A/N: Welcome back. Here's chapter 5 of Animal Strike. I'm enjoying where this is going. What do you guys think of the story so far. Prepare to see more of Saul's backstory and more of Eduardo's journey. Do you recognize where he went last chapter. Well, I hope you enjoy the following chapter.
(Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers, it is owned by Hasbro. I only take ownership for my own characters and ideas.)
Chapter 5: Earths Defenders
Saul moved the sword again. He was trying to summon fire. After a week, he had already begun and he made a small ember. That was proof of the tiger spirit DNA that now resided within him. Unfortunately, it had since been two months since he successfully could create any type of fire.
He trained harshly against fake wooden opponents and he awaited for the chance to fight Kai. Kai had promised to fight him once he was ready to fight. Saul kept training until then. Kai would always keep watch from a distance. He wanted Saul to try and train himself. He wanted to see what Saul was made of.
Saul continued fighting off against the fake wooden dummies that appeared. He slashed with the sword he was given and would always take each one down with one strike. When he finished he put the sword down to his side. Then, a red light appeared in front of him. A tiger appeared. It walked over to a tree and sat down.
"Hey there buddy." Saul said as he walked over and let the tiger.
The tiger was also a new thing. He found out that his spirit is a real tiger. His tiger is part of a race of animals known as the Beastials. These spirits were created by a man long ago. No one knows a lot about this man but they know about the things he left behind. In fact, he was the one who created an early version of Beast City. It was Kai and the other masters that made Beast City in what it is today.
"How am I doing?" Saul asked as he sat down next to the tiger.
The tiger growled as he put his head down on the ground.
"I'm going to take that as a 'you are getting better'." Saul laughed as he took a sip from the water bottle he had.
The tiger looked at him but then he closed his eyes.
"Guess I have been putting you to work. Rest up." Saul said as he patted the tiger on the head.
"Guess you do have respect for something." Kai appeared in front of Saul.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Saul took another sip of water.
"You've said that you hardly respect anything because of all the respect you have been given. But here you are respecting your partner." Kai pointed to the tiger.
"It's not his fault that I'm the 'forgotten one'." Saul used air quotes.
"Are you sure about that?" Kai asked with concern.
"It's been two months since I disappeared. And has anyone shown interest in finding me. No. If anything, they forgot about me already." Saul looked away, towards the view of the ocean. He loved the view you could get from up where he was. The ocean was far away, but you could still see it. The city extended to the ocean which is why it was such a big city but the view from up there was better than the docks.
"Maybe that have." Kai said to him.
"No Kai. They haven't. Me leaving is basically a blessing to all of them. I'm a nuisance to the world. That is all." Saul was now angry. Kai could feel the dark aura inside of him. The tiger also felt it and lifted its head up. The tiger growled a little.
"Ok. Calm down." Kai said, putting his hands up in defense.
"I am calm." Saul said before he let his tears fall.
"You are ok." Kai talked in a calm tone.
"I'm not ok." Saul said as he got up.
"Where are you going?" Kai asked.
"I'm going to keep training. It helps me escape the real world." Saul picked up his sword and began hitting a tree, cutting a design into it.
"Keep an eye on him." Kai said to the tiger before he disappeared.
The tiger looked at Saul. It's eyes wide open in order to see everything. Saul continued slashing away at the tree as memories of his past flood into his brain. His anger Rosé and he kept hitting the tree until he finally cut the whole thing off. The tree fell over and a few birds flew out of the neighboring trees.
Saul stood still. Smoke rose from his sword and his arms. He was breathing heavily until he collapsed. He fell to the ground. He fell asleep instantly. The tiger continued watching before it finally got up. It walked over to Saul and turned into a spirit. It returned into its home inside of Saul. Saul's breathing returned to normal and he just lay there, asleep. He smiled on his sleep. He had just entered his most favorite dream. The dream he treasures the most and the one that gives him the most pleasure.
Elsewhere, Caste walked through the jungle. He looked around everywhere. He looked down at a map and was able to find a certain path.
"The future red ranger is training around here. I can sense him. Unfortunately for him, Kai doesn't remember me since our last battle. That is good for me though. But for now I am here to do my job." Caste spoke to himself.
