Power Rangers: Fusion

Episode IV: Change in the House of Fusion

Kira was sound asleep when something suddenly woke her up. She hurled herself up and saw nothing but darkness. Her head and above all, her eyes were in an excruciating amount of pain. She reached with her hand to her left and found Zeke's shoulder. She shook it violently which made for a rude awakening for Zeke.

"Kira! What's wrong?" Zeke shouted as Kira felt his arms wrap around her.

"My eyes! Something's wrong with my eyes!"

"Sshh. Calm down and let me have a look."

Kira opened her hurting eyes and turned towards Zeke. "I can't even see you."

"Calm down, it's ok," Zeke said as he wiped a tear from her eye. "Holy shit Kira, your pupils are completely dilated."

More tears came and Zeke continued to wipe them away. "What do you mean?"

"Like you have no more brown in your eyes, their just black."

"Zeke," Kira whined. "What does it mean?"

"I don't know but we can go to the infirmary and see what the robo-drones can come up with."

"Zeke the last time I remember, I was in my underwear," Kira said as she touched her bra strap. "And yeah, I still am."

Zeke chuckled. "I see you're not in too much pain. Maybe you don't need a trip to the infirmary."

Kira couldn't help but smile.

"I'll get you dressed. Just keep your eyes closed."

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"It's a mutation isn't it?" Zeke asked the medical robo-drone.

"Yes, master Zeke, that is correct."

Zeke shrugged. "I figured that, I remember my eyes felt like they were being poked with a hot cattle prod."

Alyssa walked up and stood next to Zeke.

"Trying to sneak up on people?" Zeke asked.

"No, why?"

"You were being pretty quiet."

"Habit. It's a tiger thing."

Zeke gave her a confused look.

Alyssa shrugged. "Long story."

Zeke's gaze trailed.

"So what happened to her?" Alyssa asked.

"I think she's undergoing her mutation."

"Mutation?"

"You'll be getting one soon. It's a result of the fusion powers," Zeke said as he pulled his sunglasses down and revealed his shining yellow eyes.

"Oh, so that's why you wear sunglasses all the time."

"That's it," Zeke said as his focus returned to Kira laying down on the infirmary bed.

"Did you bring her in?"

"Yeah," Zeke said not even paying attention then realizing what he just said.

"So she came to you for help when your room is all the way down the hall when she could walk two feet to my room."

Zeke just gave her a blank stare.

"Did you two...well, ya know?"

"Alyssa!" Zeke exclaimed.

"Sorry, none of my business."

Zeke's gaze turned back to Kira. Zeke couldn't help but smile when Alyssa collapsed to the floor because he knew it was coming. He calmly bent over and lifted her up and set her on a nearby bed.

"You're not the only one now. Andros should be here any moment," Zeke said to the barely conscious Alyssa.

"What's...happening?" Alyssa asked.

"I told you, the mutation. Rest is probably the best thing for you now."

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"So all three of them are in the infirmary?" Master Fireseed asked Zeke.

Zeke nodded his head. "Yes master."

"That's odd. When I was a ranger they didn't mutate at the same time."

"But, master. They got they're powers at the same time."

"Well, so did we."

Zeke nodded.

Master Fireseed looked at him inquiringly.

"Is there something you want to ask me, master?" Zeke asked.

"You're in the best mood I've seen you in for a long time. I just wanted to know what's wrong."

Zeke smirked. "Nothing's wrong. It's just something good happened last night."

Master Fireseed nodded accepting his reply but still not satisfied with it.

"Master Fireseed, we've got a problem," Fusia reported.

"What's that, Fusia?" master Fireseed asked.

"It seems there's a warehouse getting invaded by Craigs."

"Somehow I knew that was going to happen," Zeke said with a hint of sarcasm.

"What does it matter to you? You always fight alone."

Zeke shrugged. "When the others are better, send them."

Master Fireseed looked at Zeke curiously. "Are you felling alright?"

