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Chapter 9
Later that night while the others were in bed Evie watched from the shadows as Jayden practised with the disk, and she could see how much it was taking out of him.
"You can do this, come on Jayden, you can do this" murmurs Evie wincing as she watched it blast Jayden backwards and she pulled out her samuraiser before stopping herself.
Instead she knelt down and shut her eyes, she searched for the thread that tied them together and mentally taking hold she focused. But instead of sending him strength or power she channelled all of her belief and all of the faith she had in Jayden.
"I believe in you; the team believes in you and the whole world will too" she murmurs.
She sees the light behind her closed eyes and opens them in time to see Jayden holding the fire smasher with the power disk and this time he holds onto it without it blasting him backwards and she smiles. "Believe in yourself, believe as much as I do" pleads Evie.
She feels a hand on her shoulder and knows its Ji.
"He can do this" says Ji.
"He can, if he just believes it" agrees Evie.
They continue their silent vigil for another couple of hours when Ji looks down at Evie.
"I can't have two rangers down for the count, without Jayden, the team needs you to lead them" says Ji quietly crouching down so he was at her level.
"How can I sleep when I know this is happening?" she asks looking at Ji. "When I know I could help him" she sighs.
"Your bond makes you stronger together, but you need to be strong on your own as well. Jayden must master this disk alone, your strength cannot help right now. And you being exhausted will not help him either, I will keep an eye on him. But you need to sleep if you are going to help the team tomorrow" urges Ji.
Evie nods, "alright" she says, "but don't let him overdo it, you know how he gets" adds Evie.
"Stubbornness is a trait you both possess, I know this is hard for you Evie, but you have to let him do some things alone, just as he will have to let you. Go and get some rest" repeats Ji.
Evie nods and disappears back into the house, knowing Ji was right, but before she lets sleep claim her, she ensures her final thought is a last burst of belief to Jayden.
The next day the gap sensors sound through the house.
"Come on, lets do this" says Evie.
"What about Jayden?" asks Kevin.
"He'll join us as soon as he can, until then, we need to hold the Nighlok off and protect the people" replies Evie.
"Got it" nod the others as they race out of the house Evie pushing her concern for Jayden to the back of her mind, the team needed her right now and she could at least do something for them.
They arrive in time to see the Nighlok wreaking havoc.
"Mia, why don't you blow this idiot away" says Evie.
"With pleasure" answers Mia as she draws the symbol and sends it at the Nighlok who's knocked to the floor.
"Ah so it's you" he says pulling himself to his feet.
"Hey useless" taunts Kevin.
"That's my word" argues the Nighlok as he sends blasts of energy at them just as they morph and deflect them.
Running forwards they attack.
"Flip and dip all you like I'm still going to send you helmet heads down the river" smirks the Nighlok.
"The only one going down the river is you" retorts Evie as she flips backwards avoiding one of his blows.
"Ingot whip" she calls as her weapon transforms, "lets see how you like this" she says as she sends it at the Nighlok and it makes an impact but not enough to do any real damage and he sends a blast her way that knocks her to the ground, the others landing next to her.
Kevin tries to use his hydro bow but the Nighlok knocks him down and Kevin tries to pull himself up only to see himself right in front of the Nighlok with the blaster pointed right at him.
"I'm about to knock you down for good" smirks the Nighlok.
"Kevin" calls Mia trying to get up.
Evie pulls her whip back to try and knock the blaster aside, but before she can she sees the lion zord smash into it knocking it away from Kevin and she smiles as she sees Jayden had arrived his fire smasher resting on his shoulder.
"That big blade ain't buying you no respect from me. If'n you want to tangle suit yourself" says the Nighlok focusing all his attention on Jayden.
The two face off but Jayden doesn't move.
"Jayden be careful" calls Emily.
"Well I'm awaiting. What's keeping you scaredy cat?" taunts the Nighlok.
"Why doesn't he charge?" asks Kevin.
"Come on Jayden" urges Mike.
"He knows what he's doing" assures Evie.
Jayden pulls out the beetle disk but doesn't immediately attach it.
"Sheesh I've seen glaciers move faster than you" says the Nighlok.
"Come on Jay" calls Mike.
"You can do this Jayden" promises Evie.
Jayden looks at the disk and then at the others and even beneath her helmet he can see the belief on Evie's face.
"I have to try" he says as he attaches the disk.
Evie pulls out her samuraiser ready to cast the symbol if need be.
Jayden activates the disk and the entire thing ignites and Evie can see Jayden struggling to keep hold of it. She goes to cast the symbol when Ji's words come back to her, Jayden needed to do this alone, so she pockets her samuraiser and a moment later she sees it transform completely as the fire smasher merges with the beetle disk and creates a whole new weapon.
"I knew it" smiles Evie.
"Whoa, now that is hot" cheers Mike.
"Guys, lend me your power disks" calls Jayden.
They run over and set them in place. "Lets show him what this baby can do" says Kevin.
