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House of Power Rangers

Chapter 29: House of Rangers

Nina isn't sure how long she lost consciousness for but as she looks around, she sees the other rangers stirring too and the moogers seem to just be waiting for them. She begins forcing herself up off the ground, despite her body saying no. Her morpher. It's her dad's voice again. You need her morpher.

"Lauren's?" Nina whispers, knowing she doesn't really have to say it out loud. Strangely enough, it made her feel less crazy when she answered out loud.

"You guys can stand, right?" Jayden asks. Not mine. "Cause we have to find a way to stop Master Xandred."

"I was just taking a little siesta," Antonio replies, 'casually' brushing him off as he gets up.

"Me too," Emily huffs, following suit.

"For generations," Kevin says, once everyone is standing, clearly injured but standing, nonetheless. "Our families have waited for this moment."

"What we do today," Jayden tells the team. "Will be remembered forever." Mine. Nina gasps surprised by the different voice. It's familiar… kind of like hers but not… who else could it be but her mother?

"Guys," Nina says. "I know what's missing. The thing I need to take down Master Xandred is my mum's morpher." The rangers turn to look at Jayden at that. "Please tell me we have it?"

"We do," Jayden nods. "It's back at the house. Mentor knows where. You call him," he pulls out his spin sword. "We'll take care of this." The other rangers pull out their spin sword too before charging into battle, without morphing. Nina quickly whips out her morpher, wanting to go help her friends.

"Mentor," she says once he answers. "I need my mum's morpher. Jayden said you know where it is."

"I do. I'll bring it. I'll be there soon," he replies so Nina quickly hangs up satisfied before pulling out her spin sword, heading straight for a group of moogers she easily takes down before more appear. If it wasn't such an intense battle, she would be impressed with all the tricks the team's doing, herself included. They're doing flips, back and front, cartwheels, award winning leaps, aerials, everything! It was crazy how far they'd come. It's not too long before Nina notices the sound of a motorbike. Could it really be Mentor already? Kicking a mooger out of the way, she sees that it is and while he may not look it during day to day life, he could definitely still fight which was evident in how he took down the moogers that approached him. Nina quickly noticed that the number of moogers left on the battlefield was quickly dwindling and in a matter of seconds all the moogers were gone, leaving the field clear to get to mentor.

"We kicked those moogers butts!" Mike exclaimed as they regrouped, running over.

"Is everyone alright?" Ji asks, worried by their dishevelled appearances.

"We're fine," Jayden nods.

"Don't worry mentor," Emily says. "You taught us to never give up. We'll beat Master Xandred if it's the last thing we do."

"And after that," Mike adds. "You're gonna teach me something new."

"What's that?" Ji asks.

"To ride your motorcycle."

"Now that scare me more than any Nighlok."

"This is for you," Ji says, walking towards Jayden.

"Another Shiba fire disc?" This worries Nina. Lauren put a lot into that first one and she was still recovering. "But, how could she?"

"She gave it everything she had, but I'm afraid it can only be used one time."

"One time," Jayden mutters. "I'll be sure not to waste it."

"Is Lauren okay?" Nina asks. Ji turns to her and nods.

"She'll be fine. Just tired." Ji, reach into another pocket pulling out a white disc, turning back to Jayden. "This disc belonged to your father. Before his last battle, he asked me to save it for a moment like this. Use it to double your power."

Jayden nods, taking the disc as Ji moves to stand in front of the purple ranger. He pulls out a box from a pouch, holding it slightly closer to himself than to her, not quite giving it to her yet.

"Are you sure you're ready to do this?" He asks her. She knows all the rangers are wondering it too. Of course, being a ranger in itself is dangerous. This particular battle, there was a chance that none of them would return… but what Nina had to, tipping the balance of not coming back (before it was about 50% for all of them but if she did this hers increased to 99% while reducing the others to about 20% since they would still have to face has slightly weaker mega mode) it was different. But to her… it was a no brainer. She puts out her hand and Ji sighs, opening the box. Inside however are two morphers. The first is not unlike Lauren's, the only difference being this one's purple. However, the second one is different, older, much, much, older. It was completely silver, except for the translucent purple symbol drawing tip.

