A/N: So here we go, chapter 2, lemme know your thoughts, reviews are always appreciated.
Chapter 2
They galloped through the streets, not caring about the looks they attracted, they had bigger things to worry about.
As they got closer to a small group each holding a folding zord they heard the question being fired around.
They pull the horses to a stop each one rearing slightly in front of the group.
"Whoa" says Emily.
"With an entrance like that you have to be the red ranger" says Mike.
"Yes, I am the red ranger" nods Jayde pulling out his folding zord.
"Which would make you black" guesses Mia as she looks at Evie.
Evie pulls out her own folding zord, "right again" she says.
"We're your team of samurai" beams Kevin and Evie has to suppress a small chuckle at his enthusiasm and she can already see some hero worship on his face as he looks at Jayden. She also notes the judgemental side glance coming from Mike who clearly had noticed as well.
"Let me warn you now, if you follow me, there is no turning back. Either we defeat the Nighlok together, or they will take over the world" warns Jayden before pulling out a samuraiser.
"I will only give these to you if you are ready. And don't accept them just because you've been trained too" he continues as he dismounts, and Evie follows suit.
"Accept them only if you are willing to commit and fight as samurai rangers with all your heart" finishes Jayden.
"Without hesitation" nods Kevin.
"I've been planning for this since I was a little girl, so yes" agrees Mia.
"I'm ready to give it all I've got" assures Emily with a smile and Evie can just tell she's a perky one.
"Okay, okay, do we have to be so formal? Lets do this thing" smiles Mike.
Jayden looks at Evie who nods and grabs the samuraisers from the bag handing them to Jayden who in turn throws them to each of the new rangers.
"Lets go" he says.
They turn and head towards the spot that the Moogers and Nighlok were terrorising, changing into their uniforms before arriving.
"That's enough" yells Jayden as they see the Moogers and the Nighlok, stopping at the top of the stairs.
"Oh come on, who are you punks?" demands the Nighlok.
"We're the samurai rangers" answers Jayden.
"Samuraisers, go, go samurai" they calls each drawing their symbols as they morph.
Only Evie and Jayden having done it before.
"Rangers together, samurai forever" they call before charging into battle.
Initially they hold their own but the Moogers keep coming.
"There's dozens of them" cries Emily.
"We can hold them off" assures Mike.
"Guys, we can do this, together" says Jayden as he pulls out his disk.
"Fire smasher" he shouts as his spin sword transforms.
He charges forwards taking out the Moogers.
"What's he doing?" demands Mike.
"Being Jayden" smiles Evie, "always trying to take all my fun" she adds as she pulls out her own disk and activates it. "ingot whip" she shouts as her own blade transforms into an elegant silver whip and she races into battle.
"Wow they're incredible" says Emily.
"Yeah but there's too many of them" reminds Kevin, "we have to help them out" he adds.
"Lets do it" nods Emily as each one activates their own special attack and joins the fray.
Evie battles the Moogers off, while Jayden goes for the Nighlok, knowing the others could deal with the Moogers.
It doesn't take him long to finish off the Nighlok as he does he sees the others appearing.
"Did you see how I rocked that Nighlok attack?" asks Mike.
"What about Evie?" asks Emily in awe as she looked at the older ranger.
"We all did great" says Mia.
"Awesome samurai moves, you really are a master samurai" compliments Kevin as he looks at Jayden.
Evie snorts and rolls her eyes underneath her helmet.
"Thanks but we're not done yet" says Jayden.
"Each Nighlok has two forms" explains Evie.
"You saw the first, now get set for the megamonster" warns Jayden.
A moment later the Nighlok grows into its giant form.
"Time to crush some ranger bums" taunts the Nighlok as he tries to step on them.
The rangers dive out of the way.
"He's so big" says Emily.
"How do we fight him now?" asks Mia.
"Guys we can do this, remember your training" says Kevin as he stands up and almost hits Mike with his sword as he holsters it. "We each have our folding zords, if we each use our symbol power, we can morph into megamode" reminds Kevin.
"You're right, follow my lead" says Jayden, "Lion folding zord, megamode power" as he draws his symbol and activates his zord.
The others all follow suit and soon enough, the lion, fox, ape, dragon, turtle and bear are racing towards the Nighlok. Each zord using its skills to take him down, before finally working in concert and sending him down for good.
As they land back on the ground and de-morph their zords shrink as well returning to their folded forms and but not before Evie's knocks Jayden's out of the air.
Evie grabs her zord and scolds it gently before stowing it in her pocket.
"Lets get you guys to your new home" says Jayden looking at the others.
"That'd be nice" nods Emily.
"And you get to meet Mentor Ji" adds Evie as they start to walk.
"Why do you not make that sound like a good thing?" asks Mike warily.
"She's teasing" assures Jayden, "don't start on them before we've even gotten home" he chides.
"You ruin all my fun" pouts Evie.
"What's fun for you is often not quite as much fun for others" reminds Jayden.
"They had it coming" shrugs Evie.
"Okay now the battles done do you guys want to explain this dynamic, cause we've never met before and yet its obvious you two know each other really well" says Mike.
Jayden glances at Evie who sighs, she didn't want to reveal everything, not to four people who were perfect strangers.
"Evie's parents are both gone, she was left in Mentor Ji's care when she was 8, she's lived at the Shiba house ever since, we've known each other for over 12 years" says Jayden simply. "So yes, we do know each other very well" he adds though neither was currently revealing just how well they knew each other.
Everyone nods, not wanting to comment on her parents or hit any sore spots so instead they settle for a topic change.
"So what's the bedroom and bathroom situation?" asks Mike.
"You and Kevin will share a room, Mia and Emily will share a room, Evie and I each have our own" replies Jayden, "if no one has any objections?" he asks.
