Power Rangers Thunder Force #8: Janus.

Bulk and Skull are looking around for the Dr.'s house.

"This is nuts. We have been looking for a week now and cannot find this guys house." Bulk says.

Skull shrugs.

"I say we give up. This guy sounds nuts anyway. The address is probably false." Bulk says.

Suddenly a hidden trap door appears on the vacant lot. The doctor climbs up to the surface and sees the
boys.

"It's about time you showed up. I have been waiting for a week." Frankenstein says.


And now for episode 8…

A pretty girl is walking down the street. Despite that fact that she wears glasses, her long hair and long legs
turn heads. Meanwhile the rangers are all sitting in the soda shop talking.

"So what do you think about this continuation of these viral monsters?" T.J. asks.

"I am not sure what purpose they have, if that's what you are asking me." Zanek responds.

"They are sure powerful. More than anything we have faced before." Ashley says.

"If that vision we saw before is behind this still, then I'd say that they are the least of our worries." Zanek
says solemnly.

"But we backlashed its energy. Wouldn't that of sent it back from where it came from?" T.J. asks.

"Yeah but he might have found other ways to influence someone in this universe." Zanek says.

Carlos spots the pretty girl walking past the window. He thinks on how cute she is.

"Carlos? Earth to Carlos." T.J. says.

"Uh. Sorry. I was just noticing something." Carlos says.

"Well I say this meeting is over. Let's get rid of this formality and get some soda's." T.J. says them signals
for a waitress.

Meanwhile at the local university, a good student is studying hard for the finals. He's a student that many
people call a nerd. But he is proud of himself and doesn't let that hurt him. The same girl that was walking
down the street enters the library and sits next to the guy.

"Hey Janus." The guy says looking up.

"Hey. Ready for our study session?" Janus asks smiling.

"Yeah. I am so glad you moved here. Before you came here, I never could find someone as smart as me.
Heck sometimes you seem more smarter than I am." The guy responds.

"Oh there must have been someone as smart as you before. Maybe you just were too shy to find out."
Janus says smiling.

The scene is being watched on the view-screen of the megaship.

"He will make a great monster. I have accessed the records of the schools he has been in. He has not
missed a single day of school. It must be cause he is never sick and that would happen cause he has a
strong immune system. Finally I will have a monster that will take over the earth and bring me back
again." Astayanax says.

"Transport now." Thunder orders.

A small spore enters the library unseen and embeds itself into the guy's calculator.

"Okay the first problem is this one." Janus says pointing to a problem in the book.

"Oh that's easy. It's 23,450." The guy says with confidence.

Janus does the calculation on the calculator just to make sure. The calculator comes up with a different
answer.

"That's strange. Let me try it again." Janus says.

She does the calculation again but the same result comes up.

"I can't be wrong. I am never wrong. I always come up with the answer in my head." The guy says
confused.

"Hmm. Maybe there is something wrong with the calculator. Let me try." Janus says.

She comes up with a problem that she can solve in her head and says it out loud. Then she does it on the
calculator. This time the answer matches hers.

"Nothing wrong there." Janus says frowning.

The guy sighs frustrated.

"Let's try another. This one." Janus says pointing to another problem.

"That's 33,456." The guy answers quickly.

Janus punches the problem into the calculator but the answer once again is different.

"Not again." Janus says.

"It's not the calculator. It's me. I've become dumb." The guy says standing up suddenly.

"No Steve. Don't think that. Your one of the greatest geniuses I have seen in a long time." Janus says
standing up.

"How do you explain this?" Steve asks.

They run through a series of problems really quickly. Every one Steve answers quickly and every one is
wrong.

"That's enough! I'm out of here." Steve yells throwing his books to the floor and storming off.

"Steve wait." Janus yells after him.

"SHHH!" A bunch of library people says harshly.

"Oops sorry." Janus apologizes as she is running out.

She runs so fast that she doesn't see where she's going and runs right into Carlos.