After one last glance at the map, Caste made his way through the jungle. After a few more minutes of walking, he came across a jungle house. Outside of the house was a little girl playing with a ball. On the porch of the house was a woman who wachted the girl. Caste looked at both of them until a man came out. The man was smiling as he kissed the woman.
"I finally found you. You can't run away from your past." Caste said as he pulled out an electronic device.
"Have you found him?" A mysterious voice said.
"Yes I have." Caste responded.
"Good. Finish him." The voice said.
"You are lucky that this suits both you and me. I rarely take on jobs that deal with personal problems." Caste said as he continued looking at the family.
"Don't worry about that. Do your job and you can be in your way." The voice said.
"Just don't forget about the money." Caste said coldly.
"Of course." The voice said.
"Great." Caste then hung up the call and took out some sort of shell. He held the shell tightly in his hand and he transformed. He was no longer a wolf man but instead, a regular man.
"Is anyone out there." The man from the house called out as the little girl returned to them.
Caste adjusted his voice before he finally revealed himself, "Hello. I need help."
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Anthony hit the tree hard. Mikey took the opportunity and put his sword up against Anthony's neck. The saber was only inches away from his neck. Mikey lifted his sword up and put out his hand. Anthony took Mikey's hand and he was lifted off the ground.
"I beat you again." Mikey said as he let go of Anthony's hand.
"Yea Yea." Anthony said as he dusted himself off. Anthony then walked over to where Alicia was. She stood by a tree. Anthony sat down and sighed.
"How many times does that make?" Alicia asked.
"Are you going to start?" Anthony gave her a glare.
"Sorry I'm late guys!" They all turned to see Cynthia running down to where they were. When she got there, she saw Mikey, Anthony and Alicia standing together. She then turned her head a little and saw Red leaning against a tree on the other side. She awaited for a comment from the ranger but she didn't get one.
"Why are you so late?" Anthony was the one to speak up.
"I got involved in this after school program about saving the earth. My counselor said I had to do this." Cynthia said to them.
"Why?" Mikey asked.
"She said that I have to get my community service hours in or I won't graduate next year." Cynthia put down her backpack.
"That sucks." Alicia said as she gave Cynthia a hug.
"I know. We have to clean some things up. You know, protect the earth and all that stuff." Cynthia pulled out a small looking device. When she activated it, her teasing bow appeared in front of her.
"Those weapon summoners that Mick made are so cool." Anthony said as he witnessed the bow being summoned.
"Yea. They come in handy." Mikey pointed out.
"So, what do you have to do to 'save the planet'." Alicia used air quotes.
"We are going around in a bus to different places and cleaning up. Picking up trash and making some useful things that can be used in the area, like better water fountains." Cynthia took out a piece of paper from her backpack and handed it to Alicia. Alicia scanned it before handing it to Mikey.
"And you have to do this by yourself?" Mikey asked as he read the paper over.
"No. I'm going to be working with a group." Cynthia answered.
"That's good. Hey, Red, battle time." Alicia called over to Red who had his saber out already. Red looked over and stood up straight and got into battle position.
"What's his deal?" Cynthia asked.
"We don't know. He just hasn't been talking." Mikey said.
"As long as he isn't saying shit, then I don't have a problem." Anthony looked over to them. Red and Alicia had already begun to spar.
"You are improving." Red said and caught everyone in surprise. Everyone literally had their mouths open. Red and Alicia continued to spar. Then, Red took the advantage and beat Alicia.
"Thanks for the compliment." Alicia stood up.
"Did he just say that." Anthony had gotten up.
"I think he just did." Cynthia said as she zipped up her backpack.
"Interesting." Mikey said. Red just gave them a glance before returning to his tree. He leaned against it and looked down.
"Who's next?" Cynthia broke the silence that had been created.
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"Mr. X, for the last time, let me press charges." A woman followed a man who wore a nice black suit with a red tie.
"No. What do you think it will look like if you press charges against the Power Rangers. For the past month they have been saving the world from monster attacks." The man glanced at his watch.
"They could have hurt them." The woman was persistent.
"But were they hurt. No, exaclty. You know, what the red ranger said to you was right. What you are showing the world is that we control our idols. That shouldn't be the case." The man, known as X, continued down the corridor but the woman kept following him.
"Mr. X! She is right." Another man joined in on the conversation.
"Really, the producer is on her side. What a shock really." X said as he rolled his eyes and stopped.
