Chapter 9: Dares
It was a normal day at S.P.D. well somewhat of a normal day, as Jessica started her first few days at the base as a cadet. They were all in the command center working on some security updates for the base. Oxion was helping Jessica know the S.P.D. handbook, it wasn't going that far. Luna was re-designing S.P.D. morph suit, this was a secret from everyone, if were to be successful she was going to do it for all the other B-squad rangers. Mirage was sleeping at the console, Daryl was throwing a ball between him and Chase who threw it back. Anubis and Sky were at their command desks looking over paperwork and criminal records in the S.P.D. database, and Kat, Boom, and Mina were working on a advanced hacking program on one of the computers.
There's wasn't much going on and the past few days have been pretty chill and the cadets were bored of doing nothing, so Daryl got up, " Since there's hasn't been you know quiet. Is it okay if we were to have a little fun commander." He looked at Sky for the answer, knowing Sky can always be a party pooper he should have expected this answer. " We have no time for having fun, Moran and her little friends can be plotting something, means we have to be on guard all the time." He replied with a stern look.
Daryl turned away with the look of defeat, before he sat back down Anubis spoke up. " Well we can't have them being busy bodies like us, they're still young and having a life of just work is not as fulfilling, it has to be balance. As Supreme Commander, you all go take some breaks for today, but don't leave the base in case we do have an emergency."
They all ran out the base, including Jessica.
In the lounge room, they were trying to figure out a game to play. They bickered for about five minutes before they all agreed on a game of dare.
Each person was to dare someone and the person who went once the dare was completed chose the next person.
Everyone had fun embarrassing each other, Daryl had to go around wearing one of Anubis' old S.P.D. uniform and then model it off in the command center. That involved a violent growl from the commander and him quickly getting out of it and running away.
Chase had to overfill RIC with coolant and bring him to the command center and RIC released the extra on both Anubis and Sky. They were not happy, so Chase was in hiding from the promise that Sky would come for him later.
Next was Jessica, since she was now part of their team for some time she might as well join in. She had dress in rags and go around begging like a homeless person. She didn't like it not one bit, but the others got a laugh out of it.
Next up was Mirage, there is no skating, biking, or anything with wheels allowed in the base. So Mirage of course being the Supreme Commander's daughter she went riding her sister's bike honking the horn nearly running over anyone that got in the way. That also involved the group going find somewhere to hide for a bit from the Sky and Anubis.
Oxion the son of Earth branch's commander, was going to regret ever coming with them. He went to rig the sound system, it was on a two minute timer set to play music on full volume, irritating the ears of the aliens that can hear higher frequencies. Poor Luna and Mirage, he was caught by some other cadets and had to run around the base to lose the.
Finally we come to Luna, " I think this might be the best dare out of all of us. Your father is sure to come chasing after all of us." Said Oxion.
" What do you have planned that bad?" Asked Mirage.
" I've been waiting a long time to have this done. in my room I have two dog bowls, a leash, collar and a chew toy. You have to go sit all these items his console and then put the toy on his snout and say stay boy, compliment him like he's a dog and then say good boy by patting his head. Take the toy off and throw it and say fetch boy." Explained.
" Wow, that's ground zero for her right there. how do you think he'll react after all the trouble we caused today?" Asked Jessica.
" Well we just hide the rest of the day, somewhere they can't find us." The alarms began to blare and they were called to the command center.
There's was an alien running around turning people into turning people into ice sculptures. " Rangers suit up and head downtown." Ordered Sky.
" Right! S.P.D. EMERGENCY!" They all yelled and then morphed.
They made it downtown as the alien turned another citizen into a statue.
" Hey buddy, it's not nice to do that to someone without permission." Said Luna. The alien turned to see the power rangers, " Ah, nice of you to come. Moran said you'll be here in case of any danger to earthlings. Let me introduce myself my name's Cryo, I'm a talented Cryomancer. Do you like my masterpieces?" He waved a hand around showing al the frozen people.
Oxion stepped forward, " Not really, really talent is sitting there doing it for hours, not from turning people into them."
They went into battle, they couldn't touch the guy. He seem to numb their bodies with every impact.
" What's wrong rangers am I too cold for you? Hahah," he laughed at their struggles and bounced around in victory.
" No feeling, no feeling." Chase commented.
" I think I caught a brain freeze from just touching him, is that possible?" Asked Daryl.
" There's got to be something that can destroy this freak." Said Mirage.
