Special Thanks to my brother C.L. for trouble shooting this chapter.
Chapter 8 Blades and Blasters
The stiletto was now in his hand, glittering silver n the moonlight. Now she did consider morphing but she was not aloud, not unless fighting a monster. No, she'd have to handle this as herself.
"I think it's time you feel what it's like to get hurt." He said even as he sprang forward with a panther's speed. Dana didn't have time to flee but managed to side step his attack, whirling into a fighting stance.
"Don't worries about taking him out, first disarm the opponent?" Dana could hear Chad's voice then as she let him come at her, waiting until the last moment before kicking the blade out of his hand.
Mark let out a snarl as he saw it going over the bridge and she took the moment of his distraction to bring up a knee to disable her adversary.
To Dana's dismay the guy didn't go down like a load of bricks but ducked his head and ran at her. She was about to side step when the sight of something blue distracted her and she missed the timing. And his head and body weight hit her full force.
They both went falling to the ground, Dana's head hitting hard off the stones of the bridge's bottom.
Knowing he'd be caught Mark didn't wait around he bolted back the way they'd come. "You take care of her, I'll get him!" Kelsey shouted to Chad and she was running racing after him but unlike Mark Kelsey didn't wait till she reached the end of the bridge before going for the woods, she was leaping up on to the stone railing and flipping into the air landing on the path near the trees just behind the now arrive red and titanium rangers.
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Carter didn't have much time to think as Joel joined in the chase.
Now the red lightspeed ranger moved to where Chad was kneeling beside a crumpled body, one both he and Ryan knew all too well.
"What did he do?" Ryan growled lowly as he moved forward.
Chad finished his quick exam of Dana and looked at him, calling for a medical vehicle. "Apparently he went for a bodily attack and she must have seen me because she didn't side step in time." The blue ranger said grimly. "It looks like there might be a concussion but I can't be sure."
Ryan knew it was his fault, because he'd been evil, because he'd come back. God would she hate him? Hat that creep terrorized her? If he had the titanium ranger swore now on his mother's grave he'd kill the monster he'd created.
"You should go help Kelsey and Joel; we can handle it from here.' Carter told the blue lightspeed ranger.
Chad didn't say a word as he ran off after his friends.
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Kelsey came to the part of the path which was most narrow and froze. She'd lost him. One minute she'd been hot on his tale and now… She tried not even to breathe; if she let this guy get away he could attempt to hurt any of them again. She couldn't let that happen. No, she'd catch him and then the cops would take him.
Closing her eyes she waited as Chad had taught her. Diving right she just missed the figure that leapt from the trees above.
The morphed yellow lightspeed ranger was ready, watching him as he leapt up to face her.
"Too bad you rangers can't even catch a mere man." Mark scoffed even as he and Kelsey circled each other. Kelsey could the malaise in Mark's once striking green eyes.
"What happened to your sister was an accident and you know that." Kelsey said watching his feet, trying to gage his coming move.
"What I know is that you pathetic rangers couldn't even save a bunch of kids." Mark flipped so he landed behind her; she countered spinning before he hit the ground. It struck her that this guy had some training.
"Wrong, we save the city every day and yes maybe we can't' save everyone but we do what we can." Kelsey said ducking one of his kicks and countering with a left fake and a dive right so she came up behind the guy.
"What is that what they teach you in ranger school? A way to sleep at night?" Mark mocked angrily as he grunted as she tried to kick his leg out from under him.
"What it is is a fact of life." Kelsey dodged a kick; this guy was good, very good. She wondered if he'd used his skills on Dana.
"No what's a fact of life is three children on that bus died and more kids including the only person I care about were injured!"
Kelsey was ready for Mark's next attack as he came at her, as he'd done to Dana, what she hadn't counted on was the knife, the pain as it tore into the flesh of her arm.
Chad roared as he sprung, like a panther onto the back of the man who'd now attacked two of his friends.
Kelsey hadn't seen him coming but as she staggered back from what was happening she saw Chad, and Mark fighting as if for the entire fate of the earth. The blue ranger didn't take long with disarming Mark and by the time he knocked him in the family jewels Joel was behind him, a blaster at his back.
"Go on, make my day." The sky cowboy growled as he roughly yanked Mark's arm up behind him.
Chad turned then to see if Kelsey was alright. The brunette was now demorphed and trying to tear cloth from her shirt. He frowned then when he spotted the blood staining her arm.
"Kelsey?" Moving forward he bdemorphed and brushed her hands away.
"I don't think it's too bad."
"Still we need to stop the bleeding."
"Chad I'm fine really I can…"
"Shut up." The usually calm and collected blue clad young mand told her matter of factly and she saw his eyes then, with their furious light and the harsh set of his beloved jaw.
"Chad?" But he was briskly wrapping her arm and applying pressure as the police arrived and Joel turned Mark over to them.
TBC
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