Jindrax wasn't sure how long they had been just ... wondering around, since Orgs didn't ration time the same way the humans did.
Jindrax never thought he'd be saying this, but he had actually grown to... like nature and the quiet peaceful solace that it offered.
But the reasons for this change of heart weren't entirely... wholesome. The MAIN reason was that he and Toxica could be alone whenever they wanted to be.
He glanced over at the beautiful dark sorceress who's hand was entwined with his, their fingers laced together and a soft, reverent sigh escaped him.
Forever
He felt his Org heart swell with emotion at the fact that he was going to get to spend all eternity with the being who's hand he held.
Toxica smiled softly to herself, she loved the fact that she could hear his thoughts as if he had spoken them out loud.
He didn't even try to hide them anymore, sure they embarrassed him sometimes, but he loved that they could communicate without even saying a word.
'Me, too.' He heard her voice in his head.
He gave her hand a gentle squeeze in reply.
As they walked alongside the road, they came upon a sign.
"Blue Bay Harbor, twenty five miles. " Jindrax read.
Toxica shrugged
"We have been wondering around in the middle of nowhere for a while, we could go check it out. " she said
"Oh ... okay." He replied, not even trying to hide his disappointment at once again being surrounded by humans.
Alone in the wilderness, they could exchange energies whenever the desire took them without worry about any humans seeing them or interrupting them.
Toxica hissed as she shoved him, her beautiful face harbored a scowl, but it held no real malice behind it.
"You males! You're all the same !" She chastised him
"Hey hey hey! Don't act all high and mighty when I know for a fact that most of our exchanges are instigated by YOU! Missy!" He pointed out as he shook an accusing finger at her.
Toxica opened her mouth, but closed it again, what could she say, he was right.
"HA!" He said as he playfully nudged her shoulder
"Damn look at me! I've been right twice now! I got me a little streak going on!" He said as he shot her a cocky grin.
Her eyes, sparkled with amusement as she glanced at him.
"Well, like the humans say, there is a first for everything!" She said.
Jindrax opened his mouth to retort when the sounds of an explosion, and shouts reached their ears.
They shared a look of conviction and hurried towards the source of the noise.
Toxica gasped as she saw a group of power rangers not unlike the wild force rangers they had come to know so well over the years. Except that there were two red rangers and two blue rangers on this team ... Strange.
However, this group of rangers didn't seem to be doing to well against their opponent.
"Is it an Org?" Jindrax asked Toxica.
She shook her head.
"No, I sense no magic, that thing is something else ."
"Well, whatever it is, THOSE rangers aren't doing so well against it." Jindrax said as they watched the battle unfold.
Toxica tilted her chin high into the air.
"Well then, let's go and help them." She said.
Before Jindrax could reply, she grabbed his hand and they disappeared in a crackle of magic.
The creature shot a white hot energy beam at the rangers, sending them blasting back onto the beach.
"I don't know how we're gonna beat this guy! We've never faced an alien this powerful before!" Tori said as she struggled to regain her footing, clutching her arm.
Blake rushed to her side and helped her up.
"Are you okay?" He asked her.
"Yeah, I think so." She replied.
Suddenly, two new creatures appeared between them and the alien.
"What the...?! " Shane sputtered
Toxica and Jindrax smirked at the group of nearly defeated power rangers as they turned to face the creature, who took a step back in shock.
"Who the hell are you?! You're ruining my fun!"
Jindrax pointed his sword at the creature.
"Yeah ... about that, see this kind of so called 'fun' just doesn't do it for us anymore. Does it, Toxica?"
Toxica laughed in that seductive, sultry way like she used to when she would taunt the wild force rangers.
'I always LOVED it when you did that.' Jindrax's voice floated into her head.
'Keep your mind on the task at hand, will you?!' She retorted back.
'Easier said than done' came his simple reply.
She swiftly turned to scold him and found him looking at her, his eyes burning with an almost feral passion.
Toxica felt heat rising to her cheeks
'Stop that!' She chastised him.
'Stop what?' He replied with a coy look.
'Stop looking at me like that when we can't... you know!' She replied
' Hey ... it's not MY fault you're so gorgeous. ' he replied with a shrug.
The creature's voice brought them back to reality
"Hey! If you're not gonna help me, then I'll destroy you along with the rangers!"
Toxica smirked as she readied her staff.
"Oh ... I don't think so, let's take care of this, quick!"
