Declaimer: Harry Potter is owned by J.K Rowling and Power Rangers are owned by Saban/Disney
Chapter 9: Dark Secrets
It was bright morning at the Ranger's home, Dobby was preparing breakfast as Luna walked into the kitchen. "Morning Dobby," she greeted.
"Morning Luna," Dobby greeted back, "Did you sleep well?"
"I did," Luna replied, "And how are you Dobby?"
"Dobby is fine," Dobby replied.
Soon Max walked into the kitchen, letting out a big yawn. "Morning Max, did you sleep well?" Luna asked.
"Barely," Max replied, "Dobby, can you get me some coffee?"
"Right away," Dobby said.
Max let another yawn. "Are you alright?" Luna asked.
"I'm fine," Max replied as Dobby placed a cup of coffee in front of him. "But I got some good news to tell once everyone gets up."
One by one, the rest of wizards in the house woke up and walked into kitchen.
"Morning everyone," Nicholas greeted, "Hope everyone had a good night."
"I sure did," Max said, "Sorry, I'm just excited that I finished my latest project."
"A project?" Harry asked.
"Yes," Max said as he left for a moment to get his laptop. Once he returned, he had it open to show an rotating image of an almost similar to the Gold Ranger only silver to replace the gold, but the arm guards, and visor were more of a metallic blue. "This is the second Go-Buster Ranger, Silver Buster."
"Why not making another Wizard Ranger," Neville asked.
"Well, I wanted to show that wizards can work with no-majs," Max replied, "Main towards those pure-bloods in England."
"Alright, but second question," Ron said, "Go-Buster?"
Max let out a chuckle before say, "Let's just say I had another Ranger team idea before Mystic Mother called for my help."
Suddenly they heard tapping on the patio door. They looked to see Steel Beak with four letters tied to it. "I see Steel Beak is back from England," Nicholas said.
Nicholas opened the door and Steel Beak flew unto the table. Nicholas untied the letters from Steel Beak. "Alright, Harry, Luna, Neville," Nicholas handed the letters to the teen wizards.
"Say, aren't we missing a letter?" Ron questioned.
"I told my parents to email me," Hermione replied, "I figure it would better for them to do that since they are muggles."
"Ron this is yours," Nicholas said handing him a red envelope.
"Oh Merlin's beard," Ron said as he realized that he was sent a howler.
"Ronald Bilius Weasley! How dare you disappear and worry us all!" The heard Molly Weasley shouting, "You disappear and contact us after weeks. We thought you were dead or worse, kidnapped by Death Eaters! I contacted Dumbledore and we will place a tracer charm on this howler so we can find you and press charges against those kidnappers!" The howler burst into flames leaving the teens worried.
"Great, now they are going to find us," Neville said.
"Don't worry, Steel Beak would of negated and charms casted on him or the letters," Max assured.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked.
"Well Steel Beak may be a machine, but it is as sentient as a familiar," Nicolas explained.
"It was thanks to the combination of my programing and his magic," Max added as he pulled a USP cord from a drawer and removed a small panel on Steel Beak, "Now let's see what happened." Max plugged one end into Steel Beak and the other into his laptop.
With a few brushstrokes of the keyboard and the screen showed a recording in Steel Beak's point of view flying towards the Burrow where it landed on the window still of the kitchen, where it saw Mrs. Weasley and Dumbledore. "That's the strange bird!" Molly said as she was the first to see Steel Beak.
Dumbledore looked at the mechanical bird and said, "What a peculiar bird," he said as he tried to reach for Steel Beak, but the screen turn red and Dumbledore pulled his hand away.
"What did it just fire at you?!" Molly shouted.
"Must be a new form of self-defense," Dumbledore said. Steel Beak turned to Molly. "Molly, I think it's waiting for that letter. Just give it the howler and we'll track it."
Molly tied the howler to Steel Beak's leg and said, "I hope Ron is with Harry and the others."
Once the howler was tied to Steel Beak, the mechanical bird flew out of the window. It flew until it was out of sight of the house and looked at the howler, where it received a waning of a tracking charm on the howler. The screen glowed green and the warning was taken away.
