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Chapter : Orange in Acceptance!
In a place unknown a boy of about 16 was running in a house as if he was running from someone. Running behind him were some people dressed in mental asylum uniform.
"Mom, Dad… I am not mentally ill." cried the boy, "I don't need to be there..."
The boy was crying as the people of mental asylum were dragging him into the Van and he was crying for help.
The scene changed to the mental asylum where the same boy was tied to a table with some machine and equipment around. A doctor and a nurse were near him as they were ready to give that boy the shock therapy.
"Mom, dad this is not right." said a women who revealed to be Blaise's mom but a little younger, "He is not mentally ill but only… homosexual."
"You don't have to tell us this. You already has been a disgrace to our family by being a single mother, we can't afford another disgrace to our family" said an older man.
"Mom… Dad…. No.. Please!" the boy was crying in pain as he was given shock treatment.
The scene changed as the same boy was again in trauma and had a gun in his hand. People of mental asylum and his mom dad along with Blaise's mother and brother were there trying to take that gun away from him.
"I am not mentally ill. I am just gay" cried the boy, "I am not a disgrace this is what I am, this is what I am. You can't change me. You can't. Love is love be it among a male and a female or between two males or two females and I love a male. You can't change me. If you did this, than I will be dead. I will… die."
The boy shoot himself in the head with the gone and died instantly.
"Uncle Ricky…"
Blaise awakened from the sleep as he was sweating and gasping.
Next Day, Blaise was heading towards the college.
"What had you done to make him that mad?" said a voice.
Blaise turned around to see Tabitha standing behind him with a serious look.
"What are you talking about?" Blaise asked confused.
"Listen one thing boy; Even though he is big brother to me and we are not best at terms yet if you will hurt him, I will make you pay for that." Tabitha threatened Blaise as she walks away.
Meanwhile at the Zuthora ship Trakken was practising alone when Eliastro entered the room.
"What you want from me Eliastro?" Trakken asked still focused on his training.
"Looks like recent defeats against that orange ranger had opened your mind that you need practice to improve yourself and gain more power?" Eliastro taunted, "Instead I think weakening him to the core will be the best way to defeat him and finish him for once and all."
"Don't talk in riddles. Tell me straight what you want from me or me to do?" Trakken said.
"You wanna avenge yourself against that orange ranger than the best way would be to hurt the green ranger. Trust me hurting him will result in break down of orange ranger." Eliastro told him and left the room.
"Hurt the green ranger? Huh!" Trakken murmured, "Now I got it."
'Good now go and provoke the spirit of Chaos that lay inside him. I may be helping you Trakken but for my benefit.' Eliastro thought as he glanced at Trakken from behind the doors.
In the remote area of the forest Arustar and Corrin were meeting each other.
"Gold ranger, you know you will need me in this, but for now it is not right for us to meet like this." Arustar said to Corrin.
"See I am not seeing anything coming from this." Corrin replied, "Even you had no information for me now."
"With the recent acts of mine I am under strict watch of Eliastro. Our meeting was way hard to make to for me." Arustar replied.
"So what's the next step?" Corrin asked, suddenly some blasts were shot nearby the two.
"If you didn't leave the moment the next attack will not be around you but at you, Arustar." said a familiar voice.
"Just stop this Gabby. You were out of it so don't interfere in my matters" Corrin replied to Gabby who was in his silver ranger suit standing behind the two.
"Corrin, when your matter intertwines with the enemy of a team you are with, it becomes my concern." Gabby shout back, " and this is the last warning Corrin, if you do something like that once more, I swear that I will tell them the full truth myself."
With this said Gabby turned in anger and walked away leaving the two alone again.
"She may be a problem" Arustar warned.
"No she will not. Just go now and next time comes up with some relevant information" Corrin directed him and left.
James had taken a day off from the college. To utilise the time he had decided to go to market so as to get some stuff for the house. James was busy with his list when a lady tapped on his back. James turned to see a woman with several knowing features standing there with a smile.
"You are Leon or James… James I guess" James was taken aback as the woman seemed to know him fairly well even though he had no idea who that lady is.
"Yes Mam! But I didn't remember anything about meeting you before or knowing you?" James questioned.
"You may not know me but I know many things about you especially when Blaise talks mostly about you only." The lady answered, "Hi there! I am Dakota Hawking, Blaise's mother."
"Oh hello mam. It was nice to meet you" James greeted.
"Blaise talks a lot about you this is the only reason why I was able to recognise you." Dakota told James, "It looks like you are a very close friend to him."
"Yeah it seems so" James sighed.
"What happened?" Dakota asked, "Do you have a fight with him recently."
"Short off."
"Now this explains why he had been like this lately" Dakota concluded, "James, I don't know what the problem is but mark my words he is not bad at heart. If he is befriending with you he will do everything to make you stay safe."
