There I go again being a terrible ray of hope."

"But you're right, it's hopeless isn't it?"

Robert smiles, "Sorry everyone tells me I'm too much of a pessimist. We are working with Magical Power Rangers after all, it's not that bad."

"I-I guess you're right," Vida says softly, as she begins to play with her Mystic Morpher, getting several error beeps in the process, "I don't know what I'd do without you."

"Tell you what," Robert smiles holding her hand, "I'll contact Top and see about getting some spending money then we can hit the mall. See if anything there speaks to you, if you see something you like it might shake free a memory or two."

Vida nods, trembling slightly, "O...Okay."

Daggeron awoke slowly to find that Nicole has changed position in his sleep ans was now pressed up against him, with one arm over his chest, the other under his neck and her tail and right leg draped over his. From an outside perspective she would look like his lover, her soft hypnotic purrs and intoxicating musk made his head spin and he had to admit the idea sounded temping as he traced her athletic form and felt his pants tighten.

'No!' he shook his head and shouted to himself, "She's spoken for! She's Xander's girlfriend!"

She purred and nuzzled again his chest seductively and Daggeron's hand fell to her hair, petting it softly as his mouth moved of it's own accord, "Shhh, shh that's a good girl, rest now. Recover your strength."

Nicole purred, pressing closer to Daggeron, his mind swimming with lurid images.

The master bellowed a dark chilling laugh that sent a shiver through both Rangers bodies and elicited a low growl from Nicole.

'I need to extract myself from this situation before I do something I'll regret,' Daggeron reminded himself as he carefully began to extract himself from his entanglement with Nicole.

"Mrowl?" she mewled softly as her eyes fluttered open still primarily green then new drew to slips not dots and as she spoke Daggeron noticed her canines wire a bit larger. Nicole however was still half asleep but did take note of the sway of her tail and slowly sat up as it swam into view, "Nya?"

Daggeron sighed, "Sorry I was careless, when I collected the other rangers Energy Toby was the most accessible at the time. I didn't consider how he was tainted and your own ties to the source of the taint."

"Nya?" She mewled again as she scrambled toward the lake side on all fours, and looked in, Daggeron's eyes glued to her posterior.

'She does have a nice ass though, and with the new feline traits I bet shes a tiger in the bedroom.'

"I'm a Catgirrrl...again," Nicole said curiously, but not surprised, as she drew int oa squat and began to fell down her body, "Well at least there's no fur."

Daggeron's resolve was faltering and slowly he made his way over to her, the fact she was now feeling up her body wasn't helping issues.

"A-Are my boobs biggerrr?" Nicole purred as she weighed her assets before beginning to unbutton her vest to get a better feel for them.

"Y-You're quite intoxicating to be around you know?"

Nicole looked back curiously as magic gathered around her chest, expanding her bra to support her new assets, the motes of pink energy immediately drawing Daggeron's eyes to her blouse and open vest, "Are you feeling alright Daggeron?"

Part of him hated himself for the words already forming on his lips, another part didn't care, "Well your a cat now, so tell me what are your thoughts on mating?"

"Mrowl?" Nicole eyes seemed to dim, some primal force gripping them as she purred softly, "M-Mate?"

"Would you like to mate with me? I'd like to mate with you." Daggeron couldn't hel' himself as the world spilled out. "Xander doesn't have to know."

Nicole purred again, dropping to all fours as she spun around, lifting her tail and swaying her rear end as Daggeron approached, all other thoughts fading from his mind but one as he knelt behind her and began to undo her belt, Nicole making soft begging yowls.

"Right enough of this," A new voice announced itself, "Can't have you getting my body pregnant, we've been lucky enough as it is."

Daggeron blinked confused as he and Nicole look back to see a very irritable young man with the body of a Greek god in familiar pink trimmed uniform pulling Daggeron back by the collar.

"N-Nicole?" Daggeron says confused as he looks from the young man to the alluring catgirl.

"You know I prefer Nikolai, or Blecker, Nicole is the name I settled with when I kept turning into a girl."

Nicole hisses and turns toward the double, bearing fangs and claws, "Imposter! I'm the real Nicole!"

"You're also putting out pheromones like a factory, and again I don't want my body getting pregnant."

"W-Who are you?" Daggeron watched the exchange confused, the arrival of the double had done wonders for dulling his throbbing libido, its hard to forget Nicole's origins when her true male self was standing right there chastising them both.

Blecker laughed, "Seriously Daggeron? Your the one who taught us the Shadow Spell."

"You're a Shadow? B-But," he looked back to Nicole who had shifted into a less seductive and more aggressive, and somewhat feral stand on all four limbs, "N-Nicole didn't cast any spells."