"Oh excuse me." Carlos says.

"No it was my fault. I shouldn't have been running so fast." Janus says.

When their eyes meet they stop and stare at each other.

"Uh my name is Carlos." Carlos says.

"Yeah me too." Janus says nervously.

"Huh? Your name is Carlos too?" Carlos asks.

"Oh no. Sorry I always get nervous meeting new people. No my name is Janus." Janus says laughing
nervously.

"Janus. That's a very pretty name." Carlos says getting nervous himself.

"Thank you." Janus says starting to blush.

"Uh can I help you pick up your books." Carlos says.

"Oh yeah." Janus says snapping out of her stare.

They both pick up her books. Meanwhile Steve has stopped running and is standing there out of breath.

"I can't believe that I'm stupid now. I took it for granted." Steve says frustrated.

A man steps out from around the corner.

"I couldn't help but to overhear that you are feeling stupid." The man says.

"I am not just feeling stupid. I am stupid." Steve says.

"Well I have just the thing for you." The man says taking out his briefcase.

He takes out some bottles of pills.

"These will make you smarter than you ever were." The man says.

"Oh no. I am not desperate enough to take drugs." Steve says.

"No these are natural herbs to increase brain power." The man says.

"I guess I could try." Steve says reluctantly.

"Okay that's fine. That will be 50 dollars for 2 bottles." The man says.

"Uh I don't really have money on me right now." Steve says.

"Fine then take our sample bottle and call me at this number if you want to buy more." The man says.

He hands over a smaller bottle with 10 pills in it.

"Only take these once a day. An overdose can cause brain hemorrhaging." The man says.

"Okay thank you." Steve says taking the pill and the card with the guys phone number on it.

Steve walks away and the expression on the ''salesman's'' face changes to a sinister look.

"Oh I am betting and hoping you will overdose. All the faster for my master to get a monster." The man
says smiling and disappears.

Steve immediately takes a pill and heads back towards the library. He finds Janus.

"I'm sorry for the way I acted earlier. I would like to try the study session again." Steve says.

"Good. I am sure it was just the calculator. It was a coincidence that it matched my answer. Heck maybe
my answer was wrong and the calculator was still wrong." Janus says laughing.

Janus walks off with Steve and waves back at Carlos.

"Bye Carlos. It was nice to meet you." Janus calls back.

Carlos waves back. The two enter the library and begin the problem solving.

"32,334. 10 squared. 34,000." Steve says firing off answers.

"Wow. See you are doing great now." Janus says.

Their study session ends with him getting every one right.

"Wow. You did way better than I have ever done. You will ace that test." Janus says.

She leaves and Steve gets this bad look on his face.

"So that Carlos guy thinks he can take her from me?" Steve says.

He goes into the bathroom and takes two more pills.

"I'll show her who she should be with when I become really really smart." Steve says.

He fails to notice that his head is getting bigger and his skin is glowing. On the way out he runs into
Carlos.

"Look. You stay away from Janus. She's mine." Steve says.

"Hey man. Maybe you should go see a doctor. Your head seems to be swelling." Carlos says.

"Don't change the subject. If I see you around Janus again, I will get you." Steve threatens.

He shoves Carlos so hard that he nearly breaks the wall he hits. Not to mention some bones.

"Wow. How could he shove me that hard. He doesn't have any muscles. Except for in his head." Carlos
wonders to himself.

The next day Steve comes to the study session. Janus gasps when she sees his head.

"What's wrong with your head? Did you hit it?" Janus asks.

"Nah. I have just been taking some pills to make me smarter." Steve says.

"You have been taking drugs? I'm surprised at you." Janus asks shocked.

"Just ask me any question and I will show you how smart I am." Steve responds.

Janus fires off questions but Steve gets everyone wrong.

"What the. I have been ripped off." Steve yells and throws the table into one of the bookcases.

"Steve calm down." Janus says frightened.

Steve runs off and enters the bathroom.