"No," Zeke replied before he executed the Fusion Kata. "Wolf fusion: Red!"

The morphing sequence took place and the Red Fusion Ranger stood in the Control Chamber. Zeke raised his left hand and opened a red portal. On the other side of the portal was the warehouse. Zeke slowly approached the front drawing both pistols. The front was lightly guarded by three Craigs. Zeke dove and opened fire on the three Craigs. They fell before Zeke hit the ground and rolled to his feet. He holstered his pistols and deployed the Wolf-Cry Claws and jumped onto the wall above the front entrance and dug his claws in using them to hang there.

It wasn't long before a crew of Craigs came out to investigate as well as one of Andrix's henchmen. This one was a tall and skinny demon adorned with spikes in random places. He didn't look too strong but he was probably quick.

"What the hell happened here?" the skinny demon whined in a high-pitched voice.

"We don't know Bloodspine, sir," one of the Craigs gurgled.

"Well you had better find out quickly. Go!"

The Craigs spread out in their search for Zeke not even realizing that this Bloodspine had just made a very fatal mistake. Zeke dropped from his hiding spot and dug his claw into Bloodspine's back. Globs of crimson leaked from the wound. Bloodspine on the other hand hadn't even flinched from the blow.

"You're such a pest Red Ranger," Bloodspine said.

"What!" Zeke yelled in confusion.

In the next few seconds Zeke had already been punched at least six times and thrown through the warehouse wall. Zeke's original conclusion of this guy being fast was an understatement. Zeke flipped back to his feet, claws brandished and ready.

"You're not nearly as fast as me Red Ranger. You don't stand a chance," Bloodspine taunted.

Zeke chuckled. "You may be fast but it won't be good enough."

Zeke put himself in a condition of extreme concentration. He closed his eyes and focused all of the will in his body into his hearing. Through his ears he could hear Bloodspine charging at an incredible speed. He ran past him, a quick turn-around then, a Wolf-Cry Claw to his gut.

"What is this?" Bloodspine shouted.

"I told you, speed is nothing to me."

Bloodspine grabbed his wrist and threw it away from his body. Bloodspine let out a flurry of punches that Zeke blocked however the last punch caught him in the face.

"Ha!" Bloodspine mocked.

Zeke kept his eyes closed as he jumped towards Bloodspine with a flying kick. The kick was dodged but Zeke managed to catch him in the face with a right hook. Blood spewed from the cuts on Bloodspine's face. Zeke landed and spun around and landed a kick in Bloodspine's face. Bloodspine once again used his speed to perform a sweeping kick that sent Zeke to his back, breaking his concentration. Before Zeke evened opened his eyes they were opened for him by the pain of a dozen punches rocking his body at the same moment. Zeke fired a powerful blast of red lightning from his fingertips that hurled Bloodspine across the warehouse floor.

Damn, I knew that hearing thing wouldn't last long. He doesn't seem to feel pain either.

Bloodspine charged straight at him. Zeke at the last possible moment kicked the air and Bloodspine ran straight into it.

"Hm...your brain having a hard time keeping up with your body? Figures," Zeke sneered.

Zeke hurled him into the air with his leg and then did a kicking back flip that sent him flying into a crate and its contents that consisted of various jewels spilled on him. Zeke drew his pistols and opened fire on Bloodspine. He quickly rolled to the left and to his feet, then charged at Zeke. Before Zeke even realized he had gotten up Bloodspine was too close for him to react. Bloodspine unleashed a combination of lethal punches and kicks. In a matter of seconds Zeke was beaten to a pulp on the ground.

Bloodspine spat on Zeke. "Too slow, Red Ranger."

Zeke refused to give in as he hurled his body around giving Bloodspine a sweeping kick he'll never forget. Bloodspine hit the ground with a thud. Zeke pulled himself to a stand.

"I don't go down that easy, Bloodspine!"