"As you can see," Max said unplugging the cord from Steel Beak, "Steel Beak is armed to defend itself and to get rid of any charms that aren't a privacy charm." Max stood up and said, "Well now that's done with, let's go downstairs for training. There is an obstacle course ready for you guys."
"I thought you were tired," Harry said.
"Not tired enough to bark orders," Max replied earning a few chuckles.
On the Virus Corp's ship, Sterben, Escape, and Dr. Zima were gathered in the command room. "Where is that son of yours, Zima?" Sterben asked.
"As a general Sterben, you need patience," Dr. Zima told the general, "My son will be here."
As if on que, Hacker walked in holding a yellow desk lamp and pushing a red lawn mower. "Sorry for being late," he said grinning under his scarf, "I've developed special personalities for these two Virus Cards." Hacker placed the lamp next to the mower and placed the Virus Cards on theme. "Virus Card, install!"
The two objects started to reform themselves into robots. One was repeating the word 'Lamproid' and the other was repeating 'Mowerroid.'
Soon there were two robots looked almost identical, dressed in what looked like metallic ninja garb. The first difference is the color of their garb, as Lamproid was yellow and Mowerroid was red. The next difference was that Lamproid had the lamp heads on it shoulders and tied to its waist was a sickle that had a long chain with another lamp head at the end. Mowerroid had the lawn mower handle bar on the back of its head and on its back was the lawn mower's blades, slowly rotating.
The two Metaroid clapped their hands and said, "Lamproid!"
"Mowerroid!"
Then the two got into an overly dramatic pose, "Metaroid Ninja Brothers, ready for battle!"
The rest of Virus Corp's members were looking at them with confusing look before Hacker stated, "I don't remember programing that."
"They will do," Mother Virus said, getting everyone's attention. "Today is the day we show the might to the Wizarding World."
"Finally! We can lay the wizards to waste!" Sterben said.
"We are attack one location today," Mother Virus informed, "It has a few protective charms casted by the wizards inside. The ship's main laser on a low setting will be able to shatter it. When the magical barrier is down, Sterben you'll need to toss this as close to the building."
At this time, what looked like a small missile with a pointed time at the end. "I won't fail you," Sterben said.
"That device will create a barrier that will prevent the wizards from apparating from the location," Mother Virus informed, "Once there, you will capture three targets. Hacker and Zima know who are the targets, I'll upload the images of them to the rest of you. As for the rest of the wizards, do as you please."
Sterben let out a dark chuckle, "Finally! We'll show them our might!"
"Well Sterben, you can kill some of them if you want," Dr. Zima said as a panel rose up and on the panel was six gun. "Or we could install fear into them after they see that their magic is useless and take their magic away." Zima took one of the guns and started to explain, "These guns have darts that are filled special nanomachines I created. Once injected, they can never use magic again. Each gun has 12 shots, so 60 wizards can lose their magic, but we can't shoot our three targets."
"For them, Lamproid and Mowerroid will have handcuffs that can suppress their magic and remember to take their wands," Hacker informed them as he and the four robots grabbed them guns, "Well let's go out and enjoy this company outing."
The villains teleported out of there.
At the Malfoy Manor, Rodolphus Lestrange was walking near a window and noticed six figures outside the front gate of the manor. Rodolphus turned a fellow Death Eater and said, "Go tell our Lord."
Outside the gate, the six members of Virus Corp were standing with Escape holding her tablet. "Shield is down and firing in 3…2…1…"A large blue beam fired from the sky and hit the magical dome. The villains watched as the dome started to crack and soon shatter. "Sterben now!" Escape shouted.
Sterben tossed the device he was given with all his might. It landed near the manor and it came to life, creating another dome around the manor.
Haacker pulled out his sword and a rifle with a bayonet, Escape wielded two sawed off rifles, Sterben got his large sword, Lampriod has its chain and sickle ready, when Mowerroid pulled the blade off of its back, with another one replaced it, finally Dr. Zima was tapping his cane.
"So, shall we begin our company outing?" Hacker jokingly said.
The six villains charged at the manor, low level Death Eaters fired spells at them and they were doing nothing to them. "Pathetic!" Sterben shouted as he rammed himself through the front door.
As spells were fired, Hacker and Escape came to Sterben's side and started to fire their guns, killing a few Death Eaters.
