Chapter 5

As Temura broke into a jog so did everyone else who followed close behind her. They didn't get very far as a monster accompanied by a group of Stingwingers suddenly appeared and stopped the Rangers dead in their tracks. The monster wore black robe like armor and carried a bejeweled staff.

"Well, well, well. I show up and get greeted by the locals!" the monster giddily exclaimed. "This should be fun! Time to wreak some havoc!"

(A/N: I'm just going to call this guy Necrom since I can't think up any other name right now.)

"Too bad it won't be fun for you!" Leo yelled as he and his group got into a battle stance and transformed into their respective colors, while Mike became the Magna Defender.

"Is that so you dysfunctional rainbow?" Necrom sneered at the Rangers. "Stingwingers attack!"

All five charged at the horde of Stingwingers and quickly made short work of them not before Kai and Damon joined in the fray fully morphed and ready to fight.

"Time to see what you can do, Temura."

"Right," Temura nodded as she readied her weapon along with Mike and engaged Necrom in combat.

Necrom charged their way and met the two blow for blow. Temura created a shield from several thick layers of ice to block the strikes of the monster's staff, then alternated between hitting with her Saber and blocking with her icy makeshift buckler while Mike was using the Magna Blaster's sword form to defend and attack. Soon afterwards, the other Rangers rushed in and overwhelmed him. Necrom soon managed to turn the tables and blasted them all, knocking them to the ground.

"You Power Pipsqueaks did your best put up a good fight, but that wasn't good enough or even your best at that!"

"It's not over yet!" Leo defiantly barked as he and the others got to their feet then raised a white gloved hand to the air. "Lights of Orion activate!"

The Tempurnian and the Second Magna Defender watched as Leo and the other Rangers' suits gained a slight alteration to them, then turned into beams of light and attacked the monster. They reappeared behind him as Necrom collapsed to the ground. Eventually, he grew about fifty feet tall and was about to rampage on the colony before the Rangers saw this and began calling for their Zords.

"Galactabeasts, arise!'

"Torozord, charge!"

"Kitsumi, please lend me your strength!"

The Zords appeared and transformed into Megazords with Mike merging with his own.
It was like an actual clash of the titans as the battle was waged around Terra Venture's Forest Dome. Eventually, after pounding away at Necrom and finishing him off with their signature moves the Rangers had won.

After departing their Galactabeasts/Zords, everyone had demorphed and that's when Temura and Damon met each other. Kai immediately introduced the two after Damon wanted to know who was inside the Orange suit the whole time they fought together. The mechanic stared at her for a bit as he looked at her dual colored eyes.

Temura wanted to inwardly squirm as she thought Damon was going to judge her. It seemed those eyes of hers were her most notable feature as not long after her arrival, she had garnered some attention because of them. The Tempurnian was afraid that she would've been treated as an outcast since her eyes were different than everyone else's. After spending a small amount of time with the other Rangers, she didn't feel that way somewhat but still became a little wary and kept her guard up in case.

Damon smiled at her and shook Temura's hand. She felt a bit at ease and shook his back. Kai explained to Damon that Temura was from another planet like Maya and told him of her plight so she wouldn't have to repeat herself.

"That's quite a story," the Green Ranger commented. "Welcome to the team, Temura."

"Oh um thank you, Damon," she blushed a little which Damon and the other male Rangers found somewhat cute at her slightly reddening face.

Mike interjected in, "That reminds me, where'd you learn how to fight like that?"

"My cousin Cresana taught me," Temura explained. "She was the tougher of the two of us, and she still is as I never liked fighting. But I didn't want to feel weak and helpless, not to mention being a burden to her so she trained me. I didn't want to depend on her all the time whenever I ended up getting into a fix. We're both only children so we treated each other like siblings, and in a way Cresana is sort of like a overprotective big sister to me."

Mike nodded in understanding as he and Leo were somewhat similar to Temura and her Pallierian cousin. Mike was the older of the two Corbett brothers so that would make him the tougher one. Not to mention he probably had to teach Leo how to fight so his little bro could fend for himself when the need arose.

Somehow mentioning Cresana's name made the heterochromatic brunette a little homesick as she wanted to see her family again. But she wouldn't be able to until she completed her quest, then she could go back home to Tempurnia. Temura let out a quiet, but sad huff at the thought and collected herself so the others wouldn't see her that way unless Temura wanted them to.

A loud growl suddenly erupted through the air and the group was on high alert looking for the source until another one soon followed suit. The source of the growls were the Tempurnian's stomach as she put an arm around it and looked away with a sheepishly red, embarrassed face. Apparently, fighting Necrom had made her hungry again and she could not play it off no matter how hard she tried.

"Looks like someone's hungry," Leo laughed.

"Yeah maybe we should all have some lunch," Damon agreed along with everyone one else and went back to the base.

Once back, Kai began preparing the meal while the others had some free time to spare until the food was done. Temura sat off to the side somewhere lost in her thoughts with one leg crossed over the other, too occupied to notice Maya walking up to her.

"Are you alright, Temura?" the dual eyed brunette heard the Yellow Ranger ask behind her, thus snapping the Orange Ranger from her thoughts.

"Oh, I'm fine, Maya. I was just thinking about my planet."

"Are you feeling homesick?"

The Tempurnian let out a small humorless chuckle, "I guess you can say that, though I feel out of place."

Maya took a seat next to Temura and sat down beside her.

"I still feel that way too, and it was hard for me to adjust to everything when I first arrived on Terra Venture," the Mirinite explained. "I couldn't keep up, but with Kendrix and the others' help, I tried fitting in just fine."

Temura let out a quiet, but sad huff, "I don't know why, but I get the feeling that people will judge me because of my eyes and my powers. I know it seems unusual to others, but the people of my planet are born like this and wield the elements of fire and ice. Even the people of the moon Palliere including my cousin Cresana have red eyes as well as controlling the flames themselves."

Maya looked at her with concern in her brown eyes and gnawed on her lip. Both girls were the same predicament as they came to Terra Venture through a portal or some other way, and were far away from home.

"Maybe we can help you."

The Tempurnian blinked at the Mirinite, "Hm?"

"Maybe I can help you fit in as well as the other Rangers helped me," she told Temura.

"I'd like that very much, Maya," Temura said with a smile and the Yellow Ranger nodded.

A little later, Kendrix called the girls over to boys' room to eat and soon followed her there.