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House of Power Rangers
Chapter 3: House of Friends
The rangers had been together for just over a week now, giving them enough time not only to get used to how things work but to learn about each other. Nina noticed little things about her new teammates, like how Emily is a great fighter but she's too worried about hurting her friends during training, or how Kevin is such a dedicated samurai, ready to do whatever for the team but it often stops him from doing what he wants to do. How Mia is an amazing warrior and friend but she's awful in the kitchen and doesn't seem to be aware. How Jayden has spent his whole life training to become this great leader and samurai that he doesn't seem to know too much about connecting with the team. How Mike wants to be here but he's not quite ready to let go of his old life yet.
"Ouch!" Mike yells once Kevin hits his shoulder with the wooden sword.
"Are you okay, Mike?" Jayden asks walking over to the sparring duo with bow staff, getting the girls attention too.
"Yeah, of course," Mike replies, rubbing the place Kevin hit.
"Use your instincts to sense your opponent's next move in a fight and act accordingly," Jayden says, suddenly swinging low behind him, aiming for Kevin. The blue ranger jumps just in time to avoid tripping up. Jayden continues to swing at Kevin, who continues to avoid being hit.
"Kevin, that's amazing!" Mike exclaims, only to be hit again, this time by Jayden.
"Always keep your guard up."
"Mike, can I ask you-" Ji begins, stopping when Mike yelps again. Jayden hit him again.
"That's not fair," Mike complains. "He distracted me." The red ranger just shrugs. "Okay, I get it. Can we try one more time?" Jayden replied by swinging beneath the green rangers' feet, but he manages to jump over, but Jayden quickly brings the staff up, hitting Mike on the butt causing him to yelp once more.
"Watch," Jayden instructs him, swinging the staff back around to Kevin, who was watching from behind him. Kevin uses his own training sword to fight back, the two beginning a small fight, entrancing all the others as they dodged each other's attacks. Unfortunately for Kevin, in an attempt to avoid being hit by Jayden he did a backflip which resulted in his trousers falling once he landed, revealing his white and blue polka dot underwear.
The girls burst into a fit of giggles, even Jayden and Ji were amused until Emily noticed someone missing.
"Hey, where'd Mike go?"
About an hour after practice (and once they established that Mike wasn't in the house) Nina found herself in her room again. Her teammates weren't the only ones Nina had noticed new things about. She noticed things about herself too. Like how even though she loves being here and she's doing a great job, there are still moments where she wishes she was back at Anubis House with her friends, with Sibuna but at the same time she really doesn't want to leave. She's only just got here. She and Mike had that in common and she knew that. The only difference was Mike's friends were close enough for him to do what she could only dream of doing. She just hoped he wouldn't do what she knew she would if she could.
A little while later, when Nina is watching Mia begin to make the tragedy called lunch with Emily, the gap sensor begins to ring saving them. They both sigh in relief, which Mia mistakes for sadness.
"I'm so sorry guys. I'll make dinner, I promise," she tells them as the make their way to the main room. They send each other a side glance of false happiness.
"It's at city hall," Kevin says once he's tapped the map.
"Wait, Mike's still not back," Emily tells them, looking around to see one missing.
"And he's not answering his samuraizer," Mia adds.
"We can't wait for him," Jayden replies.
"Jayden's right. To be honest though knowing Mike I wouldn't be surprised if he's already there," Nina says as they begin walking towards the door.
"You wouldn't? Are we think of the same Mike?" Kevin asks, causing the others to laugh a little.
"I just mean the attack is outside the arcade," she smiles as they begin running out the gates, sending their symbols in front of them to morph.
The rangers arrived quickly enough, their adrenaline running through their veins fighting off approaching moogers before even getting a glimpse at the Nighlok however, once they clear their path, they find Nina's speculation to be correct. Mike was already there fighting the Nighlok and by the looks of it he was losing as he's knocked back into a wall.
