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"Such a nuisance these rangers. If only could make them experience what I made that dream snatcher go through." Xolicernic said as he watched replays of the rangers defeating some of their previous monsters.
It was then that an idea came to him and he went to the computer bringing up designs for a monster to create that would give particular rangers trouble, and it also all to reminded him of something he had done in the past when he had been human.
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It has almost been about a month since Diablo had launched an attack against the city or the rangers, and the entire group was still in school. Five of the rangers were all together by their lockers the only one missing was Sora.
Cassie leaned against the lockers "Am I the only one still exhausted after that." Cassie asked.
"Nope. I know it's been a month and all, but I still feel so sore." Adam says rubbing his back.
"Well it hasn't stopped Miss Spears from increasing our training. Sometimes I wonder if she is even human." Leo said looking like he was ready to collapse at any second.
Alvin nods "Well at least we have had time to gather our senses." He says the others nodding in agreement as AV looked around for their red leader.
"Has anyone seen Sora? I thought she would be here by now." She asked each one of them shrugging their shoulders not having seen Sora either. After the last incident Sora and her family had headed off on a small family vacation during break and haven't heard from her.
"What did you guys miss me?" Sora called out and the group looked to her. Sora's hair had grown to reach her shoulders, and it was being kept in a ponytail. She was now wearing a yellow t shirt with a short red zip up v neck hoodie jacket layered over it, and jean pants with white sneakers that are trimmed with red and the metal arrowhead necklace around her neck. Her V2LM was on her right arm hidden under the long sleeve of her jacket.
"Nice to see you back Sora. So how was the family vacation?" Leo asked as Sora goes to her locker.
"It was good. Went to see a few family friends, and best part no attacks by anyone affiliated with Diablo." Sora said.
Cassie nods "Yep, and well you seem to be embracing things rather well." She says referring to how a month earlier the entire school had found out Sora was a girl thanks to Robyn.
"Well sometimes you just have to adjust." She says and sighs. She wouldn't say anything, but before school had let out for break some people had begun to tease her a bit, but most left her alone.
"So how was your guys vacation after…that?" Sora asked.
"Mine went rather well. My father came home, and I got to spend some much needed time with him." Cassie informed smiling.
"Still no luck with your mom though right?" Adam asked and Cassie shakes her head. She just didn't understand why her mom seemed to be so distant from her. When she was younger the two of them were close and she would constantly follow her mother around when she was home.
"Yeah. I got to spend some time with my family to, but it was a bit awkward getting both my parents together for dinner." Adam says chuckling a bit at the memory. While his parents are divorced they would occasionally get together for lunch or dinner, but it would often end with someone breaking or dropping something.
This time though it ended up with him tripping while he was carrying a pot of gravy and said gravy being tossed out of his hands and landing on both of the parents. After cleaning up the three had a good laugh about it, and Adam left with his father that night.
"I didn't really do much. Just spent time with my brother." Alvin said as under AV's glasses one eye turned bright orange and the other turned a dark orange. She raised an eyebrow at Alvin which he noticed and sighs.
"I also went looking for college applications." He admits. Cassie, Leo, and Adam each nod in understanding as they were actually seniors themselves and they only had a handful of months left before they would leave the school for good.
"Yeah. I guess most of us kind of had forgotten about all that with all that's been going on." Adam said and sighs.
"Hey let's not fret guys. Let's just try and enjoy the time all of us have left with each other." AV says to the three seniors, and they each walked off towards their homeroom.
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Arriving outside Legacy Hills High was an older man who was about five years younger than AV's mom. He has shaggy sandy blond hair and brown eyes standing on par with Alvin and was wearing a white t shirt with a lightweight bronze colored jacket over it and jean pants with shoes. He was on the phone with someone.
"Everything is fine Corey. Yes I will stop by and see you and her after I finish up here." The man said to a person on the other end of the line.
"When have I ever broke a promise to you?" he adds on as the person on the other end asked him something.
"Okay I deserved that, and I did get an earful from the rest for missing the wedding if you recall." The man continued and sighed.