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Alyssa awakened to a headache that made a migraine seem bearable. He opened her eyes and noticed the strangest thing she'd seen in her life. Everything was moving incredibly slow. The medical robo-drones seemed to be moving in slow motion and their robotic voices sounded so slow it resembled radio static. She closed her eyes and clutched her head with her hand and all of a sudden the sounds around her returned to normal speed. She opened her eyes to see that everything had returned to normal speed.

What the hell is going on with me?

Alyssa slid off the infirmary bed and to her feet. She looked over and saw Kira and Andros both sound asleep. As she began to move toward the door everything got slower again. The robo-drones looked at her as though they were frightened. She got scared suddenly and screamed as she ran to the only place she knew she could get help, the Control Chamber.

She arrived there faster than she remembered traveling. When she stopped and looked up at Master Fireseed, time seemed to return to normal speed.

"What the hell is going on?" she shrieked.

"Calm yourself, Alyssa!" Master Fireseed boomed.

"I'm sorry, master," she said as the tears started running. "I just don't know what's going on."

"Black Ram has lent you its speed," Master Fireseed put simply.

"Really?"

"Yes as Green Rhino has lent its incredible strength to Andros and White Raven, its ability to see long distances to Kira. Now go awaken your companions so you can aid Zeke."

"Are you sure he'd like that?"

"He asked for it to be that way."

"You're kidding right," Alyssa asked skeptically.

Master Fireseed nodded.

"Damn, Kira must've done some serious work on him last night."

"Oh, so that's why he was in such a good mood," commented Master Fireseed.

Alyssa couldn't help but laugh. "I'll get them up right away, master."

When Alyssa arrived on the scene with the other rangers it wasn't looking too bright for Zeke. It seemed that this demon was fast and was pummeling Zeke before he could see it coming.

"Hey, spike freak!" Kira shouted.

Kira's outburst grabbed the demon's attention.

Zeke collapsed to the floor as soon as the demon started pacing toward the other rangers.

"The name's Bloodspine and you'll only end up like him if you don't give up right now," the demon boasted.

"This one's fast, he seems like your type Alyssa," Andros commented.

"He sure does, let's try your super speed against my Ram Speed. Ram Head Staff!" Alyssa shouted as she pulled out her staff that was mounted on her back and extended it to its full length. Then, she closed her eyes for a second and when she opened them she knew everything was moving slow but Bloodspine wasn't which meant that he was using his speed as well. Alyssa charged at Bloodspine and extended the head of her staff and knocked him back. Then, a quick spin and an attempted trip with the other end of her staff. Bloodspine back flipped and his feet kicked her head back. When Bloodspine landed he sent a hard right to her gut. Alyssa let the blow move her back and then swung her staff at him knocking him in the face and then a swift movement sent the other end to his face. Alyssa then unleashed a wave of black colored wind that sent Bloodspine across the warehouse.

Zeke struggled to stand up. "Let's finish this Andros! Water is a conductor!"

Andros ran t up to Alyssa's side and extended his hand. "You got it, Zeke! Power of Water!"

A wave of green water came from his palm and smacked into Bloodspine.

Zeke extended his hand as well. "Power of Lightning!"

Bolts of red lightning flew from Zeke's fingertips and violently electrocuted Bloodspine.

"A strong wind can easily shatter ice, right Alyssa?" Kira said.

Alyssa caught her drift and nodded in agreement.

Kira extended her hand. "Power of Ice!" She shouted as a wave of frozen white energy hit Bloodspine and froze him solid.

Alyssa extended her hand. "It's my turn now! Power of Wind!"

A cyclone of black wind tunneled from Alyssa's palm and hit the frozen Bloodspine. In a few seconds he shattered into pieces.

Kira rushed over to Zeke who had collapsed again. Alyssa couldn't hear what she was whispering to him but they were hugging so Alyssa figured it was babble anyway.

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Kira was sitting in a chair beside Zeke's bed. He was laying down trying to get some rest but for some reason he wasn't. It was pitch black but Kira knew he wasn't asleep.

