Declaimer: Harry Potter is owned by J.K Rowling and Power Rangers are owned by Saban/Disney
Chapter 12: Truth will Out
Ron was laying on a bench outside of the backyard. Hedwig was watching over him, knowing that he was taking his time to skip the reading Nicolas had assign him and the rest of the team. Suddenly something land on him, freaking him out. "Bloody hell!" soon what landed on him, dropped to the ground. Ron looked down to see a familiar screech owl, laying on the ground. "Hermes?"
Soon the team rushed out, ready to fight whatever was attacking, and saw the owl laying on the ground. "Ron isn't that you're brother's owl?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, why is he here?" Ron said as he lifted the owl and laid him on the table, then he saw the letter tied to Hermes's leg addressed to him. "What's this?" Ron removed the letter and read it. As he did, the others saw that he was getting angry. "That prat! He really thinks we would forgive him after what he had done!"
"What's wrong?" Hermione asked.
"Percy!" Ron replied, "Lately Fudge is getting removed from office do to his actions with Virus Corps. Now Aurors are going through everyone offices and questioning everyone. And Percy doesn't know what to do now. He's even asking me to help him talk to mum and dad again!"
"Ron, you should back write to your brother," Luna suggested.
"Like hell," Ron responded, "The prat slammed the door on my mum when she visited him."
A parchment and pen were placed on the table and Max said, "Ron you should write to your brother. Take it from me, siblings will piss you off, but you are still family and should look out for each other."
"You have siblings?" Neville asked.
"Yeah," Max replied, "I have an older sister, an older brother, a younger sister and three younger brothers."
Ron was thinking and said, "There is seven of you like with me and my siblings."
Hermione raised an eyebrow, "Max, you don't talk about your family."
"It's nothing special. I'm the third eldest of a pureblood family," Max told them, "Since your brother's owl looks like it is about to die, we need to use…" And Hedwig flew onto the table eagerness. "She wants to leave."
"I don't want her to fly over the ocean!" Harry said.
"We can teleport her to England and she can deliver the letter," Max explained, "But we would need retrieve her ourselves."
"Why?" Harry asked.
"Because the teleoperation needs to lock on to your morphers," Nicholas said walking outside, "It is a safety feature."
"So we'll send Hedwig and pick her up another time," Max said.
Max started to walk into the house, where Nicholas whispered to him, "You didn't tell them yet?"
"No," Max replied, "How do you think they will react about my family? Best to wait a bit longer."
At the town's local police station, officers were pushing a lie detector out of an interrogation room. "You think that this will get him locked up?" One officer asked.
"Hopefully," the other officer replied.
Soon they were stopped by a familiar blond man in a police uniform. "Officer Owen Zima, I need that lie detector!"
The officers raised an eyebrow as they looked at the young man. "Sorry but we were told to return it and…"
Hacker pulled out a Virus Card and said, "Who side I was asking for permission?" He placed the card on the lie detector, "Virus Card, install!"
The card was absorbed into the machine and started to reconfigure into a Metariod repeating "Truthroid." Soon it was a grey humanoid robot with the graphs you'll find on the monitor of a lie detector an its left hand was replaced with multiple wires that each had something different at the end that will find on a lie detector.
"Good to have you Truthroid," Hacker said as his usual attire appeared on his body.
"What the hell is that!?" an officer shouted as they pointed their guns at the Metaroid.
"Ignore them," Hacker said as he started to walk down the hall and Truthroid fallowed him. "Okay with you being created, the Power Rangers should be on their way right now. You have your instructions programed in you right?"
"Yes master," Truthroid replied.
"Good," Hacker said as the opened the door to the outside to see the Rangers waiting for him, "Right on time Rangers!"
"Hacker!" Harry shouted, "What are you planning this time!?"
Hacker smiled as he pulled out a device that was no bigger than a Game Boy, it even had a small screen on it and two nozzles on the top. "Just testing my new invention," Hacker pulled out a Data Card and inserted it into the side of the device and it shouted, "Freezer!" He swung the device and a white mist came out of the two nozzles and ice formed on the ground.
"What the? Isn't that like with that one Metaroid we fought?" Ron asked.
"Yes," Hacker answered as he slowly walked towards the heroes, "This device can allow me to use Metaroids' Data Cards. So, let's fight!" Hacker tossed up a Bug Card to summon some bugs to fight as well.
As the Rangers were fighting the Bugs, Truthroid raised its hand and fired a laser at the Rangers, Neville turned at the moment and was hit by it. He braced for the impact, but nothing happened. "You alright?" Ron asked as he flipped a bug.
"Yeah," Neville replied.
The laser suddenly hit Ron and nothing happened as well. Max was holding back Hacker, he smiled under his helmet and said, "Looks like you got a defective Metaroid."