"I was only going to bring this one," he says, pointing to the fully purple one, "But then I remembered that when your mother first joined us, she came with her own morpher, passed down from purple ranger to purple ranger. The one you used to practice with before you joined."

"It's this one," she replies, reaching for her original morpher, picking it up. You're ready.

"I'm ready," she nods, this time, the voice being her own.

"Everything rides on this last battle," Jayden says, the rangers knowing where they have to go now.


"Master Xandred!" Jayden yells at the enter the city centre. There's so much destruction, it's barely recognisable, but all the rangers had to do was follow the screams. Of course, they would lead to the Nighlok.

"Huh?" The Nighlok stops walking, confused as to where the voice was coming from.

"It's time to finish this!" As the smoke clears up and the rangers get closer, it becomes clear who's speaking to him.

"I thought I told you pathetic pests to wait."

"Sorry," Mike apologies, spin sword still in hand, despite not being morphed yet. "We became impatient."

"You will fall, and this world will be protected," Jayden continues.

"Rangers together, samurai forever," the rangers chant, getting into their preferred battle stances.

"Fools," Xandred scoffs. "Forever is shorter than you think. Attack!" As he calls it, the moogers, charge straight into the rangers. Master Xandred tries to walk away however the sight of the Nighlok king trying to escape only causes a boost in adrenaline in the rangers and soon enough the moogers are destroyed.

Jayden calls, pulling out his morpher "Rangers ready."

"Go, go samurai!" the others call following suit. If they were really going to do this – go up against Xandred – they could use the extra protection.

"Rangers you will fall!" Xandred yells, sending a blast at them but the rangers jump back, and attack, surprising Xandred for a moment before he swings into battle, ready. "I've had enough of these games!" He sends another blast of nether wind at them, but they jump out of the way, kneeling down with their morphers out.

"Symbol power," Mia, Antonio and Mike call, writing out their symbol (more accurately typing for Antonio). "Capture!"

"Symbol power, capture," Emily, Kevin and Jayden repeat on the other side, Nina crouched down behind them, ready to strike as soon as they're done. While he tries to block the symbols effect, Xandred is still held captive by them, dropping his sword.

"You think your power symbols can hold me for long?" He taunts as Nina stands up behind her friends, jumping over them to reach the Nighlok.

"Long enough," she replies, drawing out her original morpher, which draws Xandred's attention.

"What's a little girl like you going to do with that?"

"Oh, do you recognise this morpher?"

"Sure, I do. But to you it's just a toy."

"Unless I'm the chosen one, right?" Nina taunts, drawing a glowing symbol on her right hand. Life.

"You're lying," Xandred snarls.

"You wanna test that theory?"

"The purple ranger was of no threat to me. It was the previous red ranger who had Amneris' blood. I already defeated his daughter."

Nina lets out a laugh, "He had two." Somehow, Nina sees his face change in understanding.

"No!" Xandred yells, struggling against the bounds of the symbols even harder as Nina takes his hand drawing another symbol onto his right palm. Death.

"No but yes," Nina nods, gripping his hand so the symbols are connected.

"You can't do this. This will destroy you too," Xandred gasps but Nina ignores him, drawing the kanji for joy on the back of her hand while drawing the symbol of sorrow on to the back of Xandred's. She can't activate it until the boundary symbols are released so she speaks while she waits.

"I know the risks. See when you absorbed Dayu she told you her heart stayed human and you used that to your advantage. However, no matter how much humanity you absorb you are Nighlok through and through. No loopholes to get out of this one." She draws the final glowing symbol to bind on his wrist. "Time to see who's stronger." The capture symbols drop but before Xandred can react Nina activates the symbols, both of them immediately held in place, neither able to let go as a bright light emitting from Nina, while darkness emits from Xandred and Nina knows the others can no longer see what's going on. Nina doesn't quite know how to describe exactly what's going on. Where their hands are joined, she can feel a sort of tingle as he tries to force his darkness onto her, but she pushes back, refusing to let him win. They're at this standstill for a few minutes, neither willing to give in but then Nina feels Xandred's power crawling up her wrist, her veins turning black and it begins to drain her.

