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Chapter Three
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, and I'm not making any money from this fic. I do, however, own the Mythans, Crystalina, and the original characters Regina and Hal - Regina's twin brother
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Jason looked down at his morpher as it went off, then at Tommy. "Can we teleport?" he wanted to know.
Tommy nodded. "Yeah, we can," he answered. "We can zone in on the area the monster is in using our morphers."
"All right, let's go, then." Kimberly stood up, and so did Trini.
"Should we morph before we teleport?" Jason asked.
"Why don't we wait and see what we're up against first?" Tommy suggested. "We might not need to morph this time, so there would be no point in wasting the power straight away."
"Well, let's go, then," Zack said.
The six teleported.
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Regina's head was bent over the drawing she was doing, her hair tied back in an untidy ponytail, a few strands escaping and falling into her eyes.
"Hey, how are you doing with your design?" Regina's friend, black-haired Cari, asked in a low voice.
"Ok, I guess," Regina responded, moving slightly so that Cari could see what she was doing. "It's a hooded green dress with elaborate patterns stitched on it."
"Neat," Cari said. "It's much better than mine. I just did a smart red coat."
"Well, if any of these were to be made, yours would probably catch on much quicker than mine," Regina smiled.
The lecturer glared at them, and Cari and Regina fell silent, concentrating on their work. Then, when she looked away from them, they grinned at each other.
Once the lecture was finished, Cari caught up with Regina. "Don't tell me you're going to go back to your house," she groaned.
Regina blinked at her friend in surprise. "What are you talking about, Cari?" she questioned. "Of course I'm going to go back home. Jason will be waiting up for me."
Cari transferred her bag to her other shoulder, and frowned. "Regina, you were originally worried that he was seeing someone else," she reminded her friend.
Regina looked away, not wanting to be reminded of how jealous she had been. She saw now that she had just been being silly and paranoid. Jason loved her, and he didn't deserve her suspicion.
"Well, our relationship was going through a rough patch then," Regina admitted. "It's better now, though."
"I'm glad about that," Cari smiled. "You certainly seem quite a bit happier."
Before Regina could respond, her mobile rang. She dug it out of her purse, and put it to her ear. "Hello?"
"Hi, sis, it's Hal," Regina's twin brother said.
"Oh, hi, Hal," Regina replied. "What's up?"
Cari rolled her eyes, tossed her friend a wave, and then left the building to get to her car and meet whoever she was partying with that evening.
Hal was a police officer, though barely more than a rookie. It meant that he could pass on warnings to his sister, though he refused to give her any classified information.
"Regina, I'm going to come pick you up," Hal told his sister. "There's a black animal attacking people, and I don't want you to be outside on your own right now."
"But what about my car?" Regina asked with a frown.
"I'll get it towed," Hal answered. "Stay inside until I arrive." Then, he rang off.
Regina gave the phone a glare. It was just like her brother to tell her to do something, but not explain properly. But she knew that Hal only wanted to keep her safe, so she'd stay in the building.
For now, at least.
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The six teleported to where the signal of the monster was coming from.
"It's over there." Tommy nodded to where a big black animal was crushing cars and knocking people to one side.
"That just looks like a big black cat," Jason noted.
"Maybe it escaped from a zoo or something?" Zack suggested, a faintly hopeful note in his voice. They hadn't been Power Rangers for quite some time, and it wasn't easy to slip back into the whole hero routine.
"How many zoos keep big black cats?" Trini asked. "It must be one of Crystalina's monsters."
"Yeah, so we'd better morph," Billy put in.
"Right," Tommy said. He had already briefed the others on how to call on their Power Ranger forms. "The Mythan Power Rangers! Unicorn!"
"Pegasus!" Kimberly.
"Griffin!" Trini.
"Dragon!" Billy.
"Phoenix!" Jason.
"Basilisk!" Zack.
They morphed, the images of each of their animals appearing as a faint outline in the air around them before wrapping around them and changing to the Power Ranger suits.
"All right, let's go!" Tommy exclaimed.
The six Power Rangers raced towards the black cat, even though each of them had their doubts as to whether this thing was actually one of Crystalina's monsters or not.
However, those doubts quickly faded when the black cat whirled on them and hissed, revealing a forked tongue, just like a snake.
"Ew, that's just horrible," Kimberly commented.
The cat swiped at the Power Rangers with a paw, and managed to swipe Billy across the chest. The blue ranger cried out as he felt the claws gouge him through his ranger suit.
"Billy!" Trini cried.
"I'm ok." But Billy groaned a little as he pushed himself back up again.
Jason pulled out his blaster, and fired at the snake-cat. The animal shook its head slightly, then growled at Jason, and aimed a swipe at the red ranger. Jason dodged, but still felt icy claws rake across his back. He stumbled a little, wondering if his back was bleeding.
"Guys, pull yourself together!" Tommy yelled. "We're not going to be beaten by a big cat, right?!"
"Right!"
"Dragon Lance!" Billy pulled the sword out, and it lengthened enough so that the blue ranger could strike at the cat from a safe distance away.