Blecker scratched the back of his head with a nervous laugh, "Y-Yeah it seems to be an automatic response. When The Master tried to overwhelm me...us with all those foot soldiers we created a different shadow for each Element we possessed to counter them so the original could focus on the seal."

"Impressive," Daggeron smiled proudly, before glancing back to Nicole, "And now when your faculties are compromised you created a Shadow from the purest part of you."

Nicole began to relax, looking over to Daggeron pleading, "But I want to mate."

"No you want sex, the cat want to mate," Blecker corrected.

As if in response The Black Morpher chimed and Nicole pulled it out, flipping it open, "Nya?"

Daggeron tilted his head curiously, "The Xenatome grants the spells you need when you need them. If it is providing you a spell at this time then it is meant to be used at this time."

"O-Okay..." Nicole says unsurly as she dial in the spell, a pink glow lighting up her stomach a moment.

Daggeron raises an eyebrow, "A contraception spell, interesting."

"Are you saying?" Nicole purrs hopefully as she casts a daggers glare at her Shadow.

"You won't get pregnant while that spell is active, yes."

"MROWL!" Nicole yowls as she immediately pounces Daggeron her claws shredding his clothes.

"Whoa! Careful with the claws girl, careful!" Daggeron laughed as he simultaneously tried to slip off Nicole's pants.

All why the Master laughed.

"Quiet you!" Blecker glared at the lake as he collected the hastily discarded Black Morpher, "Don't think I don't know how to use this!"

"MROWL!"

Blecker's confident tone undercut as his other half let out a yowl of delight as Daggeron plunged into her as he grunted in pleasure just behind him, making him blush, "Can't you two show SOME restraint!"

"Hey no fair!" Jenji protested as he emerged from the lamp and circled the two, "She's more my kind their yours!"

Blecker sighed, "You guys are really undermining my attempts the bluff the Master's bravado."

"Nrowl!" A second construct, this of Nicole formed, with a blue highlights and purred as she danced naked and seductively around Jenji.

Jenji blushed as she pressed against his body purring, his hands pulling her tight to his body, "O-Oh my...I can work with this."

Blecker sighed as the Master bellowed in laughter again, "You're incorrigible Nicole, you know that?"

But neither Nicoles could hear their more reasonable half over their own yowls or those of their partners. Mots of different colored magic swirling around the original as the Forest by the lake grew thicker and more lush, warm sun light streaming through the trees as a cool wind blew. Even the brackish black waters of the lake became clear and clearer exposing the Master deep under it to the warmth of the sun with a hiss of anger.

Blecker smirked as he found a log to sit and watch the lake, "How do you like that oh great Master. Looks like for all your posturing about how I'm not just a week sex fiend and how 'soon you'll be my pet again' we've gone and made your little Dark Hollow all that more hospitable. Who knows maybe we'll even burn through that dark heart of you and purify you. After all we already turned Necrolai and Imperious to the light."

The Master bellowed in protest.

Blecker just laughed, bringing his voice into a low, demonic chuckle, "See I can do the 'generic evil laugh' as well. What do you think of number four?"

The Master bellowed again, but this time softer.

Blecker countered with a variant on his own evil laugh, "Oh a critic eh? What about number seven?"

The Master, this time, decided to stay quiet.

"Hummmm," Necrolai tilted her head as she examined her daughter, still in vampire form, LeeLee avoiding her gaze. Most of the other Rangers were passed on out cots, resting, recovering from the blood loss. The only notable people missing were May, who still spent most of her time at school, with friends, or at home, and only rarely came to train with Lieonna; Nicole and Daggeron, who were off dealing with the Master; Vida, who no one had been able to contact; and Kat and Chris, who still lived in San Angeles and thus only cam when needed. Roberta however was just s drained, and thus recovering, as the others, answering at least one other question for the rangers about their new cybernetic ally, when it came to vampires she was as human as the rest of them.

"I'm sorry Mistress," LeeLee squirmed, her voice soft, "I couldn't help myself...and they all kept offering."

Necrolai smiled as she cupped LeeLee's face in her hand and forced her to look her in the eyes, "I always told my little girl she needed to eat more. This is what happens when you deny your vampire blood."

"I'm sorry Mistress," LeeLee squirmed as she tried to look away but Necrolai refused to release her grip on her face.

"I suppose it can't be helped, LeeLee was never a fan of being a vampire, even when she started embracing it she always was squeamish about the hunt."

"At least she's full now right? We can move on to finding the monster, and restoring her memories," Nick moaned from his bed.

