Chapter 13: Episode 11
Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers.
On Saturday Carson was in the park jogging on the path. He had earbuds in and as he made his way around the park, he noticed Nia sitting on a bench under a tree cleaning her clarinet. He smiled and walked over to her.
"Hey Nia!" he said.
Nia jumped and turned to look at Carson.
"Carson! You scared me," said Nia with a hand on her chest.
Carson grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "Sorry about that I didn't mean to do that, so why are you in the park?"
"I wanted to practice my clarinet but then my brothers were playing a game on their Xbox and it quickly became a shouting match between them," she said.
"Oh," said Carson as he sat down next to her.
"I told them to keep it down, but I guess they weren't listening to me," said Nia.
She then noticed that Carson was sitting next to her and she blushed.
"S-so what are y-you doing here?" she asked.
"Well I decided that since the football team didn't have a game yesterday that I wanted to go jogging to make sure I stay in shape," he said.
"O-oh," Nia said.
"Yea so coach decided that were going to practice later today," he said.
"Oh, are you guys going to practice tomorrow?" she asked.
"That's depends on today's practice," Carson said as he got up, "Anyway I'm going to take off now."
Nia looked at him quizzically, "W-why, is y-your practice s-starting soon?"
"No, but I like to be there early," he said, "Well I'll see you later."
"O-ok l-later," said Nia as he left.
Once Carson was gone, Nia put her hand over her heart again, "Someday I'll tell him."
In space
Incisor and Malevia were walking in the prison.
"Are sure this monster will defeat the rangers and get me those crystals?" Incisor asked.
"Of course, sir!" said Malevia, "He's known as one of the deadliest hunters in the universe."
"For your sake I hope you're right," said Incisor.
The aliens stopped in front of a cell. In the cell was an alien with a dragon face. The alien's body was covered in blood red scales. He also had a sword on his waist.
"Draco," Malevia said as she and Incisor stood in front of his cell.
The alien looked at them, "Is it time for me to be executed?"
Incisor shook his head and his eyes glowed, "Actually I have a job for you."
Draco's eyes glowed, "What is it that you command my lord?"
Incisor brought up a picture of the crystals, "I want you the retrieve these crystals for me."
Then he showed a picture of the rangers, "These annoying pests have taken them from me."
Draco nodded and stood up, then Malevia opened the cell and Draco walked out.
"Malevia go with him," said Incisor.
"Yes sir!" she said as she and Draco left.
Back on Earth
Trevor and Damien were currently in hanging out at the mall.
"I still can't believe you bought that game," said Trevor.
Damien looked down at the bag in his hand and grinned.
"What I really wanted this game," he said as he pulled it out.
It was the new Street Fighter game.
"I didn't know you like those kinds of games," said Trevor.
"Well, a few of the guys on the soccer team got me into it," Damien said.
The two then left the mall and saw Nia walking out of the park.
"Nia!" they shouted.
Nia then turned towards them. She smiled and waved at them.
"Hey guys, what are you guys up to?" she asked.
"Damien here wanted to get a new game," Trevor said as Damien held up his game.
"'Street Fighter' I didn't know you liked these kinds of games," Nia said.
"I said the same thing," said Trevor.
"So why were you in the park Nia?" asked Damien as he put his game away.
Before Nia could say anything, the rangers saw people running from ingots and Malevia and Draco.
"Looks like we got company," said Nia as she put her clarinet in her backpack.
"Yep seems like it," said Damien as he put his bag in his jacket pocket.
"Let's go guys!" said Trevor.
"Right!" the others said as they ran at the aliens.
At the cave
Addy was helping Chronos build a new zord.
"I've never thought that in my lifetime, that I would build a zord," said Addy as she wiped away sweat.
"Neither have I," said Chronos, "I thank you for your help again Addison."
Addy smiled at him, "No problem, happy to help."
Then the alarm sounded, which caused the two to run over to the computer.
"What's going on?" asked Addy.
"I'm detecting alien lifeforms in the city," said Chronos, "I'm going being it up now."
A video popped up on the screen and the saw the rangers fighting the aliens.
"We have to get a hold of Carson and James," said Chronos.
Addy nodded and called the others.
With James
James was currently in the gym working out. He was on the bench press and was finishing his rep was his communicator went off. He ran into the locker room and looked to make sure he was alone and answer it.
"James here," he said.