"They didn't have protection and the black ranger got close. Imagine what the stories would be like." The producer said to X.
"What stories? Why does it matter? If anything, this gave them more publicity." X put his hands together.
"We already have plans for them. They don't have time to fall in love with these," the woman paused trying to find the word, "animals."
"Clever." X said remembering that this team of rangers had animal motifs.
"Yea. We have big plans for the next several years." The producer said.
"You guys practically keep this group under lock and key. They are restrained by strict rules created by the man who previously owned this company. I'm the owner now, so what I say goes and I have no time for this now. Soon I will be making changes, big ones. So get ready or I will fire both of you." X's menacing tone got to them.
"Yes sir." They both said.
"Good." X began to walk before stopping and turning, "And if memory serves right, I saw the story on the news. If I recall correctly, the red ranger managed to save one of our girls by throwing a saber perfectly in between her arm and body. The rangers know what they are doing, now go back to work!" X turned and walked away, during at a corner down the hall. The producer and woman quickly went back to work.
In another corridor, everything was empty. X stood in the middle and looked around. When he confirmed that no one was around him, he clicked both sides of his watch. A black cloud dispersed from the watch and the man was enveloped in it. The hallway lights began to shake and the hall got darker. When he finally disappeared along with the smoke, everything returned to normal.
X appeared in a different corridor. He began walking to a room. When he entered he noticed two monsters awaiting him.
"Master Axis." Byxis noticed him first.
"What do you two want?" Axis was irritated. He did just have the most frustrating conversation ever.
"We have two things." Zaku said.
"Get on with it then." Axis sat down on his throne and put his right hand on his face.
"The first thing is this. Pull up the image." Zaku instructed a Ravager monster. The monster did what he was told.
When the monster was down, a holographic image appeared in the room. Axis saw it through his fingers and noticed something odd. When he finally realized what it was, he put down his hand. He was in total shock.
"Do you remember him?" Zaku said as he turned to face Axis. Axis looked at the image.
"Why is he back?" Axis said coldly.
"We don't know. What we do know is that he attacked them rangers not that long ago. If I remember correctly, it was after the defeated Stringling." Zaku reported.
"I got rid of him not that long ago. So why is he back so soon." Axis hit the arms of his throne.
"We would like to know as well." Zaku said.
"Make sure you find him and question him." Axis sat back, with an angry face on him.
"Right away." Zaku bowed.
"And what do you have to report." Axis turned to Byxis.
"I have our new monster ready to attack the city, no the planet." Byxis laughed.
"Interesting. Proceed." Axis instructed.
"Yes sir. Biometric! Get in here!" Byxis calles out. A monster then walked into the room.
The monster had a full on hazmat look. His body looked like a hazmat suit and his face was green with blue eyes. His head a roundish shape. The monster had what looked to be horn like objects sticking out of his head. In the middle of his body he had a skull and bones, the clear indication that something is deadly. He also had a quarantine sign. The monsters mouth was covered by a silver gas mask. The monster also had needles sticking out of his arms that attacked to his back.
"I'm in the house." The monster, Biometric, claimed as he entered.
"Interesting." Axis said.
"Biometric has the ability to use radiation and deadly wastes. Along with creating deadly environments. He can basically kill any living thing ever. He's basically a deadly science monster." Byxis explained.
"Oh yeah!" The monster posed as if he were a muscle builder.
"So he can create any type of deadly environment and any type of radiation ray?" Axis appeased his curiosity.
"Yes sir. I will be deploying him right away. With your permission of course." Byxis bowed.
"Send him right away. Make sure you find a way to kill the humans." Axis said in an angered tone.
"You got it." Biometric said before leaving. Byxis followed behind him.
"And you. You have your orders. Take an army of Ravagers and find him. Find Caste!" Axis yelled as he glared at the picture that remained up.
"Right away!" Zaku left quickly.
"You betrayed me once and almost ruined everything. I'm not letting you do that again." Axis said in a darker voice. Possibly his real voice.
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Eduardo walked through the forest alongside Yuki. They were on their way to the academy. Eduardo had been silent the whole walk to the academy. Yuki didn't know what to do. He finally decided to speak up.
"What's on your mind?" Yuki asked.
"Nothing." Eduardo responded.
"Cmon, something is bothering you." Yuki clapped his hands together.
"It's nothing." Eduardo said one last time.