"No way its your home, you guys having your own rooms is no issue" assures Mia.
"And bathrooms?" prompts Emily.
"Jayden and I share one, Mentor has his own, and there's another two that you guys can share" explains Evie.
"Sounds good, girls one and a boys one" nods Mike.
"So glad you approve" says Evie with a chuckle.
They eventually arrive back at the Shiba house, "that was such a rush" says Emily looking at her folding zord.
"We did good" agrees Mike.
"And we couldn't have done it without each other" smiles Jayden.
Evie glances at him and smiles as well, she knew Jayden would be good at this.
"Thanks for leading us into battle" says Kevin looking at Jayden and Evie and Mike both share a look at the still clear hero worship, clearly Kevin was a very dedicated samurai.
"Bravo" says Ji as he walks out of the house.
"Such energy, such grace" he smiles as comes over to them.
"I take it that's Mentor Ji?" guesses Mike.
"The one and only" smiles Evie.
"Welcome to your new home. You've all come from different places and families. But share one noble goal. I'm very proud of how you've all come together" says Ji.
"We just followed some good advice and worked as a team" smiles Jayden.
"Yes, but you are not just any team, you are the samurai rangers" replies Ji.
The group all look at each other, "rangers together" smiles Jayden pulling out his folding zord.
"Samurai forever" reply the others their own zords out.
"Come on, lets get everyone settled" says Ji.
They head inside their stuff having already arrived given all their parents knew where to send things.
"Kevin and Mike, that's you, Mia and Emily you're in there" says Jayden pointing to two different doors, "get your stuff settled and then we'll show you around" he adds.
They nod and disappear into their rooms, Evie hangs back with Jayden and Ji.
"I told you that you could do it" smiles Evie as she looks at Jayden.
"Thanks for having faith in me" says Jayden.
"You've trained for this, you'll be a good leader Jayden" assures Ji, "now I am going to prepare dinner, everyone will be hungry" he says as he disappears into the kitchen.
Jayden and Evie head towards their own rooms but at the last moment Evie grabs Jayden's hand and pulls him into her room sliding behind the door so no could see them.
"We're supposed to be keeping this quiet" reprimands Jayden quietly.
"I know, but this might be the last chance we get for a while, we need to let things settle first. So, kiss me and make it a good one" she says.
Jayden shakes his head but smiles and wraps an arm around her waist pulling her against him the other cupping her face and brushing her hair back before leaning down and capturing her lips in a searing kiss.
Evie responds immediately, one of her hands fisting in his shirt while the other tangles in his hair, a desperate mix of tongues and lip crashing together.
When they have to break for air they don't separate and spend a moment just gazing at each other, "I love you" says Evie.
"I love you too" smiles Jayden running his thumb over her cheek kissing her forehead before stepping back, "we'll get a read on the others and let things settle and then we'll work out how we work with so many people around" promises Jayden.
"Sounds, well not good, but sensible" agrees Evie.
"Glad you approve" says Jayden.
"I wouldn't say I approve, I think tolerate is a better word" corrects Evie.
"Well thank you for tolerating this" chuckles Jayden.
"Anytime, now lets go help them unpack" she says.
Evie walks into the girls room, and Jayden heads into the boys room.
It didn't take them long to get all their stuff in place though it does erupt into a small argument when it becomes clear Mike has a lot more stuff than Kevin and he is a lot more messy.
"Dude you need to keep your stuff on your side" huffs Kevin.
"It is on my side, what do you want to do, draw a line down the middle?" retorts Mike.
"If it keeps you from spreading that mess onto my side, then yes" snaps Kevin.
"Okay guys, you're going to have to learn to live together, so Mike can make as much mess as he likes on his side of the room, and Kevin you just ignore it as long as it's not encroaching on your side" suggests Jayden.
Evie appeared in the doorway with Emily and Mia at the commotion, "wow who set off the bomb?" asks Mia.
"It's not that bad" huffs Mike, "I know where everything is" he adds.
"It's up to you what you do on your side, I'm sure Kevin can rise above it and be the mature one" says Evie pointedly.
Kevin puffs his chest out, "of course I can be the mature one" he nods.
Mike rolls his eyes but turns to Evie and gives her a grateful smile, Evie just winks in response.
"If we're all unpacked, we'll show you all the rest of the house" says Jayden.
"Dojo, main room and living room" he says pointing to them as they walk.
"Kitchen is through here, Mentor does most of the cooking in the evening, but there's stuff to make your own" says Evie pointing to it.
"Oh I love to cook" smiles Mia.
"Rooms are obviously down the hall, I'm on the right, Evie is on the left. Mentor Ji has his own room, office and bathroom through that door there" says Jayden pointing to it.
"I'll do some food. I imagine that took a bit out of you" smiles Ji.
Jayden and Evie follow him out and immediately hear an argument erupt between Kevin and Mike.
"That's going to need some time to settle" says Jayden.
"I think we'll all need a little time to settle" notes Ji.
"Probably, four new people in the house, definitely going to require some time" agrees Evie.
"We knew this was coming" reminds Jayden.
"Things are certainly not going to be quiet around here" says Evie.
"No, of that I am certain" nods Ji as he disappears into the kitchen.
Something crashes in Emily and Mia's room followed by a stream of apologise, and then the sound of the argument in Kevin and Mike's room creeps up to them.
"Congratulations red ranger, this is our new team" smirks Evie patting him on the shoulder.
"Things just need to settle" says Jayden.
"Hopefully, because we seem to have some characters now, at the very least. I think life is going to be anything but dull, and that's not even counting the Nighloks" chuckles Evie, "but don't worry, I have complete faith in you" she assures before turning and walking into the kitchen.
"I really hope that's true" murmurs Jayden as he turns and walks into the kitchen as well.