"James there are aliens attacking the mall and Trevor, Damien, and Nia are fighting them now," said Addy.
James nodded, "What about Carson?"
"I don't know, I've tried calling him but he's not answering," said Addy.
"Alright I'll go on ahead and keep trying to get ahold of him," James said.
"Ok, I'll teleport you there be careful," said Addy.
"I will," said James as he was teleported away.
With Carson
Carson was at football practice and they were currently taking a break.
Carson poured water on his head and said, "Aww just what I need."
He looked over to the city and began to worry.
'Why do I have a bad feeling right now?' he thought to himself.
"Carson! Break's over!" his coach screamed, and he snapped back to reality.
"Ok!" he shouted back and ran over to the team.
Back in the locker room, in Carson's bag, his communicator was beeping, it then changed into his morpher and the bison symbol disappeared, and it changed back into communicator.
Back at the battle
The others had just finish off the ingots and were getting ready to face off with Malevia and Draco.
"You're going to have to do better than that if want to beat us," said Trevor.
"Laugh while you can," said Malevia. She then towards Draco, "Show then what you can do."
"Of course," he nodded.
He pulled out his sword and ran his right hand down it and it was covered in fire. He threw a slash of fire at them. But before the slash wave hit then, James, fully morphed, stepped in front of them and blocked it with his boomerangs.
"I don't think so dragon breath," said James. He turned towards his friends, "So am I late for the party?"
They laughed, "In fact, you're just on time," said Nia.
"Better late than never," said Damien.
"Where's Carson?" asked Trevor.
"Addy said she can't get a hold of him," said James.
"Well we can't wait for him forever," said Trevor as he and the others summoned their morphers.
"It's morphin' time!" said Trevor as the others nodded.
"Beast Force Awaken!" they said.
Morphing Sequence
"Red Falcon!"
"Yellow Lion!"
"Blue Dolphin!"
End Sequence
Now morphed, the rangers brought out their swords and James raised his boomerangs.
"Let's go guys!" said Trevor.
"Right!" said the others.
"Destroy them!" said Malevia as she and Draco attacked the rangers.
Trevor kicked at Draco, but he blocked his foot with his arm and Damien brought his sword down and Draco blocked it with his sword. Draco threw them to the side and slashed both rangers and they stepped back. Trevor and Damien regained their footing, looked to each other and nodded to each other. Damien brought out his Lion Smasher and shot at Draco. Draco fell back and recovered. He looked up and saw Trevor bringing his two swords down. Trevor began to repeatedly slash Draco and he kicked Draco in the gut. Trevor spread his arms to the side and Damien jumped off his shoulders and his Lion Smasher glowed yellow and he punched Draco in his chest. Damien then jumped next to Trevor and pulled out his blaster.
"You ready?" asked Trevor.
"Always," said Damien.
Trevor's swords glowed as well as Damien's weapons.
"Later dragon breath," said Trevor as he sent red slashes and Damien shot yellow lasers at Draco, which resulted in an explosion.
The two rangers lowered their weapons and look at each other.
"Did we get him?" asked Damien.
Suddenly ropes were shot out and tied the rangers up. Draco slowly walked out, with his arms pointed forwards.
"No, I don't think so," said Trevor as he and Damien struggled to get out the ropes.
"Not bad rangers not bad at all," said Draco, "You actually manage to damage me, not many have been able to that."
Draco's hands then caught on fire and he grabbed the ropes.
"Take this!" said Draco.
The fire went up the ropes and got the rangers.
"Aah!" screamed Trevor and Damien.
The rangers fell to the ground and Draco brought up the ropes and slammed the two rangers against each other and threw them to the ground. Trevor and Damien demorphed and were unconscious.
"Now the crystals," said Draco as he retracted his ropes and walked over to the fallen rangers. He was then knocked back by James' Rhino Boomerangs. James ran over them.
"Guys, Guys?!," said James, "Nia they're out cold let's get them back to base."
Nia kicked away Malevia away and jumped over to the others and the rangers teleported away.
With Carson
Carson had just finished football practice and was now leaving.
"Haah that was one of the most exhausting practices we've had," he sighed.
He looked at his phone and saw that he had some missed calls from Addy.
"Addy, I wonder what she wanted," he said.
Carson then saw that she had had left him a voice mail. He dials voice and hears the message.
'Carson, there's a monster attack at the mall. Go there as soon as you can!' said the message.
