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House of Power Rangers
Chapter 4: House of Injury
Early in the morning, before Ji even comes out, all the rangers are out and, most of them, training. Emily's sparring against Mia, Mike is against Nina (he finally mastered his samurai symbol!) and Jayden is on his own with a sword and a dummy. Kevin, however, is going around to each of the rangers. Nina almost kicks him in the face when he approaches her, interrupting her fight with Mike.
"Whoa, Kev, be careful!" She exclaims. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Nina. I just want you to know that if you ever need anything," he starts, putting a hand on her shoulder. "I'll be there. You too, Mike." He adds, grasping Mike's shoulder too. "Anything. Just say the word." Nina and Mike look at each other slightly confused before she replies,
"Erm, thanks? That's sweet but I think we're okay for now." He smiles at both of them before walking over to the other girls. The pair stare at him, fazed for a few seconds as he walks away.
"That's was weird right?" Mike asks.
"So weird," Nina confirms as the gap sensor goes off. They run into the house, the map telling them to go to the park.
They arrive, already morphed and ready to attack until they see that the Nighlok isn't actually doing anything.
"Guys, we can't attack. He's talking to a kid. We can't risk hurting him," Mia says but once the kid seeing them, he runs away.
"Someone go after that kid!" Jayden yells but the Nighlok hears.
"No, no, no, I don't think so! Moogers!" The Nighlok yells as Jayden approaches it. "There are too many! We can't," Mia exclaims, pulling out her sky fan. The Nighlok must have been talking with the kid longer than the rangers thought because the fight barely lasted two minutes before he dried out.
"Ugh, you guys are just as annoying as the little girl. I'm gonna go soak. See you later, rainbow fairies!" He cheers before going through the gap. The rangers look around, to see if any civilians are around to see them before demorphing.
"Okay guys, we need to split up lit up and find that kid. We have to find out what that Nighlok said to him," Jayden instructs. Mia goes with Kevin; Mike goes with Nina leaving Jayden and Emily.
They were looking for quite a while, looking in general, local areas before having to go further out. Kevin and Mia found the kid, and Jayden called Nina to let them know that he and Emily were heading back to the house. Surprisingly none of the time with each of the pairs was awkward at all. They had spent enough time together as a team to make being in smaller groups fine to just talk.
"Is it weird literally living at school? Like what did you do during the holidays? Did you come back here to the states?" Mike asks as they walk back to the Shiba house. Nina had told him about her boarding school and her friends after they'd talked about his best friends, Logan and Matthew (the ones he visited a few days ago when they were up against Rofer).
"It's not a weird as you'd think. I mean the building we live," she paused. "Lived in," that kinda stung, "is a bit away from the actual school. And our teachers didn't stay with us, but they could come to the houses. We could sign out and stay with nearby relatives too if we wanted to, but we had to let our house mother or creepy caretaker know first." She smiles, reminiscing.
"Creepy caretaker? What, did he have a creepy, annoying cat too?" Mike asks, half joking, half serious.
"No," she laughs. "But he did have a creepy, annoying stuffed raven."
"Stuffed?" Mike exclaims, shocked. It's not often you hear of people keeping stuffed animals.
"Yup. He stuffed it himself."
"No, he didn't," he challenged, disbelieving as they walked through the gate of the house.
"He totally did!" Nina laughs at his face. "My friends and I saw it way too often."
"Nina Martin causing trouble?" Mike asks, smiling, eyebrows raised. Nina's about to answer when she opens the door to the house and is hit with the smell of burning.
"Whoa, is something burning?" she grimaces, not seeing a lot of smoke. They walk in, going towards the kitchen when they see Jayden and Emily entering together from another room looking just as confused.
"What's going on?" Mike asks the two.
"I don't know. Mia said she was going to go cook something for Kevin," Emily replies, looking at Nina. Even though Mia hadn't had the chance to cook them a proper meal yet, she had made Nina and Emily something that was supposed to resemble toast one morning and the time she was supposed to cook dinner for everyone she was taking out some very interesting ingredients so they were quite weary of her cooking.
The four of them quietly walk over to the door and peak in, Nina on the ground with Emily, Mike and Jayden above her.
