(karenashleysdreamlover) That's a great idea, but sorry. This is something I can't do, at least not for now. Hope you still find this interesting.

(Doyles-always) Again thanks for the review, glad you like this. Kill Jacob? Well, you'll see. Haha! Also, thanks for the review on Power Rangers Solar, but that fic will be on hold until I finish this.

(ShaneWestLover) Thanks for the review. What happened to the morpher? You just gotta take a look to find out. Pleasant surprises!

My morpher was gone! Frantically, I searched everywhere for it, in the rubble, practically the whole area. But I found nothing; not even a trace of it could be seen.

'I'm a goner.' I groaned as I dragged my exhausted body back home. Without the morpher, I was nothing but an ordinary human. True, there were still my ninja skills, but they will certainly not be enough to defeat the Insectrons any further. Without the ranger powers, Hong Kong was finished.

Maybe even faster than I'll know if the morpher was stolen by Arancha and Metalar. With the powers, it'll be more than enough to destroy everything. I had failed everyone, sensei, Jeff, Kelly, Issac, everyone.

Slowly, I continued to walk home, drowning inside my own thoughts. That night, I hardly slept. Everytime I closed my eyes, visions of the battle filled my brain, reminding me of my failure.

'Derek, you ok?' My dad asked the next morning as I sat down for breakfast, looking as if I had aged several years.

I nodded my head slowly. 'Um, yeah. Everything's fine. Just had a bad night.'

It was weird. Losing the morpher made me lose interest in anything I did, nothing caught my attention. My senses were on full guard the whole time, as I feared the Insectrons would attack any minute.

Even the sky seemed to be mocking me as it gave no warmth and grey clouds filled the air. It wasn't until I got back to my classroom that I began to relax.

Issac was the first to come running over. 'Derek, I saw the news last night. Are you ok? That hit looked pretty painful.'

At that, I almost broke down. Slowly, I pulled him over. 'My morpher is gone.'

No word could describe the look on his face as he stared at me. A moment later, he started to ask me the questions I had asked myself earlier and I did nothing but nod.

The hours dragged by as the classes passed one by one. I couldn't believe it, this was the first time I was called by almost all the teachers to pay attention.

'Try to pay attention of you were me.' I thought bitterly.

But time passed, and finally it was the end of school for today. Silently I packed my stuff and trudged towards the door. Where I would go was a mystery to me.

Soon, an answer came to me as my phone receivied a message.

"Derek, meet me at the old warehouse, I'll wait for you there. Kelly."

I was puzzled. Why would Kelly want to meet me, especially if it was in that old warehouse? Knocking my thoughts away, I headed over there.

The sky was almost pitch-black when I arrived. The warehouse gave off a gloomy shadow, creeping me out.

'This had better be good.' I thought as I headed in.

Everything inside was broken and battered, only a few dim lights lit up the long corridors. The place looked as if it was abandoned for a few years.

As I continued, a brighter light could finally be seen out front. Thinking that's were Kelly was, I ran over.

'What's up Kel?' I asked. Suddenly, my mouth dropped open as I saw my surroundings.

It was Kelly alright, but she was tied to a chair, mouth gagged. It sent a cut at my heart as I saw her eyes filled with fear. She struggled as she tried to break free of her bounds.

The area was like some kind of laboratory, with different kinds of equipment, some which I had never even seen before.

Kelly started to struggle harder as I walked forward. Without warning, I felt a hit at my back as the bare concrete floors came rushing up to me.

'Wakey, wakey.' A voice chorused as I slowly regained consiousness.

'Jacob!' I yelled. 'What are you doing here?' Noticing I was bound to another chair, I added, 'What's the meaning of this?'

He smiled at me. 'You really are slow aren't you?' He waved a hand at Kelly. 'This was all a trap. All I needed was to kidnap this little cutie and I knew you'd fall for it.'

A wave of fury swept across my face. 'This has nothing to do with her. Let her go.' I spat. 'What do you want with me?'

Another smile. 'I wanted you to join the ceremony, to see it in your own eyes.'

'What ceremony?'

His eyes slowly trailed to another corner of the room, my eyes followed.

'The Hurricane Morpher!' I gasped. It was true, there my morpher was, held in some kind of plastic container, a number of wires were connected to it. 'What do you want with my morpher?'

Jacob's smile didn't even lessen a bit. 'You're not worthy of the powers it contains.' Then his lips curled up into a sneer. 'Your emotions make you weak, like that battle you had yesterday. If you didn't care for those people, then the monsters wouldn't have had a chance against you. I grabbed the morpher as you lay unconscious.'

