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Chapter 8: Copy and Print
At 12 Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black was pacing back and forth in his room. He was worried for his godson and he can't do anything to help, since he was told that the dementors were looking for him and to kiss him on sight. He felt like he was failing James and Lily. It's been weeks since Harry went missing and now there are this Virus Corp who were creating an uproar.
"What has happened to this world?" he asked no one in particular.
Soon he heard something tapping on his window. He looked back to see Steel Beak, "What in the blood hell is that?" he slow approached the window, where he saw letters tied to the metal owl's leg and saw that one of the letters were addressed to him. He removed the letter and was about to read when he suddenly heard a buzzing sound, Sirius turned back to the robotic bird to see a piece of paper in front of it. Steel Beak gave out a chirp before flying out.
Sirius grabbed the sheet of paper and saw that there was writing on it. It read 'I'll be back in two days to pick up a reply.' Sirius then opened a letter and saw that it was from Harry.
Dear Padfoot,
Sorry that we've been worrying you these past weeks. My friends and I are safe but we can't tell where we are and what we are doing. Also, the guy who brought us here also does want to get in contact with you at the right time. Hope to hear a reply.
Harry.
P.S. the guy we are with doesn't want you to let Dumbledore know you receive a latter from me.
Sirus let out a sigh of relief and sat on the bed, "I swear that boy is going to give me grey hair early."
With the Rangers, the guys were sitting in the living room watching a quidditch. "So, can they get any games back in Britain?" Ron asked.
"Well some sport stations are trying to find ways to sneak into some stadiums," Max replied, "But it's still difficult take equipment in a place full of wizards who look down on you for what we use."
They heard footsteps and they turned to see Hermione and Luna. "Where are you going?" Harry asked.
"We are going to the public library," Hermione replied.
"But there is a library upstairs," Ron pointed out.
"Well Hermione thinks it will be better to go out and see more of the American wizarding community," Luna replied this time.
Max stood up and asked, "Need a ride?"
"We're fine," Hermione said as she pulled out her smartphone, "We'll find our way with this."
"Fair enough," Max said.
The two girls left the house and Hermione pulled out her phone, "Okay we just go down the road for five block and make left towards the park and it will be across the park," she instructed.
"Muggle technology is quite fascinating," Luna said, "Muggles can have information in their hand."
"Yeah, still doesn't beat a library," Hermione told her.
The two girls walked down the sidewalk and saw kids, who are on their weekend off, muggle children were riding their bikes with some wizard kids were riding around on their brooms. Once they got to the park the saw a group of high school students carrying a case. Once the case opened, two balls flew out. "Look out!" Someone shouted.
Hermione and Luna looked up to see a Bludger coming at them. They pulled out their wands and created a shield to deflect the Bludger, where one of the teens caught it. A boy ran up to the two, "I am so sorry," he said.
"Why do you have Quidditch equipment out in the open!" Hermione scold, "You could of hurt us!"
"I'm sorry," the boy apologized again, "We wanted to test an idea we have that could allow no-majs to play Quidditch with us."
"Allowing muggles to play Quidditch," Luna repeated, "That's quite a fascinating idea. It can break down some of the social barriers."
"But how could you do it?" Hermione started, "There are rules and regulation to fallow…"
"Well it fine to bend the rules," the boys replied, "Just like the Mystic Force did to save the world."
The boy returned to his friends while Hermione couldn't believe what he said and Luna was remind her of what they were doing, "Come on 'Mione, we're almost at the library."
On Virus Corp's ship, Sterben walk into the command room and noticed a woman standing with Dr. Zima. The woman was of Asian descent, with dark red shoulder length hair. She was wearing a white strapless top with a black sleeveless coat, that reached to her knees, she had black and silver leggings along with black boots with heels. And on top of her head was a pair of sunglasses.
"An unauthorized human!" Sterben shouted as he pulled out his sword and charged at the woman.
Hacker got in the way and blocked Sterben's sword with his own. "Relax Sterben, she is one of us."
"Had to see if this can fool one of our own," the woman said in a familiar voice and with a smile.
"What was that human?!" Sterben shouted again.
"It's Escape," Dr. Zima told the general, "I designed a special hologram to disguise Escape. Not only it will change her looks, but will also make her feel like a human."
"What is the purpose of this?" Sterben asked.
"Simple, Mother assigned us to collect information for Her," Hacker told Sterben, "Unfortunately the only places I know with the information is at is Hogwarts or the town the Power Rangers are at. So we'll raise less suspicion in a public library."