She shot Jindrax a cat like grin and his face turned a hilarious shade of red as he read her thoughts.
'How am I supposed to concentrate on fighting now after hearing ... THAT?!' He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, a residual blush still lingering on his cheeks.
'Think of it as Motivation.' was her simple reply.
"Well?! What are we waiting for?!" He said as they combined their powers into his huge energy shot that hit the creature square in the chest.
It exploded before it even knew what hit it.
The stunned rangers demorphed and ran to Toxica and Jindrax.
"Who ARE you?" One of the red rangers, a tall, stout boy with dark hair asked
"We'd be glad to answer that, but not here." Toxica said.
"Yeah don't you have a super secret base or a hideout or something?" Jindrax said
"The other red ranger who they learned was named Hunter, stepped forward, his expression was skeptical.
"How do we know you're not working with Lothor."
Toxica gasped as she and Jindrax shared a surprised look.
"Lothor?! He's here?!" She hissed.
"Wow, now THAT'S a name I never thought I'd hear again."Jindrax said as he rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"We need to go to your headquarters at once so we can talk!" Toxica said in a hushed tone.
"Yeah cause what I remember about Lothor, he's the kinda guy that has spies EVERYWHERE. Hell, he could be listening in on us right now." Jindrax added as he looked around.
Hunter looked to the other red ranger, who nodded his head in agreement
"Okay ... follow us." He said.
"I hope you guys know what you're doing." Tori whispered
"Yeah Cam's like ... Totally gonna freak!" Dustin added.
"Don't worry." Shane said with a wink as they entered the forest.
He suddenly spun on his heel.
"Hey ...!" Jindrax and Toxica both protested as black sacks were tossed over their heads.
"You didn't think I would just SHOW them the entrance to OPs, did you?" He said with a smirk.
"Sorry guys, but we need to know if we can trust you first." Dustin said regrettably as they pushed them along.
Cam leapt up from his chair as they pushed the two Orgs through the waterfall.
"What the hell ...?!" He sputtered.
"Good luck." Tori whispered to Shane as she patted his shoulder.
Shane opened his mouth to explain, but Dustin beat him to it.
He told Cam all about how they had helped him, and that they knew about Lothor.
"You brought someone here that used to work for Lothor?!" Cam bellowed angrily.
"NO!" Dustin and Shane said in unison.
"I think it's easier if we just ... explain." Jindrax said as he and Toxica slipped the sacks off of their heads.
They told the rangers everything, of course taking great care to gloss over the more ... Intimate details of their story.
"Wow that's insane !" The male blue ranger said as the yellow ranger stepped forward.
"Well ... on behalf of everyone I wanna say welcome! I'm Dustin." He said.
The boy named Dustin put his hands on the shoulders of the female blue ranger and the taller of the red rangers.
"This is Tori and Shane."
"And I'm hunter, and this is my brother, Blake." The other two said.
"And I am Sensai Watanabe. It is very nice to meet you." A seemingly disembodied voice said.
Jindrax couldn't help it, he snickered as a guinea pig summersaulted lightly onto Shane's shoulder .
"You're master is a ... rodent?!" He said as he covered his mouth in an effort to stifle the fit of laughter that threatened to erupt out of him.
Something about the fact that this group of rangers had a mere rodent serving as their advisor just struck him right in the funny bone for some reason.
Toxica elbowed him hard in the side, but that did little to quell his guffaw.
"I apologize for my partner's... RUDENESS. " she said as she shot a small bolt of magic at Jindrax, giving him quite a jolt.
"Sorry " he said with an apologetic grin.
"It is alright, I am quite used to that reaction to this form." Their sensei said.
"So ... This isn't your regular form?" Jindrax said.
The sensei shook his little rodent head.
"No." He said as he told them the story of when Lothor attacked the wind ninja academy.
"Oh ... So you're not really a rodent ... Sorry for laughing at you." Jindrax apologized as he scratched the back of his neck sheepishly.
"See?! That's what you get for opening your big fat mouth!" Toxica scolded him.
"Hey! I said I was sorry!" He whined at her.
The group of rangers exchanged shrewd looks as they watched the pair of Orgs bicker like the old married couple they essentially were.
"Okay so ... What do you guys have to do with Lothor?" Dustin asked.
A wide smirk spread across Jindrax's face.
"We're gonna help you stop him." He replied.