"Ok, I have a deal for you. If I beat you to the academy, you tell me what's going on." Yuki held his hand out.
Eduardo looked at him skeptically, "I'm the power of wind. You think you can beat me?"
"We won't know if we don't try." Yuki grinned.
"You're on." Eduardo said.
"3.. 2.. 1.. Go!" Yuki said and the two boys took off running. After a few seconds of running, Yuki used one of his ninja techniques and quickly went underground.
Eduardo jumped onto the trees and tried to keep his balance on the branches. He could see the path that Yuki left behind. He was the power of earth after all. Eduardo finally focused enough and started running in the air. After a few minutes, he didn't see Yuki's trail. He smiled as he realized that he may have left Yuki behind.
Eduardo has finally made it to the waterfall. He fell down to the ground and sighed. He pulled up his phone and leaned against a tree. He was going to pretend as if he had been there for a while now. Unfortunately for him, that was not true. Yuki came up from behind him.
"How much longer." Yuki smirked.
"What the!" Eduardo jumped into the air.
"I won." Yuki shrugged his shoulders and lifted his hands up.
"You probably cheated." Eduardo out away his phone.
"You would say that. Now tell me what's bothering you before we have to face Melissa." Yuki playfully punched Eduardo. Eduardo made a punching motion and he made Yuki flinch.
"Fine. It's my friend. He called me a few days ago and we were supposed to meet. Something bad apparently happened to him and he wanted my help. When I got to the destination where he was, he was gone. It's like, I saw him and then he disappeared. I tried looking for him and calling him but I never found him." Eduardo leaned against the tree.
"That's tough. Hey how about I help you do some searching after class." Yuki out his hand on Eduardo's shoulder.
"That'd be nice." Eduardo smiled.
"What else are friends for." Yuki out his fist up. Eduardo bumped his fist. They then took off their outer clothes to reveal their ninja suits. They walked through the waterfall and found themselves in the Wind Ninja Academy. They then ran over to where their class was.
"Finally. You guys are late." Melissa walked up to them.
"We were having a race and we got carried away. Sorry, mom." Yuki laughed as he mocked Melissas behavior but she immediately stopped him by pulling his ear. "Ow ow ow." Yuki grabbed her arm and tried to pull it off.
"You want to be a smart-ass too?" Melissa turned to Eduardo and he immediately shook his head.
"Let's just go train." Eduardo walked in between the two. Melissa and Yuki followed. Yuki held his red ear.
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Cynthia picked up garbage that was on the floor. She had on blue gloves and a mask usually used by surgeons. She didn't want to smell any bad stuff and let it hurt her body.
"Cynthia." A woman called to the young girl. She got up and made her way over.
"Yes?" She answered.
"You are going a great job. And thanks for getting the extra help." The woman smiled and walked away.
"It seems that everything is going well." Alicia threw away a piece of trash and walked over to Cynthia.
"Yea. This group is really about fighting for the earth. Thanks guys for helping me." Cynthia expresses her gratitude.
"No problem. That's what teammates are for. That's what Trench told me." Mikey threw away a full bag of trash in the dumpster.
"Is there a reason why I have to help?" Anthony walked up to them.
"Yes. Because we are teammates and that's what we do. Also, you lost to Alicia and she said you had to do this." Mikey almost laughed at the memory of Anthony getting take down by Alicia. She had even managed to pin his arm behind his back.
"I hate this. I'm going that way where I won't be bothered." Anthony walked towards the direction that he pointed at.
"Call us if you need anything!" Mikey called out to him.
"Yea Yea." Anthony kept walking.
Anthony walked as far as he could . He went close to the nearby lake. They were just on the edge of town. What was know as the Lake District because of the obvious big lake. This was somehow the second most trashed place. The Beach District was the one filled with a lot of trash. A lot of law breakers still lived in Beast City. Fortunately, it may be filled with trash but it was always picked up right away. The city was basically always clean. They were just helping out the city workers apparently.
Anthony walked on until he knew they couldn't see him anymore. When he was about to run for it, he crashed into Red. He fell to the ground and looked up at him.
"What the! What are you doing here? And why were you in my way?!" Anthony got up angrily.
"Micks new sensors that track monster went off in this area. The whole city has these sensors. Soon the world will have them. After Mick and Redbot finish planting them. I'm just here investigating." Red said to him.