The cat whirled on the blue ranger, its yellow eyes spitting fire.
"Phoenix Katana!" Jason pulled out his katana, and struck at the cat as fire flared along the katana's edge.
"Unicorn Horn!" Tommy struck at the cat with a weapon shaped like a white unicorn's horn.
"Griffin Blaster!" Trini fired at the cat.
"Pegasus Cannon!" Kimberly also fired at the cat.
"Basilisk Blade!" Zack struck at the cat with a sword that appeared to be made out of a type of rock.
Unable to defend itself against so many attacks, the cat broke apart. However, it broke apart into cloaked humanoid shapes which hissed with forked tongues at the Power Rangers.
"Snake men," Tommy observed.
"Well, it had to have some form of evil minions," Zack said.
"I've never liked snakes." Trini shuddered.
"FREEZE!" a voice yelled suddenly.
The Power Rangers glanced over, and saw a police officer with short black hair standing next to a police car, aiming a gun at the snake men. Standing next to him was a woman with long dirty-blonde hair.
"Regina and Hal," Jason groaned.
Tommy turned his helmeted head towards his friend. "Who's Hal?"
"Regina's twin brother," Jason answered. "He's a police officer."
"Yeah, the uniform kind of gave it away," Zack pointed out.
Hal slowly edged forward, still aiming the gun at the snake men, while Regina remained behind, leaning against the police car, watching her brother with narrowed eyes.
What's she doing, getting a ride with her brother? Jason wondered. She has her own car, after all. Unless, of course, Hal found out about the snake-cat, and decided to pick her up so that he'd know that she was safe.
Still aiming the gun at the snake men, Hal turned his gaze towards the Power Rangers. "Who are you guys?" he asked.
"We're the Power Rangers," Tommy answered, taking a slight step forward.
Disbelief flared in the police officer's eyes. "Yeah, right," he said, clearly not believing them. "And I'm Santa Claus. Who are you really?"
Jason had to give Hal credit. You'd never know that he'd just left rookie status behind. He handled himself like a pro. Unfortunately, that also meant that he wouldn't leave without getting some answers.
However, while Hal had been talking to the Power Rangers, the snake men hadn't just been standing still. Taking advantage of the officer's distraction, one of them had lunged towards Regina. Hal had reacted quickly, but he still found that his gun had now ended up pointing at his sister, who the snake man was using as a shield.
Jason stiffened slightly. If the snake man's claws hadn't been centimeters away from his girlfriend's throat, he would have attacked. But he wasn't going to risk Regina being hurt or even killed.
"Let her go," Hal said, slowly.
The snake man didn't move.
Slowly, Hal lowered his gun. He was unwilling to take chances with Regina's life as well.
"We can't just let them get away," Tommy whispered to Jason. "We might have to take a chance, just to prevent them from being able to return to Crystalina, and reporting what's just happened."
"I know," Jason responded.
"I'll be ready," Kimberly whispered to them. "I can probably get a shot if Regina isn't in the way for a moment."
"You go, girl," Zack whispered back.
The snake man gestured imperiously to the Power Rangers with it's free hand, indicating for them to lower their weapons. The claws of its other hand were still near to Regina's throat.
Suddenly, Regina twisted aside, away from the claws. The snake man managed to cut her neck, but the woman fell away from him, landing on her hands and knees.
Kimberly fired.
The snake man stood frozen in shock for a moment, then collapsed onto the ground, its body disintegrating as it did so.
"Get out of here!" Tommy yelled to Regina and Hal.
Hal stared at them, but Regina grabbed his wrist, and pulled him towards the car. Hal hesitated, then got in as well, and drove off.
Jason turned his attention to the snake men, now that he was pretty sure that Regina was going to be all right.
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Once the fight was over, Jason teleported himself back to his house, so that he was outside it before demorphing. He took a deep breath, bracing himself for an argument with Regina about how late he was in.
Jason unlocked the front door, and walked in.
Regina was sitting on the settee, a plaster on her neck, where the snake man had cut her. She shot Jason a glare as he came in. "Where have you been?" she demanded. She looked tired, and rather mad.
"Out," Jason replied truthfully.
"At this time?"
Jason shrugged a little. "I was catching up with some old friends," he answered. That was actually partly the truth. He just wasn't going to tell Regina exactly what he was doing with his friends. "What happened to your neck?" he asked, not having to fake the concern. He hadn't got a chance to see just how badly hurt she was when she and Hal had left.
"Don't change the subject!" Regina snapped. "I bet you were out with some girl."
Jason stared at her. Not this again "No, I was not," he replied flatly.
"Why won't you tell me where you were, then?" Regina demanded, her voice in danger of rising to a screech.
"I did," Jason insisted.
"That wasn't an explanation, that was an evasion!"
Jason sighed. "I'm really not in the mood for this tonight," he said. "I'm going upstairs to bed. Good night." He left the room.
"Don't you dare walk away from me!" Regina screeched.
Jason ignored her, and just continued walking.
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Heh... Well, considering how I wrote that Regina acted before, it would make sense for her to be really suspicious when Jason walks in late