"You think you can beat me?" Xandred growls. "Let's see how confident you are in my domain." He grips her hand tighter and Nina just feels a strange sensation of passing through cold water, although she knows she's dry, but her surroundings have changed. It's strangely familiar… red and humid and…

"We're in the netherworld," she gasps and Xandred laughs.

"Yes. Even if you were strong enough to destroy me, I think this place will get to you first." She can already feel herself getting too warm. Way too hot. But she can't think about that. Breathing heavier, she shuts her eyes and focuses, not on fighting back but everything she's fighting for. For her parents. For the city. For the world. For her team… she thinks back to the letters. The ones she left on her desk for the rangers to find just in case… and the letter from her parents. Not the one she gave to the team but the other one that was in the envelope too.

Dear Nina,

Let me just say, that if you're reading this that means neither your mother or I made it back home and for that I am so sorry. Right now, you're five years old and in bed. Not your bed though. You couldn't sleep and your mother and I were preparing to leave so you're with Jayden who sang you to sleep. However, because of my plan, I suppose he hasn't done so since. I know it's been a while since you've seen any of your siblings, but I'm sure your grandmother has raised a daughter we would be proud of. I wish your mother and I could have done it ourselves but since we can't we figured we'd leave you this, just so you know that our last thoughts were of you, Jayden and Lauren. We wanted a better life for you.

Your mum and I are writing this letter together so just know this is our wish for you. We want you to be happy. To have moments of joy and laughter even when things are looking down. We want you to be with your siblings. We're so sorry that we had to separate the three of you so young, especially when you needed each other. I just hope that by the time you're back together, you're not strangers to each other and you still recognise each other as family. We hope you find a love as deep and as real as ours. Not a fairy tale prince, who's perfect all the time but someone who challenges you, faces obstacles with you, sees you at your best and your worse and decides to be all in anyways. Someone who helps you grow. Someone who loves you and you have no doubt in your heart that it's true. Someone who would move heaven and earth just to see the beautiful smile that we love so much. For you Nina, we want the whole world.

I'm sure you understand why we had to do what we did, knowing that we had the three of you kids at home, but I hope you don't resent us for it. You have to know that leaving you guys that night was the hardest thing either of us have ever had to do. The only reason we could was because we knew that if we didn't try to seal Master Xandred away, this world would be too dangerous. He was getting too powerful, too dangerous and the best way for us to protect you was to buy you time to seal away Xandred without us than to stay and comfort you. If I'm being honest though, it was a close call for me. I so badly wanted to stay and given the choice again, I don't know if I could do it but know this, we don't regret our choice. Not when it means that you're all still here.

Most importantly, Nina, I want you to know that I love you, and I love you, more than you could ever know. When I first married your mother, I never thought I could be happier and then you and your brother and sister were born, and you brought a new type of joy into my life that I never knew to be possible. At five years old, we're already proud to be called your parents so we can only imagine how we would feel now. We know you and your team will defeat Xandred and when you do, we hope you finally get to live your life freely, without all the secrecy.

(By the way, we've written letters for Jayden and Lauren too, but we wanted you to get this first. Just because of the other letter you had to read first. We also thought it would be nice if you could be the one to give it to them. They're together under the loose floorboard in your room – oh yeah. We knew about that).

If this is the last thing, you hear from us then let it be this. We, your mum and dad, love you, always and forever.

She feels a relief as the darkness stops climbing up her but instead retreats as she pushes forwards, the light beyond her eyelids getting brighter. Opening her eyes (surprisingly without difficulty due to the light), she sees that not only are they back in the human world but almost all the light from her is gone, instead spilling into Xandred with the light eluding from him in cracks of light. It reminds her of what happened with Deker and as if on cue, she hears his voice, free him.