"Well, if you can excuse me, I need to leave." Anthony began to walk off until he smelled something.
"You smell it too?" Red asked.
"Was that you?" Anthony pinched his nose.
"Look." Red pointed to a puddle as he got on his knees. Anthony looked at the puddle and noticed it's odd green color.
"What is that?" Anthony continued to pinch his nose.
"I don't know but there's a stream of it coming from that direction. I'm going." Red got up and began walking towards the source of the puddle.
"Is it weird that I want to know what it is." Anthony said and he followed Red.
"I don't need your help." Red said to go without turning around.
"I'm coming because I want to. I don't have to listen to you." Anthony said.
"Whatever." Red continued walking.
After a few minutes, the found the source of the stream. They had made it to another big lake. They hid behind some bushes as they heard something coming. They then saw what was coming.
"It better be ready you good for nothing slackers." A monster walked out of the trees and went to the lake.
"Look." Anthony pointed out something in the monsters hands. The monster had some sort of need coming out of his arms.
"We have to stop him. He plans on poisoning the lake for sure." Red said as he pulled out his blaster. Anthony pulled out his Beast Battery and got ready to morph.
"Now, let's just drop a little of this." The monster began to put his needle into the water.
Before the monster could insert a liquid into the water, he was blasted back. He fell down on top of some Ravagers. When he got up he saw the red and black rangers standing by a bush, with their blasters out.
"Rangers. I wasn't planning on dealing with you yet but I might as well take advantage. Ravagers!" The monster snapped and the group of Ravagers that were with him appeared.
"Looks like we are deadline with a dumbass here." Red said as he started blasting the monsters. Black followed him.
Red kicked the monsters out of his way and went straight for the bigger monster. Black was left surrounded by the Ravagers and he started slashing them with his Strike Saber. He kicked and punched and continued making his way through the monsters.
Red was slashing with his Strike Saber. He kicked the Ravagers that tried to I riot his battle with Biometric. He then spun around ad brought his sword towards the monster before the monster stopped it with a bigger needle.
"Like it? I can make my needed bigger." The monster said as he hit Red in the chest and sent him flying into some Ravagers.
"I got him." Black pulled up his saber and ran to the monster. He slashed him before being hit himself.
"I have no time for you guys." The monster said as he called for Guard Ravagers. The robotic like creatures appeared and the monster escaped.
"There's about 5 of them." Black said as he got up.
"I'll take them all on." Red inserted his Beast Battery into his morpher. A hologram of his sword appeared. His number glowed and in an instant his sword appeared in front of him. He took hold of it.
"Wait for me!" Black followed him and summoned his axe.
Red kicked one of the monsters and slashed another one. Black charged at one of them and pushed him back as if he were a bull. He then slashed him with the dual sided axe. They had managed to destroy two of the stringer Ravagers but had three more. Red then pulled out a Beast Battery.
"Tiger." Red said as he inserted it into his sword. The sword caught fire and red fought against two of the monsters. Black did the same thing and pulled out his beast battery.
"Bull." Black said as he inserted it into his morpher. His axe was surrounded by black energy and he charged. He slashed a the one that was left for him. He hit him a few times before backing up and pulling up hid axe. He brought it down and hit the ground, sending a whole lot of black energy rushing to the monster. It hit the Ravagers head on a caused it to explode.
Red slashed both of the monsters from all directions. He then pulled his sword into the air and brought it down, sending a slash of fire towards the monsters. The monsters were hit and they instantly blew up.
"That takes care of that." Black said as he came up to Red. Red just looked at him and turned. He began walking away.
"Mick has a new update for the Morphers. Apparently they are supposed to have a speaking function to make it easier to recognize what battery we are using. Just in case one of us goes blind. Take your morpher to him when he gets back." Red said as he disappeared into the trees.
"A new update? Sounds kind of lame but I guess useful." Anthony said as he demorphed. He then pulled out his phone and proceeded to repeat the information to everyone else. And let them know what just happened.
Anthony began to walk off, not noticing that he was being watched. Caste watched from a distance. He stared and then he left.
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Caste walked through the forest. He was making his way to his base. He stopped in his tracks when he felt like something was following him. He sniffed around and smelled a horrible smell.
"Are you going to come out?" Caste called out.