Hacker smiled and replied, "Oh Gold Buster, you don't know what is in store for you and the rest of the rangers." Hacker shoved Max away and Max was hit with the laser.
As the fight went on, Truthroid fired lasers at the Rangers until it was sure it hit all the Rangers. "Master, I them all," it said to Hacker.
"Good," Hacker said as he jumped back from the fight and he and Truthroid started to glow orange, "Till next time Power Rangers." The two villains disappeared.
The Rangers got their weapons and quickly finished off the remaining Bugs. "That was strange," Draco pointed out.
"Why would Hacker retreat like that?" Hermione asked.
"For now let's get back to base," Max said as the team teleported out of there.
At the base, the Rangers arrived at the gym, demorphed. "Alright, you guys go upstairs and prepare for another attack," Max told the team, "I'm going to scan myself to see what that beam did to us."
Max walked into the medical room. "Let's head upstairs," Ron suggested.
The Rangers started walk up the stairs and could start hearing voices talking to Nicholas. "We have a guest?" Hermione asked.
When Harry opened the door to see and was surprised to see who was with Nicolas. "Sirius? Remus?" he said as the two familiar adults.
"Harry?" the two said, surprised as much as Harry.
The other Rangers were surprised to see the adults. "Professor Lupin?" Neville saw the familiar professor, "But isn't that the outlaw Sirius Black?"
"Yeah," Harry confirmed, "He is my godfather." Harry was approaching his godfather, "Why are you guys here?"
"We were about to ask you that, but it makes sense when you think about it. When you all disappeared, the Power Rangers appeared," Sirius replied, "I already knew about Draco, but all of you…"
"Nicolas gave Sirius a portkey and told him that he can only tell me about it and we were here," Remus finished explaining.
"But why you guys?" Hermione asked
Nicolas decided to explain more, "We need some more allies in the wizarding world and I figure we can start with your families."
"But couldn't you talk to Dumbledore about helping?" Neville asked.
"No! I no longer trust Dumbledore," Nicolas told them, "I have my reasons and I'll only tell you when the time is right." Nicolas took a deep breath, "Right now, let's relax and prepare for the next attack."
"Another attack? Just how many attacks do you go through?" Remus asked.
"More than you think," Neville replied as the team started to sit down.
"But it's okay," Luna added, "We are used to it."
In the medical room, Max got off of one of the beds after a scan. He went to the computer to see that nothing was wrong with him. "What are you planning, Hacker?"
On the Virus Corp ship, Hacker was walking through the halls of the base, where Sterben got in his way. "Really Hacker? Of all the Metaroids you could've made, you made this Truthroid?!" he said with annoyance in his voice.
"Yes Sterben, it is part of my next plan," Hacker replied as he turned to Truthroid, "Give me the data you got on a flash drive."
"Yes Master," Truthroid replied holding up its hand and a flash drive popped out of it hand.
Hacker grabbed the flash drive and told Truthroid again, "Now go do your other task and send that data to my tablet."
"Yes Master," Truthroid replied as it left the two in the hall.
"Well Sterben, if you want you can see one of the reason I created Truthroid," Hacker suggested as he walked into a room and Sterben fallowed him.
There was a large machine next to a capsule, "What is this?" Sterben demanded.
"This machine can create avatars," Hacker replied.
"What?"
"Avatars, they are what people use for games or other things online to represent themselves," Hacker explained, "But this machine can give avatars a physical form. And I already have a way to test this new toy." Hacker placed the flash drive into the machine and a screen came to life with a lot of texts appearing on it. "Might take a day or two to make these avatars." He noticed something on the screen and press a section of text and it popped up on his tablet, "Might as well hold on to the secret for you Gold Buster."
Two days have passed and Max was with Sirius and Remus at a local sports bar, "Take a seat," Max said guiding the two to a high top table. As they took they're seat, Max saw how the two were amazed to see Quidditch on one the screens. "Surprised at what you see?"
"Never thought to see Quidditch on the telly," Remus replied.
Soon a waitress walked over to them and asked, "What will you gentlemen have?"
"You know my usual," Max said.
Sirius didn't know what to order and said, "I don't know what to get, so get me what's good."
When the waitress left, Max turned to the older wizards, "Okay the reason I got you out here, besides showing a bit of our town and letting Nicholas have peace as he teaches the kids. I need your help with something."
"What is it?" Sirius asked.
Max looked around and pulled out a newspaper clipping. "I need you two to help spread the word of who Dumbledore truly is," he told them as he opened the clipping that showed an image of Dumbledore with the title above, "English Ministry refuse to hand Dumbledore over after massacre at a No-maj school."
"This can't be," Remus said in disbelief, "It had to be a Polyjuice potion."
