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Xross Blue: Victor "Vic" Everest.
Xross Green: Kairi Nakamura.
Xross Yellow: Hayden Shaw.
=XROSSFORCE=
It was another day in H3 as the rangers spared against one another, but it was much more quiet as only three of the rangers along with Neil were training with Van and Judith supervising said training session.
Judith let out a sigh lookind down "Pretty silent around here without those two around." She commented and Van nods.
Van then let out a sigh of his own "It was inevitable it would boil over Judith. I just wish I could of come to a better solution with JR." He said as both of them thought back to just hours after the battle that had happened against Vanity.
[Flashback]
Kathy, JR, and Hayden were all in the med bay recoverying after the battle against Vanity. Kathy had wraps on her arms, and a few bandages on her head. JR had bandages wrapped around her torso while Hayden's was around his stomach area.
Kathy sighed not noticing JR glaring at her as the others including Frankie came in and she looked up "Hey guys." She says trying to crack a smile.
JR rolled her eyes "Hey. Umm...how are you all doing?" Vic asked giving an awkward grin rubbing the back of his head, and was smacked by Frankie.
Kathy sighed "No need to do that Frankie." She says shaking her head.
"Still it could of been worse." Hayden then adds on.
JR grits her teeth "What do you mean could of been? What happened out there could probably have been prevented if someone was smarter about what they were doing." She hissed shooting a glare at Kathy.
Hayden frowned "JR..." He warned.
JR gets up from the bed she was put in and glares at Hayden "No Hayden! I've had enough holding my tounge!" she tells him and returns her glares focus on Kathy.
"You don't belong here with us." JR says flatly.
Kathy looked at her eyes narrowed "Excuse me?" she replied her tone a bit icy.
JR nods "You heard me. You don't belong, and you want to know why? To put it simple you got all the qualties of a ranger, and sure your a veteran all things considered, but you don't have what it takes to be the leader we need." JR said to her getting in Kathy's face giving her a small push back.
Kathy stumbled back a bit "JR...stop..." Kathy warned.
Frankie moved to step in, but Kathy turned and held a hand up shaking her head "Or else what? You can't even do any fighting now since your weapon is about as useless as you." JR says taking another step forward and giving her another push.
"JR...stop. You don't want to keep pushing me like this." Kathy warned.
"You mean literally or mentally? Cause that seems to be a problem you got. You are probably the most indecisive person with experince I've ever known!" JR kept going and gave another push.
Kathy was starting to shake "Okay. That's enough. Don't make this personal." Kathy says through grit teeth.
JR huffed ignoring her as she wasn't done unloading "You obviously can't see no one wants you around?! Since you came here you uprooted how things were! We were just fine without you!" She yelled and gave one more push and Kathy tumbles over a box and hits the floor.
Kathy got up and glared at her "You keep referring to all of you, but sounds a lot more like your the one with the problem. You don't know anything about me." Kathy told JR.
JR glared and grit her teeth before yelling and ran right at Kathy and slugged her making said girl stagger back "Your the problem! You are! Not me! Take back what you said!" JR shouts as she kept swinging hitting Kathy who just took each blow.
Seeing enough the four acted as Hayden held JR back while Frankie, Vic, and Kairi checked on Kathy who had a black eye and a few bruises forming while her nose was now bleeding.
Hearing the commotion Van and Judith came running in and were surprised to see the scene "What is going on here?!" Van demanded shouting.
The group was silenced, and hesitantly Hayden, Vic, and Kairi all explained what happened while Frankie tended to Kathy.
After listening both mentors had different looks upon their faces as Van looked calm yet serious while his eyes burned in anger. As for Judith she looked upon JR with a look of dissapointment on her face and in her eyes.
Van walked over to JR who was now back sitting on the bed she got up from "...Your morpher." He says holding his hand out.
"Huh?" JR looked at him confused.
"Your morpher. Give it to me." He instructed his voice flat and serious. Hesitantly she grabbed it and gave it along with the Xross Flag to him.
Van sighed taking in a breath before letting it out "JR what you have done is inexcusible. For the moment until I see fit to return these to you...consider yourself a civilian." Van said.
JR's eyes widen "What! I'm getting mine taken for simply speaking my mind to our so called 'leader'!" She exclaimed angry.
Judith shakes her head at her "It's more than that. You attacked her, a fellow ranger, and pushed her both physically and mentally to her limits." Judith said arms crossed.