Suddenly, a group of Ravagers and Guard Ravagers appeared around him. He was surrounded. He saw all of them and pulled his hand up to his swords handle. In an instant, he pulled out his sword. The monsters began coming at him.
Caste wasted no time and slashed the incoming monsters. He had no difficulty at all. He slashed more and more and didn't stop. He hands moved swiftly as he changed his swords position. The monsters never stood a chance as Caste killed every single one of them. When he was done, he put his sword away. Unfortunately, more monsters appeared, but someone else came with them.
"You must be a lackey." Caste spoke to the different looking monster.
"You are infuriating with my masters plans. I must stop you." Zaku appeared from the shadows.
"Axis doesn't deserve to rule the planet. He talks about destroying humanity and turning them into something better. Isn't that right." Caste turned to Zaku.
"He may speak about destroying humans, but that's only his anger talking. He will make humanity into something better." Zaku pointed his sword at Caste.
"His experiments. No one knows of them yet and I doubt you do either." Caste put his hand up to his holster.
"What are you talking about?" Zaku seemed confused.
"Of course he didn't tell you. He experiments on humans. He has followers you know. And those who follow him have been experimented on. He also takes innocent humans and turns them into his experiments as well." Caste stared down Zaku.
"I don't believe you. You just want to get in our way." Zaku out his sword in a battle position.
"I don't have time for this. I have more important matters to attend. My plan will obviously succeed unlike Axis' plan." Zaku then pulled out the pistol side arm he had and he shot around himself, causing smoke to appear and rise in the air.
"No!" Zaku yelled as he ran up to where the smoke was and slashed. He didn't hit anything.
"Good luck with your plans. You're gonna need it." Caste spoke but was no where to be found. Zaku stood there, defeated.
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"So this is the last place you saw him." Yuki looked around the alleyway.
"Yea. He wanted to meet behind this garage. I don't know why though." Eduardo looked around as well.
"Maybe he decided that he didn't need to talk to you anymore and he ran off." Yuki walked over to Eduardo.
"I don't think so. He wouldn't do that." Eduardo wanted to believe that.
"Then try calling him again. Maybe he'll answer this time." Yuki suggested.
"Ok." Eduardo pulled out his phone and looked through his contacts. He found Marcos name and he pushed it.
The phone was ringing. Eduardo stood there listening. After a minute, there was no answer. He tried again. He wanted to find out what happened to Marco. Again there was no answer but there was something odd. He turned on the speaker and he told Yuki to listen. There was an odd sound playing. It sounded like trumpets. Then it sounded like a flute. It finally ended with an elephants call. The elephant was clearly loud. Eduardo finally hung it up.
"What the fuck was that?" Yuki asked.
"I don't know but I want to get out of here. That just creeped me out." Eduardo put his phone away.
"Yea. Me too. I'll see you tomorrow?" Yuki out his fist up.
"Yea. See you tomorrow." Eduardo gave him a bump. Then the two boys used their ninja skills and got out of there fast.
Something that the boys never noticed however was that someone was watching. Up on the rooftop of the garage, someone watched over the alleyway. He had his arms crossed.
"Why can't I let him know that I'm alive?" The man asked.
"You need to be ready to help the others. No acceptions. You were chosen for a reason. You must fulfill your destiny." An older man appeared behind him.
"Fine." The man said and he walked off into the night.
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The next day, the girls along with Mikey were on a bus. They were heading to where the cities water supply was. Apparently they were going to protest or something about excessive water use. They didn't want to go but Cynthia needed her hours so she needed to do it.
"So why didn't Anthony come?" Cynthia asked Mikey who sat in his own seat, leaning his head against the window.
"He didn't want to come and I only took him to help the first time because he lost to Alicia." Mikey answered.
"Makes sense. He was already madd that you made him go. Plus that monster attack must have caught him by surprise." Alicia crossed her arms.
"That's for sure." Mikey closed his eyes.
They had finally arrived at their destination. Mikey didn't want to, but he opened his eyes and got up. Everyone got off the bus and a city worker caught a glimpse of this. The worker walked over to them.
"You folks ready for this? I'm tired of the way we do things." The man said.
"We are ready. Are your people ready?" A woman, clearly the leader of this group, said.
"Yea just let us know when." The man said.
"Let's start this." The woman said.
On the other side of the water supply buildings, Biometric walked to the tanks. He had his needles ready.
