TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY 5
Sharp Tests
Disclaimer: Baby no own Power Rangers at all! Now excuse me as I vaporize my slaves for their tragic work on my disclaimers summaries and total lack of ability. well as an evil overlord I can get away with that.
Rating: PG-13 (It gets unpleasant later in the story)
Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance
Cam and Hunter watched the girl move, she was faster then they'd expected. She leapt a bench followed by the pair. She zipped between people like lightening. Cam and Hunter kept after her.but she was gaining space. Hunter vanished into a crowd. ((Where the hell is he headed to?)) Grimaced Cam. The girl vaulted up the steps and ran along the second level balcony.straight into Hunter.
She stared at him with fear in her eyes.
'Calm down' he said in his most soothing voice. She twisted her hands in his grasp and suddenly was holding him above the hands. 'Stay away!' she exclaimed. She twisted on her feet and tossed him on top of Cam.
'Hunter get off!' exclaimed Cam as the blonde mans breath fogged up his glasses. They chased the girl along the balcony. Suddenly she leapt onto the railing. 'Don't jump!' Cam shouted. The girl didn't hear him as she leapt off the balcony.
Marah and Kapri strolled down the street with their bags on their arms in human appearance.
'Nothing like a shopping spree to burn off the No-Show-Stand-Up-Fight Blues' sighed Kapri.
'Yeah' shrugged Marah with a sigh. 'Hey.look!'
She pointed; the Red and Yellow Rangers were looking around the street.
'Hey lets try that trick D showed us!' Marah said. Her sister nodded and they stepped into the shade of the trees lining the street. The raised two fingers to their foreheads and focused. The light flared in their minds and the blue glow flickered around the Rangers heads.
'They're looking for a girl! They stand us up to go "babe-searching", the NERVE!' Kapri exclaimed stepping out of Dustin's mind.
'Did Dustin say that?' mumbled Marah as she removed herself from Shane's thoughts.
'More or less' shrugged Kapri. 'Oh! LOOK! Half-price shoes!'
Marah followed her sister towards the shoe shop casting a confused look at Dustin.
====
'So I, like, only saw her once, but she totally wiped me out' Dustin explained.
Shane nodded as he swept a glance across the girls on a bench. 'This weird program only spots certain aspects of the girl.right?'
'Yeah.Margo was a girl.from Sweden' Dustin sighed.
'You're so desperate to talk about her you'll do anything to get her into a conversation'
'I had a conversation with Margo' mumbled Dustin. And then came the noise.like a rolling thunder.followed closely by the crackle of electricity. The upper floors of a skyscraper erupted into flame, cascading out in waves of red-hot heat and glimmering shards of shattered glass.
===
Jason stared, the flame was pouring from the upper levels across the rode. Something shot across towards the building and broke through the window with a dull splatter followed by a small object. Jason looked down; he was standing in the waiting room of Greta's office.
The secretary threw up. The corpse was charred and bloody, a bizarre rigor mortis held the body that was now folded in two-halves and missing the head by a very clean cut. Swallowing the taste of vomit Jason calmly helped the secretary up and into Greta's office.
==
'Dudes! Get to the Skyscraper Plaza ASAP!' CyberCam exclaimed over the links. 'Major explosions!'
'Gotcha' Tori reported. 'Let's go!' she added to Blake.
It took all of 2 minutes to get over there. Tori set to work with the water as Dustin and the Thunder Rangers sped through the building to free any trapped people. Cam was saving those trapped on the upper floors with his chopper.
'The explosion was contained, and created by pure energy' he said reading Data off a screen. 'It seems to have only destroyed the CEO's office.weird.I'm getting a reading of someone alive in there.'
The shape was a wavering black one on his screen.and then it was off, sprinting through the building with a form over its shoulder. It was carrying someone. 'Hey! Something's coming your way!' Cam said to Blake.
In the hall Blake looked up from the woman he was carrying and her injured arm. 'What?'
The white and black blur gusted past and down the hall. Blake staggered a little. 'Whoa! What was that?'
=====
The woman was laid before Tori she froze when she saw him.The White Astral Ranger!'
'Are you---' she began.
'Not now this woman needs help!' the White Ranger explained. 'She's been shielded from burns, she fainted from shock, she should be all right but for the bump on her head, it's close to the temple.'