Carson's eyes widen, and he remembered the feeling he had during football practice.
"Oh no, the battle's probably over now," said Carson looked at his morpher, "I have to go to the cave."
Carson hen teleported to the cave.
At the cave
Damien and Trevor were laying on beds with bandages around their heads. Addy was putting away the first aid kit, while James and Nia looked at the two injured rangers with worry.
"Carson better have a good excuse for not showing up," said James with his arms crossed.
"I'm sure he does. I mean he wouldn't ignore the world without a good reason," Nia said.
Carson then appeared, and his eyes widened when he saw Trevor and Damien lying unconscious in the beds.
"Guys what happened?!" asked Carson.
"Well, well look who decided to finally show up," said James.
"James!" Nia exclaimed.
James ignored her and grabbed Carson by the collar of his shirt and pushed him against the wall.
"Ow! What's your deal, bro?!" asked Carson.
"Where the hell were you?! Did you know that there was a monster attack?!" asked James angrily.
"James calm down!" said Addy as she walked over to the brothers.
"He can't answer you while you're strangling him!" exclaimed Nia while she tried to get James the let go of Carson.
James realized that Carson was struggling to breath. He loosened his grip and threw his brother on the ground. Carson coughed as Nia kneed to his side.
"Whatever I don't care what his reason is," said James with his back towards Carson, "No matter what it is, it doesn't change the fact that he let us down."
Carson put his head down, got up, turned around and ran out the cave.
"Wait Carson!" said Nia.
She then turns to James, "James you idiot!" she said as she ran after Carson.
After Nia left, Addy looked over at James with a disapproving look.
"You know you didn't have to do that right?" she asked with her hands on her hips.
James didn't look at her, "He should've let someone know if he was going to be late. I mean look at Trevor and Damien."
He then pointed over the 2 wounded rangers.
"They're lucky they're still alive, but what if they didn't survive this attack, what if their crystals were taken, or what if…if…if," said James.
He was now facing Addy with tears in his eyes. He fell to his knees and Addy got to her knees and hugged him as he cried.
"I understand that you're worried about the others, but I'm sure Carson does to and you should apologize to him," she said.
"I know but I lashed out at him without hearing his reason for not being there," said James.
"Everything will be ok, just apologize and hear him out when he comes back," said Addy.
Chronos walked over to the two and put his hand on James' shoulder and he looked at him.
"I can tell you and your brother very close. I'm sure Carson will forgive you, James," Chronos said.
James nodded and looked back at Addy.
"Thanks, you Addy and you too Chronos," said James, "I'll apologize when I see him."
Addy and Chronos nodded.
They then heard the alarm got off. Addy and Chronos looked at James and nodded.
With Carson and Nia
Carson was sitting by a lake while skipping rocks.
"Stupid James, I know I let you guys down but he could've at least let me explain," said Carson to himself.
He reached for another rock but there wasn't any left.
He sighed, "Great."
He then heard a rock skip across the lake. He turned around and saw Nia walking over to him.
"I figured you'd be here," she said as she sat down next to him.
"How'd you know I was here?" Carson asked.
"Remember when my mom passed away and I was so devastated after I learned about?" Nia asked.
Carson thought back to that day.
Flashback
15-year-old Nia was in the hospital with family and had just heard the news of her mother's death from her father.
"No," said Nia.
"I'm sorry Nia," said he father.
"NOOOOOOOO!" Nia screamed and ran away.
"Wait Nia!" her father screamed.
Nia ran to the exit of the hospital when she ran into Carson, who had a cast on his left hand.
"Woah, sorry about that," said Carson, "Oh hey Nia!"
He then noticed Nia's tears
"Hey, are you ok?" he asked worriedly.
Nia didn't say anything, but she instead grabbed onto him and began to cry.
Carson was shocked but held onto her, while she cried.
Nia had calmed down and she and Carson were sitting on a bench outside the hospital.
"I'm sorry about your mom," said Carson, "She was a really good person."
"Thanks," said Nia, "It's not fair! Why did she have to die?!"
Carson then stood up and held his hand out to Nia. She looked over at him with a confused look.
"Come with me, I want to show a place that is very special to me," he said.
Nia slowly grabbed Carson's hand and he led them away from the hospital.
The two arrived at a lake and Carson took a seat at the edge of it. Nia slowly walked over and sat next to him.
"What is this place?" she asked.