Mowerroid tossed a few blades at the Death Eaters. Some Death Eaters cast a shield charm, protecting themselves while others were killed. "I see, they protect you from the front," Mowerroid said as it tossed another blade that went behind the Death Eaters, who respond by caster the shield charm behind them. Mowerroid pulled out the gun Zima gave it and shot them in the back, taking their magic away.
Lamproid was hanging from the ceiling, where Death Eaters tried to force down. "So sad," Lamproid said as spells bounce off of it. It threw the lamp head end of the chain, hitting a few Death Eaters. He noticed some hiding behind a pillar. "Really?" it said as it landed on the floor. It tossed the sickle end of the chain and it wrapped around the pillar. With a strong pull, the pillar was taken down and the ceiling fell on the Death Eaters.
Dr. Zima was walking through the halls of the manor shooting Death Eaters with his gun. He walked into the parlor to see Peter Pettigrew hiding behind a table. "Why?" he begged, "Why are you attacking?"
"We are showing our might," Zima told Pettigrew.
Peter groveled at Zima's feet begging, "Please spare me and…" he couldn't finish as his silver hand started to choke him.
Zima saw this and pressed a button on his cane. He used the handle on the cane on Pettigrew's arm and pull. As the cane was touching Pettigrew, it was zapping him and it caused his silver hand to loosen up. He heard someone walk by and turned to see Lamproid. "Lamproid, cut this man's hand off!" he ordered.
"Yes sir," Lamproid said as it walked in with its sickle ready. He bent down and was about to cut the flesh hand.
"The silver hand!" Zima pointed out.
"That's no fun," Lamproid said as it cut the silver hand off.
Pettigrew was breathing heavily before he bowed to Zima. "Thank you, my lord, I will…" When he looked at Zima he saw a gun pointed at him.
Zima fired the gun and took Pettigrew's magic away. "Why did you save him, when you were just going to take his magic?" Lamproid asked.
"Death is too good for cowards," Zima replied, "A coward should live for the rest of his life in fear."
Escape kicked a Death Eater into a wall. When she turned, she saw the Lestrange brothers and Bellatrix. "First target found!" she said.
"You filthy mudbloods!" Bellatrix shouted, "You will pay for invading our lord's home!"
They fires spells at Escape and she was dodging the spells with ease. "Avada Kedavera!" Bellatrix shouted as the curse hit Escape. A twisted smile was on her face as she expects Escape to die.
"Avada Kedavera, the killing curse. Only effective against organic opponents," Escape explained as she got her rifles ready. She fired in the Lestrange brothers, hitting them in the shoulders and legs, then she pulled out Zima's gun and took their magic away. Bellatrix kept firing spells, until Escape pressed her rifle into Bellatrix's should and pulled the trigger.
Bellatrix was on the floor, in pain and cursing all sorts of vulgar language at Escape. Escape punched Bellatrix in the face, knocking her out. "Mowerroid, I got the first target. Make sure she is handcuffed and ready."
Death Eaters ran into the dining room, where Voldemort was. "My lord, you must flee. The invaders are strong!" A low-ranking Death Eater shouted.
"Never!" Voldemort shouted, "We will kill these invaders!" Unknown to them, Voldemort spoke in parseltongue to Nagini. He left a small statue in front of his snake, who took the statue.
The door burst open and Sterben walked in, where spells started to fly at him and bounce off him. As Sterben walked through the dining room, he was knocking the Death Eaters through the walls with his sword.
"Do you know who I am!?" Voldemort shouted as he fired a spell at Sterben, who as knocked back a bit.
"I do," Sterben said as he got closer to Voldemort. "You are just a man. A man who claimed to conquer death but is still afraid of death. I don't see a don't a Dark Lord, I see a child who is throwing a tantrum." Voldemort let out a growl before casting the next spell.
"Avada Kedavera!" the spell bounced off the robot.
"And I can see that you don't understand that robots aren't technically living," Sterben said as he grabbed Voldemort's robes, "We machines will stomp out magic." Sterben headbutted Voldemort as hard as he could, knocking him out. "Lamproid, I've got the second target, handcuff and make sure he is ready."
Narcissa was in her husband's study with a house elf. "Go find my husband and tell him what has happened," she told the house elf.