He put his hands out and the green light flowed from his hands and forehead. The visor fired the blast of light as the light from his hands revealed her aura.
'Serious.she might die, it's a severe blow to the area near the temple.minor fracture.'
The light intensified and the woman's eyes fluttered open as her cuts and bruises healed. 'Oh my.that strange young man.'
The White Ranger rose. 'I have to stop him once and for all' he murmured.
With that he sped off in a blur back into the building.
'Cam!' Tori exclaimed. 'Where's he going?'
'Top floor.' Cam replied. 'I've gotten everyone off.'
There was a shriek of metal and the crash of shattering glass. The upper floor buckled in on itself.
'He was in there!' Cam exclaimed.
'And now he's not!' a dark voice echoed. 'Now he's gone!'
The Black Astral Ranger stood on the roof of the Young UN building. 'So roll over and play dead!'
He leapt off the building and landed, splintering the pavement stones. The sai appeared in his hands. 'Time to die Ranger!' he sneered. He sprinted forwards and slashed her repeatedly. She gave a shriek as the sparks flew and knocked her down. He raised the Sai in the air but a staff blocked it.
'Not so fast!' Blake snapped.
He spun and struck repeatedly and angrily into the Rangers torso. The Black Ranger leapt before another strike could land and balanced on the staff. 'That's so absolutely boring' he yawned and kicked Blake under the chin flipping away as Blake toppled to the ground.
Shane and Dustin caught him and he had to catch the two blades with both his Sai, leaving his chest open for their twin kicks. The force slammed him off a wall and he recovered considerably angrier.
He pointed his hands; the blast of red light sent the Rangers spinning upwards and slammed into the ground.
'Stupid Rangers! You're on my list you see.'
Cam slashed him across the back repeatedly and swiftly. Apparently the Samurai and Hunter had escaped notice. The Black Ranger turned and leapt, his legs shot up and out to knock Cam and Hunter away.
'That annoys me to no end' he growled.
Swiftly he attacked, blades twisting to strike with the blunt handles and sharp points with pinpoint accuracy.cam caught the blades on his staff and fired his blaster. The melee ended as the Black Ranger stumbled away and leaned on a wall to find his strength.
'You're finished' Cam said swiping his blade down to his side. The Black Ranger laughed. Then Hunter heard it, the strange music, it was very, very familiar.a slow melody that had a haunting tune to it.why did he remember it? Perhaps it was something he'd picked up from the time the Astral Ninja had implanted the thoughts about the attempt to kill Kelly? He wasn't sure but the world was blurring now, he groaned loudly, Cam turned to face him. 'Are you okay Hunter?'
'Just --- not good.'
Hunter fell into Cam with a gasp as his vision swam and everything went black.
===
'Hello honey!' cooed a voice. Shane leapt and hurriedly pulled his sleeve over the bruise dominating his arm. He knew his healing would catch it up in a while but he couldn't let his Mom catch it.
'Hi Mom!' he shouted. She strode from the kitchen.looking like something out of the sixties. He was expecting canned laughter and her to wink with the sound of jingling bells.
Her hair was grown out to twice its original size, her dress stuck out at a 45 degree on all sides of her hips and she was wearing bright pinks. 'Whoa Mom, does Cher know you're stealing her hair?'
'Silly, this is all the rage in motherly fashions!' she giggled. She firmly grasped his shoulder and steered him into the dining room to his right. He looked at the banquet laid out before him.
'I've been such a terrible mother for leaving you, so I'm quitting my job to look after you 24-7'.
Her smile sent shivers up Shane's spine. He nodded and made an excuse to go to the bathroom to secretly contact the others.
====
'Hunters fine' Cam said. 'Some sort of episode, the Astral Ninja must have induced it on him to distract us long enough to teleport out. He's a bit shaken but that's it.and he's vomiting.a lot.'
'Good' Shane said. 'I have to go Mom's having an Episode all her own, I swear to you its like a Back-to-Back-Brady-Bunch-Bonanza here. On the bright side her aide's coming over and she told me he was an expert in karate.'
'Good luck on that' Blake said from his brothers side.
'You too' Shane said. 'Mrs Hanson's a bit intense.if she were a heat.well she'd make the sun look like the back of your freezer.'
Blake shivered. Tori smiled. 'She'll love you' she said soothingly.