At the library, Hermione and Luna were wondering through the aisles of shelves looking for books. Luna walked out of the aisle and walked to the service desk, "Excuse me," she started getting the librarian's attention, "Do you have any books on local creatures?"
"Hold on for a minute," the librarian said as she turned to the computer and looked up the information, "Alright we still have a book and it is here." The librarian wrote the decibel on a piece of paper and gave it to Luna.
Soon the disguised Escape walked up to the desk and asked, "Excused me, do you have a section on the magical world?"
"Yes, we just got the section a few months ago," the librarian said before pointing to a corner of the library, "right now it is in the corner next to the copy machine."
"Here, I'm heading over their right now, I can show you," Luna said, "I'm Luna."
"I'm…Eri," escape lied as she started to fallow Luna.
"So, are you a muggle?" Luna asked.
"Muggle? Oh, non-magical person," Escape said, "Yes, my friend and I do have an interest in magic."
The two made into the magical section and Luna added, "If you want, my friend and I can help you if you want."
"That's alright," Escape replied.
Luna looked on the shelf and pulled out a book, "Good luck," she said before leaving.
"I see someone made a friend," Hacker said as he walked in, he lowered his scarf and placed his goggles on his forehead, but he was using a book to keep his face hidden.
"Shut up," Escape said, "Let's just complete our mission."
"There should be books on spells somewhere in here," Hacker said as he looked through the shelves.
Luna returned to where her and Hermione where reading. She was reading about the American history. "Found anything interesting?" Luna asked.
Hermione looked at Luna and replied, "Well just some of the usual history I learned from muggle school, but nothing much here on what happened with the magical community throughout history. Interesting that the Native Americans treated anyone who was born with magic with respect as they help their tribe."
"Well I found the magical section if you want to try find something else," Luna told her friend pointing to the corner of the library, "Maybe you'll find more over there."
"Thanks," Hermione said as she got up and walked over to the section. Once there she saw Hacker, with his back facing her, and Escape. Both of them were holding a device that was scanning the pages of the books. "What are you doing?"
She heard Hacker let out a frustrated sigh before telling Escape, "Keep scanning, I'll handle this." Hacker adjusted his scarf to conceal his face again and turned to Hermione and said, "Really? Do we need to this today?"
Hermione saw that Hacker didn't have his goggles on so she saw his grey eye, that look very familiar to her. "What are you doing?!" she demanded as she pulled out her wand.
"Collecting information," Hacker replied, "We are not planning anything evil…today."
"I will not let you use this information to harm others!" Hermione shouted pointing the wand at him.
Hacker let out another sigh and continued, "Listen, war now is fought with information and this information is open to the public, so we can use it."
"I won't let you use this information to destroy the Wizarding World! Hermione shouted again as she got closer.
Hacker reach into his pocket and pulled out a Virus Card and a Bug Card. "Listen I didn't want to fight today, but you just force my hand," Hacker tossed the Virus Card at the copy machine, "Virus Card, install!"
The copy machine started to reform itself into a Metaroid repeating the word "Copyroid," it had a whitish grey body, that had what looked like the cabinet doors on its abdomen, the copy machine's controls were on its chest, and the on the right shoulder was the output tray. Another feature was the visor where its eyes should be and a green light going back and forth as if it was scanning for something.
Hacker then threw the Bug Card, creating a dozen Bugs. People who were watching the commotion were brought to fear at the sight of the robots and started to run. "Copyroid, take care of the pest," Hacker commanded before going back to what he was doing.
Hermoine pressed the button on the Wizard Brace, "Wizard Magic enhance!" a blue circle formed at her feet and transformed her into a Ranger.
Luna noticed people running and looked down the library to see Bugs and a Metaroid fighting Hermoine. Luna pulled out her phone and called Max's number. "Hello?" Max answer on the other end.
"Max, there is a Metaroid here at the library," Luna said.
"Damn, and when Steel Beak is not around," Max said, "We'll be there soon."
"Okay," Luna said as she hung up and pressed the button on her Wizard Brace, "Wizard Magic enhance!"
Once Luna transformed she joined in the fight by pulling out a sword and hitting a few Bugs. "Ah, a second Ranger," Copyroid said, "Let's make this interesting." Copyroid lifted its left hand, here it had a light. "Copy!" The light went over Luna's sword, "Print!" from the output tray came a sword that was looked like Luna's but was flat as cardboard and landed in his hand.
Copyroid ran at her and hit her with the copied sword. "Luna!" Hermione shouted and aimed her wand at Copyroid's sword, "Expelliarmus!" the flat sword flew out of its hand.
"I got plenty of those," Copyroid said before adding, "Print!" and another sword was added to its hand.