"What is she doing?" Jayden asks, looking around at the mess.
"Well, Kevin's staking out at that kid's house just in case that Nighlok comes back so she's making him a home cooked meal," Emily says.
"Apparently he was checking up on all of us because he was feeling homesick and wanted to make sure everyone's okay," Jayden adds.
"So, she's giving him burnt chicken to be less fancy?" Mike asks causing the other three to laugh quietly.
"I wouldn't say it's burnt," Nina says, in an attempt to give the food a chance, looking up at the others who look down at her disbelieving.
"Really? What would you call that?" Jayden asks. She squints, struggling to think of a better word.
"Chargrilled?" She tries slowly, until she hears rather than sees Mia cutting the chicken. "Okay, yeah, no. That is worse than burnt. What did that chicken do to her?" She questions, time causing the others to laugh loud enough that they have duck behind the wall before Mia sees them.
Eventually, Mia does finish cooking and she leaves with the food in a tub in a bag. The other rangers breathe a sigh of relief (also feeling bad for Kevin) but it doesn't last very long. The enter the kitchen and are glad to find it clean but they almost screamed when Ji opened the fridge.
"Where's all the food?" Ji exclaims. The fridge is empty, save for three eggs, half a pack of bacon, some juice and milk.
"It was full this morning," Emily replies, just as confused. Nina walks over to the bin, steps on the pedal to open the lid and finds its full to the brim. Empty cartons, cans, packets, everything that was missing.
"I think Mia might have experimented a bit too much with her food," she tells the group, who look over and see.
"So, what are we going to eat?" Mike asks. It's quite late so not a lot of shops will be open now.
"Well, I'll have to go and buy more things tomorrow, but I guess for tonight we'll have to get takeaway," Ji sighs.
"I'll go. I'll get some bandages too, it looked like we were running low," Nina offers.
"It's past nine, are you sure you want to go on your own?" Jayden asks looking out at the window to see it's quite dark.
"Yeah, I can just grab a box of pizza, go to a convenience store and come right back. I'll be less than half an hour," she replies as their mentor leaves the room to get some money.
"Here," he says, handing her some bills. "This should be more than enough."
"Are you sure you'll be okay?" Jayden asks, worried about his teammate.
"Of course. I'm a power ranger," she laughs, grabbing a bottle of water and heading towards the door. "I'll be back soon."
In all honesty, Nina did kind of want Jayden to come along. Not for protection because she was more than capable of protecting herself, but she hadn't really been able to speak with him about much else than ranger things. She wanted to talk with him and just spend a bit of time with him, but she knew that it wasn't going always going to be possible. She would probably have to be around the other rangers when she spoke with him or he would be training, or she would be doing schoolwork. It would have to wait because the team couldn't know. Not yet.
She was already on her way back and could smell the pizzas (which for the record smelled amazing). She was walking past the forest she came by on her way there when she thought she heard talking. No, not talking. Yelling from quite deep in.
"Hello!" The voice called and Nina knew she wasn't hearing things. It sounds tired, rough and young. A kid. Female.
"Hello? Is someone in there?" She responds getting closer to the forest.
"Oh my gosh! Yes! Yes, please help me! My battery died and I've been here for hours!" The girl says as Nina walks closer, following her voice, the trees obscuring the light more as she goes further in.
"I'm coming but I'm gonna need you to keep talking so I can find you," the purple ranger replies. It's awkward as she's carrying two pizza boxes, but she manages to grab her samuraizer and use her symbol power to create a bulb torch.
"Sure okay. I'm here by this tree," the girl says, her voice raw. The comment causing Nina to laugh a bit. "Wow, that was stupid, I'm in a forest. The combination of little food and blood loss is turning me into Carlos," the girl mutters to herself as Nina reaches her, chuckling.
"Found you," she whispers, getting closer. "Hi, I'm Nina and - you are dangerously pale. What happened?" She asks, putting the pizza box and shopping bag down, noticing a nasty, deep wound on the girl's leg.
"I've been stuck here for about five hours. I was just walking along a path when a disgusting looking monster pushed me down from up there and my leg got caught on a jagged, sharp rock as I fell so I've been stuck here," she explains as Nina gets a closer look at wound.