"I know it is hard," Max said, "But Dumbledore, kill no-maj students and their parents. He needs to be stop." Max heard his morpher started to ring, he pulled it out, "Yes?" he listens for a bit as he stood up, "Alright, I'll be there soon." He hung up the phone he turned to the two adult wizards, "I'm needed," Max said as a waitress walked up to the table, "I have to go, but put whatever they order on my tab," Max told the waitress before he left.
Around the same time on Virus Corp, Sterben walked into the room where Hacker had duplicates of the Ranger. "What do you think?" Hacker asked, "Avatars of the Rangers, complete with memories of the Rangers thanks to Truthroid. Now with my own Rangers, we can defeat those wizards."
"There are only six Rangers," Sterben pointed out, "You're missing the White Ranger."
Hacker took another look the duplicates and noticed one was missing. "Truthroid!"
The Metaroid walked into the room, "You called Master?"
Hacker grabbed Truthroid and pulled it close, "Why are there six Rangers? I thought you hit all seven."
"I did Master, I don't know what happened!" Truthroid replied.
Hacker let out a frustrating sigh and said, "Take the Avatars and return to Earth. Find what happened."
"Yes Master," Truthroid said as it and the Avatars disappeared. "Sterben, I have proposition for you."
At a quarry, the Rangers arrived, morphed, and ready for a fight. "Hello again Rangers!" the all look up a hill to see Truthroid and the Avatar Rangers. "Ready for your defeat?!"
"You guys made copies of us," Max said, "That is the most typical thing villains do."
"Ah, but these copies are different," Truthroid said as the Avatars jumped down and the Rangers were ready to fight.
"I am jealous," Max's copy said.
"Wha?" Max replied.
"I just want to be able to use magic like the rest of my family," the copy continued. Max was surprised at what the copy said, before it stabbed and pushed Max away. The rest of the copies went after their counterparts.
Truthroid landed in front of Luna, "You're mine White Ranger!"
Harry was holding his copy back with his sword, "I'm a plague on everyone," it said. Harry tried to ignore it but it added, "My parents would be better off if I was never born." Harry's Avatar took its chance and shoulder tackled Harry and kicked him backwards.
Hermione was casting spells and the copy was dodging or deflecting spells with its sword. "I'm the brightest which of the century," the copied blue Ranger said swinging its sword at Hermione, who was blocking the attacks, "These idiots are holding me back." The Avatar hit the witch a few times.
"I'm a waste of space," Neville's copy said, "I have no real friends."
"I do," Neville replied, "I do have friends, friends who care about me."
"Are you just lying to yourself?" the copy said, "What would your parents think about having a son like you?"
Ron was knocked backwards by his copy, "What are you going to amount to? Your brothers have accomplished so much and you can't do anything."
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Ron shouted.
"You're worthless you know that," the copy added before shoving Ron to the ground.
"No one ever want you around," the false Silver Ranger said, "The just bear with you, hoping to get in good graces of your daddy."
"I believed it," Draco admitted, "But now I know I have real friends!"
The two clashed their swords and the fake ranger said, "Like they'll be your friends." The false Draco fired its copy of the gun at Draco.
Truthroid deflected Luna's sword and fired a beam, hitting her. It checked a screen on its arm and it was clearly frustrated. "Why?! Why don't you have secrets?!"
"Because I know who I am," Luna said, "I know people make fun of me, but it never bothers me. I accept my flaws." Luna stabbed Truthroid, knocking it back.
Max and his doppelganger were clashing their swords with the avatar saying, "Oh Gold Buster, have you even told your new friends…"
"I am the descendant of Salazar Sytherin!" Max shouted causing everyone to turn their head towards Max as he used this moment to destroy his evil copy. Then Max went to help Luna. With everyone still surprised to what Max said and used the advantage to destroy their copies and went to help Luna.
Truthroid was pushed back as the Rangers lined up with their swords glowing. "No! The truth should of ruined you!"
The Rangers slashed their swords, creating seven blade beams hitting the Metaroid, destroying it.
"So what was that about who you're a descendant of?" Ron started.
"We'll talk about it later, after our Megazord fight," Max said folding his sword into a steering wheel.
There was a loud thud as an Alpha Metazord with cannons on its shoulders. "Poor Rangers," Hacker said as he teleported in front of Truthroid's remains, "I still need Truthroid's powers. But Sterben wants to play with you again."
"What do you mean?" Hermoine asked.
"Now Power Rangers, let us battle once again," Sterben's voice came from the Metazord.
"Have fun," "Hacker said as he teleported out of there.
The Zords arrived and the Rangers teleported to the cockpits of their Zords. Then they formed the two Megazords.