Bugs fired lasers at the two witches, who used shield charms to protect themselves. "Keep firing Bugs, we should break through," Copyroid said.
Suddenly bolts of magic and a golden beam flew towards the robots and destroyed a few Bugs.
Copyroid turned to see the other male Rangers, "Ah the others finally arrived," it said before noticing the gun in Max's hand, "Ooo, a gun! I can use that!"
"Be careful, he can copy weapons!" Hermione warned.
"Not just weapons," Copyroid said and held its left hand over a Bug, "Copy!" the light went over the Bug, "Print!" surprisingly another Bug, which was as flat as the copied sword, flew out of the outlet tray and landed in front of the Rangers. "Print! Print! Print!" more copied Bug flew out and were ready to fight.
"That's insane!" Ron shouted.
"No matter, they are just Bugs," Harry said with his sword ready, leading the Rangers into battle.
Bugs, both real and copied, started to attack the Rangers.
Ron and Harry had their swords out defending themselves from the Bugs. Ron was holding off one of the copied Bug's claws. "Bloody hell, even flat they are still strong!" Ron pointed out.
"Of course, they are like the real thing," Copyroid pointed out.
Max kicked one of the copy and was surprised to see his foot go right through it. "The copies are as flimsy as cardboard," he said.
"Cardboard?" Neville said before pulling out his wand, "Incendio!" Soon the copied Bugs started to burn like paper.
"Aguamenti!" Luna shouted as water fired from here wand putting the fire out on the copied Bugs and the Bugs broke apart. "We need to take these Bugs outside!"
"We should use flipendo on them," Harry suggested.
The Rangers got their wands ready, "Flipendo!" the wizards fired the jinx at the Bugs and the combined powered forced all the Bugs through the front doors, breaking the glass.
As the Rangers were about to follow the Bugs, Max felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see Hacker, Max was getting to fight but Hacker raised his hands to show that he doesn't want to fight. "Listen, I want to let you my side of the story."
Outside the library, the Rangers were ready to continue their fight with the Bugs. "You Rangers think that you are all that!" Copyroid said as it joined with the Bugs, before it pointed at Hermione, "The Blue Ranger here is the worst."
"What!?" Hermione shouted.
"I'm a copy machine, I've seen your kind all the time," Copyroid said, "You think you know everything but when push comes to shove, you can't handle anything!" It was hard to see it under her helmet, but Hermione was getting upset. "My master heard that you were the most brilliant witch of the century, but I see a self-center brat!"
"Shut up!" Hermione shouted again as a nearby manhole and fire hydrant started to shake, "Who don't know anything! Anything!" With the last word water fired from the manhole and the fire hydrant burst open. Water hit the Metaroid and the Bugs, where the copied Bugs got soggy and started to break apart.
"Well there's more where those come from," Copyroid said as it was ready to make more copies of the Bugs.
Soon golden beam hit the remaining Bugs and destroyed them. "Sorry, I can't let you," Max said rejoining with the Rangers, "Come let's destroy this Metaroid."
"Right!" The other Rangers agreed as they got their wands ready.
Max pressed 7-3-6 on the number pad of his gun. "It's time for special Busting!" a voice called out as a gold ring formed in front of Max's gun.
The other Rangers got their wands ready and drew a magical seal, "Wizard Shot!" They stabbed the seal and five balls of magic flew towards Copyroid along with large beam from Max's gun. The moment the shots hit the Metaroid, Copyroid exploded, leaving pieces of itself.
The Rangers were starting to relax when Hermione remembered something, "Hacker! He is still in the library!" she said.
"He got away," Max told her, "I found him and confronted him."
Back on Virus Corp's ship, Dr. Zima and Sterben saw what happened on the screen. "Release the repair drones!" Dr. Zima said. The drones were launched and arrived where the Metaroid was destroyed. There they quickly repaired Copyroid. "Begin the download!" The repair drones insert themselves into Copyroid, and the energy was used to make Copyroid into a giant.
"Launching Wizard Zords," Nicholas said.
"Buster Zord launch!"
The Zord arrived for battle and the Ranger teleported to their cockpit. The Wizard Zord came together to form the Megazord while the Buster Zord transformed into its battle mode.
"Perfect!" Copyroid said before it ran towards the Zords. "Copy!" the light hit the Megazord, "Print!" then a flatten copy of the Megazord was standing in front of them. "Copy!" the light hit the Buster Zord this time, "Print!" This time a flatten copy of the Buster Zord was in front of them. "Conquer yourself Rangers!" it shouted.
The copied Zords charged at the real ones. The Megazords were clashing their weapons with one another.