"I found this lake while jogging one day and whenever I feel sad, stressed, or just to clear my mind I come here," said Carson.
The two then laid back onto the grass in silence. After a while, Carson began to speak.
"Nia, I know that you miss your mom, but I don't think that she would want to see you cry over her for too long," said Carson.
Nia look over at him in shock.
"Death isn't something that's easy to deal with. I had my godfather died last year. Me and my bro took it hard, we were depressed for a week," said Carson, "But we came here, and it felt like that he was still with us, saying that proud of us."
"The point is that, I want to share this place with you," said Carson.
Nia's eyes widen, and she smiled as tears fell from her eyes.
"Thanks Carson," said Nia.
Flashback End
"Heh, talk about a bittersweet memory," said Carson.
"Yea," said Nia.
The two sat in silence for a while then Nia ended the silence.
"You know that James is worried about everyone, right?" she asked.
"Yea I know," said Carson, "But he's right I've let you guys down."
Carson laid back in the grass and looked up at the sky, "I've should've let you guys know where I was beforehand."
"Hey, there's no way that you would've known that a monster attack would happen," said Nia, "You've haven't let anyone down."
"But Trevor and Damien got hurt," said Carson.
Carson sat back up and looked at the grass, "I could've helped them, but I didn't even know you guys were in trouble."
Tears weld up in his eyes, "I'm a sorry excuse for a ranger."
He felt Nia put her arms around him and he looked at her.
"Nia?" Carson asked.
"Don't get so worked up," said Nia, "You're not a sorry excuse for a ranger."
"Nobody's perfect Carson we all make mistakes," she said, "I'm sure that if you explain your reason, James and the others will forgive you."
"Are you sure?" asked Carson.
"Yeah, I'm sure," said Nia.
Then their morphers went off, she let go of Carson and got up. Carson looked at his morpher and saw it glow and the bison symbol reappear on it.
"You ready Carson?" asked Nia.
"You better believe!" exclaimed Carson.
"Beast Force Awaken!" they said.
Morphing Sequence
"Blue Dolphin!"
"Black Bison!"
End Sequence
They then teleported to the battlefield.
At the battle site
James, fully morphed, had made it, and not long after Nia and Carson made it. Carson and James looked at each other and nodded and looked back at the aliens.
"Is dragon face the one who hurt Trevor and Damien?" asked Carson. Nia and James nodded yes.
"Alright, I'll take care of him," said Carson.
"I'm going to help you," said Nia.
Carson nodded and looked over at James.
"Can you handle her by yourself," he asked.
James nodded, "Yeah you can count on me."
"Alight let's go guys!" said Carson.
"Right!" said the others.
Carson threw a punch at Draco, but he blocked it. Carson then jumped and kicked Draco in the head. Draco stubbled but recovered, he launched himself forward and punched Carson in his chest. Nia came in and kicked Draco to the ground. Draco got up and took out his sword and slashed Carson and Nia. Carson got up and grabbed the sword, moved it to the side and punched Draco. Draco knocked away his fist and kicked Carson to the ground. Carson tried to get up, but Draco put his foot on his chest.
"Ow!" screamed Carson.
"This is your end ranger!" said Draco as he raised his sword.
Nia then shot at Draco and he fell on the ground.
"I don't think so, lizard face!" said Nia and she then ran over to Carson, "Are you ok?"
"Yea, thanks Nia," said Carson.
Carson and Nia got their swords ready and slashed Draco downwards. Carson slashed him to the left and Nia slashed him to the right. They punched him and then kicked him away. The two rangers summoned their weapons as Draco struggled to get up.
"Let's finish this Nia!" said Carson.
"Right!" said Nia.
Carson ran forward and slashed Draco with his staff. Draco tried to strike back Carson jumped in the air. Draco then saw Nia charge up her arrows.
"Dolphin Arrows Full Power, Fire!" said Nia.
She fired three arrows at Draco and his sword was destroy.
"Now Carson!" said Nia.
"Bison Staff Full Power!" said Carson as his staff glowed black.
Carson slashed Draco and Draco fell on his back and exploded.
"We did it!" said Nia as she ran over and hugged Carson.
James kicked Malevia to the ground and she saw Draco get destroyed. She looked at her communicator.
"Fire the laser," she said.
Back in space
An ingot pressed the button. The cannon then fired the laser at Wasp.
In the city
The laser hit the spot where Draco and he comes back as a giant.