"What's wrong, Zeke?" she asked.

"I can't help but thinking that in the last few months they've had an agenda."

"What do you mean?"

"Well when Acidica attacked, she attacked a jewelry store and then today that warehouse had precious jewels in it as well."

"What could they possibly be after?"

"I don't know. A lot of rare jewels have mystical properties. It could be a number of things."

"Like what kinds of jewels?"

"There's a few, gillmeralds, pre-diamonds, kruppies, blue pearls."

"Would those mystical properties be of any use to them."

"Yeah all of them could be used to make some sort of destructive weapon if applied correctly."

"Well, all we have to do is figure out which ones Andrix is taking."

"We could go ask the owner's of the jewelry store."

"Yeah, we could."

Zeke sat up.

Kira placed a forceful hand on Zeke's chest. "Not now, you need to rest."

"I wasn't able to sleep before we came to this conclusion, do you think I'm going to be able to now?"

She looked at him in defeat. "Alright, let's go."

She followed Zeke through the halls of the temple to a dark room. When Zeke turned the lights on it turned out to be a garage with at least six different tool boxes on one wall and several other miscellaneous tools hanging on the wall itself. Parked in this garage was a small vibrant red hatchback with a full body kit and a silver indentation on the hood that made it appear that something was missing.

"What's this?" Kira asked.

"I've been working on engines that run off the power of the Fusion Crystals. This is my first creation, the 300Ze."

"The 300Ze? Is it fast?"

"You're kidding right?"

Kira shrugged. "Just asking."

Zeke smiled and opened his Fusion Morpher and pressed the button that made Red Wolf come out of a red portal.

"Hey, boy," Zeke said as he pet Red Wolf on the head. "Get in the car, boy, go."

Red Wolf jumped onto the car and settled into the silver indentation on the hood. Kira looked at Zeke curiously.

"Red Wolf runs off the Fusion Crystal so the car borrows the power from him."

"Oh I see."

Zeke and Kira got into the car and Zeke pressed one of the many buttons on the dash. It caused the door behind them to open. Zeke shifted into reverse and slowly drove out. Zeke looked over at Kira with a sinister smile.

"What're you gonna do?" Kira asked nervously.

"You wanted to know if it was fast?"

Zeke slammed on the gas. The tachometer hit five thousand rpm's before Zeke let out the clutch and the car rocketed forward. Kira's head hit the seat and stayed there all the way to Scale Harbor because Zeke kept the car at a constant 360 kilometers per hour. Zeke told her that this wasn't as fast as the car could actually go.

They soon arrived at the jewelry store that was attacked just yesterday. Luckily there were people in there straightening up the shop. Zeke knocked on the door and an elder woman opened it.

"Sorry, sonny, but the store is closed," the elder woman said.

"We're Power Rangers, that's why we're here," Kira explained.

"Prove it," she replied.

Zeke pulled down his shades to reveal his eyes. "Would anyone but a power ranger have eyes like this or wear a wolf head on their wrist."

"I suppose not. Come on in."

The shop was completely trashed. For the most part it was jewels and glass shards strewn across the carpeted floor.

Zeke went off sniffing things and looking around while Kira went to the elder woman.

"We're just here for one thing, what did they take?" Kira asked.

"They took all the pre-diamonds," the elder woman responded.

Kira noticed Zeke's sudden movement as his head shot in their direction.

"Thank you very much ma'am."

Kira walked outside and sat on the hood of the 300Ze. Zeke slowly walked out and stood beside her.

"Pre-diamonds are jewels that were mysteriously created in Ronia's prehistoric period hence the name pre-diamonds."

"Well, what do they do?"

"They have the ability to withstand the stress of incredible amounts of energy."

The lightbulb in Kira's head snapped on. "What color are they?"

"They only come in five different colors, black, white, green, red, and blue."

"Zeke, those colors are us!"

Kira could tell Zeke's eyes went wide because his eyebrows raised.

"Holy shit," Zeke exclaimed.

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