'How sweat' Hunter said, seconds before unleashing a blast of vomit into the bucket in front of him.'
===
Shivering in the corner of the dark room the blonde young man shivered, a cold sweat slicking his body and forcing his t-shirt to cling to his chest.
'N-n-not again' he gasped. He closed his eyes as everything went white.
----Flashback----
'You never told me! You never even told me he existed!' he screamed.
'Calm down son, we had no choice; the entire incident must be put behind us.' his father said coolly.
'I-I can't believe you did this! You are a control freak!'
The lamp crashed to the ground and his fathers face blushed beetroot red. 'I insist on your obedience! GO TO YOUR ROOM!'
The roar staggered the young man. 'I'm going out!' he retorted. 'Don't try and stop me!'
'You'll do no such thing! You are going to your room; I will not have you cavorting about with those commoners!'
'They're my Friends, Father, not that you have any!'
'OUT! NOW!'
Turning he stormed out past the Cheshire-cat-like grin of his sister.
---End Flashback---
'So, are my pumps any good?' asked Kapri raising her leg gently. 'I think they're perfect, the even slim my feet!'
The fluffy pink slip-ons were sequined and tacky.but Kapri had still bought them despite all advice. Marah checked her new purse.
'You're lucky you're allowed to go shopping' Demon said as it changed its shape to become Diabolico. 'I'm forbidden by Matriarchus to go to Earth unless she says I am allowed'
'That is sooooo unfair!' shrilled Kapri. 'You should be allowed shop whenever you want. It's the American way'
'I'm not American' remarked Diabolico-D. His hands brushed over the dagger on the table. They were seated in a meeting room. The dagger and its sheath lay on the table. It glowed with a green and black light.
'Matriarchus will report in soon enough' muttered Diabolico-D. 'I hope she chokes on a large hamburger.or drumstick.or some other edible treat from Earth.'
Marah shrugged and looked out the window. It was confusing sometimes. There was femininity about D, but an icy side that was neutral, and then a tough side that most men would kill for.so Marah had always referred to D in the gender D was in. Marah pulled out a pair of boots and slipped them on. D had given them the new costumes and helped them with the fighting.Matriarchus had trained them and D had helped out.
'So did you find the book?' Kapri asked D, breaking Marah's line of thought.
====
'So how did you manage to lose the girl?' Tori asked as they strolled through the park. 'Wasn't she swooning with fear?'
Cam and Hunter looked at one another. 'She escaped into the ladies room' sighed Hunter. 'But not after dropping seven shelves, two statues, three benches, several pedestrians and two food carts in our path.plus doing a few acrobatic tricks from a great height.you know that giant mobile in the mall?'
'The one like a scrap-yard?' Blake asked. Cam nodded.
'She climbed it like a spider then somersaulted off it onto an elevator and ran through a toy store.' Hunter elaborated.
'Great' Dustin said. 'She's a total, like, flea.'
The group walked in silence. There was nothing to say, each was busy with inner thoughts. The silence was finally broken by the sounds of teleportation.
'Rangers' a voice echoed. The shape strode forwards, it was unmistakably Mototron, but at the same time it wasn't.because the movements were too fluid, too perfect. Then the real Mototron appeared, that tore it-- everything was weird.
'Hello Rangers!' cackled the apparently genuine Mototron. 'Long time since our last fight!'
'Mototron!' exclaimed Blake taking a fighting stance.
'Yeah state the obvious why don't you?' the other Mototron said, morphing into Trakeena. 'Time to die! Now Mototron!'
The beams lanced from Mototrons eyes and sent a rain of sparks through the air from the ground. The Ninja Storm rangers fell aside. Forcing themselves up they transformed.
'NINJA STORM RANGER FORM! HA!'
Trakeena-D laughed as she watched the rangers prepare for battle. Cam stood before her. 'I'll take this one!' he shouted.
'Great' cooed Trakeena-D. 'But your daddy isn't here.so you're sunk!'
She extended her hands and the purple light formed into a staff. It was black with gold rings on it and topped with a fishhook like top that had a large red orb set in the golden scythe top. Dragons heads were shaped from the top of the staff at the point the scythe top began. Four heads each with glowing purple eyes. Every minute detail of the staff was evil.Trakeena-D definitely didn't clash with it.