"Hey Nighlok! Stop messing with our city!" Jayden yells from the top of the stairs, running to help out Mike, getting both of the fighting duo's attention. The Nighlok was green with green and red arms which appeared to be its primary attack and defence.
"That's cute, rosy," The Nighlok cackles as Emily went to help Mike up as the other rangers help civilians get away. The Nighlok turns to Jayden quickly approaching and sends its fist into the ground. They seem to extend because it pops out again a few feet away, punching Jayden away. "Not even the red ranger can see what's going on underground!" Nina rushes over to help Jayden up.
"Hey, are you okay?" She asks, concerned. The punch looked painful as it sent gravel flying too.
"Sure, let's just get rid of this guy," he nods.
"No problem," Nina replies, preparing to attack the Nighlok.
"Actually, yes problem. I seem to be drying out so I'm going to go. See you later broccoli boy!" The Nighlok guffaws, going back through the crack.
"No!" Mike exclaims, just missing it with his sword. He sighs in defeat as Jayden begins to walk over, telling him that in order to keep his friends safe he can't be visiting them so often, or just leave. If the Nighlok knew who they were… it's the reason they don't live at home anymore.
Once the rangers arrive back at the Shiba house, after helping sort out the place the Nighlok and moogers destroyed, it's starting to get late in the afternoon. Once they enter the house they are hit with the aroma of a meal, and edible and enjoyable meal! Nina and Emily, who were walking behind the rest of the group, visibly relax as they see Ji come out of the kitchen to greet them Mike however still looks a bit down as he enters.
"Rangers I know it's been a long day for you. Come and eat," their mentor tells them.
"I let the Nighlok get away," Mike sighs causing Nina to stop and turn back.
"Mike it wasn't just you. We're a team. We all let it get away," she tells him comfortingly putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Nina's right, Mike. It wasn't your fault," Jayden nods standing beside the dirty blonde.
"Come on. If you want to defeat this Nighlok tomorrow, you need your energy. Eat," Ji says, guiding Mike towards the kitchen to get his food.
"Aww Mentor, I was going to cook," Mia moans, grabbing a plate to get her meal from the pot.
"Well, we took a long time Mia. I'm sure mentor was just being considerate," Kevin tells her comfortingly.
"Yeah, maybe next time you can work together to make something," Emily says, not wanting to ruin her friends dream.
"No, it's alright. I'll cook next time as a gift," Mia smiles, taking her plate to the table. The other rangers and looked back to each other, defeated.
Later in the day, it's around 6 o'clock and Nina is in her room sitting on the floor doing schoolwork. As she's still technically a student Evelyn left her enrolled at Atum boarding school but as an international student who works from home. It was quite a hassle trying to the school to agree without being able to tell the school the full story, but her grandmother was able to convince the board. Legally, she's still at the school she's just not there physically. As long as she does the work able to come back to the school in June to do her exams. If not, they could hire an invigilator to watch her do her exams at her house. She'll definitely be the first to admit it's a lot of work and hard to do schoolwork as well as be a power ranger, but she doesn't complain; she has to do this and if she's lucky, she'll be able to graduate with her friends.
As she finishes up some history notes, she crawls onto her bed with her laptop and logs into her email. She knows her friends will be worried about her. She left without any warning, not even contacting anyone (besides Eddie) as soon as she saw how much worse the attacks were getting. She knew it was only a matter of time before the team was called together so she figured a nice, clean break would be best for everyone… except Eddie. As her Osirian he would be able feel whenever she's in danger so being a power ranger and disappearing from him would be an impossible task, so she had to tell him. It makes it easier for him to understand and to keep the Osirian in him at bay. Of course, she'll have to contact him every now and again to show she's alive, especially if she's been in a particularly bad fight but he must make sure to no see her emails. A few days before Eddie had to leave, she had made a new email (with a different name) and the only person who had it was Eddie. She did that just so she wouldn't be overwhelmed with messages from anyone else from her old email… but she couldn't help herself today.
