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House of Power Rangers

Chapter 6: House of Truths

It's been almost a month since the team came together and this morning Ji and Jayden were watching the rangers train. As Jayden was the most experienced as well as their leader, on occasion he would just observe the rangers to see for places they could improve, or he could help them. However, when he did this it often meant someone was left without a partner and more often than not, was that person Nina. It wasn't always her of course, that would be unfair but with the way the team was set up and her level of skill she was just the one it often ended up being. She truly didn't mind too much because it wasn't like she was left out since they often had team training and if she ended up training late just for a break from schoolwork she would end up sparring with Jayden which was (almost) always a welcome challenge. Besides, it was interesting watching her teammates spar for example, Emily. In daily life, she was admittedly clumsy from time to time but seeing her with a sword you would never be able to tell. She was just so capable and sure when it was in her hands.

"Whoa!" Mike exclaims as he falls over the yellow ranger's wooden sword. She almost falls with him, worried, considering how hard he fell. However, only moments later she's chasing him inside, grabbing the attention of the others, making them follow the two inside. Entering the living room though, it's only Mike sitting on a chair rubbing his back.

"Hey, do you want me to get you some ice? That fall sounded-" Nina begins, walking over to him stopping once his face contorts, disgusted by the bag being held out to him.

"Frozen peas?" He questions.

"It's like an ice pack," Emily explains. "I was accident prone as a kid and it always healed me right up. Let me." But as she steps closer, Mike swiftly gets up from his seat, his hands raised slightly.

"No thanks," he replies, backing away, stumbling as he backs into the purple ranger.

"You really should," Emily says but he grabs Nina by the shoulders and moves her in front of him like a human shield, running away before Emily can step around her and chase him. "Come on! It'll make you feel better," she says, the other rangers and their mentor chuckling as Mike continues to run away but their laugher abruptly stops once the yellow ranger slips on another bag of peas, sending her and the bag in her hands to the floor. The team all rush to her side in an instant as the bag, Nina crouching in front of her as she raises her head, her face covered in peas.

"Em, are you okay?"

"They're everywhere! I'm such a disaster," she sighs. The bag in her hands, which had fortunately cushioned her fall, had burst open with the impact, sending peas flying around the room.

"No, you're not," Jayden assures her, resting a hand on her shoulder as Nina helps her wipes some of the peas from her face. "Accidents happen."

"And you were doing a nice thing," Kevin adds.

"I'm so sorry," Mike apologizes but she waves it off.

"No, it was my fault. I was being silly. I just messed things up as usual. I'll clean it all up," she says but as she tries to get up, she slips on some peas falling down again. "Not again," she groans, cringing.


It's slightly later in the day, (when the living rooms been cleaned up and Mike's feeling mostly better) that the rangers find themselves morphed and fighting a new Nighlok. When they first arrived only moments ago, they found people randomly flying into walls, the Nighlok not even touching them. However, they did hear it saying some pretty mean stuff to the people. Kevin, Mia and Mike flying back (after being called out for being 'boring', 'a lousy cook' and for having 'training wheels on your bike until you were ten,' respectively) only confused the rangers further.

"I don't get how he's sending everyone flying. All he's doing is saying mean things," Emily calls to her remaining teammates as the other regain their strength behind them.

"Keep your guard up. This one's tricky," Jayden warns.

"Come on! What tricks? I'm just telling the truth," the Nighlok scoffs. "My motto is, if the truth hurts, excellent. You're a red-faced liar, liar pants on fire. You've got a secret," he says to Jayden sliding him back into the building wall.

"Jayden!" Emily shouts surprised.

"I don't get it! What are you doing?" Nina yells just as confused.

"I told you. I'm just telling the truth. Now, now, chosey. Didn't your mother raise you not to keep secrets from your team, either? Oh wait, she's dead!" He says before he starts cackling causing Nina to go back, flying into Mike.