The team recovered and was ready to fight when their earpieces went off. " Hey guys, how's everything going?" Asked Nate on the other end.
" Nate, what heck. We're in battle how do you think it's going. Also the morphers aren't for idle chit chat and we're doing fine." Replied Luna.
" You sure, from the satellite feed it looks like there's some truggles going on."
The rangers didn't know what to think about that word, even Anubis, Kat, Sky, Boom, Mina, and Jessica were confused. He just had the face of satisfaction and accomplishments.
" Nate, what in the world is a truggles?" Asked Luna.
" Truggles is a great term, it's a cross between struggles and trials. It means when a trial is so hard, you start to struggle creating the word truggles." Nate explained.
" Where did you get that from and how long have you been waiting to say that?"
" I got it from this person named Jeremy, he's college friends with the writer of this story and it's been a while. I just needed the right time."
" Hey stop talking and fight already. I thought you five were the power rangers." Said Cryo. " Hey just because I'm distracted by an idiot doesn't mean this is over." Said Luna.
" Hey, I'm not an idiot." Replied Nate before she cut him off.
They charged at the alien and gave it all they've got. He knew he was going to lose and asked for help from Detono. He then jumped into a zord that resembled him.
" Kat zord time." Said Oxion. " On their way now." Replied Kat.
The rangers jumped into their vehicles and they formed the megazord. The alien had the upper hand since he was much bigger than them.
" This isn't working out so well." Said Chase. " There's got to be something, any suggestions?"
Luna closes her eyes and goes into deep thought, " Is there anything I can do?" She asks Maltrix.
" You can power the megazord to make it stronger, but because of its massive size it'll exhaust you greatly." She replied.
" That doesn't matter, I want to see what else can do. I've been progressing and I feel like I can do this. Please Maltrix teach me how to power this piece of junk."
" Fine, don't say I didn't warn you. Concentrate on what you want to do, focus on the object you want to power. Let the energy flow through the zord, you'll feel it and once you do rip it to them!"
Maltrix opened her eyes and she felt the flow of energy from her to the zord. " We can do this guys, we just gotta believe." Luna egged on.
" She's right, we can do this guys." Said Oxion.
" Yeah! We can't let some icicle show us off." Boasted Chase.
" Sis I never knew you were such a motivator." Said Mirage.
" Ugh, thanks." She replied.
" Let's show him who's boss." Said Daryl.
The team got into a fighting stance as everyone's enthusiasm fueled Luna's power and they defeated the alien, releasing the people who were turned to ice sculptors.
Back at the base, the whole team was sitting in the command center. Luna walked in with various items in her hand, she walks up to her father as he sat at his command console.
" What is it cadet?" He asked, she didn't say anything. She just slowly sat the dog bowls down on the command console, then the collar, the leash, and lastly the chew toy on his snout.
He just stood there, not knowing what to say. " Stay." She said and waited then, " Good boy, now fetch." She threw the toy across the command center. " Fetch boy!"
She looked back at Anubis, everyone was beginning to laugh even Sky and Kat. " Why aren't you fetching boy?"
Anubis growled at her in un-satisfaction. " Bad boy, you're supposed to get the toy!" Anubis got up and was growling even more, Luna backed away slowly heading for the door. " Lock the door Kat!" Barked Anubis as he ran after Luna. They ran circles around the command console in the center of the room, there was a vent right above the console that Luna used her zipping ability to go through it and out the center.
She hit the wall outside because she wasn't able to stop in time, " Ow, need to work on my landings." Anubis came out the center and they continued to run around the base. Everyone in the center was laughing, it's always good to get a laugh every now and then.
Back on Moran's ship, she was pacing back and forth in her control room at the loss of Cryo. " That fool lost to the rangers. Calls himself the best in his galaxy, I think not."
" Calm down Moran, we can always find someone else to get what we need and fight the rangers." Said Detono.
" Even if we get everything we need, what will be used to power it to penetrate the base?" Asked Talon.
Moran stopped her pacing to think, she cameup with an idea that's sure to work no matter the difficulty. " What about the pink ranger, as we saw from the fight earlier, the radar picked up an energy reading going from her to the zord. She might be a valuable asset to our cause, we just need to capture her."
" That would be difficult, I think I know someone who can help it'll take time to contact him so I'll get another friend for the time being." Said Talon.
" This has to work boys, soon we'll destroy S.P.D. earth branch and be on our way in infiltrating their galatic prison."