Necrolai released her hold as she turned to the Rangers, "I'm afraid not…" she sighed closing her eyes, "When I...turned Nicole the three of us went on a bit of a hunt, built a small army...since then I have released them from the blood, broken the curse...but even so LeeLee wasn't with us and has spent a lifetime starving herself...compared to even my youngest child, such as Nicole, my dear LeeLee is but a babe."

"You can DO that?" Charlotte gasps, "So when Vida was first..."

Necrolai smiled, it always felt good to make the Rangers squirm, she may have turned against the Master to stay with LeeLee but she was never truly 'good' so any chance she had of making the Rangers uncomfortable, to make them feel inferior to her was always heartwarming, "Of course I can, a Royal Vampire such as myself is more then your dime store blood sucker who sparkles in the sun light and feasts on rats. We are the cream of the crop, top blood, the apex predator."

"Why does she call you Mistress and not mother?" Clare moaned, trying to change the subject before Necrolai's ego got the best of her.

Necrolai frowned as she looked back to LeeLee who looked away immediately, "It seems she does not even recognize her own mother, even through the call of the blood."

"I-Is that what that was?" LeeLee hesitantly looked back, "I recognized a bond, and assumed you were my sire...you're my mother?"

Necrolai smiled, "Yes, and while it warms my heart to see you embrace your true nature to come at the cost of your mind is most troubling."

"Is there any way to sate her hunger?" Toby moaned.

Roberta cut in before anyone else could answer, "I was grown in a lab. Assembled from genetic material from my partner in a matter of weeks. Cranston Industries posses the technology to create artificial plasma. In theory they should be able to produce it in bulk," she pauses a moment, gaze shifting to the side, "There the request has been sent, I should have a response within the hour."

LeeLee turned up her nose and stuck out her tongue in disgust, "Your blood was so...bland...so sterile...no flavor at all!"

'By the Master! This is a true blessing in disuse, an endless buffet of blood, enough for my dear LeeLee to come into her full power, how could I refuse,' Necrolai's eyes grew wide and she smiled, purring, "That sounds like a WONDERFUL plan, a fully belly might be just the thing we need to retrieve LeeLee's memories."

"Are you being serious or just trying to get your daughter to drink blood when she has shown avoidance to the very idea for years, by your own admission," Lieonna deduces.

Necrolai sighs, closing her eyes, "While I can not deny that the thought of my LeeLee nourishing the side of her she has neglected for several decades quite intoxicating the truth is that blood does more then simply give us power, and while a lack of us does not mean our doom it does open up new avenues when we are sated, restoring stolen memories is only one thing that would be child's play to recover. By the Master, at full strength she would have to power to create new memories in others, or dig out long buried ones."

"They why don't you use your powers to dig out her memories," Madison accuses.

Necrolai frowns again, "I have done my best to stay in your good graces, and so I have denied my own hunger. While I am still more powerful then any of you, and should the need arise still have my armor forged by Kora...Lienbow I am not at my full strength...and besides that manipulation dreams and memories is an exhausting process, best done when the victim sleeps, but we Royal Vampires do not sleep. We may rest to heal and recover from injury but we do not sleep, we do not dream. And so as you can imagine, even at my full strength, I would have some trouble restoring LeeLee's memories but to restore her own once at full strength? It's no harder then regenerating a severed limb or wing."

"Guess we have no choice," Calindor inserts.

Nick narrowed his eyes at Necrolai, "I don't like it, and I know LeeLee wouldn't like it either but Calindor is right, it's our best option we have right now."

LeeLee wasn't sure why but as Nick defended her she felt her checks flush and her heart flutter, stealing a glance over to the former Red Ranger she blushed, 'Are we a couple?'

She wasn't sure why but the idea of sharing her belfry with Nick made her feel warm inside, 'It's a pity he's only human.'

"Did you say LeeLee hasn't fed in a few decades?" Toby noted, "She doesn't look a day over 17."

Necrolai smiled, "She is only half human, and so ages at a slower rate."

A sinister thought forming in her mind as the feeling continued to swirl inside her, 'Though I suppose that's easy enough to fix.'

"Are you saying she's almost forty?" Charlotte gasps.

"Don't be absurd, she in her mid twenties. Though I should probably add that the first several years of a half bloods life see them as little more then feral beasts so in terms of maturity she in on part with the rest of you and her infancy was much longer psychologically. It's one reason there are so few Vampire Queens who bear children the few who do are often devoured by their own savage spawn."

The the room fell silent as the image of a baby vampire LeeLee, or several, devouring Necrolai stole everyone's voice and sent a collective shiver down their spines.

A pair of Hidiacs held up a full length mirror as the young woman inspected her body, Summer standing beside the Throne while Ghoul was away, her arms crossed as she huffed.