"Look we can talk this over later Corey. Right now I have some hormone crazed teenagers to talk with." The man said hanging up and walking inside the school to which he was greeted by Principal Steps.
"It is a honor and a pleasure to have you here Mr. Mcknight. Are you ready for the assembly that is to happen this afternoon?" Principal Steps asked as the door to the office opened Sora coming in.
"Morning Mr. S." she says walking over and handing him a slip. The principal shakes his head at the girl as he read over what she had done this time to get sent to the office.
"Again Daniels? You realize I'm going to have to call your parents about it this time?" He states as Sora shrugs and sits down.
Mcknight looked from the principal to the girl "What was that about?" he asked.
"Nothing you need concern yourself with Mr. Mcknight. School problem." Principal Steps says walking into the office ushering the man to follow him. The last thing that Mcknight heard was a beeping and the girl becoming a blur of red as she raced out of the office.
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Excluding Sora the other rangers were in a clash with Gearz, Shades, Dracotaur, and a new monster by the name of Stamper Brander. It looked like a bunch of stamps all clumped together with hands and feet. There was a strange marking with the letters DS on its hands.
"Ohhohoho! This is so much fun. You rangers just love to bounce around don't you?" Stamper Brander asked her voice childlike as she fired beams shaped like the letters on her hands from her hands at the rangers. The dodged each time resulting in a small explosion which was actually destroying Gearz and Shades.
Leo was engaged in another sword fight with Dracotaur "So we meet again yellow ranger." He says and they both go to kick the other knocking each other back.
"So what's up with stampy there? Diablo finally running out of the more fierce looking monsters?" Leo taunts as he and Dracotaur engage each other again.
"That…thing is not one of Diablo's, but it will serve to satisfy those two's obsession." Dracotaur replied parrying one of Leo's slashes and hits him with an underhand slash throwing him back.
Leo gets up and was about to charge at Dracotaur again when suddenly the sound of a bike was heard and Dracotaur was blasted and thrown to the ground as a result. Sora had come riding in on her Tales Cycle and was morphed. Her form now more resembling the girls as she pounds her B-Bracers together. On her belt was a second morpher. It was oval in shape with a flat screen and below it a turn dial with a button in the middle of it.
"Sorry for the tardiness. Morphers teleport function was on the fritz." She said getting off the cycle and they all lined up.
"No problem. We had it covered." Adam says.
Sora shakes her head "Whatever you say, but for now…It's Showtime!" Sora declares as they all press the colored button on there morphers.
"BATTLE LEGACY, UPLOAD!" The morphers sound off and they were all covered in the familiar light as they turned into their legacy forms.
-Battle Legacy Morphing Sequence-
Black shoulder pads with a red light on one and a blue on the other attached themselves to the side Sora's shoulders connecting with the B-Bracers. Pieces of gold metal came flying at Sora and attached to her chest making a small breastplate with a red and blue light on the lower half of the armor. The same metal attached to the legs making armored boots, and the last pieces of metal attached to the blade making the hilt gold and extending the blade out making it longer.
-End Morphing Sequence-
Each ranger now stood in their legacy form and ran at the foes.
Leo ran right at Dracotaur the two picking up there sword duel from where they had left off. Even with the power up they were still even. It was like Dracotaur holds back and strengthens himself to match the power of his opponent.
Cassie flew above with Adam as they both flew down striking the foes quickly with their weapons or punching them with their bracers.
Alvin avoided the attacks that came at him retaliating with his large tomahawk by either swinging it, throwing it like a boomerang, or even smashing it on the ground causing a small quake that would trip his opponents to give him enough time to move back.
AV and Sora were confronting Stamper Brander head on. While she wasn't good with two blades she was doing enough to push the stamp creature back. It was then that Stamper Brander snapped it's fingers and summoned a large wide blade of her own and swung at Sora.
Sora crossed her blades blocking the strike and giving AV an opportunity to blast the monster with her blaster. She aimed it as Sora and the monster exchanged insults at one another. Bracing herself for the knockback she fired it the blast making a solid hit.
The monster groans as it was knocked down and AV went to Sora and they high five "Well I think it's about time we wrapped this up." Sora said going to summon there finishing weapon.