I was shocked by his every word. 'The ranger powers are for protecting those who need help.'

He slowly walked toward me and slapped me across the face. 'Don't you see? One could have all the riches and power he could ever want with this morpher.' He yelled. 'And you on the other hand, only care about helping weaklings? People who know the true use of the morpher should be its master.' Pausing for a moment, he added, 'Someone like me.'

Then he turned around and headed to the morpher, near it was a small seat with a helmet on top, wires connected it with the morpher.

Jacob stared at me with his cold eyes. 'Using my scientific knowledge, I'll be able to transfer the powers into myself. I shall let you know the meaning of true power. Behold!'

With that. He switched a button nearby. The lights around started to dim as the morpher crackled with electricity. Waves of energy started to flow directly into the helmet as Jacob laughed in excitement.

'Ahhhh!' With a tremendous explosion, the device exploded, englufing everywhere with smoke.

Slowly, I made out a figure. It could only be Jacob as I saw what was beneath.

It was almost exactly the same to my ranger suit, but gave off a completely different feeling. A deep wave of darkness and evil surrounded the area.

Carefully looking at himself, Jacob started to laugh again. 'This is even better than I thought, the power, the energy, it's so amazing. See Derek? This is how a true ranger should be. Meet the Hellspawn Ranger.'

I tried to stay as calm as I could. 'Jacob, you don't understand, you're making a terrible mistake.'

He laughed harder. 'We'll see whose made a mistake. It'll be really fun killing you, but first, why not try out these wonderful powers first? Enjoy these few hours, it'll be your last.'

With another evil cackle, he was gone in a blur. The instant he left, every single possible exit inside the entire warehouse closed by itself. We were really trapped!

'Kelly, hang on. I'll get you out soon.' I called over as I tried to break through my bounds, the coarse rope cut my hands, shooting pain around me.

No matter how hard I tried, the ropes were still tightly knotted.

'Inner strength, inner strength.' I kept reminding myself, getting angry wasn't going to help. I had to keep as calm as I could, no matter what.

Suddenly, an idea came into my head, a training I had done before at the academy. The bone shrink! Slowly, I focused my mind and allowed the body, mind and spirit to fuse into one.

Sure enough, my body became smaller as my bones shrank. Bit by bit, I was able to slip through the ropes. In a few minutes time, I finally broke through my captivity.

Immediately I ran over to Kelly and untied her. 'You alright?' I asked as I removed her gag.

To my surprise, she flung her arms around me, sobbing. 'Derek, I was so scared. He came out of nowhere and the next thing I knew I was tied up.'

I was shocked at how scared she was, at the same time a rage burned inside me. 'Shhh. It's alright, everything's fine now. I'll get you out of here.' I said as I gently patted her head.

She let go of me and peered around. 'But there's no way out, everything's blocked.'

I did the same, and really found no way out, not a single one. I went through my options one by one, slowly figuring out what to do. I had to be fast though, but the longer I took, the more damage Jacob would do to the city. There wasn't much time left!

Yes, that was it! My eyes laid onto the morpher as I mentally knocked myself for not thinking about it earlier. There had to be some energy left inside it.

'Kelly, I have a plan. The Hurricane Morpher should still have some power, I'll morph first and bust us out of here. Now listen, once we're out, I want you to head home straight away.' I raised a hand to shush her as she tried to argue. 'Jacob is out there, there's no way knowing how much damage he could do. It's gonna be dangerous outside, and god knows whether I'll be able to defeat him or not.'

Knowing she'd have no way of making me change my mind, Kelly slowly nod. Immediately, I ran over to the device that held my morpher and reached out my hand.

'Ahhhh!' I screamed as painful bolts of electricity ran up and down my body, flinging me back against the wall. With a loud 'thump' I landed onto the cold concrete floors.

Kelly ran over, terrified. 'Derek, are you alright?' Slowly she helped me regain balance.

I cursed silently under my breath. 'Why can't I reach the morpher?'

Again and again I tried, but again and again I got flung back. No matter what I did, I couldn't reach the morpher, there must have been some sort of force field around it.

'Derek, stop! Don't try again, you'll die if you continue.' Kelly said as I fell down to the ground once again. 'We'll find some other way out.'

I shook my head, 'There IS no other way. I have to keep on going.'