"Try this," Sterben shouted as he pulled a lever and grey balls fired from the Metazord's cannons. The Wizard Megazord used the Griffon Zord's wings to knock the balls away, "You got to try better than that!" Harry shouted.
They heard Sterben chuckle and the balls unfolded and they became small robots, that where knee high to the Megazords. "What the…" Neville started before the small robots fired lasers from the cannons on their backs, hitting both the Megazords.
"Bug Zords," Sterben said as the Metazord fire out more tiny Zords, "Small and weak, but they are very useful." The Megazords had a hard time hitting the small Zords as they jumped around. The Buster Megazord kicked a Bug Zord.
"Damn Zords," Max shouted.
Sterben took the advantage and attacked both Megazords. "We need to get rid of those small Zords!" Neville said.
The Buster Megazord fired its gun at the Bug Zords, destroying some of them.
"Fools, I'll just lunch more Bug Zords!" Sterben shouted as the Metazord fired more Bug Zords at the heroes. The Wizard Megazord charged in knocking the Bug Zords down and stabbed the tail of the Mermaid Zord into one of the cannons, cutting it off. Then the Wizard Megazord swung the Griffon Zord arm and chopped the other cannon in half. Sterben growled and shouted, "Bug Zords attack at once!"
The Bug Zords jumped up and getting ready to fire and the Wizard Megazord stepped out of the way to show the Buster Megazord with its blasters glowing, "Buster Finisher!" Max and Draco shouted and fired a barrage of lasers destroying each Bug Zord and the lasers hit the Metazord.
"Damn you Power Rangers!" Sterben shouted as he teleported out of there. The Metazord fell over and explode on impact.
Sterben arrived back at the Virus Corp's ship. "I'm guessing the mission was successful?" Escape said.
"I still don't understand why Hacker needed me to do that," Sterben replied.
"All to so they don't think why I took Truthroid's Data Card," Hacker said walking into the room. "But now we know what Voldemort is hiding."
"What is it?" Mother Virus asked.
"Horcruxes," Hacker answered.
"Horcuxes?" Dr. Zima repeated.
"An object with a piece of a person's soul," Hacker explained walking towards Sterben and poked his chest making a Data Card pop out. "It's like the Data Cards you and Escape have. Without it, you two would die forever."
"I know that!" Sterben shouted pushing the Data Card back in, "So humans can create back ups as well?"
"Yes and no," Hacker replied, "They break their souls and put it in an object to achieve immortality. And our friend Voldemort created seven horcruxes, but one was destroyed."
"So you delayed the operation for this information?" Sterben asked.
"Yes," Hacker replied, "With Extractroid and Truthroid's information, I'm planning to collect Voldemort's soul pieces. I know where I want to start."
Back at the Rangers' base, everyone was in the living room, minus Max who was in the kitchen with his back turned to everyone. It was an awkward silence for the group.
"Isn't he going to say anything?" Ron whispered.
"Wait a bit more," Nicholas said.
Soon the front door opened and Sirius and Remus walked in. "What's going on?" Sirius asked.
Max raised his arm towards the others, "Take a seat, I have something to tell all of you," He told them. Sirius and Remus were confused as they sat down, but saw the others focused on Max. Max took a deep breath and turned to everyone. "Alright, the thing I said out there is true. I am an heir to Slytherin."
"You are the heir to Slytherin! The darkest and evilest wizard ever!" Ron shouted.
"First off: I'm an heir to Slytherin. In other words my father, sister, and brother will become the head of Slytherin before me. Second: Yes, my family is dark, but Salazar was never evil or had anything against half-bloods or no-maj borns."
But Binns told us that…" Hermione started but Max interrupted her.
"That is false history written by a bunch of assholes who needed a villain for their stories. So they saw how Salazar was into dark magic and can speak parseltounge." Max hissed the last word which surprised everyone, but Nicolas.
"You can speak parseltounge, even as a squib?" Remus asked.
"Yes, but back to the topic," Max replied, "Because of those assholes, my ancestors were hunted and killed till one was left. So my ancestor and the other founders' ancestors decided to change their surnames, lock the four family rings in Gringotts, and moved here to America."
"That means you're related to Voldemort," Harry pointed out.
"He is a distant cousin," Max said, "Family we cut off from the line."
There was another silence, until Luna broke the silence, "Well how you been helping people magical and nonmagical proves that you are not the books."
"Well I never we'll be getting along with a Slytherin, but to know that a person with Slytherin's blood could be a great bloke," Neville added.
"Thank you everyone," Max said, "Sorry but I hope you understand I didn't tell about my family's history."
"Don't worry," Harry spoke in parseltounge, "We parseltounge need to stick together." Max looked at Harry surprised to hear him peak parseltounge as well, as Harry smiled at him.