(cmar) Thanks for your great suggestion, I'll try to work on it.

'Let me go now!' Kelly's voice echoed yet once again.

I was completely furious by now. Kelly was going to be killed by Elesect and I was trapped here, with no way to protect her!

'Don't you ever listen to my words?' Sensei's voice filled my head, 'For countless times I've already told you to stay calm in a crisis, how are you suppose to think when you can't even take care of yourself?'

'How can I stay calm?' I shot defensively, 'Kelly's going to be killed.' Absent-mindedly, I punched the net hard, and soon regret it as the electricity shot through my body, causing me to wince in pain and anger at the same time.

Suddenly, a beeping sound started to hum from my buckle as the shock continued to flow up and down my veins like a dozen knives chopping away. Looking down, a new card could be seen at the tip. Without hesitation, I snatched it out.

'Panther Booster!' I yelled as the device materialized onto my wrist. Instantly I flipped the card and swiped it inside. 'Armor upgrade.' The same robotic voice sounded as I gained new armor around my body as it glowed with an eerie glow.

'Haaaaaaaaaa!' With one powerful burst, the electricity around me vanished, I was free! With no time to waste, I rushed over to Kelly.

Elesect was already about to lay a deadly blow onto Kelly as I ran onto the scene. 'Get your filthy hands off her this instant!' I yelled.

Shocked to see me alive and well, Elesect immediately seized Kelly nearer as one of its tentacles closed in on her neck. 'One more move, Hurricane Ranger, and I swear I'll barbeque her to death without thinking twice.'

'Oh great, this is just perfect.' I grumbled softly. 'What do you want?' I demanded. 'Just don't hurt her.'

Elesect laughed, 'Well, I kind of hate your looks now, why don't you power down?'

'Derek, no! Don't listen to it, kill it now!' Kelly screamed as she tried to wriggle free, only causing Elesect to tighten its grip.

'Very well then.' I sighed, 'Power down!' In a faint glow I was reverted back to my human form.

'Try this on for size!' Elesect said as it sent numerous electric bolts at me as I was sent off my feet and knelt down to the floor in pain.

'You alright man?' Issac asked as he started to walk over to help me up.

I raised my hand to block him. 'It's ok, I'm fine. Stay back, I don't want to get any of you hurt.' Slowly, I stood up and took a step towards the monster. 'I've done what you asked for, now let her go!'

'Very well then.' Nodded Elesect as it relased its grip and flung Kelly behind it.

I was startled by its actions, what was it playing at? Was it some kind of trap? 'Hey, Get her over here!' I demanded.

As an answer, Elesect lashed out and sent a punch at my stomach, causing me to double over in pain as I regained breath.

Again and again, I was attacked blow after blow. Without my ranger powers, blocking was impossible, not to mention fighting back.

'Agh!' I screamed as Elesect grabbed me by the neck and lifted me up into the air, it's disgusting face only a few inches away from mine.

'Haha, looks to me it's time to kill you. Die!' It roared as a massive fist reered back with enough power to blow my skull.

I closed my eyes as I prepared to die. 'I'm sorry Kelly, I couldn't save you.' I whispered inside my head.

'Derek, I got Kelly, she's safe!' Tina's voice yelled into my ear as my eyes popped open. Tina had sneaked behind Elesect and yanked Kelly over while the foul creature was preparing to kill me.

'What?' Elesect howled in fury as it realized that Tina had outsmarted it.

'Way to go Tina!' I cheered as I took the chance I landed a kick onto Elesect's side as it dropped me in pain.

As soon as my feet touched the floor, I took out my morpher once again and morphed. 'Tornado storm, Ranger Form!'

I dispatched my sword from my back and headed towards the furious Elesect. 'You've had your fun, now it's my turn!' I yelled as I sliced it again and again, and avoided the electric shots that came my way at the same time.

'Ninja sword power up, Hurricane style!' With a tremendous leap I jumped into the air and aimed my blade at Elesect as the whole sword charged with energy. 'Corona Crush!' With one swift chop Elesect roared in both anger and pain as its body started to blow up.

'Don't think I'll give up so easily!' Elesect roared as flames licked its body. 'I won't die alone!' Suddenly, a powerful electric blast was unleashed from itself and headed straight for my friends. If they got hit, their chance of survival was a definite zero, I had to do something.

Immediately, my entire body rushed up to them, life became slow motion. I could practically see the lives of my friends in my hands, in my hands alone.

'Arrrrr!' I was just in time as I ran in front of the guys and blocked them from the blast. However, that only meant one thing, I got hit myself!

I gritted my teeth as the flow of electricity ran through me, the pain was unbearable! My body was already battered from the battle with Elesect, but now it had taken damage far beyond imagination. I felt the ranger powers getting weaker and weaker as I reverted back to human form again.



'Derek!' Issac yelled as he rushed to my side. 'Are you ok man? Don't scare us!'