"This is impossible!" Xandred yells. Her morpher won't work here, somehow, she knows it… but she doesn't need it. Raising her left hand, she draws the symbol with her finger, straight onto Xandred's chest. Freedom.

"No," she huffs. "It's not." As soon as she activates it, the two are blast apart, Nina de-morphed as she slams into a building before landing on the ground, closer to the rangers who rush over to her just as Xandred explodes.

"Nina!" she hears Jayden say and she's pretty sure he's yelling but he sounds pretty quiet and from how close he's getting to her, she's pretty sure he should sound louder. Everything hurts and she's pretty sure she can feel something slowly rolling down her neck.

"It hurts," she grunts, shifting slightly. With a tremendous amount of effort, she raises her hand to the base of her hair line, and it comes away red. "And there's blood in my hair."

"I know," Jayden replies, helping to pull her up so she's resting her head against his chest. "You'll be okay."

"His mega mode," she breathes. "Will… be here soon." But as she's speaking her eyes keep fluttering shut.

"Nina," Mike says but looking up at him, his features are blurry. Wait, maybe it's her eyesight that's blurry. "Nina?"

"Yeah?" She says, blinking a few times, hoping it will help clear her vision a bit and it does but looking around at the rangers, they've all taken off their helmets and she sees tears in their eyes. Why are they upset?

"Nina, no," Jayden whispers and when Nina looks up, she sees tears streaming down his cheeks. "Please don't. Not you." Nina's so lost. What's happened? Why is everyone so upset? She raises a hand up to Jayden's cheek and he places his gloved one over hers as she uses her thumb to wipe away tears.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

"I just love you, and I don't like seeing you in pain," he laughs tearily.

Nina smiles, dropping her hand as he presses a kiss into her hair, "I love you too." Is that why they're all sad? Are they emphasising because they think she's in pain? They don't need to worry about that anymore, she reaches for Jayden's hand. "But you don't – you don't need to cry. It doesn't hurt anymore," she sighs and at that Jayden chokes out another cry. Her eyelids are unbelievably heavy; she has to shut them, just for a moment… so she does.

"I can't help it," Jayden says. Why is he so quiet? Nina wonders. "But then again, you've always been stronger than me." Looking down at the girl, Jayden whispers meekly. "Nina." He shakes her gently. "Nina." He says it slightly louder this time but her grip on his hand slackens and he can't help but stare at it as if falls onto her stomach. He's pretty sure he hears as gasp and movement from the other rangers, but he can't focus on them. "Nina?" He asks, his voice breaking. He feels her take a breath… and another… and another and… "No." Nothing. "No," he says, shaking her again. "No! Nina, please no!" He cries but the girl in his arms doesn't respond. He buries his face at her neck, holding her head up with his hand. "You can't. You're my baby sister, you can't be gone. Not now. Not like this."

The rangers don't even notice the lightning striking through the sky until an unwelcome voice thunders, "Samurai rangers! Now your world will end! Time to face my wrath!" The Nighlok sends blasts down at them, Jayden shielding his sister with his body as Xandred cackles.

"No Master Xandred!" Jayden replies, laying Nina down, putting on his helmet as he stands up. He looks down at her for a moment before drawing his morpher. He doesn't want to leave her alone but... they can't stay with her. "My sister is dead because of you! It's time for you to face the wrath of the samurai! Black box! Time for one last mega battle!"

"Mega mode power!" The rangers yell, calling their zords. "Ultimate samurai combination. Samurai gigazord! We are untied!" As the rangers enter the megazord, Xandred muses.

"I really should've guessed. You both have the same annoying persistence. In any case, I say good riddance. She was a real ache in the behind." That comment only riles up the rangers more. Unfortunately, slightly blinded by emotion, their random hits aren't exactly doing the job.


"Eddie?" Nina asks. She has no idea how he's here right now. Did he seriously get on that plane?