"Nighlok," Nina mutters, remembering it saying something about an 'annoying little girl'. Ugh, they should've looked further into that. "What was that?" The girl asks having heard her say something.
"Don't worry about it. What's your name?" Nina asks.
"Oh right! I'm Katie. Katie Knight."
"Well, Katie, I'm going to have to clean around the wound since there's a lot of dirt around it," Nina instructs, pulling out the bandages and her bottle of water. "Tell me about yourself."
"Well, I'm twelve years old. I have an older brother, ow!" She yelps, flinching from the pain; the skin around the wound is still quite tender.
"Sorry," Nina murmurs, focused on the wound.
"You were saying…"
"Right, well, uh, we moved here, to the palm woods, about two years ago from Minnesota, ah, with three of his friends and my mum," she says continuing to grunt and flinch as she finishes cleaning. Nina then starts to hold the bandage to the wound to add some pressure to it to cause it to start clotting.
"I'm really sorry! I'm almost done. I just need to wrap it up," Nina tells her, feeling bad for the girl. "Tell me about… Carlos was it?"
"Yeah, he's one of my brother's friends. We're pretty close and I love him but he's not exactly the smartest of the four… and he has this weird obsession with his helmet." She stops speaking as she sees Nina tying up the bandage.
"Helmet?" She questions, looking up as she finishes.
"Helmet," Katie confirms.
"Alright then," the dirty blonde replies, turning to the plastic bag to find those hand wipes she got from the pizza place. She gives one to Katie too. "Well, I've cleaned it as much as I can but it's not great. The light isn't enough," she motions to the torch. "And I don't have anything to disinfect it with. I won't bore you with the details right now because before I take you home, you need to eat. I hope you're not allergic," Nina says grabbing the top pizza box. It was still warm.
"No, I'm not but I can't take that from you. It's-" she begins but Nina cuts her off pushing the box towards her.
"No buts Katie. You've been here for hours and you've lost a lot of blood. Eat," Nina instructs, evidently not going to accept any other answer so Katie picks up a slice. Nina hands her a bottle of juice too.
"Thank you," she smiles to which Nina smiles back, as she gets up. She takes of her flannel shirt wrapping it around Katie, leaving her in a vest top. "I'll be back in a second. I just need to make-" she's cut off by her samuraizer ringing. "Answer this call."
"Don't go too far," The girl says, not wanting to be left alone again.
"Don't worry. I won't," she replies, walking a few steps away, so Katie can't hear it all.
"Hi Jayden," Nina says, answering the call, knowing it would be him.
"Nina, where are you?" He asks. "It's almost been an hour," he says as she looks at the time seeing he's correct.
"Uh, you see that forest on the way to the pizza place?" She begins.
"Nina, why are you in a forest?" He asks, reasonably confused. She explains how she found herself there before asking him,
"So, I'm going to take her back home or at least to the hospital before I come but she said she lives at the palm woods, and I know it's not too far but she hardly in a condition to walk. Could you call an ambulance over to the pizza place cause I really can't give specific direction for where I am. I can carry her to the there."
"Yeah, of course, just be careful," he replies, and she can hear him moving, probably to get the phone.
"I'll try," she smiles, looking over at Katie who looks exhausted.
"Do you want a taxi to bring you back here after?" He asks, dialling.
"No, don't worry. I don't know how long I'll be, but you might want to get another pizza."
"Be careful and update me later, okay?"
"I will," she grins. "We're going to start walking over. I'll see you soon."
"See you later," he replies before hanging up. She jogs back over to Katie who's finished eating and starting to fall asleep.
"Whoa, Katie, Katie don't sleep! I know you're tired, but you can't sleep. Not yet," Nina says rushing over and slightly shaking.
"I'm not asleep," she mutters, opening her eyes. "I'm just resting my eyes," she smiles weakly.
"You said you lived at the palm woods, right?" Nina asks, to which Katie nods. "Okay, which room?"
"2J," she replies as Nina begins helping her up. "Where are we going?"
"I really should take you to the hospital," Nina mutters, more to herself than to Katie.