The door to the study was kicked opened and Hacker walked in to see Narcissa with her wand out aimed at him. He also noticed the house elf, teleporting away. "Using a house elf to warn someone," Hacker said, "Smart, since their magic is different from human magic." Narcissa was ready to cast a spell, but Hacker grabbed her wand and pull it out of her hand. "You should not do that. After all, you are going to be spared from all this."
"What?" she said surprised to hear that.
"You're not a Death Eater, so there is no reason to harm you or take your magic away," Hacker told her, "You're just going to have an empty manor." When Hacker turned his back to her he got in contacted the others, "Our third target isn't here. Don't worry, he'll be where we're taking these fools." Hacker paused for a moment, "Okay, let's make a show of this."
As Hacker was starting to leave. "Who…?" Narcissa started, "Just who are you?"
Hacker turned to Narcissa and smiled under his scarf. "Who am I? I'll tell you." Hacker walked over to Narcissa, remove his scarf. He leans close to her and whispers something in her ear. Narcissa's eyes widen in horror. Hacker kept smiling as he left the study.
With the Rangers, the five wizards were running through a small course Max set up. "Come on guys, just a bit more," Max said.
Nicholas was watching the teen wizards, "They are truly improving," he said. There was a sudden pop next to him and he turned to see Dobby, who looked scared. "What happened?" he asked.
"The Ministry, Hacker and Virus Corp are there and… and…!" Dobby tried to explain.
"Enough said," Nicholas said, "Maxwell! There's trouble!"
Max turned and said, "Got it!" then he turned to the Rangers, "Guys we'll going to stop this for now!" Max ran into the Control Room with Nicholas. Max was on the computer pulling something on the screen.
"What's going on?" Neville asked as the Rangers entered the Control Room.
"See for yourself," Max said as he moved to show the Ministry's Atrium where they saw the six members stood at the base of one of the statue. Around the statue are people tied up and bodies were scattered around. There were even bodies on the floor.
"What are they doing?" Ron asked.
"We don't know, but we need to see what is going on," Nicholas said.
"We ready to go," Harry said.
"No Harry, we don't need start a fight," Nicholas said, "We should observe and act when we need to."
"How?" Hermione asked.
"I'll go with Max and just observe for the time being. Once things start to accelerate, Hermione teleport everyone to the Ministry," Nicholas explained.
"But won't you reveal your secret identity by doing that?" Harry asked.
Max smiled and replied, "Did you bring you invisibility cloak?"
Nicholas appeared in the ministry's floo, without other people knowing, Max was next to him already morphed. "I hope this works," Max whispered.
"Just be quiet and stay near me," Nicholas told Max as they started to walk towards the crowd, but soon heard something they were hoping to avoid.
"Nicholas! Nicholas!" Soon Dumbledore caught up to Nicholas, "Nicholas, I'm surprised to see that you're here."
"Well I heard what was going on and thought I would check it out on the Rangers' behalf," Nicholas explained.
"Ah, speaking of your Rangers I was thinking…" Dumbledore started but Nicholas interrupted him.
"No Albus!"
"But think about what we can…"
"Albus, I know you better than anyone else," Nicholas interrupted again, "Just because Merlin's magic won't let anywhere near his journal, doesn't mean you can try to control anything that has great power." Dumbledore stopped where he was walking and Nicholas turned to him and added, "Just remember, that was the reason why your and Gellert relationship ended."
Elsewhere in the Atrium, Lucius Malfoy took his son out of Hogwarts, thanks to his position on the Board of Governors and that Dumbledore was on thin ice after that attack at Hogsmeade. "Father, why did you pull me out of…"
Lucius quickly turned to his son and said in a harsh whisper, "Draco, now's not the time. Only thing you need to know is the manor was attacked." Draco's eyes were wide when he heard that his home was attacked.
Soon they saw the crowd gathering around a statue and walked towards the group.
The villains saw the people gathering and heard whispering on what they were seeing. "Shall we start?" Escape asked.
"Let's wait until the Minister of Magic to get here," Hacker said. Soon they heard shouting about arresting someone, making someone pay. Hacker turned to see Fudge with Bones and Kingsley by his side. "He's here, so you're up Sterben."
