Chapter 9

The Metalic Sandman?

Lan raced down the sidewalk, slid around the corner. He was late for school again, but this time he had an excuse but not one he could tell Ms. Mari. He couldn't tell her that him and Maylu were in an asteroid talking with net navi's about the attacks that have been happening lately. Plus even though they spent most the night with Slur and Duo, their parents thought they were sleeping in their room.

"Ms. Mari, sorry I am late but..." Lan said as he skated into an empty class room.

"Lan wasn't there a field trip scheduled for today?" Megaman asked.

"Oh no I forgot!" Lan said trying to figure out how to catch up with the rest of the class.

"Lan we are already with them." Maylu said as she walked into the class room.

"What?" Lan and Megaman asked in unison.

"The holograms that tricked our parents, Slur reprogramed them to go to class so we could get some sleep."

"What you mean... wait my mom didn't ask me if I already left when I left today!" Lan shouted.

"She probably didn't notice your hologram leaving. I crawled out of my window to be safe." Maylu said.

"So what now?" Megaman asked.

"We go catch up to them. Slur can teleport Maylu and Lan to their Holograms exact location and erase the hologram at the same time." Roll said.

"Really!" was Lan's only response before they wound up on a bus. Lan was sitting next to Tory, and Maylu was now sitting next to Yai.

"Maylu why were you almost late today?" Yai asked.

"Well, you see I slept in, thats all."

"Ms. Mari what is that?" Chisao asked when he noticed a large patch of sand on the road infront of them.

"Maylu, you see that?" Lan asked when he noticed what was a head of them.

"Aqua Whirl!" a voice said as an whirlpool slammed into Desetman's forming body.

"Ice Seed!" Another voice said as something slammed into Desertman freezing him. "You hould get out of here." Duo Green said to the crowd of kids from the bus.

"Aup!" a voice said as a black hole opened up right infront of Desertman's Lion Fist attack. Rush popped out of the ground near Lan and Maylu and nodded.

"Lets go!" Lan shouted as he started to run from the battle area. Maylu was bringing up the rear as they ran away from the fight. The first chance they got they slipped away from the others leaving holo forms behind. "Thanks for having Slur set up some holograms." Lan said when him and Maylu made it back to rush.

They quickly morphed to help Jasmine and Ribbita out. "Hey Desertman, have a taste of this, Great YoYo!" Lan shouted as he fired the Program advance at Desertman as soon as he approached him.

Desertman sunk into the ground then re-emerged holding a small silver sphere. "ARMOR!" Desertman shouted asorbing the sphere. His entire body turned silver. "Lion Head!" he shouted firing a metal lion's head at the rangers.

"What was that?" Lan shouted as he tried to get up after being hit by the attack.

"Maybe he stole some sort of security program. Something designed to protect." Jasmine said as she slowly stood up.

"Well lets just kick his ass!" Lan shouted aiming his buster at Desertman. "Drill Arm!" Lan lept at Desertman who did not bother disolving, instead his body turned solid steel. When the Drill arm slammed into it the drill shattered.

"Lan I think I have an idea!" Maylu said after Lan's attack failed.

"What?"

"Jasmine use another Drill arm ok. Me and Ribbita wil take care of weakening his armor. The only thing you need to do is wait till after Lan attacks to make contact." Maylu said looking around. She grabbed Ribbita and jumped into a Rush Hole.

"Gold Fist!" Lan said as his buster arm turned into a large golden fist.

"Drill Arm!" Jasmine said as her and Lan rushed Desertman. Like Maylu expected he tuned his surface sand to solid steel.

"Thunder!"

"Shock Melody!" Maylu and Ribbita attacked Desert from behind as his armor was filled with electricity slowing down all of the molecules. Lan's attack slammed in to it shattering a chunk of it and Jasmine's drilled into Desertman causing his sand to seep out of the metal shell.

"Lets use the Duo Cannon!" Ribbita said as she got ready to summon her Toad Stars. That is when a bat flew into Desertman causing him to grow, his silver color was gone though it was just an enourmus Desertman. "Or how about the Duo Megazord!"

"Good Idea." Lan said as they quickly called their zords and formed the megazord. "Lest try and figure out the best way to get him to stay still."

"Lion Head!" Desertman shouted as he fired a gigantic lion's head at the megazord. It slammed into it knocking it over.

"Sound! If we use a strong enough sound blast then he will be scattered so far apart it will take some time for him to reform." Ribbita said as she hit a few buttons, the rush hand flipped onto the wrist and the Melody Blaster popped out.

"Then we fire a fuzed bomb into the center as he is reforming!" Jasmine added as she started going through some chips she had with her. "I have an Ice Seed, and Para Bomb."

"I have an Aqua + 40!" Malyu said as she took the Ice Seed and Para Bomb from Jasmine. "Lan I'll handle this chip fusion ok. Ice seed, Para Bomb, Aqua + 40! Battlechips in! Chip Fusion!" Maylu said as she fused the three chips. She handed the chip to Lan, as Jasmine stood them up. Ribbita aimed the Melody Blaster at Desertman.

"Melody Blaster, Fire!" She shouted as soon as it was at full power. The sound started to make Desertman unstable, Jasmine started to walk the megazord over towards Desertman, the closer they got the more unstable he became. Suddenly his sand went everywhere, but quickly started to come togather again.

"Rush Cannon Ready!" Lan shouted as the Melody Blaster retracted and the Rush hand locked back into place, the hand retracted and a small barrel jutted out. " Freeze Bomb! Battlechip in! Download!" Lan said dropping the newly fuzed chip in.

As soon as part of the bomb was visible Jasmine grabbed it with the othe hand and held it out as Desertman was reforming. She released quickly when Desertman was almost fully formed. The bomb suddenly went of, First paralyzing him, then his entire body turned to ice. "Zap Ring, Rapid Blast!" Jasmine shouted as the Rabbit ears started to fire Zap Rings at the frozen Desertman.

The Duo Megazord spun around and Desertman exploded. "We did it!" they all shouted in unison.

"Lan, we stopped Desertman. Why do you looks so down?" Maylu asked later that day as they headed back to their houses from school.

"No the Duo Ranger's stopped him, not us. I am a Net Saver, Duo Blue is who stopped Desertman, not Net Saver Lan Hikari." Lan said as he reached his front door. "Plus I bet that shademan still has what ever caused that armor.