A/N: thanx reviewers! here's another chappie... this one will be longer i swear
disclaimer: i dont own power rangers or any characters
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The next morning Dana woke to the sound of her alarm clock. She turned it off and rolled over on her back. Her thoughts drifted to Carter. He was just lying there in the med room. She knew he couldn't stand being helpless. She knew that yesterday when they had those three attacks one right after the other that he wanted to be there to help fight them off. Now she prayed that the next time they had to go fight Carter would be there to help them like he wanted to do. She sighed and looked at her clock. It was 7:15. She slowly got out of bed and got dressed. She walked to the med room and found Carter still sleeping. She quietly walked in and sat down in a chair. Once again she bean thinking of him. All the times he's been there for him... every time he's helped her. Now she was beginning to feel guilty. She knew it wasn't her fault, but he's always been there for her so why couldn't she have been there for him?
"Dana, it wasn't your fault." She looked up. She had obviously had a look on her face that said how she felt because Carter had woke up and claimed it wasn't her fault.
"I know," Dana replied and moved the chair beside the bed. "When can you get out?"
"I don't know. Sometime today, but the nurse hasn't been here yet. Hopefully soon though. I wanted to be there with you guys yesterday. I wanted to help fight off those demons," Carter said. Dana smiled remembering that morning she had known she felt that way. It just felt good to hear him acting like himself again.
"So, you're awake? Let's go," Joel said as he and the others walked in. Everyone smiled.
"Speaking of which... when do you get to go?" Kelsey asked.
"Whenever the nurse comes in and tells me I can," Carter replied.
"Oh. Chad go find the nurse. I want to get back to normal," Joel ordered. Chad nodded and left.
"So- uh- it's been a rough past two days huh?" Ryan said trying to make a conversation.
"You're telling me. I've been lying here bored to death for the past two days while you guys got to go off fighting, talking, doing normal everyday things," Carter replied.
"Yeah well it's not that normal. I mean, fighting off demons is not an every day type thing," Joel said.
"It is if you're a power ranger... which you are," Dana pointed out.
"Yeah good point," Joel agreed. Suddenly Chad walked back in followed by the nurse. She looked and saw Carter was awake.
"Carter, if you're feeling better, you are free to go any time," the nurse said. She walked out into the hall.
"Well let's go," Joel said. Carter got out of the bed and went to the med room's bathroom to get dressed. They all six left the med room together. They didn't know that the nurse was watching from inside a small, dark room across the hall from the med room.
"Diabolico, the rangers have left the med room. The red ranger is feeling better and everything in their lives seems to be back to normal," the nurse said into a communicator she had taken from her pocket.
"Perfect. Great work. Come back to Skull Caverns now. We need to form a plan," Diabolico's voice sounded from the communicator.
"At once," the nurse said before disappearing.
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The rangers were sitting in the common room.
"So what do you guys wanna do tonight? I'm pretty sure we won't have any attacks the rest of the day," Ryan asked.
"I don't know. Maybe-" Dana was cut off by her cell phone ringing. "Hold on guys," Dana said as she stood up and walked a few steps away.
"What do you want?" she asked in a low tone.
"Hey I just wanna know if you wanna get back together sometime?" the male voice on the other line said.
"No! You cheated on me and you expect me to just take you back!?!?" Dana screamed into the phone making the others look at her.
"Look baby I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't-" Ethan was cut off.
"Sorry?!?!" Dana repeated. "Sorry?!?! I'll give you something to be sorry about if you EVER call me again! Got it?" Dana screamed and hung up. She walked back to her friends and was greeted with questioning looks from all of them.
"I can't believe he would actually think I'd take him back after what he did to me," Dana said in her normal voice now.
"Neither can I," Ryan agreed.
"How about we catch a movie tonight. Just to take our minds off of everything?" Chad suggested.
"Ok. We've all had a rough few days. That sounds good to just relax at the movies," Kelsey agreed. Everyone else agreed to go. They decided on a PG-13 comedy/action movie since they weren't in the mood to watch an R rated horror movie. At about 7:00 they left to go to the theatres. When they got there Dana saw Ethan with his arm around a tall, skinny girl with long black hair with red tips, brown eyes, and dressed in a short black leather mini and a tight bright red triangle top. Dana's eyes widened. He'd asked her to take him back while he was with this girl?
"Oh my god!" Kelsey exclaimed obviously thinking the same thing. Dana's eyes began to fill with tears as they began making out in front of her. She wasn't jealous... just hurt. The rest of the rangers gathered next to Dana. Carter put his hand on her shoulder as Ryan held her in his arms and let her cry tears of hate on his shoulder and chest. They all hated Ethan for doing this. They kept eyeing the girl he thought was better than Dana.
"Dana, you're way better than that preppy little barbie. Don't let him hurt you like that," Ryan said.
"Yeah she tries too hard," Kelsey agreed. Carter couldn't say anything. He was too mad at those two people. He despised them for hurting Dana like that. He was afraid that if he opened his mouth he would explode at Ethan so he just gave Dana's shoulder a reassuring squeeze.