"Now this is a place where I can cause the most damage. Axis will be proud of me." Biometric said as he climbed the tower.
He was ready to insert his needle into the tower when he was blasted from behind. The monster turned to see Red and Black standing on the ground.
"How did you know I would be here?" The monster asked.
"We sort of figured." Red said. He then pulled out a Beast Battery and inserted it into his morpher.
"Tiger Sword!" The morpher said in a cool type of voice. A hologram of of the tiger sword appeared over his morpher. Then his number glowed and his sword appeared.
"I guess that's a cool thing." Black said as he followed.
"Bull Axe!" The morpher said. A hologram of his Bull Axe appeared over his morpher. Then his number glowed and his axe appeared.
"Come and get me." Biometric told them.
Red jumped from the ground onto the tower. He clashed with the monster. The fought until they both jumped off the tower. They ran alongside eachother until they got to a gate. Red hit him with his sword.
On the other side of the buildings, the protesters held their signs. News vans had arrived and were covering everything. The workers that weren't against the unfair use of water were trying to calm the crowd down.
"Stop the unfair use of water!" Cynthia yelled. Everyone else got riled up and started yelling also.
That was when Red and the monster came crashing down on a news van. Everyone saw this and immediately started to run. They were all screaming. Red continued his fight with the monster.
"Hey guys. Mind morphing. Thanks." Black passed them and hit the monster from behind.
"Oh great. Let's go!" Mikey said to the others. They nodded and pulled out their batteries and insterted them. They also input their codes.
"Shark!"
#002
"Cheetah!"
#004
"Phoenix!"
#005
They all morphed into their rangers suits and prepared for battle. They pulled out their weapon batteries and inserted them.
"Shark Sabers!" The morpher said and Blue held his sabers.
"Cheetah Claws!" The morpher said and Yellow held her claws.
"Phoenix Bow!" The morpher said and Pink held her bow.
They all fought against the monster. Blue did a flip while dodging the monster and Yellow slashed the monster from the side. Pink jumped into the air and shot an arrow towards the monster. Black jumped and hit the monster head on.
"Stop!" The monster yelled as he hit them and sent them all back.
Red jumped over the fallen rangers and hit the monster head on. He slashed and dodged.
"Stop moving." The monster said before using his needle to unleash a gas.
"What is that smell?" Red dropped his sword and walked backward while covering his helmet where his nose would be.
"I can also do this." The monster inseted his needle into red and released a toxin.
"What the!" Red yelled trying to get the monster to stop.
"I'm activating the toxin I entered I. You the first time we battled. With this secondary toxin, it makes the first one more powerful.
"Red!" Pink yelled as she prepared her bow and shot the monster back. Red fell backwards and held his side.
"We have to heal him." Blue said as the rangers got close to Red.
"Ha Ha! Only I can do that." The monster yelled. He then ran towards them.
"Not very smart are you!" Blue said as he jumped on top of the monster.
"What are you doing?!" Biometric felt himself falling. His needle then re-entered red. Black then hit the monster with his axe and a potion of sorts was inserted into Red. Black then hit him again and the monster fell backwards.
"How the hell did you do that?!" Black asked Blue.
"I used his horns to control him." Blue answered.
"Guys. There's something new that you can try. I've only tested it with the Tiger Sword but soon maybe all of your weapons can do it. Give Red your batteries." Mick said over the communicator.
"Got it!" Blue said. Although he hated working with Red sometimes, he gave him his Battery. Red took it and put it in his sword. His sword then glowed a blue color and the handle changed color. It went from red and black to blue and black. The gold engraving changed from a tiger to a shark.
"Woah. That's cool." Black looked at the sword. Red then looked at the monster.
"Shark Sword!" The Morphers voice said out loud.
Red wasted no time and he ran to the monster. He was still a little weak but he fought through it. Red slashed and then his swords blade glowed blue and was surrounded by water. Red slashed the monster a few more times.
"Next one!" Red yelled. Black got the hint and threw over his battery. Red entered it into his sword. The handle was full on black.
"Bull Sword!" The Morphers voice said.
Red then slashed the monster again with more strength. The sword was engulfed in black energy and red slashed again.
"Next!" Red out in the yellow battery into his sword. The handle turned black and yellow.
"Cheetah Sword!" The voice said. Red slashed with such speed, that the others couldn't keep watch. The sword was engulfed in yellow energy.