Stamper Brander leans up "Not so fast! Take this!" she shouts firing her branding laser which made solid contact.
"That should handle that pesky blue ranger…huh?" Stamper Brander thought as yes it was causing AV pain. Yet while it wasn't as intense it was also causing Sora pain.
The red and blue rangers fell to the ground and there morphs were cancelled which caught the rest of the teams attention. Stamper quickly teleported away quickly before the rangers could question her as did Dracotaur.
"Hey you okay AV?" Adam asked worried as Sora and AV gripped there sides in pain. It felt like something had been burnt into their skin.
It was then that Cassie noticed something. Burnt into Sora and AV's skin was the letters D and S with rather elaborate designs.
"I-It burns…so much…" AV said in pain.
"Maya! Is the teleporter up?" Leo calls out into his morpher.
"Yeah it is now. Did something happen?" She asked.
"Explain later. We're coming in so get Lurre ready." He said before he teleported them to The Great Library.
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Leo, Adam, Alvin, and Cassie in there civilian clothes waited for Maya or Lurre to come and tell them what the monster had done.
It was Lurre that came to them, and from the expression she was carrying she had nothing but bad news to inform the other four rangers of.
"I have tried everything in my power, but I can't seem to figure out how this monster affected them." She informed and sighs.
"But it seems they have figured out a way to at least ease the pain." Lurre continued as she shows the red and blue morphers.
"Okay…what does there morphers have to do with anything?" Adam asked.
Lurre shakes her head "That I do not know either, but with them off they are in less pain. Wearing them intensifies it." She said.
"Well now what?" Cassie asked.
"I have already sent Sora and Avalon back to school. I want you four to find Stamper Brander and handle her. We can't have her attacking any others like this." Lurre instructed.
The others nod morphing and teleport off to find Stamper Brander before she could cause more trouble for the city. Right after they left Maya had come to where they were with a stack of ranger books. There was a total of four books the first was the Unity Force Red book, the second was for Unity Force White, the third was Unity Force Gold, and the fourth was Unity Force Silver.
"Oh hello Spears. Did you find something out?" Lurre asked as Maya looks around for the rangers.
"Yeah, and I thought I would tell the others. I think Stamper Brander was able to brand AV because she is in a way 'linked' with the morphing grid." Maya said this catching Lurre's attention.
"Linked? In what way Spears?" Lurre asked and Maya lays out the books.
"In this way. AV has many family members that were rangers in the past. I think that monster can brand people who have ranger blood in them." Maya says Lurre ponders this.
"That would explain young Avalon, but not Sora. Unless…" she says and Maya nods.
"Sora has someone in her family that was a ranger and doesn't know it." Maya finishes for Lurre.
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Sora and AV walked out of lunch depressed and still in pain from the brand they had received from the monster. What they didn't know was that they were being watched by a man in a janitor outfit. He was tall and muscular with sandy blond hair that was graying and blue eyes and he was delighted that the two were in pain.
"They are only getting what they deserve." The man said to himself his voice was that of Xolicernic meaning that he was in his human form.
"Especially that girl in red. Who would let a girl become the red ranger and led a team." He thought as the two passed him AV was gripping her side still in pain.
It was then that Mcknight came walking around the corner and almost bumped into the girls, but by avoiding the girls he bumped into Xolicernic.
"Sorry about that. My bad sir." Mcknight says as Xolicernic's eyes widen at the site of the person in front of him.
"Levi?" he asked in a whisper which the other man heard, but before he could look Xolicernic took off down the hall in a quick pace.
"Did he just say my name? Why did his voice sound so…no it couldn't be." The man whose full name is Levi Mcknight thought.
He was about to go and talk to the janitor when Principal Steps finds him "Ahh there you are Mr. Mcknight. The assembly has been called and we are waiting on you." He tells Levi who looks down towards where the janitor had been, but was now gone.
"Okay. Let's go and get this done then." Levi says and walks with the principal to the auditorium where the assembly was taking place.