Sterben walked forward so the on lookers could see him better. "Greeting Wizarding World," he started, "I am Sterben, the General of Virus Corp. We have come to prove how insignificant your power truly is to us." Sterben held his arm forward at the bodies around the statue, "Behold the Death Eaters you once feared!"
"When the Death Eaters fight something that isn't magic, they are doomed to fail," Escape added, "I am Escape, I serve to collect data for Virus Corp."
"Thanks to my inventions we were able to take away their magic," Zima explained, "I am Dr. Alaric Zima once one the world's leading scientist in robotics and A.I. development, now I serve as scientist to Virus Corp."
Hacker jumped off of the statue's base and walked across the bodies, "Of course you should remember me as Hacker, the scout of Virus Corp that showed up the Aurors. My real name is Owen Zima, Dr. Zima's son." Hacker got close to the crowd before saying, "But that is my adopted name, my real name is Lucius…" Hacker turned to Lucius Malfoy and his son, "…Abraxas…" Hacker removed his scarf, "…Malfoy…" He raised his goggles above his eyes, "…Junior." They finally got a good look at Hacker's face, he had all the Malfoy features, you can even say he looks like a younger Lucius Malfoy. Hacker glared at Lucius, "Hello dad." He spat out with venom.
"You lie!" Draco shouted pointed his wand at Hacker, "I don't have a brother! The is no record of you!"
Hacker smiled and said, "Of course with Gringrott, they record all births of those with magical ancestry, where do you think muggle-borns come from? But of course Lucius's pure-blood brain was afraid of what other pure-bloods would think of him when everyone knew that his first born son is a squib. So, 15 years ago he cast me out of the family, but look at me. I'm 22 years old and more of a threat than the bald tantrum child you called your lord."
"Hacker is younger then me?" Max whispered.
Nicholas kicked the invisible Ranger in the shins, saying, "Be quiet."
Draco can see the fury building in his father as the lunatic man claiming to be his brother was talking and hearing whispers from people around him. Lucius pulled his wand from his cane and shouted, "I should've taken care of you when you were a helpless child!"
The next thing Lucius knew was that he was on his back and his wand was in Hacker's hand, "As you can see dad, I'm not a helpless child you can abuse anymore." He noticed Draco getting ready to cast a spell and he responded with a kick to the stomach. He turned to his birth father and said, "Dad, you have been selected to be part of an experiment," Hacker pulled out a box and opened it, where syringe was inside and he pulled out a Virus Card. "Be proud that you'll help advance our machines." Hacker tossed the card and syringe in the air, "Virus Card, install!"
Max emerged from underneath the invisibility cloak, where Nicholas quickly recovered, with his sword ready, while the syringe was becoming a Metaroid, repeating the word 'Extractroid.' Before Max can swing his sword, Lamproid tossed its chain around the sword. "Sorry Gold Buster, can't you ruin the fun."
Max tried to get his sword untangled from the chains. At this time, Hermione saw that Max is out and that they should teleport there in their Ranger form. Once the other Rangers arrived Sterben, Lamproid, and Mowerroid jumped from the statue's base to fight the Rangers.
The wizards started to flee from the Atrium and Bones started to order the Aurors to help with the evacuation, but Fudge was barking orders to arrest the Power Rangers and Virus Corp until he was red in the face, until Nicholas cast a silencing charm on him.
Mowerroid grabbed a blade from its back and tossed it. Hermione and Luna created a shield to hold off the attack. Mowerroid chuckled as it grabbed two more blades and tossed them. They went behind the two wizards and hit them in the back. Mowerroid pulled out Zima's gun. "I wonder if this will work on you wizards."
Luna saw the gun and pointed her wand at it, "Expelliarmus!" The gun flew out of its hand. "Accio!" The gun flew into Luna's hand.
Max was trying to pull his sword from Lamproid's chain. Neville tried to use his sword to cut the chain, but Lamproid foresaw this and pulled the chain off, throwing the two off.
Neville got back up and got ready, "What is that?" he asked.
"Looks like they made a ninja Metaroid," Max replied.
"A what?" Neville asked again.
Max let out a sigh and hung his head, "I'll explain later."