Kathy looked at them and sighed getting up assuring the rest that she's fine "If your going to do that then...here." She says pushing her own morpher and Xross Flag into Van's hands.
"I...I don't think I'm cut out to be a red. JR is unfortunetly right...please just find someone else." Kathy says and walks out to the control room. After messing with the main console she teleported herself out, JR doing the same thing not long after as she left in a huff.
[Flashback End]
Van shakes his head "For now we have to focus on what we're suppose to." He said.
Judith looked down "What about those two though?" She asked.
"They'll have to find their own way back to us. We can't force them." Van told her and Judith sighed nodding.
"Unfortunate, but true. How confident are you though they'll be able to find they're way back?" Judith asked.
Van hummed rubbing his chin "JR might have a rocky ride as she's certainly the most mature of the group despite her age, but she's still having issues with the team. Mainly Kathy." Van said.
"As for Kathy...well that depends on how she reforges Gargantua Punisher." Van then added on as Judith looked at him confused.
Van sighed "Gargantua Punisher is a special blade as Gargantua Dragon both figurativly and literally forged it with his soul. That blade represents his fighting spirit, and for it to be broken...Kathy must have something troubling her soul to even allow that." He said.
"So your saying unless she confronts her demons she might not return to us?" Judith asked, and Van shrugs as he was unsure. All he knew was that it might be some time before either of them would return to the team.
Judith sighed "They're going to need some backup you know." She said and Van nods.
"That's why I'm having Neil train with them. Until JR returns he'll be our gold ranger." Van told her.
Judith raised an eyebrow "And what about a temporary red ranger? I don't know about you, but from what I read about the other dimension the last team to have a temporary red well...she went bad." Judith said and shivers.
It had been one of the first things she had read up on the ranger database after it was installed. It contained the various histories and stories of many different ranger teams from different times and dimensions. She didn't want a Robyn Queens AKA Stabella type situation to deal with for their team.
"I had a feeling you'd ask about that. I'm actually trying to find a temporary red we can bring in. I don't know who he was reincarnated into, but there is a dragon on par with Gargantua Dragon." Van spoke.
Judith raised an eyebrow "Really? Because I thought you'd take over as well...given who you were before." Judith said.
Van shakes his head "Nah. Sure I'd be strong, but Batzz is stronger still." He says recalling a few memories of his time as Drum and chuckles.
"In fact he's one of the only ones with power that nearly equals Garga. So their reincarnation should be able to match Kathy's current level of power." He added on.
"You sound oddly confident about that." Judith notes and he sighs.
"Sorry. Guess I'm going a bit down memory lane. I and another friend Bal were a part of Batzz personal squad before our...end. We were part of the proud Thunder Empire squad." Van says.
Judith nods then looks to the rest "Well the sooner we find them the better." She said.
=XROSSFORCE=
In Aibo City Kathy had taken a walk about an smiled as she noticed something. It was a game store and cafe called Cafe Gamers V2.
"Wow. I thought Teddy was joking when he told me they opened another location." She muttered as she was familiar with the first location in her hometown.
Walking in she glanced about before going up to the cafe order side, and rings the bell. Though what was surprising was coming out of the back in an apron was JR and the two stared each other down.
"..."
"..."
"...Can I take your order?" JR finally asked and Kathy quickly gave her order and sat down. A couple minutes later JR came out with two drinks and some bagels for Kathy.
Kathy took her drink and bagels and ate as JR sat across from her. The two were silent for several minutes as they just busied themselves.
"...So...you work here. That's...quite surprising." Kathy said.
JR looks away "Yeah. Besides my volunteer work I work here on weekends." JR told her.
The two were then silent again as Kathy sighed "Why?" she asked as JR looked at her raising an eyebrow.
"Why what?" She asked in return.
Kathy puts her drink down and cups her hands together "Why do you just...just seem to hate me? I haven't done anything to you." She asked.
JR looked down "I don't hate you. I just..." She started then sighed.
"Years ago I...I looked up to you when you were a Universe ranger." JR began looking down whispering so no one else would hear.
"One day while I was on a field trip I ended up getting caught up in one of the battles. It was against some robot...Dark Buster I think was his name." JR recalled as it had been terrifying at the time.
"He...he was going to kill the rangers and me. It was one of the last times that I remember my sister Angelica being so worried about me." She then added on.
Kathy looked at her confused "What does this have to do with me?" Kathy asked.
