Power Rangers Nitro Force
Chapter 3: A Trashy Tale
AN: Before we begin, I have a bone to pick with a certain anonymous reviewer, 00raiserXL. While I appreciate your reviews and time, you do not have to review me every time you turn around. I received 6 reviews from you, all in chapter 2 alone, and you essentially repeated what you said every time. I kindly ask you calm down. I can only answer any of your questions if you have an account so I can PM you. If you do not see your review on the review page that means one of two things: A) I haven't approved it yet, or B) I'm simply not interested in the idea. So 00raiserXL, I'm not trying to be mean or anything, I'm just asking you to be patient. Thank you for your time.
"Alright, one double cheeseburger, extra pickles, one tuna melt on rye, and one Caesar Salad, no cheese." Naruto handed the customers their food.
"Thanks cutie." One of the female patrons said with a wink. Naruto's face turned beet red at that. He turned to the backroom, seeing the other rangers.
"You're a natural Nate." Ricky said with a smirk, working the grill. To cover his origins, Naruto was given the alias Nathan "Nate" West. The West idea came from one of Sam's favorite comic book character, something about a super-fast guy. It had been two days since the rangers destroyed Shatter shot, and now Ariel was perfecting the scanner to find the Amulet of Eternal Vision and all its fragments.
"Geez, do you think it could have something to do with women find me attractive?" Naruto asked sarcastically.
"Lucky you." Karla spat, bringing in a bucket of dirty dishes. She paused a moment, turning to Ricky. "A bus girl, really?"
"It was the only position open?" He offered. Karla rolled her eyes, putting them in the dishwasher.
"I would rather help Ariel track down that fragment." Karla said under her breath.
"You know she and Alpha prefer to work alone." Sam reminded, assembling a burger.
"Hey Karla, your ex-boss is outside looking for you." Allen said, coming in with a ticket.
"Tell her I'm not here." Karla said, not looking up from her work.
"I did, she said it was a crock of crap and knows for a fact you're here." Allen said with a shrug.
Karla sighed, "Alright, I'll hear her out."
"Just holler if she gets forceful." Ricky said, grabbing a bottle of hot sauce.
"Done." Karla said, walking out the door. When she got to the front of the restaurant, she was surprised to see Angela in such a mess. Her hair was lopsided and greasy, as opposed to her usual silky blond. Her clothes were wrinkled beyond belief, and Angela's makeup was nonexistent.
"I leave you alone for two days, and this is what happens?" Karla asked rhetorically, trying her hardest not to enjoy this.
"Listen Karla, I need you." Angela said, firmly.
"Ok, you actually used my real name, this should be good." Karla said firmly.
"I need your help in proving the Power Rangers are criminals." Karla just looked at her oddly.
"What nonsense are you spewing out now?" Karla asked confused.
"Don't you find it odd these so called heroes show up the same day the monster did?" Angela asked rhetorically. "They obviously set it up."
"Really, well." Karla began, only to turn and shout, "Oh my god, the red ranger just ran down the street with a bag of money on his back!"
"Jackpot!" Angela dashed out the door with a beat up old camera in her hand.
"I'm not certain what I believe more, what you said, or the fact she believed it." Naruto admitted, observing the events.
Meanwhile, up on the warship, a vacuum was presently being attached to Silvion's face.
"Zhis place iz filthy!" The French accented monster said, continuing her cleaning. This silver skinned monster was Neat Freak. She stood rather tall, although skinny in a dull grey and black maid's uniform. Her right arm was a large old fashion two piece vacuum with the tank on the back. Her mouth was covered by a face mask and her green hair was hid behind a black bandanna.
"This is the best you could think of?" Techniclaw asked Alucardic with his arms crossed.
"What?" The vampire shrugged. "We need that fragment, and she can get it quickly."
"She had better!" Damocron ordered from his portal. "Or it's burnt batwings for dinner tonight." Alucardic gulped in fear of that. "Neat Freak!"
"Oui?" The monster asked snapping to attention. A dark energy sphere was summoned from the portal.
"Use this, in case of emergency only." Damocron threatened.
"Oui." Neat Freak bowed and left.
"Is she gone yet?" Silvion asked dazed.
Back on in the Leaf Village, Danzo, Koharu, and Homura were discussing their presently failed plan.
"This is impossible, not one person has found the boy?" Koharu asked confused.
"We have dozens of Anbu Root at various checkpoints around the boarders; he couldn't have gotten past them." Homura reminded.
"And we can't ask the toads to reverse summon him, they'll catch on to our plans too easily." Danzo reminded.
"Agreed." The others admitted.
Meanwhile, Sakura was off delivering medicines to another tent was she was stopped by none other than Hinata.