'Lets begin Samurai' she whispered.
She slashed across his chest. He was too slow by a microseconds smallest fraction. He shot backwards as Trakeena-D strode forwards.her eyes blazed dark purple and the smokey black and violet light shot at him. Cam rolled aside as he heard Marah, Kapri, Mototron and the Kezlacks attacked his comrades. Hunter wasn't as fast as he usually was, during his "experience" he'd had a weird dream that was almost real, but he couldn't remember it.
Cam slashed Trakeena-D and lunged again. 'I hope you have the Mara-Ishii' purred Trakeena-D. 'You'll need it soon'
Cam was caught off guard, she knew about the book?
'How do--What would you know?'
'Well I can sense the book, and since its off my radar it must be in your base.so I'll have to find that and get the book'
Cam's sword clashed with her staff. The force between the weapons was building. Trakeena-D grinned and she pivoted, the weapons shot into the air and landed a few feet away points first. Trakeena-D lunged in with a flurry of punches that Cam blocked. She spun and kicked him in the stomach. He shot backwards into a Cherry Blossom Tree. Trakeena-D dropped her hands to her sides and closed her eyes, a black aura flowed around her, and she slowly brought her arms up, the black cloak materialized from her hands and sides, like a black hole vortex that no light escaped. 'Prepare to DIE' she said. 'Because I really, really, _really_ hate RANGERS!' The swarm of vampire bats flew from the darkness of her cloak.
'AH!' shouted Cam. The shape blurred forwards and dived on him. He was rolled along under the person he landed with a grunt as the bats devoured the tree. He looked up at his saviour. Three obvious things, Korean, black hair, good person, all he gathered from the eyes.
'Are you okay?' the guy asked.
'Yeah' Cam said sitting up. 'Thanks'
'No problem Green Ranger' grinned Adam. 'I used to be a Green Ranger too.and a Black ranger.don't ask'
He flipped to his feet as Trakeena-D turned to face him. 'That was a stupid move!' she spat. 'No one interferes with my kills!'
She sniffed. 'Ah but that mixture of scents leaves only one conclusion.a ranger.black _and_ green? Wow, I'm impressed.well as far as I can be with a pathetic being like you'
She pointed her hands and the blue and black flames sped through the air. Cam and Adam leapt apart as the flames blew a crater in the ground.
'Hey! D! Look! I'm beating him!' Marah called as she kicked Dustin into a tree. 'Great work!' D shouted. 'Now regroup!'
She pointed her hands and the black lightening curled around Adam and Cam. The energy tendrils tossed them to the other Rangers.
'All lined up' purred Trakeena-D. 'This is the end!'
'You know you sound like Ivy from Soul Calibur' a voice said. The red bag connected with her face and toppled her.
'Don't worry guys I got her!'
'Rocky?' Adam exclaimed.
The ex-Ranger grinned and wiggled his eyebrows. 'In the gorgeous flesh'
'So, this guy is and ex-Ranger?' Cam asked.
'Yeah, the ex-Red' Adam said. 'And blue'
'You guys, like, time-share or something?' Dustin asked.
'Speaking of Ivy' Trakeena-D said. 'I love that game!'
The chainlink whip coiled around Rocky's torso tightly and sent him spinning like a top into a tree. Laughing Trakeena-D transformed into Goldar. 'It's been real Rangers, say good bye!'
Goldar-D put his hand out, palm up, fingers straightened. He blew, the silver powder formed a small ring in the air. With a small blow Goldar-D sent his hissing upwards, it then came down trapping the rangers in a columnb of flame.
'In a few minutes that column will constrict.and its all over! Ciao'
'I love this job' Mototron grinned.
'Kudos to you' sneered D. The villains teleported out leaving the Rangers and Adam trapped in a tall ring of flame that was slowly closing in.
'Rocky? ROCKY!' Adam shouted.
'I'm okay' groaned a voice. 'Just-five-more---minutes---Mommy'
Cam rolled his eyes. 'Typical, never a red ranger when you need one.'
'This is not a good time to be bitter' Hunter snapped. 'Call Shane!'
'Yeah, I'm on it' Cam snapped.
The flames grew closer.
TBC
Okay reviews have been.non-existent since Chapter 1 so I guess I stink at writing, sorry my bad I suppose I'll discontinue.