Lamproid tossed the sickle this time, the two dodged it but Lamproid expected it and jumped towards them. The two were surprised as Lamproid kicked the two.
Harry and Ron swung their sword at Sterben, who easily blocked them with his own. "Foolish Rangers," he started before pushing them back, "You think your power can exceed mine?"
"We can try!" Ron shouted as he and Harry pulled out their wands, "Stupefy!" Yet Sterben still blocked them with his sword.
A new Metaroid was standing behind Hacker, it was a thin humanoid robot covered in white plates. It looked like it wasn't made for combat. But the thing that stands out was that the left arm, below the elbow, was replaced with a glass cylinder and a needle on one end, resembling a large syringe. "Now Extractroid, do your business."
"Yes master," Extractroid replied in a female voice. It stuck the needle into Lucius Malfoy. Lucius's eyes were wide as he didn't feel pain but felt something being pulled from within him. Hacker smiled as something was glowing in Extractroid's syringe. Extractroid pulled the needle out and said, "Magical Core has been extracted."
"Perfect," Hacker replied, "Return to the ship." Extractroid glowed orange and teleported out of there. "We got what we came for! Everyone pull out!" Zima and Escape grabbed Voldemort and Bellatrix, and teleported out of there. Sterben and the two Metaroids got away from the Rangers and teleported out of there. Hacker turned to Lucius with a smug look, "Now you'll understand how it is like to be me," he said, "But I highly doubt you'll survive without your magic."
Hacker started to walk away, until a stunner passed his head. He let out a huff and turned to see Draco with his wand out. "You liar!" he shouted, "I will not let you tarnish the ancient house of Malfoy!"
Hacker sighed before saying, "Draco, I have no reason to lie to you or our mom. "You two never did anything to me, so you don't deserve any of this." Hacker pulled out Zima's gun, "But now you need to learn a lesson."
"No!" Max shouted as he tried to rush over to stop Hacker, but it was too late as he pulled the trigger and shot Draco.
Draco didn't feel much pain, but it felt like he was losing something. The blond wizard fell backwards and lost conciseness. Max quickly rushed to Draco and checked to see if he was alive. "What did you do?" he asked.
Hacker smiled and replied, "I simply took a pure-blood wizard and brought him to our level, Gold Buster." Hacker turned to face the other Rangers, "Be prepared Power Rangers, soon you'll face a new type of machine." Hacker started to laugh before he teleported out of there.
Everything was quiet until Fudge started to shout, "You! All of you are under arrest for all of this! Fabricating this Virus Corp and making a big scene with Death Eater and proclaiming the return of You-know-who! I'll make sure that you'll all face…"
Fudge was interrupted when Bones slapped him in the face. "Are you that blind? What we witnessed was our worse fear being defeated by something greater," she said, "Then again, you are more worried of losing your position that you fabricated lies."
"She right," Kingsley said, "We need to admit that we were wrong and…"
"You two are conspiring against me as well!" Fudge accused, "I'll make sure that…"
Fudge was interpreted again, only with another silencing charm from Nicholas. "Thank you," Bones thanked the elder wizard before turning to two Aurors, "Take the Minister to his champers and let him cool off"
The Aurors nodded their heads as they grabbed Fudge and dragged him away.
"So now that we have one common enemy, I believe that we should…" Dumbledore started.
"No!" Nicholas shouted as he walked up to him, "I know what you want and you'll never get it. For now, you should go back to Hogwarts an enjoy you remaining time as the headmaster." Dumbledore was surprised to hear that as Nicholas walked over to the Ranger.
"Nicholas, we need to take him back to base and examine him," Max said.
The Gryffindors on the team were surprised to hear that, "But why?" Ron started, "He's a bloody…"
"Hacker did something to him and we need to know what!" Max shouted at his own teammate, "We need to help him."
Some of the Rangers didn't like it but had no choice. The Rangers and their mentor teleported out of their leaving the clean up to the Aurors. "Okay, everyone check the bodies and try to identify these Death Eaters," Bones instructed.
Dumbledore was still standing there in disbelief of what his former friend said. 'Why?' he thought to himself, 'Why can't they understand that I can show the proper way of using that power.'
A/N: Sorry the wait, but I hope it was worth it.