"Oh, Hinata hi." Sakura said, surprised to see the girl. "Listen, I'd love to stay at chat, but I'm-"
"It's all your fault." Hinata said darkly. "He's gone because of you."
"What are you?" That is all Sakura could say as Hinata charged furiously. She swung her palms openly at Sakura, intending on lethal blows. However, Sakura was quicker and dodged everyone. Given Hinata's rage, it was evident she was off her game.
"Hinata stop this!" Sakura ordered. Hinata however didn't, as Sakura's command fell on deaf ears.
"Just die, you pink haired bitch, Naruto was mine!" Hinata hollered enraged. Sakura threw some smoke bombs down to get way. When the smoke cleared, Sakura was gone.
"Where are you!" Hinata demanded, running off. Unaware, Sakura was hiding behind a tree nearby.
"Wow, she is really off her game." Sakura said with a sigh of relief.
"You're telling me." The stoic tone of Shino said, as the insect user appeared before her. "Her sanity has been slipping in recent years."
"No doubt, and Naruto's disappearance has only increased it." Sakura sighed.
"Though the question is, where is he?" Shino asked confused.
The rangers had assembled in the Cyber Garage, where each was given a smartphone to match their ranger colors. Naruto, was obviously clueless to what they were.
"Each phone has a special set of apps that only works with your biometrics." Ariel explained. "Among them are a prototype fragment scanner."
"Ok, so how does this thing work exactly?" Naruto asked confused.
"We'll explain on the way." Sam said with a sigh.
"I'll drive." Allen said, pulling out some keys.
A few minutes later, the five rangers were crammed into Allen's Jeep. Karla had shotgun while the Sam and Rebecca tried to teach Naruto how to work his phone.
"This thing makes no sense." Naruto said, trying to figure out his phone.
"Guys, we're here." Karla said, looking up from the scanner. The others looked up to see they were at the city dump.
"Dumpster diving, advanced edition." Naruto groaned.
"Let's go, the sooner we get the fragment, the sooner we get back." Sam gripped, climbing the fence. The other rangers soon followed and began their search.
"I still don't see anything." Sam gripped.
"Geez, it's not like we haven't heard you complain three times in the past five minutes." Rebecca groaned.
"Wait, quiet." Naruto ordered. He motioned for the rangers to hide behind some debris. It was here Neat Freak began vacuuming up some trash.
"Zis iz unacceptable!" The monster shouted enraged. "Zhese 'umanz 'ave no respect for zee working world!"
"This might be easier than we thought." Rebecca said with a smirk.
"I don't think so." Naruto admitted.
"Uh, guys." Karla looked over her scanner app in fear. The marker representing the amulet fragment was moving, in the same direction as Neat Freak was moving.
"Naruto, for the love of all that is holy, don't say I told you so." Sam ordered.
"Killjoy." The ninja groaned.
"Oh for zee love of clean." Neat Freak stomped her foot in rage. "Full power!" A massive vortex soon erupted from the vacuum, and began inhaling everything from cars to tissue boxes.
"Hang on to something!" Naruto bellowed over the power of the suction. The wind eventually died down.
"Well that hurt." Allen groaned.
"Tell me about it." Rebecca said standing up. However it was here, the two rangers finally noticed something. Naruto, Sam, and Karla were gone.
"Oh don't tell me." Allen groaned.
"Vell, vell." Neat Freak said, noticing the rangers. "I've captured three rangers, along with an amulet fragment." She raised her vacuum arm. "Now I must complete my collection."
"Well then, let's step into something a little more suitable for play, shall we?" Allen asked with a smile.
"I thought you'd never ask." Rebecca said with a smirk.
"NITRO FORCE, KICK IT UP!"
The Green and White rangers appeared in their respective colored flashes.
"Let's get dirty." Rebecca said, drawing her claw.
"Right behind you." Allen said, crossbow in hand. He fired a few rounds of his blaster mode weapon at the monster. She deflected every shot with her vacuum arm.
"'Ave your attacks back rangerz!" Neat Freak hit the reverse switch on the controls, sending the energy blasts back. The two rangers were sent flying after that attack.
"Alright, let's see you take this." Rebecca threw her claw forward as it launched from the base. The claw grabbed Neat Freaks vacuum arm.
"Non, non ranger." Neat Freak pulled out a broom with a spear tip, and swatted away the claw. She charged, spear in hand.
Allen switched his crossbow into an ax and blocked the attack. "I sure hope the others are doing ok."
Naruto soon began to spit out the large amount of dust in his mouth. "Gross."
"So this is the contents of a vacuum huh?" Karla asked confused, sitting on a massive dust pile. Sam however stared up at the hole they fell in.
"Well, how are we going to get out of this mess?" He asked.
"We get out, after we find the fragment." Naruto reminded.
"Found it." Karla said, picking up the silver gem.