Sharp Tests
Disclaimer: Baby no own Power Rangers at all! Now excuse me as I vaporize my slaves for their tragic work on my disclaimers summaries and total lack of ability. well as an evil overlord I can get away with that.
Rating: PG-13 (It gets unpleasant later in the story)
Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance
Cam and Hunter watched the girl move, she was faster then they'd expected. She leapt a bench followed by the pair. She zipped between people like lightening. Cam and Hunter kept after her.but she was gaining space. Hunter vanished into a crowd. ((Where the hell is he headed to?)) Grimaced Cam. The girl vaulted up the steps and ran along the second level balcony.straight into Hunter.
She stared at him with fear in her eyes.
'Calm down' he said in his most soothing voice. She twisted her hands in his grasp and suddenly was holding him above the hands. 'Stay away!' she exclaimed. She twisted on her feet and tossed him on top of Cam.
'Hunter get off!' exclaimed Cam as the blonde mans breath fogged up his glasses. They chased the girl along the balcony. Suddenly she leapt onto the railing. 'Don't jump!' Cam shouted. The girl didn't hear him as she leapt off the balcony.
Marah and Kapri strolled down the street with their bags on their arms in human appearance.
'Nothing like a shopping spree to burn off the No-Show-Stand-Up-Fight Blues' sighed Kapri.
'Yeah' shrugged Marah with a sigh. 'Hey.look!'
She pointed; the Red and Yellow Rangers were looking around the street.
'Hey lets try that trick D showed us!' Marah said. Her sister nodded and they stepped into the shade of the trees lining the street. The raised two fingers to their foreheads and focused. The light flared in their minds and the blue glow flickered around the Rangers heads.
'They're looking for a girl! They stand us up to go "babe-searching", the NERVE!' Kapri exclaimed stepping out of Dustin's mind.
'Did Dustin say that?' mumbled Marah as she removed herself from Shane's thoughts.
'More or less' shrugged Kapri. 'Oh! LOOK! Half-price shoes!'
Marah followed her sister towards the shoe shop casting a confused look at Dustin.
====
'So I, like, only saw her once, but she totally wiped me out' Dustin explained.
Shane nodded as he swept a glance across the girls on a bench. 'This weird program only spots certain aspects of the girl.right?'
'Yeah.Margo was a girl.from Sweden' Dustin sighed.
'You're so desperate to talk about her you'll do anything to get her into a conversation'
'I had a conversation with Margo' mumbled Dustin. And then came the noise.like a rolling thunder.followed closely by the crackle of electricity. The upper floors of a skyscraper erupted into flame, cascading out in waves of red-hot heat and glimmering shards of shattered glass.
===
Jason stared, the flame was pouring from the upper levels across the rode. Something shot across towards the building and broke through the window with a dull splatter followed by a small object. Jason looked down; he was standing in the waiting room of Greta's office.
The secretary threw up. The corpse was charred and bloody, a bizarre rigor mortis held the body that was now folded in two-halves and missing the head by a very clean cut. Swallowing the taste of vomit Jason calmly helped the secretary up and into Greta's office.
==
'Dudes! Get to the Skyscraper Plaza ASAP!' CyberCam exclaimed over the links. 'Major explosions!'
'Gotcha' Tori reported. 'Let's go!' she added to Blake.
It took all of 2 minutes to get over there. Tori set to work with the water as Dustin and the Thunder Rangers sped through the building to free any trapped people. Cam was saving those trapped on the upper floors with his chopper.
'The explosion was contained, and created by pure energy' he said reading Data off a screen. 'It seems to have only destroyed the CEO's office.weird.I'm getting a reading of someone alive in there.'
The shape was a wavering black one on his screen.and then it was off, sprinting through the building with a form over its shoulder. It was carrying someone. 'Hey! Something's coming your way!' Cam said to Blake.
In the hall Blake looked up from the woman he was carrying and her injured arm. 'What?'
The white and black blur gusted past and down the hall. Blake staggered a little. 'Whoa! What was that?'
=====
The woman was laid before Tori she froze when she saw him.The White Astral Ranger!'
'Are you---' she began.
'Not now this woman needs help!' the White Ranger explained. 'She's been shielded from burns, she fainted from shock, she should be all right but for the bump on her head, it's close to the temple.'