"Not quite," he replies and taking a closer look while Nina's sure it is Eddie's body, she realises it's not exactly him.

"You're my Osirian," and he nods. "What are you doing here?"

"Nina," he says kindly. "I don't think you know quite where 'here' is."

"Sure, I do. It's…" But looking around she realises her Osirian's right. She definitely wasn't outside of the Shiba house, her home, two minutes ago. How on earth did she get here? "What happened?"

"You really don't know what happened, do you?" He says and Nina tries to think back. They went into battle, she went against Xandred, he took her to the Netherworld, but she defeated him… and then everyone was crying around her… She claps a hand to her mouth as her jaw drops.

"I died," she breathes. "That's why they were all so upset. I'm actually dead." Just as she feels as though her legs are going to give out, there's a steady arm around her.

"Hey, hey, it's alright. That's why I'm here. I can help," Eddie says.

"Help how? I'm dead."

"Yes, and I'm your Osirian. I'm supposed to protect you and I still can but it's up to you."

"What do you mean?" Nina asks, intrigued.

"I mean, your parents are straight through there," he says, pointing at the gate and looking into the house, Nina's sure she can see movement. "If you'd like, I can leave you to stay with them… but you see that fist that you haven't unclenched since you got here?" She looks down at her left hand and realises he's right. She can suddenly feel the tension in her muscles. "You're still holding onto a bit of life. You gave almost everything to Xandred. But that drop you're holding onto is the only reason I can offer to give you my life force. Enough for you to return to the world."

"Your life force? I can't let you do that; I won't let you die," Nina says, shaking her head but Eddie just laughs.
"It won't kill me. Trust me, I'll hardly even feel it. Besides, as you recover it'll return to me, but the choice is yours," he says. "Although, I must admit, I would much rather you return. Both as your Osirian and your friend." Nina can't help but laugh; it's Eddie's body but he would never speak like that. She wonders if her Eddie's in there somewhere, just watch it all unfurl. Opening her fist, she realises that the 'drop of life' her Osirian is referring to is even less than that. It's like a speck of light, flickering like a dying bulb in the palm of her hand and one so faint that she only notices it because she's looking for it.

"Then…" Nina says, looking longingly at her house. Her parents are right there. She could see them. She could hear them. She could feel them… but she could do that later. Right now, the team needs her help. "I could use that life force."


"Take this!" Xandred yells blasting them! "I hate you rangers! I'll take you down if it's the last thing I do!" He blasts them again, this time it's so powerful they fall off their stands in the megazord!

"Xandred's more powerful than ever!" Emily grunts, getting up. "What do we do now?"

"At this rate," Mia begins. "We won't last long."

"I'll try to buy us some time," Kevin says, pulling out his morpher. "Samurai symbol power-"

"Wait," Jayden says, holding out his hand to stop Kevin. "Don't use symbol power yet."

"Why not?"

"We can't use it in small amounts. He'll win that way."

"He's right," The unmorphed purple ranger nods, entering the megazord, shocking everyone, especially Jayden.

"But you – how," he asks, disbelievingly. "How are you here? I saw you – I felt you-" He can't seem to get a full sentence out.

"It's a long story that we don't have time for right now but," she smiles, "I'm gonna be just fine. Let's just deal with the problem at hand," she suggests just as Jayden almost runs over to hug her tight, de-morphing on the way.

"Careful," she warns, only partially joking as she says, "I was just dead. Still very fragile." Kissing her head, he pulls away turning to the team, morale boosted greatly because of the unfallen ranger.

"We have to de-morph and combine every last ounce of our symbol power into one grand strike."

"What?" Antonio asks.

"I was essentially just drained and you guys used loads, capturing Master Xandred. None of us have enough power on our own," Nina explains as Jayden hands her the Shiba fire disc. She looks up at him the question of whether he's sure in her eyes and he just nods.

"We can only beat him as a team," Jayden says, the other rangers de-morphing now as Nina and Jayden walk to their stands.

"One attack?" Mike asks.