"And they found us." Sam said, pointing to the oncoming Oniknights.
"Wow, when she cleans house, she doesn't know when to stop." Karla commented.
"Then let's get morphin'." Naruto declared.
"That your catchphrase now or something?" Sam asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah so?" Naruto asked confused.
"Nothing, I like it." Sam admitted. "It has a nice ring to it."
"Now then." Karla suggested, pointing to her wrist.
"NITRO FORCE, KICK IT UP!"
The red, yellow, and blue rangers appeared in a flash of light, ready to fight the monsters. Naruto lead the charge, as each ranger grabbed their accel blades. Sparks flew as all of the blades collided.
"This is actually going better than expected." Karla admitted, swinging her blade.
"I told you that training was coming in handy." Naruto said, pushing two Oniknights to the ground.
"Guys, look!" Sam pointed to a direction. The others looked ahead to see the vacuum filter. In it, was the amulet fragment.
"Convenient." Naruto shrugged.
Karla kicked two of their enemies to the side. "Naruto, go for it." He nodded. Naruto leapt over some trash and made his way to the filter.
"You sure that was a good idea?" Sam asked, now holding both of his blasters.
"No, but he'll think of something." Karla shrugged, holding her katanas.
Naruto made his way to the filter and noticed how fast the turbine was spinning, to the point where it would rip Naruto to pieces if he tried. He could just barely make out the amulet fragment at the base. Then he got an idea. Naruto pulled out his nitro weapon in blaster mode. "Ok, two hands." He placed one hand underneath the barrel and another on the trigger. "Here goes everything." Naruto fired a continuous stream of ice that began to cover the spinning apparatus.
"Oh, oh dear." Neat Freak said, feeling a strange chill run up her spine.
"What's your problem?" Rebecca asked confused.
It was here, the vacuum bag on her back burst open, releasing Naruto and the others.
"My vacuum!" Neat Freak shouted in agony.
"I got it!" Naruto said, holding up the fragment. The oniknights, then realized this. "Oh." Naruto said flatly.
"You idiot." Karla said her hand against her helmet.
The Oniknights made a play for the jewel. Naruto panicked and tossed it into the air.
"I got it." Allen said, trying to grab the fragment.
"Non." Using a broom, Neat Freak swatted the fragment mid-air away from the green ranger.
"Now fellas, let's discuss this reasonably." Sam said, holding up his hands to about thirty Oniknights. Clearly, they didn't want to talk. "Fine then." He grabbed his Accel Blaster and fired it, knocking down a wall of debris on top of them.
"Done." The blue ranger said, dusting off his gloved hands. However it was here he noticed something.
"Dibs." Rebecca shot her claw out, grabbing the jewel fragment. The rope then began to retract itself to her. However three Oniknights tackled the girl, causing the fragment to go skyward.
"No problem!" Karla said, she pulled out a silver disk and twisted the top. It extended, becoming a jar, allowing the gem to fit in. "Got to love the transit pods." She pressed a button on the side of the container, allowing it to be teleported back to the garage.
"We had one of those?" Naruto asked confused.
"Ariel explained this to us before we left, remember?" Karla said upset.
"Oh yeah." Rebecca realized.
"Guys, look at this couch." Sam said, excitedly. The other four rangers turned to see the blue one lifting up a brown slightly beat up couch. "This thing is in great shape, and some idiot tried to throw it out."
"You ditched us, to get a couch?" Naruto asked incuriously.
"What, no." Sam said defensively. He then pointed to the side. "I shot a mountain of garbage, it collapsed on top of the Oniknights, and the couch was on top."
"Alright fine you can keep it, but I'm not helping move it." Naruto said firmly.
"Done." Sam said excitedly.
"You von't get the chance rangers!" Neat Freak said, charging with spear in hand.
"Anyone?" Naruto offered.
"Let's do it." Sam offered. The rangers handed over their blaster mode weapons, combining them.
"Grand Prix Cannon!" Naruto held the blaster up, with the four rangers behind him for support. "FIRE!" A multicolored energy blast hit Neat Freak right in the stomach, ending her.
"Alright." Naruto cheered. However it was here, his joy was replaced with shock as the energy sphere covered Neat Freak, supersizing her like it did Shatter-shot. Complete with fully repaired vacuum.
"I'll clean your clocks rangers!" The titan boomed.
"Guys, we could really use the zords right about now." Karla panicked into her morpher.
"Alright, they're on the way." Alpha said, pushing some buttons. The five zords raced down the street as the rangers jumped in.
"Alright guys, let's go straight for the megazord." Naruto ordered.
"With pleasure." The other four agreed, inserting their keys.