Once she opens her old email, she finds it overflowing with messages from all her housemates, Eddie, Fabian, Amber, Patricia, Alfie, Mara, Jerome, Joy and even Mick (he probably heard Nina wasn't back from Fabian or Mara)! Most of them were asking about why she wasn't coming back, if she and her gran were okay and how much they missed her. Eddie's was asking what he should tell Sibuna if they asked about her (to be fair, he'd apologised for sending in on there once she opened her other email address). She didn't plan on responding to anyone (even though she really wanted to wish Amber a happy birthday at least) until she got to Fabian. He seemed so distraught and confused. She thought her letter would clear things up, make him understand a bit more… so she replied.
All is explained in my letter.
She was going to log out, but he replied quicker than she anticipated. What letter?
Ask Eddie.
As soon as she sent the message, she snapped her laptop shut. She would message Eddie later. She shouldn't have sent it to him. She slides the laptop into the drawer besides her bed before picking up her things from the floor. She hears someone practicing outside and has a pretty good idea of who it could be. She walks out of her room and goes to stand by the door leading outside into the training grounds, watching the red ranger practice. She watches him for a few minutes in awe until she hears shuffling behind her, turning to see Emily approaching. She smiles as she stands next to her seeing what she was looking at.
"He's amazing isn't he," Emily comments to which Nina nods softly.
"Yeah. I mean I knew our leader would be great, but I didn't think he would ever be this good and he's only getting better."
"Maybe it runs in his family."
"Maybe," Nina smiles, thinking of the previous red ranger, before turning to face the other blonde. "I just finished my schoolwork so I'm not really in the mood for training right now. What should we do?"
Emily and Nina spent most of last night getting to know each other, just talking about home and family and friends. It was a great time for them both, easily becoming close friends. Early the next day however when the rangers meet in the courtyard to train, they find Mike is missing again.
"He didn't come back after he left last night," Kevin informs the rest of the team, just as the gap sensor goes off. Mike left soon after dinner, saying he needed to check if his friends were okay and clear his head.
"We'll have to meet him there," Jayden says as they head inside to the map.
"I'll call him. You go," Ji says as the rangers run out.
"Hey, Nighlok!" Jayden calls over, the rangers already morphed.
"My name's Rofer, guys!" The Nighlok replies slowly spinning around before turning to the rangers again. "Where's the green one. Now that it's time to crunch, broccoli boy's gone bye bye?"
"I'm right here!" Mike exclaims, back flipping over the stairs to stand in front of the Nighlok.
"Show off," Rofer mutters but the rangers ignore him. "I'm gonna take this one by myself," Mike tells the team.
"Mike you can't!" Kevin exclaims but Mike turns to the Nighlok his Samuraizer drawn.
"I have to try," he says. "Go, go samurai!" He chants heading straight for Rofer who yells, "Moogers!" The other rangers take on the moogers knowing that Mike needed to do this one himself. After a few direct attacks, Mike begins running away, Rofer's arms following him, slightly confusing his teammates but they decide to trust him. They know he's far from a coward. A few minutes later, the rangers have defeated all the moogers and Mike begins to return. They see Rofer's arms close behind him but Mike doesn't seem worried as he suddenly stops. Rofer laughs and seems to want to send his arms to hit Mike but nothing happens. Mike managed to trick Rofer into tangling his arms around the city giving him just enough time to attack Rofer as he begins to draw his arms back. Jayden does step into help when Mike only anticipates the attack of one arm but they manage to defeat him together. Somehow the larger version of the Nighlok was easier to defeat but the rangers weren't complaining.
"Samurai rangers, victory is ours!" Jayden says. It's sort of become their victory call.
Once they get home Nina goes straight to her room, knowing she still has one person left to email.
We can't be together anymore. That's it, Eddie.
Chapter three complete! I can't wait for you guys to read chapter four (where we finally meet a few characters from BTR!) Thanks for reading!