"Nothing's working," Neville said, "It's like it knows what we're about to do."
Suddenly they felt hits from behind the Megazord, they turned to see Copyroid attacking. While they were distracted, the copied Megazord attacked them in back.
Copyroid got behind the Buster Zord and attacked, forcing the Zord towards the copied Zord where it punched it.
"So that's how you are going to play it," Max said before the Buster Zord pulled out its swords and blocked the next attack following up with counter. The copied Buster Zord reached for where the swords would be at, but when it pulled for the swords, it couldn't pull them out.
Max noticed it and said, "Guys these are complete copies and can't change from what they were copied from."
"Okay," Harry said as the Mermaid Zord and Griffon Zord detached from the Megazord.
"We'll take care of the Metaroid!" Luna said as the two Zords flew towards Copyroid.
The Mermaid Zord span towards Copyroid and the Griffon Zord fire feathers at the Metaroid. "Pesky Zords!" Copyroid shouted as it tried to swat the Zords down.
The Wizard Megazord pulled out its spear and the copied Megazord swung its arm at it. The Megazord stabbed its spear through the thin arm, with a hard pull the arm tore off like the paper it is made of. The copied swung its other arm, the Megazord deflected it and swung its spear, scratching the copy up. Finally, the flames from the Megazord's wings flew towards the copy, setting it on fire.
The Buster Zord swung its swords at its copy, cutting its arms off. The Zord started to stab the copy a few times until it sliced the copy to pieces.
Copyroid saw that the copies were destroyed. "No problem, I can make more! Print!" Soon the screen on its chest started to glow red and nothing came. "What's going on?!" it looked at its screen, "I'm out of toner!" then it realized something, "I use toner!?"
The Megazord created a seal that paralyzed the Metaroid.
The Buster Zord placed it swords to its side and made them into cannons where the ends started to glow. "Buster Finisher!" the cannons fired beams at Copyroid.
"Wizard Spear Finisher!" The Wizard Megazord tossed its spear at the Metaroid, where it pierced right through it.
The Metaroid exploded and from the fire a blue light flew towards the sky, where they heard Copyroid's voice, "Why?! Why don't people remember to change the toner!?" The blue light burst into sparks.
In the Virus Corp's command room, Hacker and Escape returned. "Welcome back Hacker and Escape. You mission was successful?" Mother Virus greeted.
"Of course, Mother," Hacker said pulling out a device, "We got the information for you."
"Yet that Metaroid you created failed," Sterben pointed out.
Hacker was about to say something but Escape stepped in, "That Metaroid was meant to serve as a distraction until we collected all the information for Mother."
Sterben was about to say something when Dr. Zima intervened, "Let's not argue. With the information they collected we can move to the next step of our plan."
"Correct," Mother Virus said, "Hacker please upload the data to my mainframe."
"Yes Mother," Hacker said as left the room.
"Soon the Wizarding World will see how truly their magic is useless," Mother Virus said as the eye started to glow.
Back at the Ranger's home, Hermione was called into the Control Room where Max and Nicolas was waiting for her. "Am I in trouble?" she asked.
"Hermione, we heard what happened at the library," Max started, "Hacker told me that he was going to be peaceful today. You provoked him to create a Metaroid."
"But he was steal information and use it against…" Hermione was interrupted.
"That information is free to the public," Nicolas said, "War is fought with information. All the previous Dark Lords got their information from the same place."
"So, I should have just let him go?" Hermione asked.
"Yes," Nicolas replied, "Hermione, I've been on this Earth for a long time and I saw situations that could have been avoided by doing nothing." He noticed that Hermione started to look hurt and ashamed. "Hermione, you are truly the most brilliant witch of the century, but you still have a lot to learn."
"I understand," Hermione said.
"Well go upstairs and relax for the night," Max told her. Hermione nodded before leaving the room. Once alone Max said, "Now we need to figure out what virus Corp is planning to do with that information."
Hermione walked into the gym, where she saw her friends waiting for her. "How did it go, 'Mione?" Ron asked.
"It's fine," Hermione replied, "I'll be upstairs if you need me."
Hermione went upstairs to her and Luna's room. She pulled out her laptop, where she saw a message for her. She opened it and read it.
Dear Hermione,
We received your letter and were surprised to know that you and your friends disappeared and we weren't told about this. Though we are happy to hear that you are safe and with a well-known scholar. We hope to meet them one day.
From Mum and Dad
P.S. We promise not to let anyone know that you contact us.
Hermione smiled as she read the e-mail and can't wait to see her parents once this is over.
A/N: Sorry for the wait, but here is the latest chapter.