"I know he is a hothead but I don't know why I get this feeling that your presence around cool down that a bit. Anyways, James, don't take me wrong but what he has become now, it's all because of his past experiences. The thing is that he is not open about it. He had seen his beloved uncle being tortured and committing suicide before his eyes, he has been abducted and tortured himself and had no good friends. This had lead him to what he is now, the unstable element with handle with care tag." Dakota paused for a little while, "James, he had been aloof and had never experienced what love and friendship is. I just request you to not give up on him in any situation."
"I… I will take care of this Mam" James answered as he was a bit shocked to know this more about Blaise. He seemed to be lost in thoughts as the two parted.
James was heading towards his apartment after his shopping and his short meeting with Blaise's mother. All that he was thinking in his mind was about Blaise. Just then he heard a Voice.
"Green Ranger!"
James turned to see who is behind him, who knows his ranger identity but before he could do or see anything some kind of powder came in path inhaling which caused him to instantly pass out.
Back at the C3, around the same time, all of the teens except James were doing practice, who had earlier asked Prince Alveno to join a little late today.
Eldon and Roxy were against each other this time. Roxy was clearly leading the battle but a frown came on her face as she stopped in the middle and left. Lexi who was paired with Tabitha saw this and got this feeling that she should follow them. She asked Tabitha to take a break and followed the two out.
"What happened Roxy? Why you came out like this?" Eldon asked as he followed her out.
"Nothing just don't you practice with me further?" Roxy replied in rather harsh tone.
"Roxy, what you want from me? Why my acts always makes you frown?" Eldon asked angrily.
"Here is the thing; you don't have to do anything. Just leave me and my matters to myself" Roxy shoot back the same anger with a glare and left leaving Eldon frowning and confused.
"Eldon I think you should let her do what she wants and rather help her in improve" Lexi came from behind.
"But I am her older sibling. I had already allowed her to fight and stand on for her but I don't get it what she want?" Eldon confronted.
"Eldon, it may be that what you are thinking as a big liberty it is just not that big for her. I too am older Sibling. I do understand your situation but because of the same we have to free our younger siblings to fly in the sky they want in order to achieve their dreams and goals. We should rather help them to improve. What you were doing was the same but in a wrong way. You were just making him believe that you are letting her do anything but inside you still did not do this." Lexi bring out the reason of Roxy's act leaving Eldon to think on that.
Inside, Blake and Gabby had just ended their training against each other and were taking a short break.
"So Gabby, Arustar was the one that bring the two of you togather" Blake asked out of nowhere.
"Ye…a..h but why you question about it now?" Gabby was taken aback by this.
"Oh nothing I just wanted to know you two more and as you know, knowing about a person's origin is the best way to understand him." Blake wrapped up his real intentions, "So it was Arustar who gave you the stone."
"No, actually Corrin gave me the stone" Gabby replied.
"Huh! Isn't it weird that even though he is from a tribe he act and behave as if he is a higher royal warrior or Guard." Blake inquired covering up in a joke.
"The genes effect" Gabby giggled a bit before realising what she said and then tried to cover up, "I mean his father was the personal bodyguard of the Tribe Leader."
"Oh ok" Blake replied just before a message popped up on the main ops main computer.
Everyone rushed over to the main ops. The message was from Trakken.
"Hello ranger! I have a surprise for you" Trakken's projection broadcasted the message and moved to the side from the screen revealing James trapped in a cage in unconscious state.
"James" Blaise and Leon cried out loud.
"I am waiting for you but get this your green ranger don't have much time left" Trakken's projection said as a time bomb was shown around James.
"Where are the co-ordinates the message is being telecasted from?" Leon asked.
"It's in the woods between the hills" Martin answered.
"Guys lets go we have to save him" Leon called and everyone took a step back to morph, "Defender beasts, rise to defend"
At the co-ordinates given by Martin the ranger arrived morphed and saw James in the same cage with the time bomb showing a quarter to an hour time left before the bomb explode. Protecting the cave were Trakken, Eliastro and Arustar.
"You cowards release James right now otherwise you will be dead right here" Blaise shouted.
"You are again being the loud mouth, Orange ranger" Trakken let out a small laugh.
"Think you have forgot the last defeat Trakken" Tabitha backfired, "Oh wait correction not last defeat but all defeats you had faced till now."
"Huh… Attack" Eliastro ordered and from nowhere a group of gobots attacked.
"Ok here is the plan. Tabitha, Roxy and Lexi handle Eliastro, Eldon and I will handle Arustar, Corrin and Blaise took care of Trakken and Blake" Leon directed, "Gabby and Twyla the gobots are yours keep in mind you three had to defeat the army quick and free James."
The weapons clashed between the rest of the groups before Blaise and Corrin clashed with Trakken. The others were evenly matching with the villains they are grouped with. Blaise and Corrin before attacking saw a jacket kind made of some kind of strange metal that Trakken was wearing.