"Do I really need to?" She asks. Nina herself wasn't particularly for the idea of going to the hospital; the less people who knew her, the better but Katie had clearly lost a lot of blood, possibly enough to need a transfusion and she needed to be sure she would be fine.
"I'm gonna say yes because I don't know how much blood you've lost but it seems like it was a lot. I need to make sure you're okay."
"Okay, are you coming with me?" she asks as Nina starts picking up her things before slinging Katie's arm around her neck to help her walk while holding the lantern, bag and pizza boxes in the other hand.
"Of course. My friends called an ambulance for us so it's waiting by the pizza place for us. It's only like five minutes away. Do you think you can make it?"
"Yeah but do you need help? Carrying those, I mean?" Katie replies pointing to the boxes.
"No, don't worry, I've got these. Let's go," Nina replies.
The drive to the hospital is about fifteen minutes long. Nina got in the van with her as there was no one else they could call for her since Katie's phone was broken and she didn't want to be on her own. Once they arrive at the hospital, Katie is rushed to an operating room since she passed out on the way there. Nina is taken to front desk to answer some questions about the girl.
"The girl you brought in. Name, age and relationship," the nurse asks, typing away.
"Katie Knight. She twelve and I've never met her before." The nurse looks up confused.
"How'd you find her?"
"I went shopping and, on my walk back, I thought I heard someone calling from inside the forest, so I went, and I found her there. She'd been there for hours," Nina explains as the nurse types it all down.
"That's very impressive," the nurse commends her to which she just smiles slightly. "Do you know what happened to her." Nina explains what Katie told her and answered more questions honestly from her name to the approximate time she found her.
"And do you know any family we could contact?"
"I'm not sure but she mentioned her mother, brother, and three of his friends, one who's called Carlos and they all live in apartment 2J at the palm woods hotel," Nina tells her.
"That's great, I'll give them a call, you can take a seat, Nina."
Nina takes a seat in the lobby, which isn't very busy but there were quite a few people, before remembering she should probably call Jayden. She stands up to go to a less crowded space when one of the doctors who took Katie comes out, looking quite stressed.
"We don't have any matches and we need to do a transfusion. She's lost too much blood," She says to the nurse.
"None? What type is she?" The nurse asks.
"AB negative," she tells him.
"Seriously? I was sure we at least had some O negative left even after those monsters raided our supply," he tells her coming around.
"Are you talking about Katie? I'm an O and I would gladly donate," Nina asks, approaching the two. She was prepared to get scolded for listening in, but the nurse took her for a quick blood test to confirm before they took a couple pints of her blood. They left her with some food and drink to replenish what she'd lost before leaving her until she was ready to come out. While she waited in the room alone, she took the time to call Jayden and tell him what was happening.
Nina was in Katie's room, holding a small bandage to where they drew her blood from and playing a game with the girl who had so much more colour in her face. She woke up a few minutes ago and immediately asked for Nina.
"Who would name their kid xylophone?" Nina laughs. They were playing the naming game with girls' names and were trying to get through the whole alphabet.
"I can't think of a girl's name that starts with 'x'!" Katie exclaims, laughing as well despite herself. If she wasn't in a hospital bed with a large bandage wrapped around her leg, no one would probably even know she was injured.
"There's Xenia," Nina gives as an example.
"What? That does not start with an 'x'!"
"Yeah, it does," Nina replies, the both of them still laughing.
"That sounds like it starts with a 'J'."
"Okay, sounding and spelling are very diff-" she starts but she's cut off by the door swinging open and a woman with three guys who looked to be around her age behind her enter with a nurse.
"Katie!" She exclaims, almost running to her daughter.
"Mum-" her mother crushes her in a hug as Nina gets up and moves away slightly so the five of them can have their reunion. After a couple of minutes, she hears Katie asks,
"Where's Kendall?"
"He went out to look for you, but we called him and he's on his way here. He'll be here soon," one of the guys reply before he looks around seeming to notice her for the first time.
"Wait, are you the girl that found her?" One of the two with dark hair asks.
"And gave her a blood transfunction?" The other one with black hair asks. He has a helmet in his hand leading Nina to believe this is probably Carlos and… function?