"Oh great, how are we going to fight that," said Carson.
"Without Trevor and Damien, we can't form the megazord," said James.
'We got that covered,' said Addy from the rangers' helmets.
"What do you mean by that?" asked Nia.
'We've got a surprise for you, Carson,' said Addy.
"What kind?" asked Carson.
There was a rumbling sound and the rangers turned around. What they saw was James' rhino zord as well as a new zord that looked like a truck with a bison head on the front. On the top of the zord was a black plate that had a yellow line going across it. The plate was connected to a red and silver helmet.
'Meet your new bison zord!' said Addy.
"Woah, awesome!" said Carson.
Chronos then said, 'Carson, you and James can combine both of your zords to form the Beast Busterzord.'
Carson nodded and looked over at James, "Let's do this bro."
"Right!" said James.
The two brothers then jumped into their zords.
"Rhino zord power up!" James said.
"Bison zord power up!" Carson said.
They drove their zords over to Draco.
"Let's get his attention," said Carson.
"I got it," said James, "Eat this lizard face!"
James fired his missiles at Draco and he fell to the ground.
"Alight let's bring them together," said Carson.
"Ready whenever you are," said James.
"Alright, zords combine!" said Carson.
Megazord Formation
The rhino and bison head flew off the zords. The plate and the helmet flew off the bison zord. The two zords then spilt in half. Arms folded out from the bison zord and the half the bison head was connected to folded back and the megazord head folded out from the right half of the zord. The rhino zord halves connected to the folded parts of the bison. The two halves combined, and the rhino attached to the left leg while the bison head connected to the right leg. The helmet went the head of the meagzord and the plate folded onto the chest of the megazord.
Formation Complete
The 2 rangers were now in a single cockpit.
"Beast Busterzord power up!" they said.
Draco got up and looked over at the zord.
"If you think that pile of metal is going to stop then you're more naïve than I gave you pest credit from," said Draco.
Draco brought out his sword and slashed at the megazord, but his attacks weren't doing any damage to the zord and his sword was broken.
"Impossible!" said Draco.
"Are you done yet?" asked James.
"Take this!" said Carson.
The Busterzord then punched Draco twice and kicked him to the ground. Draco rolled on the ground and slowly got up.
"Rocket punch go!" said Carson.
The Busterzord brought its arms up and it's fist glowed and shot forward and hit Draco in the chest.
"Rhino missiles!" said James.
The missile pods appear in the zords hands and he pointed them to at Draco.
"It's over for you!" said Carson.
"We're going to end this!" said James.
Draco slowly got up.
"Rhino Missiles Full Power!" said the two rangers.
"Wait stop!" screamed Draco.
"Ready…," started Carson.
"FIRE!" said James.
Two missiles and hit Draco and he fell to the ground and was destroyed.
"All right!" said Carson.
"We did it!" said James.
In space
Incisor was stomping throughout his ship
Where is Malevia?!," Incisor said, "She must be punished."
Cortes was looking out from a room as Incisor stomped past the room. Cortes looked back into the room once Incisor was out sight.
"You know you can't hide in here forever," said Cortes as he looked over at a closet.
In the closet was no other than Malevia, "I can, and I will until Master forget about my failure!"
"You say that but is only a matter of time before-," said Cortes when the door open revealing Incisor.
"You thought that I couldn't hear you in the hall?!" asked Incisor, "Now you both shall be punished!"
Back on Earth
Carson, James, and Nia made it back it the base and see that Trevor and Damien had woken up.
"I'm sorry you guys," said Carson.
"Hey, it's ok Car we understand," said Trever.
"Yea, and besides you defeated Draco, so all is forgiven," said Damien.
"Thanks guys," said Carson, "Thank you both so much."
"Well not all is forgiven," said Addy as she walked up to Carson with cleaning supplies.
"What's with the cleaning supplies?" asked Carson.
"As punishment for not tell anybody where you were, you have to clean the base," said Addy with a smile and she gave Carson the supplies.
"WHAT?!" screamed Carson.
"Have fun!" said the others as they left.
Carson slumped his shoulders. He felt a tap on shoulders, he looked over and saw it was Nia.
"I'll help you out if you want," Nia offered.
Carson's eyes widened, and he hugged Nia, "Thank you so so so much!"
Nia blushed and hugged him back.
AN: Thanks for reading! I know this was a long chapter, but I really like this one. I hope you all had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year! Later.