He put his hands out and the green light flowed from his hands and forehead. The visor fired the blast of light as the light from his hands revealed her aura.
'Serious.she might die, it's a severe blow to the area near the temple.minor fracture.'
The light intensified and the woman's eyes fluttered open as her cuts and bruises healed. 'Oh my.that strange young man.'
The White Ranger rose. 'I have to stop him once and for all' he murmured.
With that he sped off in a blur back into the building.
'Cam!' Tori exclaimed. 'Where's he going?'
'Top floor.' Cam replied. 'I've gotten everyone off.'
There was a shriek of metal and the crash of shattering glass. The upper floor buckled in on itself.
'He was in there!' Cam exclaimed.
'And now he's not!' a dark voice echoed. 'Now he's gone!'
The Black Astral Ranger stood on the roof of the Young UN building. 'So roll over and play dead!'
He leapt off the building and landed, splintering the pavement stones. The sai appeared in his hands. 'Time to die Ranger!' he sneered. He sprinted forwards and slashed her repeatedly. She gave a shriek as the sparks flew and knocked her down. He raised the Sai in the air but a staff blocked it.
'Not so fast!' Blake snapped.
He spun and struck repeatedly and angrily into the Rangers torso. The Black Ranger leapt before another strike could land and balanced on the staff. 'That's so absolutely boring' he yawned and kicked Blake under the chin flipping away as Blake toppled to the ground.
Shane and Dustin caught him and he had to catch the two blades with both his Sai, leaving his chest open for their twin kicks. The force slammed him off a wall and he recovered considerably angrier.
He pointed his hands; the blast of red light sent the Rangers spinning upwards and slammed into the ground.
'Stupid Rangers! You're on my list you see.'
Cam slashed him across the back repeatedly and swiftly. Apparently the Samurai and Hunter had escaped notice. The Black Ranger turned and leapt, his legs shot up and out to knock Cam and Hunter away.
'That annoys me to no end' he growled.
Swiftly he attacked, blades twisting to strike with the blunt handles and sharp points with pinpoint accuracy.cam caught the blades on his staff and fired his blaster. The melee ended as the Black Ranger stumbled away and leaned on a wall to find his strength.
'You're finished' Cam said swiping his blade down to his side. The Black Ranger laughed. Then Hunter heard it, the strange music, it was very, very familiar.a slow melody that had a haunting tune to it.why did he remember it? Perhaps it was something he'd picked up from the time the Astral Ninja had implanted the thoughts about the attempt to kill Kelly? He wasn't sure but the world was blurring now, he groaned loudly, Cam turned to face him. 'Are you okay Hunter?'
'Just --- not good.'
Hunter fell into Cam with a gasp as his vision swam and everything went black.
===
'Hello honey!' cooed a voice. Shane leapt and hurriedly pulled his sleeve over the bruise dominating his arm. He knew his healing would catch it up in a while but he couldn't let his Mom catch it.
'Hi Mom!' he shouted. She strode from the kitchen.looking like something out of the sixties. He was expecting canned laughter and her to wink with the sound of jingling bells.
Her hair was grown out to twice its original size, her dress stuck out at a 45 degree on all sides of her hips and she was wearing bright pinks. 'Whoa Mom, does Cher know you're stealing her hair?'
'Silly, this is all the rage in motherly fashions!' she giggled. She firmly grasped his shoulder and steered him into the dining room to his right. He looked at the banquet laid out before him.
'I've been such a terrible mother for leaving you, so I'm quitting my job to look after you 24-7'.
Her smile sent shivers up Shane's spine. He nodded and made an excuse to go to the bathroom to secretly contact the others.
====
'Hunters fine' Cam said. 'Some sort of episode, the Astral Ninja must have induced it on him to distract us long enough to teleport out. He's a bit shaken but that's it.and he's vomiting.a lot.'
'Good' Shane said. 'I have to go Mom's having an Episode all her own, I swear to you its like a Back-to-Back-Brady-Bunch-Bonanza here. On the bright side her aide's coming over and she told me he was an expert in karate.'
'Good luck on that' Blake said from his brothers side.
'You too' Shane said. 'Mrs Hanson's a bit intense.if she were a heat.well she'd make the sun look like the back of your freezer.'
Blake shivered. Tori smiled. 'She'll love you' she said soothingly.