"You look fine," Summer growled irritably, "Just get back out there and cause trouble."

"I will, I will," she dismissed the bear woman, "but a lady such as myself must take the time to enjoy the fruits of her labors. All that beauty, all that energy siphoned from the humans is being put to good use and I plan to make sure it returns the best dividends. But a brute like you who cares only about fights and now how she looks wont understand such things."

Summer growled as she stomped over, shifting back to her human form, "I'll have you know I was in Glitz magazine for best style and beauty three years in a row! I know more about looking good then some monster who has spent her entire life in a dank pit."

The monster paused, looking Summer up and down critically, "You do have good bone structure, and a natural strength."

Summer growled as she changed back shoving the other, "Don't get any ideas about stealing my beauty!"

"Oh I wouldn't dream of it dear," the monster purred as she slid around Summer, draping her hands seductively over her shoulders, "Master Ghoul would kill me after all. But having some Muscle to deal with the Power Ranger's wouldn't hurt, and I'd be willing to share the energy I've taken with such a partner..."

"Strength AND Beauty," Summer cooed, "I could get behind that."

Nicole was naked, both of them, which only made Daggeron and Jenji even hornier, especially as the twins bent over the lake, lapping at the water, their behinds on full, tantalizing display. The Only thing that detracted from the mood was Blecker sitting on a log, watching the lake, and the girls. At least it seemed like they had no interest in each other.

"After your drink gorgeous how about another round," Jenji purred.

Both Nicoles looked back seductively and purred.

"Think you two can keep your pants on for a few hours, the Master isn't getting any weaker and we haven't eaten in over a day. Your wild sex only made us hungrier."

'Oh yeah, the Master, he was a part of the problem as well,' Daggeron mused, but immediately lost his train of thought as the Nicole's turned around, exposing their full front side and dropped into a squat, raising one leg and begin to lick, to groom themselves.

The original paused a moment as her stomach growled, frowning, "I am a little hungry."

Daggeron shook his head clear as he grabbed his lamp, quickly looking around the area, he could spell the sweet aroma of fresh fruit in the air and smiled, "Seems liked your nature magic has given new live to this place. I'm sure Jenji and I can find enough to replenish your batteries."

"Be right back kitten," Jenji smiles as the two walked off.

Blecker glared at the girls, "You're impossible you know that. Is this really what I've become, a sex starved catgirl more interested in getting fucked then protecting the world from the Lord of All Evil?"

The Nicoles stopped grooming themselves and looked down, pausing for the first time to look at their hands, their posture, their nudity.

"Can I have my Mystic Morpher back please?" The original said softly.

Blecker nodded as he tossed it back, and she summoned clothes for both of them, though she opted for a skirt instead of the normal paths of their mystic uniform.

"S-Sorry," Both girls said together.

Blecker smiled, "That's better, though you really should be apologizing to Daggeron and Jenji from entrapping them with your pheromones and distracting them from why they came here in the first place. Apologizing to yourself is kind of hollow."

The Nicoles nodded, the female Shadow dispersing as the Original forced herself to her feet and made her way over to Blecker, taking a seat next to him, "It's so hard to even remember what it was like to be you. The Pink energy…this...cat energy...it's all so intoxicating."

Blecker smiled, taking her hand, "You never forgot, I would not be here if you truly forgot. You just choose to embrace different memories."

"C-Can I ever go back...to being you?"

Blecker shrugged, "Hell if I know if you don't."

Nicole chuckled, "Okay fair point...guess it is kind of silly of me to ask myself those kinds of questions."

Blecker smiled, "That's girl I know and love."

Nicole blushed, "It's nice to see you, to talk to you. I was afraid I'd never find my way back...I was sure the path didn't even exist."

"Well clearly it does," Blecker smiles as he motions to his body.

"S-So what do I do now? How do I get back to you?"

Blecker smiled, waving a hand dismissively, "I wouldn't worry about it. If you want to act like a girl act like a girl, if you want to have a boyfriend instead of a girlfriend do that. We do know that spell to make us appear male and I'm sure there's a counterpart to the cheerleader spell. Even if we never go back to being male full time we are still the same," he paused putting a hand over Nicole's heart, "In here."

Nicole blushed again, and kissed the clones cheek, he just smirked and gently pat her back, "Ohhhh someone is a closet narcissist, falling in love with herself now are we!"

Nicole laughs knocking Blecker over with a shove, "You're horrible!"

"Oh now, help me help. Daggeron save me, my female side is trying to destroy the last vestiges of my masculinity," Blecker laughed as Nicole fell backward off the log holding her stomach.

" .Terrible."