"You're horrible! You can't say that to a person," Emily begins attacking the monster with her spin sword but there's something different about her. While all it took was an insult to send others hurtling back, the Nighlok keeps listing a stream of hurtful things to Emily yet she keeps fighting back until he goes back through a gap.


It's not until the next day that the rangers are able to defeat the Nighlok, Negatron. The Nighlok was essentially a bully. He liked to hurt people's feeling and channelled mental pain into physical pain. Emily had unfortunately been teased as a child so she'd had to build up a tolerance to such torment and learn to ignore and dispute it to the point she is at today where people could insult her and it wouldn't hurt so bad as she would know it's not true. It was heart-breaking that she had had to learn to do something like that so young, but it proved to be a useful talent, nonetheless.

However, towards the end of their battle, once they had defeated the Nighlok, Jayden ended their victory call abruptly as the yellow began to fall. He caught her quickly though, before she could hit the ground. While Emily had put up a strong face, hearing all the insult mostly directed at her had clearly drained her more than she'd shown, which was how the blonde could be found on a certain green ranger's back as they ran to catch up with the ice cream van. She got down once they bought the ice cream, walking alongside her teammates.

"I have a question," Mike says suddenly, turning to Nina.

"Okay," she replies, waiting expectantly but Mike suddenly doesn't seem to know what to say.

"Right, well earlier we established that while I may have had training wheels, I didn't need them. And Mia's food is unique and original. Oh, and Kevin isn't boring he's just extremely disciplined and orderly." Nina raises her eyebrows slightly at the emphasis on 'extremely' also wondering where he's going with this.

"I was there, yes," she nods.

"Yeah, you were. But you didn't say anything about what the Nighlok said about you," he says, scratching his head. Nina bites her lip looking down for a moment before he continues to speak. "And I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but I know you are Jayden are keeping something from us too."

Nina furrows her brow, looking up at him.

"What?"

"The day the team came together I heard you guys talking," he admits, slightly ashamed.

"About?"

"How you guys already knew each other, and it was good to see each other again and that it's too early for you to tell us something," he tells her, and she nods. Nina just wondered how he didn't mean to eavesdrop but heard everything. "I just want you to know that I'm not forcing you to tell me or anything. I just felt bad that you didn't know I knew and about earlier I didn't bring it up so you have to tell me. I just want you that I get that while we haven't been here or known each other long you can trust me. You can trust all of us… and I was also too scared to tell Jayden."

"Mike," she says placing a hand on his arm to stop him from walking as the others continue ahead of them. "Of course, I trust you. I trust all of you guys and I know Jayden does too. That's not why there are things we can't tell you guys yet. There are things that happened to me over the past few years that I can't tell you about because there are more threats than the Nighlok and because of that, the less people who know, the better. As for me and Jayden…" she begins, suddenly not sure what to tell him. "Okay, promise me you won't tell anyone else, not yet."

"Okay," he nods, seriously.

"I'll admit we knew each other before we all met that day, but we hadn't been in contact for a long time. I will tell you and the others more but not right now. Just trust us," she says.

"I do trust you, Nina. Jayden too. Which is why I won't pry, and I won't tell the others until you're ready. Not that there's much to tell anyways," he shrugs.

"Thank you," she smiles as they begin walking again. "Although the reason you won't tell anyone is because you trust us?"

"Of course, it is!"

"So, it's not because Jayden's scary?" she teases, laughing when he lightly pushes her shoulder.

"Hey! I told you that in confidence!"

"No, you didn't," Nina laughs.

"We were having a moment. That means confidence," he tells her, which only makes her laugh more.

Chapter six is now over and out! Glad you got to see Nina bonding with another one of her teammates (I'm going to try to get her to have a little 'bonding chapter' with everyone) and figured now was as good a time as any for Mike to bring up that he heard them, but yeah we're getting a bit more plot and I'll see you on Friday and as usual, thanks for reading!