'How sweat' Hunter said, seconds before unleashing a blast of vomit into the bucket in front of him.'
===
Shivering in the corner of the dark room the blonde young man shivered, a cold sweat slicking his body and forcing his t-shirt to cling to his chest.
'N-n-not again' he gasped. He closed his eyes as everything went white.
----Flashback----
'You never told me! You never even told me he existed!' he screamed.
'Calm down son, we had no choice; the entire incident must be put behind us.' his father said coolly.
'I-I can't believe you did this! You are a control freak!'
The lamp crashed to the ground and his fathers face blushed beetroot red. 'I insist on your obedience! GO TO YOUR ROOM!'
The roar staggered the young man. 'I'm going out!' he retorted. 'Don't try and stop me!'
'You'll do no such thing! You are going to your room; I will not have you cavorting about with those commoners!'
'They're my Friends, Father, not that you have any!'
'OUT! NOW!'
Turning he stormed out past the Cheshire-cat-like grin of his sister.
---End Flashback---
'So, are my pumps any good?' asked Kapri raising her leg gently. 'I think they're perfect, the even slim my feet!'
The fluffy pink slip-ons were sequined and tacky.but Kapri had still bought them despite all advice. Marah checked her new purse.
'You're lucky you're allowed to go shopping' Demon said as it changed its shape to become Diabolico. 'I'm forbidden by Matriarchus to go to Earth unless she says I am allowed'
'That is sooooo unfair!' shrilled Kapri. 'You should be allowed shop whenever you want. It's the American way'
'I'm not American' remarked Diabolico-D. His hands brushed over the dagger on the table. They were seated in a meeting room. The dagger and its sheath lay on the table. It glowed with a green and black light.
'Matriarchus will report in soon enough' muttered Diabolico-D. 'I hope she chokes on a large hamburger.or drumstick.or some other edible treat from Earth.'
Marah shrugged and looked out the window. It was confusing sometimes. There was femininity about D, but an icy side that was neutral, and then a tough side that most men would kill for.so Marah had always referred to D in the gender D was in. Marah pulled out a pair of boots and slipped them on. D had given them the new costumes and helped them with the fighting.Matriarchus had trained them and D had helped out.
'So did you find the book?' Kapri asked D, breaking Marah's line of thought.
====
'So how did you manage to lose the girl?' Tori asked as they strolled through the park. 'Wasn't she swooning with fear?'
Cam and Hunter looked at one another. 'She escaped into the ladies room' sighed Hunter. 'But not after dropping seven shelves, two statues, three benches, several pedestrians and two food carts in our path.plus doing a few acrobatic tricks from a great height.you know that giant mobile in the mall?'
'The one like a scrap-yard?' Blake asked. Cam nodded.
'She climbed it like a spider then somersaulted off it onto an elevator and ran through a toy store.' Hunter elaborated.
'Great' Dustin said. 'She's a total, like, flea.'
The group walked in silence. There was nothing to say, each was busy with inner thoughts. The silence was finally broken by the sounds of teleportation.
'Rangers' a voice echoed. The shape strode forwards, it was unmistakably Mototron, but at the same time it wasn't.because the movements were too fluid, too perfect. Then the real Mototron appeared, that tore it-- everything was weird.
'Hello Rangers!' cackled the apparently genuine Mototron. 'Long time since our last fight!'
'Mototron!' exclaimed Blake taking a fighting stance.
'Yeah state the obvious why don't you?' the other Mototron said, morphing into Trakeena. 'Time to die! Now Mototron!'
The beams lanced from Mototrons eyes and sent a rain of sparks through the air from the ground. The Ninja Storm rangers fell aside. Forcing themselves up they transformed.
'NINJA STORM RANGER FORM! HA!'
Trakeena-D laughed as she watched the rangers prepare for battle. Cam stood before her. 'I'll take this one!' he shouted.
'Great' cooed Trakeena-D. 'But your daddy isn't here.so you're sunk!'
She extended her hands and the purple light formed into a staff. It was black with gold rings on it and topped with a fishhook like top that had a large red orb set in the golden scythe top. Dragons heads were shaped from the top of the staff at the point the scythe top began. Four heads each with glowing purple eyes. Every minute detail of the staff was evil.Trakeena-D definitely didn't clash with it.
