chapter 3

Brewing Trouble

It had been a week since they battled Shademan. School had just ended for the day, Maylu and Lan were on their way to Higsby's to see if he had any new chips in stock. "Lan, your dad said you ran off after seeing those people fighting the viruses. Where did you go?"

"Maylu, I just went for a walk that's all. I mean it, I figured they could handle there own and if Mr. Famous wanted me to go help them all he'd have to do was call me." Lan said , he knew he shouldn't lie but he couldn't tell her that he was the Blue Ranger, that was supposed to be a secret.

"Oh, ok then just wondering." Maylu said, she knew he wasn't being truthful, but she didn't want to pressure him. They continued towards Higsby's however as soon as they got there a giant Jelly appeared with about ten normal Jelly viruses.

Lan stated to twist his wrist but remembered that Maylu was next to him so he brought it PET up to his mouth and called Famous. "Mr.Famous, I need a Dimensional Area, now!" Lan said.

"Just Famous!" Famous said before hitting a button. For dishes atop SciLab fired beams into the sky. These beams formed together then flew to Lan to create a Dimensional Area dome.

"Synchro Chip in! Download! Cross Fusion!" Lan shouted as he pretended to put in his Synchro Chip. When the light died he looked at himself disappointedly, Slur modified his PET, but his Cross Fusion was no different than with the PET 3. "Mega Buster!" Lan said as he started to shoot the Jellies.

"Zap Ring!" a voice shouted as a Zap Ring deleted several Jellies. When Lan and Maylu turned and noticed the White Ranger standing there.

"Jasmine!" Lan shouted only to get yelled at by Megaman and an odd stare from Maylu.

"What did you call her? Do you know her?" Maylu shouted angrily while glaring at CF Megaman.

"Nothing Maylu, I just uhh mistook her for someone else." CF Megaman said scratching his helmet.

"Right, Lan I believe you." Maylu said sarcastically.

"Thunder Ball!" Jasmine said as she started to fire thunder balls at the Giant Jelly, while CF Megaman just stood there. "Boomerang!" She said as her buster turned into a Boomerang launcher and she fired it deleting the virus. "Kid, if you are going to take on a group of viruses try to stop them!" she said before the Dimensional Area faded and Lan's Cross Fusion was disengaged.

Jasmine teleported to the Command Comet. Lan walked into the chip shop followed closely by Maylu. "Lan, did you actually know who that was?" She asked as she sat at the counter.

"No, I just thought she seemed like someone I met the other day that's all."Lan said as he walked over to look at some of the chips on display.

They had spent about an hour at the chip shop looking at he new chips and chatting with Higsby and Shuko. Neither Maylu or Lan bought anything before they left, all of the new chips were to expensive. As they walked home Lan's PET/Morpher started to beep, he turned and hit a button to see who was trying to contact him. Of course it just had to be Slur.

"Lan, the other two need you, some navi named Vineman is causing trouble." Slur said and Lan nodded.

"Maylu, I have to go there is some navi causing trouble!" Lan said before running off. As soon as he was sure he was out of her sight he twisted his wrist and slotted in 5 chips "Duo Blue!" he shouted as he morphed.

Lan ran up to Jasmine and Ribbita who were having trouble fighting the flower navi. "Fire Hit!" Lan shouted as his right gloved hand burst into flames and he punched Vineman with all his might. Vineman fell back and quickly extinguished the fire.

"Hot Body!" Jasmine and Ribbita said jumping into the air and touching there chests with flaming hands. Their bodies where suddenly covered in fire and they slammed down into Vineman making him scream in pain.

He smirked as he fell to the ground. "Pathetic you just think you can stop me." A bat appeared in front of him and turned into a sphere then forced itself into his symbol. He started to grow immediately. "Do you think that you can stop a Demon Navi like myself?"

"Demon... Navi?" the three rangers said slightly puzzled. They quickly shook the off the shock of another navi nearly tripling in size. The fact that it referred to itself as a Demon Navi was slightly disturbing as well.

"What are we waiting for?" Ribbita shouted at Lan who was just standing there.

"Huh? Oh right lets do it. Rush Duo Zord!" Lan said snapped back to reality and summoned his zord.

"Rabbit Duo Zord!" Jasmine said following Lan's lead.

"Toad Duo Zord!" Ribbita said summoning her zord. They all jumped in and noticed the slot that was there last time for their hands was now closed. "Hey Vine freak try this, Tongue Whip!" Ribbita said as she fired her zords tongue out of it's mouth like a whip attacking Vineman.

"Rabbit Ear Cutter!" Jasmine said as her zord leapt forward, lowered it's head and started to cut at Vineman's vines. This also proved to hold him in place and limit his attacks greatly.

"Looks I have a little toy to try!" Lan said holding up three chips. "Wrecker, Heat Balloon, Fire +40, battlechips in! Chip Fusion!" Lan said sliding the three chips into a device on his right side and hitting the button on it. Suddenly a new chip popped out with a flaming wrecking ball on it. " Rush Cannon ready." Lan said as his zord's mouth opened to reveal the cannon. "Flame Wrecker! Battle chip in, Download! Rush Cannon Fire!" Lan said sliding the chip into a slot that said Rush Cannon Modifier Slot. The cannon fired a Flaming Wrecking ball that had no chain on it at Vineman, who could not move. The second it slammed into his symbol he flew back out of the grasp of the two zords and burst into flames before breaking into little bits of data and vanishing.

"I think we actually defeated him, that was a lot easier than Shademan!" Jasmine said after they exited their zords.

"I gotta get going I don't want my mom or dad to wonder!" Lan said as he scanned the area then powered down. The other two did the same thing before they went there separate ways.

As Lan walked home a pair of eyes followed him from the trees. When he finally reached his door the eyes were still nearby they had followed through bushes, trees, and behind buildings.