The world around started to blur as I felt everything starting to dim, Issac's voice seemed faraway. My body was weakening, I was tired, so tired!

Suddenly, the ground below us started to shake violently, some of it even started to crumble away. If we didn't get away fast, then this palce would be our final resting place.

'Oh no, it's another earthquake!' Tina yelled at the top of her lungs, 'What are we gonna do?'

'Derek, hang on! I'm heading over.' A familiar voice whispered in my head, the panther zord!

'Panther, it that you?' I murmured as my body strained to stand up.

Just as the words escaped my mouth, a drilling sound filled the air as the Tornado Megazord emerged, drilling its way to us with the Tiger Fang.

'Guys, hang on!' I called out softly, 'I'll get you all out of here.' With that I was transported inside the cockpit.

'First-aid sequence engage!' Panther announced as soon as I touched the chair. Instantly, I started to feel way better, even able to fight! The battle armour covered my body automatically as soon as I was back in full health.

Manning the controls, the megazord lowered its hand so that the others could climb on. As soon as everyone was safe, we bursted out from the passage made earlier.

We were back! It was a great feeling to see the setting sun slowly shine down warm streams of light. However, not everything was that great, there was still one problem: Elesect! It had been grown into a gigantic form, and it must have been it who had caused the earthquake!

Securing everyone to safety, the megazord headed over to the overgrown monster.

'You shall now truly feel my wrath!' Elesect growled as tentacles rose from its body and wrapped themselves around the zord, we couldn't move at all!

'Ahhhh!' I yelled in pain as Elesect sent dozens of shocks at us, causing the cockpit to burst with sparks. With the tentacles, there was no way for us to fight back.

With one mighty kick, Elesect sent the megazord down onto the ground as it moved in further for the kill.

'Panther, any good plans?' I asked as I tried to think of a way to release ourselves and destroy the monster.

'Not that I can think of.' The zord replied as it suffered from another attack.

Suddenly, I noticed some type of weapon that we had never used before. 'Eye beams, fire!'

Burning hot laser beams fired from the eyes of the megazord as they stunned Elesect and gave us the chance to break free.

'Now it's time to show you our wrath!' I yelled. 'Megazord multiplication!' In a flash, the megazord was duplicated into five as they surrounded Elesect.

'What?' roared Elesect in disbelief as it stared at the many megazords.

'Power disc, lock and drop! Flower frisbee!' I announced as the duplicates vanished away from the battered Elesect.

'Say farewell Elesect! Free throw frisbee!' With one push of the button, the megazord threw the weapon at Elesect in an incredible speed as it yelled in pain.

'Boom!' Balls of fire filled the air as Elesect blew apart, another win for me and the panther, yes!

Retreating to a dark corner and demorphing, and headed back over to my friends.

'Derek, are you ok?' Kelly asked as she saw me walking over. 'Are you hurt or anything?'

'Nope, I'm perfectly fine, don'r worry.' I answered.

'Hey dude, that megazord was way cool, how was it like inside?' Issac asked loudly as I cupped his mouth to shut him up.

'What did I tell you back down underground?' I hissed, 'You know that it would be the end of me if they find out who I am.'

'You're right.' Issac replied meekly, 'I'm sorry.'

As it was getting late, we started to leave. I insisted on walking Kelly home because she was hurt, but I knew deep inside that it was really because I wanted to be with her.

We talked a lot along the way, I even told her about sensei and Jeff and the academy.

'Derek, I'm so sorry to hear that.' Kelly answered. 'It must be hard, having the fate of this whole place strapped onto you.'

'Well, I don't deny it is. But in the end, I get to save a lot of lives!' I grinned.

She looked at me and smiled, sending me into another daze. 'I guess you're right.' She said. 'Hey, that's my apartment over there. Thanks for walking me home, see ya!'

'Kelly wait!' I yelled as she was ready to walk away. 'Were you ready to tell me something just before we fell down into the hole earlier today?'

'Oh, that. It's nothing, forget about it' She blurted.

I knew that there was something, there just had to! 'C'mon, tell me.' I urged. 'Don't you trust me?'

Kelly looked at me. 'Derek, I do believe you. But believe me too, now's not the time for me to tell you. I'll do so when the time is right, ok?'

I nodded slowly. 'Very well then. Goodnight then!'

'Bye!' she waved as she walked up to the building.

Thoughts raged inside me as I headed home. 'What was she going to say? Maybe that she felt that she's starting to like me?'

'Don't be stupid.' Another voice in my mind piped. 'She already said that you're not the guy for her.'

I sighed softly as I lifted my head to the skies. 'What am I supposed to do?' I asked. Then, I turned away and continued down the path.

'What would come, would come. No one would be able to stop it.' I murmured to myself. The only option I had was clear: wait. Whther it was good or bad news, I'd know when the time came.

Whew! Another chapter finished, I just couldn't stop writing. I'm still thinking whther to put Derek and Kelly together, tell me what you think!