"Th- thanks guys," Dana choked out. She wiped her eyes on a tissue Joel had gotten for her and looked at the others.
"Are we gonna go see a movie or stand around by the ticket booth all night?" she asked as if nothing was wrong.
"You mean you're ok?" Chad asked. None of them really thought she would be ok. She nodded and they walked in. Halfway through the movie Carter's communicator went off and Captain Mitchell's voice came through.
"Rangers! Trouble! Now!"
"Got it," Carter replied and looked at the others. "Let's go." The rangers rushed out of the theatre to the scene where they found something they never expected.
"Guys, this is gonna be a hard battle," Carter said looking around at what they ha to fight off. There standing next to each other was Vypra, Diabolico, Olympius, Loki, and, to their surprise, the nurse from the med room. There were also many batlings. This was going to be a very hard battle. The rangers quickly morphed.
"You guys ready?" Carter asked looking at each of his friends. They each nodded even though they were scared to death. They ran at the batlings and began fighting them.
"Olympius, the rangers are here," Vypra said looking at the queen's son.
"Excellent," Olympius replied. He watched the rangers fight the batlings. "Jinxer!" he yelled behind him. Jinxer came out from behind a tree.
"Yes?" he asked.
"The rangers have almost defeated the batlings. Get some more out there," Olympius ordered.
"Oh, at once sir," Jinxer replied throwing a batling card to the ground and reciting a spell. Soon many more batlings were attacking the rangers.
"Carter, go after the others. Leave the batlings to the other rangers," came Captain Mitchell's voice through Carter's communicator.
"Yes sir," Carter said running up to Olympius, Vypra, Diabolico, Loki, and the nurse.
"Nurse? What are you doing with them?" Carter asked confused. The nurse gave an evil laugh.
"My name is Vampira. Vypra is my younger sister. I had you all fooled," Vampira replied taking off her nurse coat to reveal an evil villain outfit. Carter stared at her shocked. Vypra and Vampira began to laugh evilly.
"What's wrong red ranger? Can't take on all of us at once?" Diabolico asked.
"I'm not scared of you. We can take you. All of you," Carter replied defensively.
"I'd like to see you try," Olympius challenged.
"Well you're about to," Carter replied firing his blaster at him. Vypra took out her weapon quickly and she and Carter began fighting. Loki went after Kelsey. Diabolico went after Ryan. Jinxer made more batlings to go after Dana, Joel, and Chad. Vampira stood watching all of this happening with laughing very evilly. Olympius soon attacked Joel so they began fighting.
"Take this Diabolico!" Ryan yelled and fired his titanium laser at him. Diabolico stumbled back and fired at Ryan. Ryan flew back and ran into Dana.
"You ok?" he asked helping her up. She nodded and went back to fighting the batlings. Soon all the batlings were gone. The villains had beaten the rangers up pretty bad by then so they all left but Vampira. Vampira stepped towards them.
"Power rangers," she started.
"Look, I don't care that you're new. I couldn't care less that you're Vypra's sister. But I'm tired and I wanna leave so this is your first, last, and only attack on Mariner Bay. You're going down!" Joel yelled and charged at her. She fired and sent him flying back into Chad.
"Fool! You really think you can destroy me like that? Get real! Take this!" Vampira screamed taking out a huge silver laser with a gold strip in the middle and a blue tip. She fired it and a blue stream of light struck the ground right in front of them. The ground shook and they fell.
"Whoa! This lady's tough!" Joel said.
"Yeah. But we're tougher," Carter replied. Everyone nodded and stood up. They lined up and took out their blasters. Ryan took out his Titanium laser.
"Fools! You cannot beat me with puny lasers!" Vampira exclaimed with a laugh.
"One... two... fire!" Carter ordered. They fired and she stumbled back. Joel pulled out his power booster (A/N: i dont remember what those are called but that's what my sis said!). He fired that at her before she could fully stand again. She was on the ground lying on her back. Carter, Chad, Dana, and Kelsey aimed their blasters at her. Joel just kept his Power Booster out and aimed it. And Ryan aimed his Titanium laser at her. They fired together and she exploded. The rangers put away their weapons and headed back to the base. At the base they were greeted by Captain Mitchell.
"That was a tough battle today. I'm glad that you defeated her. You did great. All that training paid off today. But what about tomorrow? What's going to happen later? It will just keep getting harder. You cannot show signs of weakness. The demons will think they've got you. They will believe they can defeat you. They can't. Think about it, rangers. Get some sleep. It's late," Captain Mitchell said walking away. The rangers started walking down the hallway when they stopped.
"Ok guys. You heard him. We gotta be tough if we wanna win. Don't show any signs of weakness. We'll beat them. You with me?" Carter asked. Everyone agreed, said goodnight, and went to bed thinking about what Captain Mitchell had said.
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A/N: wow! that is the longest chapter yet! hope it made up for my shorter ones... hope you liked it and please RR!!