'Lets begin Samurai' she whispered.
She slashed across his chest. He was too slow by a microseconds smallest fraction. He shot backwards as Trakeena-D strode forwards.her eyes blazed dark purple and the smokey black and violet light shot at him. Cam rolled aside as he heard Marah, Kapri, Mototron and the Kezlacks attacked his comrades. Hunter wasn't as fast as he usually was, during his "experience" he'd had a weird dream that was almost real, but he couldn't remember it.
Cam slashed Trakeena-D and lunged again. 'I hope you have the Mara-Ishii' purred Trakeena-D. 'You'll need it soon'
Cam was caught off guard, she knew about the book?
'How do--What would you know?'
'Well I can sense the book, and since its off my radar it must be in your base.so I'll have to find that and get the book'
Cam's sword clashed with her staff. The force between the weapons was building. Trakeena-D grinned and she pivoted, the weapons shot into the air and landed a few feet away points first. Trakeena-D lunged in with a flurry of punches that Cam blocked. She spun and kicked him in the stomach. He shot backwards into a Cherry Blossom Tree. Trakeena-D dropped her hands to her sides and closed her eyes, a black aura flowed around her, and she slowly brought her arms up, the black cloak materialized from her hands and sides, like a black hole vortex that no light escaped. 'Prepare to DIE' she said. 'Because I really, really, _really_ hate RANGERS!' The swarm of vampire bats flew from the darkness of her cloak.
'AH!' shouted Cam. The shape blurred forwards and dived on him. He was rolled along under the person he landed with a grunt as the bats devoured the tree. He looked up at his saviour. Three obvious things, Korean, black hair, good person, all he gathered from the eyes.
'Are you okay?' the guy asked.
'Yeah' Cam said sitting up. 'Thanks'
'No problem Green Ranger' grinned Adam. 'I used to be a Green Ranger too.and a Black ranger.don't ask'
He flipped to his feet as Trakeena-D turned to face him. 'That was a stupid move!' she spat. 'No one interferes with my kills!'
She sniffed. 'Ah but that mixture of scents leaves only one conclusion.a ranger.black _and_ green? Wow, I'm impressed.well as far as I can be with a pathetic being like you'
She pointed her hands and the blue and black flames sped through the air. Cam and Adam leapt apart as the flames blew a crater in the ground.
'Hey! D! Look! I'm beating him!' Marah called as she kicked Dustin into a tree. 'Great work!' D shouted. 'Now regroup!'
She pointed her hands and the black lightening curled around Adam and Cam. The energy tendrils tossed them to the other Rangers.
'All lined up' purred Trakeena-D. 'This is the end!'
'You know you sound like Ivy from Soul Calibur' a voice said. The red bag connected with her face and toppled her.
'Don't worry guys I got her!'
'Rocky?' Adam exclaimed.
The ex-Ranger grinned and wiggled his eyebrows. 'In the gorgeous flesh'
'So, this guy is and ex-Ranger?' Cam asked.
'Yeah, the ex-Red' Adam said. 'And blue'
'You guys, like, time-share or something?' Dustin asked.
'Speaking of Ivy' Trakeena-D said. 'I love that game!'
The chainlink whip coiled around Rocky's torso tightly and sent him spinning like a top into a tree. Laughing Trakeena-D transformed into Goldar. 'It's been real Rangers, say good bye!'
Goldar-D put his hand out, palm up, fingers straightened. He blew, the silver powder formed a small ring in the air. With a small blow Goldar-D sent his hissing upwards, it then came down trapping the rangers in a columnb of flame.
'In a few minutes that column will constrict.and its all over! Ciao'
'I love this job' Mototron grinned.
'Kudos to you' sneered D. The villains teleported out leaving the Rangers and Adam trapped in a tall ring of flame that was slowly closing in.
'Rocky? ROCKY!' Adam shouted.
'I'm okay' groaned a voice. 'Just-five-more---minutes---Mommy'
Cam rolled his eyes. 'Typical, never a red ranger when you need one.'
'This is not a good time to be bitter' Hunter snapped. 'Call Shane!'
'Yeah, I'm on it' Cam snapped.
The flames grew closer.
TBC
Okay reviews have been.non-existent since Chapter 1 so I guess I stink at writing, sorry my bad I suppose I'll discontinue.