The two also clashed the weapons but Trakken was not much into fight.
"What happened? You had already accepted your defeat?" Corrin said as the two had attacked him by their weapons but he has stopped their weapons using his sword.
"Oh you think so. What if I said that I will stop defending myself but you will still not attack me?" Trakken laughed a bit as the two rangers were shocked, "No, I am not joking. You wanna see then here we go."
Trakken withdraw his sword and the two weapons slashed through him.
"Aahh.." a voice cried out. Everyone turned to see James crying out in pain.
"Huh, Now you see Rangers, You can't reach your green ranger until you defeat me but if you don't the bomb will explode along with him. Also if you attack me the double amount of pain your green ranger will receive." Trakken told them, "In any way the green ranger will die."
"What? Oh no" Blaise whispered as he was stunned to hear that.
"Ok if it is like this then here I come" said Corrin and rushed for attacking Trakken. He slashed him two or three times but when the fourth time he was about to attack Blaise stopped his attack with his nagamaki.
"What the hell are you doing?" Blaise shouted.
"Listen Blaise, this is a war and it is not always possible that we all will come back alive from it. Beside we have no other way to handle the situation." Corrin tried to convince Blaise of what he is doing is right.
"No! there has to be a way. I can't afford to lose him. Not in this condition" Blaise said back as the two were attacked by Trakken.
"Sorry to interrupt you guys but your friend has very less time" Trakken interrupted.
Leon and Eldon were dealing with Arustar but were listening to what was going on. Soon the power of the two sides collided and they were sent back. The same thing happened to the second group while Blake, Gabby and Twyla were done with the gobot army.
The rangers and the villains regrouped. Blaise heard a voice in his mind. "Accept your feelings for him. Accept yourself. That is the key to save him." The voice said.
"Oh come on rangers the time left for your green ranger's end is only fifteen minutes." Arustar laughed as the two groups attacked each other again but this time togather.
The rangers were continuously attacking Eliastro and Arustar but not touching Trakken while the time was ending for the blast to occur.
"No offence guys but I don't think we will be able to save him" Corrin said.
"Corrin we can't give up on him" Twyla said.
"Guys don't worry about me just finish them" James cried from the cage
"See I am just saying to win this his sacrifice is needed and he himself is willing to do so to save the world. Save your earth. Believe me you will not be able to handle it." Corrin said as he had a sad expression inside his helmet.
"Shut up, Just shut the fuck up." Blaise shouted as anger started to build up inside him. A blackish orange aura has started to emit from his body. He rushed at a high speed than normal, tackling the villain group, right towards the cage.
"Guys right now stop the three to approach James and Blaise" Leon ordered as he saw the opportunity and hope.
"I will not give up on you" Blaise cried looking at James as inside his helmet he has tears and the black orange aura had formed a faint armor like earlier but a little darker this time, "You listen me, I will not give up on you. It's not only because you are a ranger or a team mate or a good person it is all because… Because… I… Love… You…. You hear I love you. I know I had not behaved well earlier about the kiss, about us but.. it was all because I didn't want to accept the fact that I love a man. But now I no longer had this guilt. I am rather proud that I love a person who is this strong and helpful and caring and good, I am proud that I love you. I had accepted myself and my love for you."
Blaise was streaming with energy. He break the cage and destroyed the blast as it was about to blast by just clutching in his fist. As soon as the cage break and the bomb get damaged, the blast occurred because of the jacket that Trakken had worn.
Blaise after that turned towards the Zuthora officers and the rangers and started to attack them. He was attacking all in pure rage as if he has lost control of his. Finding a chance the three officers teleported back but Blaise was still attacking the rangers.
"Blaise stop the fight is over" Twyla said.
"He had lost his control " Leon told them.
"We have to bring him back" Roxy suggested.
"But how? He is easily overpowering us?" said Eldon.
Meanwhile Blaise had powered up his nagamaki and was about to attack the ranger but James came in between.
"Stop Blaise it's me" said James before he collapsed.
Blasé had his nagamaki powered up as he slashed but the attack goes to a side from the rangers. Blaise covered in the dark orange aura and that form came towards James and touched his forehead. His aura disappeared and her demorphed passing out instantly.
"Let's take them back to C3" Leon suggested as they were catching their breath after this much high voltage action and thrill.
While they were returning Tabitha's eyes caught sight of a strange yellow golden animal looking at her.
'This animal, again. What it wants from me?' she thought as she followed the rest of her team mates.
Author's Note: . Here we go with the next chapter. Blaise had finally accepted himself, Blake's inquiry had also started. But what is the mystery of that animal? what about Corrin and Arustar? and all other mysteries are yet up. So don't forgot to review of what you think of the story and the guesses for the mysteries. Until next Time Bye!
Next Chapter : The past of orange and the boon and bane of blue!