'But-'

Kelly's words were cut off as a small screen flicked on from a nearby table. In a split second, the helmet of the Hellspawn Ranger appeared.

'I see you've broken through the ropes. No matter, you'll never be able to get out. Give up!' he said with a hideous laugh. 'Don't bother trying to use your morpher. The energy field around it could not be broken by a pathetic human being like you. Anyway, how bout a little treat for you?'

The helmet turned around, only to view a small part of town. It was total chaos! There were fires burning in the background, people running in terror, some were hurt and injured, others simply lay on the ground, motionless.

'No!' I yelled as my eyes saw what Jacob had done, my fists trembled in anger.

He laughed again. 'Pretty nice, huh? These powers are amazing, thanks Derek. Anyway, I'll say it again. Don't try getting the morpher, I want to kill you with my own hands. Hahaha!' With that, the screen went blank.

Slowly, I slumped to my knees in dispair. Because of my foolishness, people, innocent people were hurt and dying. I didn't care what the price was anymore, I had to get out!

Once again, I started towards the morpher, reaching towards it as I stretched my arm. Without warning, the same pain coarsed through my veins and body as I was knocked down again.

Ignoring the stabbing pain, and the fogginess that started to form across my vision, I crawled over again.

However, Kelly pulled me back. 'Derek, no!' I was startled to see that tears were falling down her face, she was crying! 'Don't try anymore. Really, you'll die. Jacob already said that the energy field could only be broken by someone with ranger powers. You're just an ordinary human being now, there's no way you'll be able to do it.'

Suddenly, something flashed through me. My pain was gone in a mere second as I understood something. I turned my head towards Kelly, and gently wiped away her tears.

'You're wrong Kelly.' I murmured. 'I may not have the morpher, but I'm still a Power Ranger. The Black Hurricane Ranger, the protecter of this place. From the moment I took the morpher and accepted this duty, I stopped being ordinary. The power of the hurricane still lies within my body, flows inside my veins, seeps into my soul.'

With that, I looked at the morpher, and the invisible field which I could not see. I understood. I needed to have faith in myself, I'm a Power Ranger, I could do this!

Once again, I stretched out my hand. The same pain hit me, but I focused hard onto my thoughts and reached further inside. Bit by bit, I got closer. The machine started to overload and burn.

'Ahhhhhh!' I yelled as I thrusted forward, my fingers scratching the edge of my morpher. 'Keep on going!' A voice yelled into my head.

With a huge explosion, the machine blew up as I was swept away by the impact.

Continuing to ignore the stabbing pains, I looked at the wreckage. All was destroyed as piles of metal plates covered the area, a fog of smoke arose from the heap.

In panic, I searched through the wreckage for the morpher. Finally, I found it, lying at the bottom, covered with dust- but un-damaged.

Immediately I put it on. As soon as it came in contact with me, the same feeling when I first put on the morpher returned to me.

'Tornado Storm, Ranger Form!'

There I stood, fully morphed. Something ran up and down my veins, power, Power, POWER!

Glancing down at my morpher, I discovered that Jacob was wrecking havoc near the western district. Not much left!

'Panther Bazooka!' I yelled as my trusty weapon materialized into my hands. With a small blast, a huge hole appeared onto the wall of the warehouse.

I turned to Kelly, 'C'mon, let's get outta here.'

'Tsunami Cycle!'

'Kelly, there's not much time left for me. Here's what we'll do: I'll take you with me to the west side, but once we get there, I want you to find a safe place to hide. Don't come out no matter what happens. Am I understood?' I asked softly.

She looked at me, those beautiful eyes haunting my soul. Slowly, she nodded in agreement.

With that, we sped off towards our destination.

What we saw was awful. Almost every single building there was destroyed, injured people littered the streets. Blood smeared around the pavement.

I stopped the cycle immediately. 'Kelly, now! Remember what I said, ok?'

She got off quickly. 'Derek, please be careful.'

I nodded, 'I will.'

I continued my ride through the area, searching for Jacob. In no time at all, I located him. Laughing like crazy, attacking everything and everyone in sight.

With a swift jump, I leapt off my cycle. Landing onto the ground, I ran towards my opponent.

'Hellspawn Ranger, hold it right there!'

Wow! Another chapter finished. What do you guys think? Sorry if there's not enough morphing action here. The coming chap may take a little longer than usual cause it's gonna be a big fight. Keep on watching guys! Also, please tell me if there is any way to make this fic more interesting. Thanks!