(Insert Go Go Power Rangers 2014 by Pellek)
The cannons on Naruto's firetruck shifted down and around as it folded in half at the middle, giving it the appearance of a torso. The cherry picker shifted to where the left shoulder should be. The front of the girls' zords flipped around, revealing connector ports. The yellow zord attached to the right side while the white attached to the left. The fronts became shoulders as they folded down. The rear ends shifted back revealing black hands. The bulldozer zord split down the middle vertically as the back shifted up, taking on the appearance of lower legs. These two portions went on the ends of the tank zords treads, as the claws shifted around, becoming shin guards. This configuration stood up, becoming the lower legs. The tank cannons folded up, and slipped into the ice cannons of the fire truck zord, becoming a full body. A head shifted out of the firetruck. It had a silver grill facemask with yellow colored eyes. It had a red sports car like helmet with two wheels on either side of its head. On the front of the helmet was a signal light going from left to right red, yellow, green.
"Raceway Megazord." The five declared as the Megazord took a fighting pose.
(End song)
"No matter, one target is just as good." Neat Freak said with a smug tone.
"Alright, let's cut to the chase." Naruto said, as the megazord drew its sword.
"I'll take that!" Neat Freak raised her vacuum arm, allowing the suction to go full force. The Raceway Saber was sucked in, disarming the megazord.
"No fair." Rebecca said, standing up in her seat.
"Rangers, there is another way to stop her." Alpha said over the comms. "The Raceway Megazord has a second finishing attack called the Burnout Beam, with it you can fire a concentrated energy blast."
"Just what we need." Karla said. "What's the catch?"
"We need about five minutes for it to charge properly." Ricky answered.
"Of course." Rebecca said flatly.
"Die rangers!" Neat Freak declared, brandishing her spear tipped broom. The Megazord blocked the attack with its arm. The metal titan pushed Neat Freak back, delivering another punch.
"Perfect." Angela said, with a wicked smirk and her camera in hand. "A little editing, and the Power Rangers are prison bound."
"Rangers, it's ready!" Ariel said over the comms link.
"Burnout Beam, full power!" The five rangers shouted in unison. The Megazord's chest lit up with power as it crossed it arms over it. As the light reached its zenith, the megazord uncrossed its arms, releasing the energy blast.
"Not so fast rangers!" Neat Freak raised her vacuum arm, allowing her to suck up the energy blast.
"Keep firing!" Naruto ordered.
"What?" Rebecca asked confused.
"Done, that'll work." Karla said, raising the power.
"What is he up to?" Ricky asked confused.
"Of course, the burnout beam will destroy the contents of the bag in a fraction of the time Naruto's ice blasts could." Alpha explained, revealing the data in front of him.
The bag on Neat Freak's back began to expand ferociously. "Sacre BLEU!" The bag exploded, as the raceway saber flew into the sky. The Megazord jumped after it, and over Neat Freak and the dust storm she made.
"Oh no!" Angela said, as a massive wad of dust bunnies landed on her. The collision also destroyed her camera. The former anchorwoman then tried to crawl out of the dust pile, only to trip and fall on her face. "I just had this dry cleaned." She whined.
The Raceway Megazord triumphantly grabbed its sword and landed. "Alright, that's how you do it, Power Ranger Style!" Naruto shouted triumphantly, as Neat Freak fell over dead.
The rangers returned, cleaned thankfully. However Sam look down it sorrow. "It was so innocent."
"Dude, it was a couch, let it go." Allen said, tired of hearing him complain.
"How do you think I feel, I live with him now." Naruto groaned.
"Where would you put it?" Ricky asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Rangers, you did a bang up job today getting the first fragment." Alpha said with a happy tone, locking up the first fragment. "But your job's not over yet."
"Far from it, there are what, 12 more gems to get?" Rebecca shrugged.
"And according to our most recent scans, another is here in Meteor Falls." Ariel said, checking her tablet.
"So, let's get to work." Naruto said cracking his knuckles.
"I like the way you think Red." Ricky said with a smile. The other rangers couldn't help but agree. Ariel smiled, this was going to work.
Next time on Power Rangers Nitro Force: Send in the Clown. It's the Meteor Falls street festival, however it's anything but fun, when the kids start acting more like thugs. The rangers discover it's the work of the newest monster Big Top the Clown, tracking down the next fragment. Can the Power Rangers pull the plug on his show, or will Big Top be their big finale?
Ok, here's chapter 3. Tell me what you think, and I'm open for new monster ideas by the way. And yes, I will be using a love based monster. Before I go, I wanted to admit something. The idea to call Naruto, Nathan, was not my own idea. It came from a Naruto/Young Justice Story I read a while ago, but I can't find it again. Basically he gets super speed, but Naruto doesn't remember how, and becomes the step grandson of Jay and Joan Garrick. If anyone knows the title, I would greatly appreciate it.