"What's your rainbow peashooter going to do? Useless piece of junk" jeers the Nighlok as he lifts his own weapon.
"Fire strike" calls Jayden as he fires at the Nighlok.
The blast that emits from the fire smasher is immense and the Nighlok goes up in an epic explosion.
"Woo" cheers Emily as they come to their feet.
"Nice one" smiles Mia.
"Righteous" agrees Mike.
"Let's hold off on the celebration for the moment guys, this Nighlok is about to get a lot bigger" reminds Jayden.
The Nighlok takes on its second life and grows in front of them.
"Yikes that's a whole lot of dread" says Evie.
"Come on guys, we can beat this idiot" assures Jayden.
They all pull our their samuraisers and activates their zords, before combining and soon enough, they're stood in the cockpit.
"Its time to give you a mega haircut" says Jayden as the megazord pulls the sword and attacks. But the sword goes right through him just as it did when he was smaller.
"What, again?" asks Mia.
"Oh come on" sighs Evie.
"Your sword still has no effect on me" jeers the Nighlok as he fires at them and the entire megazord feels the hits as their jolted around inside.
"We need to try something else" says Jayden.
"Now what, any ideas?" asks Kevin.
"We've only got one option, its time to unleash the full power of this disk" replies Jayden as he pulls out the beetle disk and walks out onto the shoulder of the megazord.
"Hey Nighlok, over here" calls Jayden, "time to give this a mega shot, beetlezord" calls Jayden as he activates the disk and the others watch as it transforms into a zord all its own.
"Nice one" smiles Evie.
"How cool" beams Mia.
"Now that is what I am talking about" agrees Mike.
"Time to load up" says Jayden as he's transported into the beetle zord, "now lets put this thing in drive and take this guy out" he nods.
It starts up and heads straight for the Nighlok.
"Hey don't think you take me with your roach contraption" says the Nighlok.
"Well bad news for things are about to get real buggy for you buddy" retorts Jayden as he locks the beetle claw around the Nighloks leg and flips him over.
He's thrown backwards and lands painfully.
"Oh yeah" cheers Kevin and the others clap as well.
A moment later giant moogers appear, but Jayden uses the beetlezord to take them out with ease.
"Now the real battle begins" says Jayden as he combines the beetle zord with the megazord.
"Useless huh? Let's see how useless you think this is" smirks Jayden as he reappears in the main cockpit.
"Nice" smiles Mike.
"Let's show this guy what we've got" nods Evie.
"Time to go for it" nods Jayden as he attaches the beetle zord disk completing the transformation.
"Beetle blaster megazord, armed for battle" finishes Jayden.
"Jayden what's going on?" asks Mike.
"I'll explain later, right now you need to focus" replies Jayden.
Everyone switches their focus to the battle outside as the moogers send arrows at them.
"Beetle cannon" activates Jayden and it disintegrates the arrows and blasts the moogers.
They charge forwards slicing through the moogers, "you might be giant, but you're still moogers" smirks Jayden as they slice through with ease heading straight for the Nighlok.
"Now its your turn" says Evie as they look at the Nighlok.
"Haven't you sussed it out yet, you're sword is useless" reminds the Nighlok.
They sheath their sword and fire the cannon just as the Nighlok fires his own.
They activate the beetlezords final canon and it slams into the Nighlok disintegrating him into nothing as he goes down.
"Samurai rangers, victory is ours" smiles Jayden.
Once the Nighlok was defeated they all head back to the amusement park.
"I'm so glad mentor gave us another day off" smiles Mia as they walk through.
"It's only fair, our last one was interrupted" nods Mike.
"Well if mentor says it's alright, then I guess I shouldn't argue" admits Kevin.
"Who is gonna argue with cotton candy" beams Emily as she runs up to them and hands one to each of them. Evie and Jayden bringing up the rear.
"This really isn't in line with my training diet" says Kevin as he takes it.
"True, but its okay for today" assures Jayden. "Cotton candy and a day off can be good for you. Ji reminded me that balance in life is important. It lets us be at our best" smiles Jayden.
Kevin smiles and takes a large bite of cotton candy.
"Come on you stick in the mud; the rides are this way" smiles Mike wrapping an arm around Kevin and pulling him towards the rides.
"Yay more roller coasters" beams Emily as she links her arm with Mia and pulls her ahead.
Jayden looks at Evie as she walks next to him, "thank you" he says.
"For what?" asks Evie.
"Last night, and today" replies Jayden.
"I just told you the truth" shrugs Evie.
"Not for that, I know you were there last night. Thank you for having so much faith in me" smiles Jayden, "it did help, feeling it all" he adds.
"I'm glad it helped" smiles Evie.
"It really did" nods Jayden.
"Then you can thank me properly later" flirts Evie before hurrying ahead to catch up with the others.
Jayden just shakes his head and catches up as well.
They enjoy the rest of the day on the rides and this time, there was no Nighlok interruption.
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