"What if we miss?" Mia questions.

"Then we have to get so close that we can't miss."

"We have to do it," Emily nods. "To save the world."

"Sounds risky and dangerous," Antonio says, "Let's do it!"

"Remember, no matter what happens, we cannot retreat! We have to keep going at all cost, even if we only have one zord left. Everything is riding on this one attack."

"Right!" The rangers nod, putting their zords back in their places in succession from Mia to Emily.

"Okay then," Jayden smirks. "Charge!"

"So, you're coming back for more, eh?" Xandred attack them with lightning.

"We just lost three of our zords!" Kevin exclaims, the three going flying off.

"Keep going!" Jayden says. "We still have eight of our zords left." As the megazord moves forwards again Xandred scoffs.

"You just don't know when to quit!" He begins striking them with his large sword, but the rangers continue to charge.

"We'll never quit!" Jayden announces.

"Almost there!" Antonio grunts and Xandred laughs.

"You're making this so easy!" The Nighlok thrust his sword in between some zords of the megazord, making it explode, zords flying off as he pulls it out!

"We've lost more zords!" Kevin cries.

"Destroying you piece by piece," Xandred cackles as Jayden encourages the team.

"Keep going!"

"Are you really that determined to march to your own destruction?" He swings again this time it's their shield that goes flying, which Mia alerts the team of. It's just the original megazord now but there's no matter… they're close enough.

"Okay guys," Jayden begins. "This is it. I just want to say that no red ranger has ever led a better team of samurai. I'm honoured to have fought beside you and to call you my friends."

"I know we all feel the same way," Kevin replies, the other rangers nodding in agreement.

"It all comes down to this," Jayden says. "Now! Use all the symbol power you have left!" They push the sword forwards. "It's go time!" he yells, all the rangers pulling out their swords, Jayden putting the double power disc and Nina puts on the Shiba fire disc.

"Samurai strike!"

"Impossible!" Xandred yells but it's too late. "Samurai rangers! Hear me now! You maybe have won this battle but our quest to rule your world will never end. You may have defeated me but the Nighlok will rise again!" Just as Xandred explodes, the red Sanzu water begin rush back through the gaps.


As the rangers leave the megazord, they almost immediately fall the ground in the ruins of the city plaza. They all look a mess, Nina the worse of them all.

"Jayden!" They hear and looking up they see their mentor! "Rangers! You did it! The Nighlok are defeated!" The rangers laugh incredulously, for a moment before running to mentor in a group hug of relief.

"I'm so proud of you!"

"Wait," Antonio says, pulling back, resting a hand on Jayden's shoulder. "Say it one last time."

Jayden laughs, "Let's say it together." He puts his hand in the middle, the others putting their hands-on top, Ji included.

"Samurai rangers! Victory is ours!" They cheer although their moment of celebration is cut short by the sound of footsteps. Out of reflex, the rangers get into position but a moment later it's revealed to be a crowd of people, and new crews with microphone and cameras!

"Guys, I think this is it!" They hear a reporter say over the noise of other people talking. "I think this is them! Our cities protector's identities are finally revealed!" The rangers are suddenly overwhelmed, having no idea what to do. They've always been so careful with when they transformed. It figures it would be today they are found out. As microphones and cameras are put in their faces there is one prevailing question.

"Can you confirm that you are in fact these power rangers?"

Suddenly very self conscious and unsure of what to do the rangers look at one another before Ji speaks up proudly, "Yes, these are the power rangers samurai." This causes gasps to sound throughout the crowd.

"And did you do it? Are the attacks finally going to stop?"

"Yes," Ji nods. "They have just destroyed the leader of all these attacks and his minions. They've saved our world." A round of applause sounds throughout the crowd.

"And there you have it," the report smiles, turning back to the camera. "These are not only our city, but our world's protectors, the samurai power rangers!"

Chapter twenty-freaking-nine! The whole bloody world is going to know in a matter of hours! What are the rangers going to do? Find out in the final chapter on Friday. Thanks for reading