JR's hands clenched into a fist and she sucked in a breath before letting it out "I-I've been through a lot. People I've loved have hurt me or abandoned me. I was excited at first when I learned what you were, but I then became scared." JR told her.
"I was scared of being left again. Of being...of being worthless. That's why whenever you made a mistake, whenever you'd mess up, whenever you'd do something stupid I'd make those comments." She added on.
Kathy nods and signals her to keep going "I didn't want to lose people who were relying on me. I wanted to matter." JR finally finished.
Kathy gives her a sympathetic look "Though your afraid if you ask for help you'll be pitied right?" Kathy asked.
JR nods "I've been self reliant since an early age Kathy. I just...I don't know what else to do. If I'm not the leader of the team then what am I?" She asked.
Kathy sighed looking down "Honestly I can't say I understand fully what you mean, but we all got a role to play...even if we don't like it." She says looking at her red clothing.
JR looked at her confused "But your...do you hate the color or something?" JR asked.
Kathy sighed her eyes tearing up "I-I don't know. Whenever I see the color red I feel a pang in my heart. Like I should feel hurt about something, but I don't know what." Kathy said.
"Yet you still wear the color." JR points out.
Kathy looked down twirling a bit of her hair "I think it's because...I'm honoring someone. I just don't know who or why." Kathy admits and sighed.
JR sighed to, and thought about her own strange memories which she recalled a particular one involving a battle with...two red rangers "...Kathy. Umm...if you were part of the Universe ranger team in the past...then you wouldn't have had another morpher at the time right?" She asked in a whisper.
Kathy nods "I wouldn't have had any others. I was the yellow ranger at the time." She whispered back.
"Then...something strange is going to happen. Because there was something strange that happened one day three years ago. Another ranger joined a battle." JR whispered.
"Who?" Kathy whispered back wondering what she had remembered.
"...Xross Force Red. You. From now." JR whispered as she was sure that it was Kathy who had helped back then.
Kathy's eyes widen "What?" She asked as she tried to recall, but nothing was coming to her.
"I don't know how or why, but I do know that your suppose to appear sometime in the past." JR stated.
This only served to confuse Kathy as she bit her lip and hummed in thought "Well then...I guess we'll just have to wait and see." She muttered.
=XROSSFORCE=
At the HQ of evil Gratos, Vanity, and the rest stare at the Rouge Cache "So...I kept my word, and I know who my target is. This is where I take my leave." Vanity said to them, but was stopped by Gratos.
"Stop. I believe we can aid one another more than you think Vanity." Gratos said.
Vanity looked to him "You have nothing I seek Gratos. I don't see how we can aid one another." Vanity says plainly
One of the others chuckle "Oh, but we can. You see we know how to break the seal of the lost Vanity. We even know where it is in this world." The cloaked figure said.
Vanity stiffened hearing this "You...you better not be lying just to get to me." She threatened her voice deadly.
"It's the last thing any of us would do Vanity. We know where the seal is, and we know how to break it." The same cloaked figure says.
As they talked Gratos had his own plans he was thinking of "Even with us having the Rouge Cache I think we need to settle this quicker before the rangers gain more strength." Gratos thought.
"It shouldn't be much longer before I can pinpoint the exact time and place of the Emblem's creator." He then added on in his thoughts.
At the same time though Gratos was working on having his memories observed for abnormalities. Since arriving on Earth and setting up base it had felt odd like their was some memories trying to surface, but then would surpress themself.
These memories primairly involved his time disquised as a member of the Link Joker Armada. The disquise had lasted a while, and he along with the rest had fought against the Universe rangers.
Yet it seemed like there was more trying to surface, and if something or someone was messing with or hiding memories of his from him...he was going to find out just exactly what was being hidden.
After talking Gratos went to the Rogue Cache and opened it revealing a set of cards similiar to the Xross Flags, and a black and silver gun like device that had a slot for cards to be slotted into.
"Now...we start looking for our first candidate for a warrior of our own." One of the cloaked figures spoke.
Okay this is where Episode 11 is going to have to be brought to an end. We got our aftermath of the previous chapter so for now JR and Kathy are going to be taking a break with Neil and a currently unknown character taking up their colors. Said duo will have some time to cool down, maybe get to know one another better, but they will be brought back in action. As for Gratos, Vanity, and the generals they've begun their own plans as Gratos seems to be thinking of something. So then until the next time this has been your friendly Fanfiction and Fictionpress author decode9!