"Fusion," the first one corrects.
"Even cooler."
"Nina, this is my mum, James," she points to the tall, brunet one, "Logan," the one with black hair who spoke to her first, "and you might have recognised Carlos," she smiles, pointing at the helmet to which Nina smiles back at her knowingly. That's it! She knew she recognised their names and faces but she couldn't pinpoint it before but now… The guys whisper something to each other that she can't hear at the comment. "My brother, Kendall, isn't here yet. Mum, guys, this is Nina. She found me."
"You saved my daughter. Thank you so much," the woman says, moving around the bed and crushing her in a hug.
"Of course! It was the right thing to do and Katie's amazing," Nina smiles as she pulls away, looking over to the clock. It was already past eleven thirty at night!
"Oh my gosh, is that the time? I have to go!" She exclaims as the others glance at the clock.
"I didn't even realise how late it was!" Mrs Knight says, shocked. "Nina, do you have a way to get back? Let me get you a cab."
"No don't worry it's okay. I'll just ask one of my friends to meet me Pizza Pan," she replies, checking she has her samuraizer.
"Nina, please. Pizza Pan is like a half hour walk from here. It's the least I can do," she pleads.
"She won't take no for an answer," James tells her.
"Okay, fine. Thank you," she smiles, gratefully. "But you honestly don't owe me anything." Mrs Knight just waves her off, leaving to call a cab. She gone for a few minutes leaving her to talk with Katie and the guys, who are really fun to talk with. In a weird way, it kind of makes Nina miss her friends back in England. Her semi-regular friends.
"So, Nina," Carlos asks later in their conversation, to which Katie just rolls her eyes. "Do you live around here?"
"Kinda. Like a twenty-minute drive from here. You guys live at the palm woods, right?"
"Yeah, how'd you… oh do you know who we are?" Logan asks.
"Should I?" She asks, pretending to be confused. She was roommates with Amber for two years, of course she knew!
"Yeah, we're-" Carlos starts but is cut off by Mrs Knight re-entering the room.
"Nina, the cab is ready and waiting for you outside," she tells her, smiling.
"Thank you so much," she smiles picking up the plastic bag of bandages. She couldn't keep the pizza's in the ambulance, so she gave them to a homeless man, she conveniently spotted nearby. She hugs Mrs Knight one more time before going over to Katie.
"You are going to be just fine," she smiles once more, leaning down, hugging her before standing up. "And for the record Xenia does start with and 'x'."
"Sure, sure," Katie laughs as Nina heads for the door. "Wait," she calls out as she opens the door. "When will we see you again?" Nina thinks about it for a moment. She really shouldn't be making too many friends outside of the team right now but has to make sure Katie's okay.
"2J right?" Katie nods. "I'll see you soon then."
"Bye Nina," Katie replies, grinning.
"I'll see you all later," she tells them stepping out, before turning around again. "And I was just messing with you guys. I know who you are. Your music's great."
She walks down the hall, and into the cab,
"Where to?" The driver asks.
"Pizza Pan, please," she replies, as the driver, pulls out increasing the volume of the radio.
"Okay, so we're going throw it back a couple of years now. This is This is our Someday by Big Time Rush!" The guy on the radio show announces. Ironic, Nina thinks.
As she stops at Pizza Pan, she sees Jayden approaching the shop. Perfect timing.
"How much will that be?" She asks the driver.
"Don't worry about it," he replies. "The woman at the hospital already paid for you," he tells her. Nina just shakes her head smiling.
"Thank you," she says, stepping out as Jayden reaches her. He immediately hands her his jacket when he sees her. She forgot to get her shirt back from Katie.
"Thanks," she smiles.
"No problem, are you okay?" He asks, as they begin walking back to the house, Nina beginning to recount the events of the night.
Chapter four. Done. Well there you go! There are our members (well ¾ and more) of BTR. They're not quite main characters but don't worry they are relevant and will make quite a few appearances throughout the story. Besides, Nina's still got to meet Kendall! Anyways, I have you're enjoying the story and if you'd like to see anything just let me know in the reviews and I'll what I can do! You already know but I'll say it anyways – thanks for reading!