"Got to take more." Steve says in a deeper voice.

He takes off the bottle top and downs the whole contents. His head grows to an incredible size. He looks
at himself in the mirror and screams. But his voice is no longer human sounding. He smashes the mirror
with his fist. Janus runs in and sees what he has become and screams. Janus then runs out of the bathroom
and the library. She runs into Carlos.

"Hey, hey. What's wrong?" Carlos asks.

"It's Steve. My study buddy. Something is very wrong with him." Janus says hurried.

"You got that right. He seems to be insanely jealous." Carlos says.

"No something other than that. I heard a scream that didn't sound human. When I rushed into the
bathroom, I saw Steve. Yet it wasn't him. He had become some kind of a strange monster." Janus says.

"Don't worry. I will take care of it." Carlos says.

Janus stands there shaken as Carlos runs around the corner.

"Guys. We have a possible monster situation at the library." Carlos says.

"We're on our way." T.J. says.

"Force ranger, green." Carlos yells.

He runs back out as the green ranger and heads towards the library. Along the way the others catch up with
him. When they reach it, they see a bunch of people running out screaming.

"Yep. This is definitely the place." T.J. says.

They enter the library and see a scene of turmoil as Steve is picking up bookcases and throwing them
against walls.

"I'm not dumb." Steve says in his inhuman voice.

"Hold it right there. You may be feeling dumb but that does not give you the right to trash one of our
greatest depositories of information." T.J. yells.

The monster screams and throws a stepladder at them. T.J. and the others easily sidestep it. The monster
screams again and busts his way through the outer wall and outside.

"Computer. Begin scanning and creation of a anti viral program." Zanek says into his portable computer
scanner.

They chase after the monster, dodging big things that it throws against them. They corner him in a dead
end alley.

"Program completed. Injection system ready." The computer says.

"Fire needle projectile." Zanek yells as he fires his main weapon.

A missile with a needle on the end flies towards the monster but it breaks on his very hard skin.

"Arghhh. You hurt Steve." Steve yells.

Steve picks up a large block of cinder and throws it straight at Ashley.

"Ashley. No!" T.J. yells as he shoves her aside.

The Cinder falls on top of T.J. crushing him below his head.

"T.J. Ashley screams.

Zanek puts an object on T.J.'s body and pushes some buttons. T.J. disappears and the cinder block falls
heavily to the ground.

"I sent him to my mobile medical lab. It's the best I can do for now. Though it didn't look good." Zanek
says.

The monster picks up another huge block and throws it at the rangers but before it can hit them some
invisible force knocks it back at him.

"That's enough damage to these do gooders." A strange voice says.

Suddenly the same gray figure that helped them against the last monster appears. She races forward and
begins pummeling the monster. But she isn't even landing blows.

"Wow. How is she doing that?" Carlos wonders.

The monster collapses on the ground.

"Give me your weapon." Grey says to Zanek.

"But the needle won't penetrate his skin." Zanek says.

"I have the power to force it through his tough hide." Grey says.

Zanek shrugs and gives it to Grey. Grey takes the needle and starts to glow with energy.

"Eyahh." Grey yells as she forces the needle through the monster skin with an incredible force. Once the
needle penetrates, the monster disassembles and becomes Steve again.

"Who are you and where did you get those awesome powers?" Carlos asks gray.

But Grey disappears again before she answers.

"No! Wait!" Carlos yells.

Later on Steve finds Carlos.

"I'm sorry that I was such a jerk to you about Janus. I must have been using steroids or something. Never
again will I use drugs to help me be smart." Steve says humbly.

"Hey it's okay man. I know what drugs can do to people's personality." Carlos says as a lie to cover up
what really happened.

"That's great." Steve says smiling.

They shake hands and Carlos smiles.

The end…

Next time begins a great battle. One that the rangers cannot come out on top on. One of them will be lost.
Which one and how. Find out next week in the first part of 'the perfect human'.