"Phoenix Sword!" The voice said as red entered the Phoenix battery. The handle turned pink and red. The blade now had pink energy. He slashed with a bigger fire and sent the monster flying.
"Tiger Sword!" The voice said.
"Tiger Fury Fire Slash!" Red yelled as he sent a huge slash of fire that turned into a tiger. It hit the monster head on and destroyed him.
"This was way to fast!" The monster fell and blew up.
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"Grow him!" Axis yelled.
"You have the button sir." Byxis said.
"Fine! I'll do it!" He pushed the button.
The steel tower appeared again and shot out it's beam.
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"I can definitely poison the water like this." The monster revived.
The Tiger Zord had been waiting and it attacked. The Phoenix Zord followed and hit the monster head on. The Bull Zord was going to attack but it was hit by a needle. The Bull Zord then fell over and was poisoned.
"Not again!" Black tried to move the Zord.
"Get him!" Blue yelled as the Shark and Cheetah Zords attacked.
"We can't form the Megazord without the Bull Zord." Red said to all of them.
"You can form it but it won't function like it should. Basically you lose control of one of the legs." Mick told him.
"That'll have to do. We have to get this done fast." Red said as he pulled out the Megazord Battery and entered it.
"Animal Strike Megazord!" They all said in unison. They were going to attack until they found themselves unable to move.
"Got you!" The monster attacked the robot.
"We can't move!" Red yelled.
"We have to attack like this." Blue said as he activated the Megazords sword.
"What are you doing?!" The monster backed away.
"By using this, I'll defeat you!" Blue inserted his battery.
The sword changed to a blue color instead of red. Blue prepared the attack.
"Final Animal Fury Water Strike!" They all yelled as they sent a hug water slash towards the monster. The slash turned into a spirit shark and it hit the monster directly.
"Why do you guys work so fast!" The monster yelled as he fell and blew up.
"We are done here." Black said. Red held his side. He was still hurt.
Off at a nearby building, a man in a leather jacket, a red shirt, and blue jeans stood. He looked at the giant robot standing over the city. He smiled as he saw the blue sky above.
"Earth's Defenders, Never Surrender." The man said before he walked away, leaving the robot behind him.
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"I'm going to rest." Axis got up and walked away. Zaku then walked in.
"So what happened?" Byxis asked.
"We have a powerful enemy now. Make sure we are ready for this secondary threat. He will be a challenge." Zaku took a bottle of whiskey and drank from it.
"You got it." Byxis walked off to his lab.
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"Well we did it. I finished my hours and we managed to find a way to lower water usage." Cynthia told the others who sat around the command centers table.
"Great. Now I can rest." Mikey sat back and closed his eyes.
"Great upgrade Mick. All these things should be useful." Alicia said as she studied her Morpher.
"There's more where they came from. Well, when I'm done." Mick laughed.
"Let me know when those are ready. And let me know when the axe is ready to use all the batteries." Anthony played with his battery.
"You got it." Mick said, making an "ok" sign with his hand.
In his room, Saul held his side. He was really hurt. He closed his eyes.
*flashback*
"Are you ok?" Red opened his eyes. He was still morphed somehow. He looked around and saw four girls looking at him. He smiled thinking it was a dream until he realized it wasn't. He got up quickly.
"I'm ok." He said to them.
"That's good." One of the girls said.
"You guys are that one k-pop group, right." Red said as he held his head. He felt a headache coming on.
"Yea. That's us." Another girl said.
"I've always wanted to meet you guys. I think you are all..."
*flashback ends*
Saul opened his eyes. He fell into his bed and he fell asleep once again.
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"You tired?" Kai asked a sleepy Saul.
"Maybe." Saul closed his eyes.
"Well maybe something to eat will help you." Kai said as he helped him sit up.
"Thanks." Saul said as he began eating some bread.
Kai looked at Saul. Saul has to become a hero. No matter what happens. Kai smiled. It was his mission.
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A/N: There's chapter 5. That last battle was a little to quick but that is supposed to prove that the monsters will get stronger as the series progresses. It is still the beginning. Anyways, let me know what you guys think. And make sure to check out Kemonoranger. And did you catch the Power Rangers reference? Also, the Morphers voice is similar to the voice of the Morphers in the Super Sentai series, Kyuranger. As always, thanks for supporting the story. See ya next time.