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Sora and AV were in the auditorium sitting with Peter, Eva, and even Sara "Hey where are your friends at?" Sara asked not seeing any of the others.
"No clue. Haven't seen them." AV lied to her.
"S-S-So umm…w-what do you t-think the a-assembly is a-about?" Eva stutters out and next to her Peter puts a hand on her shoulder to calm her.
"No clue, but then again Principal Steps does do these assembly's at random about random things. So it could be anything from proper edict to the creation of the universe. " Sora said.
Sara groans "I hope it's not over animal reproduction…again." She says Peter shivering.
"Honestly there was better ways to explain that. Bringing in someone to explain every detail was a bit much, and probably scarred a few kids." He said.
It was then that Principal Steps came to the podium on the stage and tapped on the microphone testing to see if it was working as well as silencing the students.
"Thank you everyone. Now as you are wondering why I called you all here." He said as students began to mumble causing Mrs. Steps to come out and take the microphone.
"QUIET! Anyone else who interrupts my husband will be serving detention with me after school for the next week!" She shouts as everyone goes silent.
"Here you go sweetie. Go on and continue your speech." Mrs. Steps says sweetly handing the microphone back to Principal Steps before kissing his cheek and walking off back stage.
The principal cleared his throat before continuing "Now as of late there have been a few kidnappings in nearby towns. Perhaps you may know these people or maybe you don't. Now I managed to pull a few strings, but I got someone here who can give you all advice about what you can do in those situations." He said and signals off stage.
"Now without further ado I present Mr. Levi Mcknight." Principal Steps said and everyone claps as Levi walks onto stage up to the podium.
"Well this is going to be long. Long and boring." Sora thought letting out a sigh.
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Each ranger had gone to different parts of town once they noticed how slow things were going by them all searching together.
Leo was in Legacy Square on one of the buildings looking about. There was no sign of Stamper Brander, but it looked like he had been there as it looked like things had been tossed about.
"I think SB was here, but she's long gone. How about you guys?" Leo asked into his morpher.
Cassie was downtown in an alleyway "Nothing here Yellow. Or out in the streets." She says glancing out into town.
Adam was hiding in the shadows as he went through a local neighborhood "No signs here either. I think she's gone Yellow." Adam said.
Alvin was in the old warehouse where they had been ambushed by Dracotaur, Blocker, and Xolicernic "I don't have anything here either." He reports.
Leo groans "Well let's keep looking. Perhaps she's near the school." He said.
"Well is anyone near the school?" Cassie asked
"Sorry, but I'm too far out." Alvin said.
"Well then I guess it's a good thing I'm near. I can check on the girls and see if SB is near." Adam said as he took off in a sprint towards the school.
"Good we'll meet you there Black." Leo said as he and the others run off in the direction towards the school.
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In the auditorium many students were paying attention interested in the topic, but there was just as many students who had zoned out, ignored what he was saying, or had even fallen asleep. Unfortunately Sora was part of the last group as she was rather bored and uninterested in what he was talking about.
AV shook Sora waking her "Huh? Oh is it finished?" Sora asked with a yawn.
"So does anyone have any questions for Mr. Mcknight?" Principal steps asked having gotten back up to the podium.
A hand shot up "Yeah. When exactly will we ever have to do what you're talking about?" A guy asked Levi.
Levi stepped back up "Good question. Well you would be surprised. That might come a time when you will have to do some of the stuff that I talked about." He said as another hand shot up.
"Have you ever been in a kidnapping situation yourself sir?" A girl asked.
Principal Steps takes the microphone "Now now. This is no place for personal questions." He said and Levi signals for the principal to give the microphone back.
"Actually in fact I was right about when I was your guys age." Levi says causing the students to start to whisper among each other.
"Yeah. It was actually one of the reasons that helped me to decide my career." He continued Sora leaning up taking an interest in what he was saying.
Levi let out a sigh "Now most people wouldn't believe that your own family could be behind something, but it's the plain and simple fact that anyone can do anything for whatever reason. That includes family." He said.
"I know this better than anyone because the people behind mine and my half brothers kidnapping was my own parents. My mother wanted to make my half brothers father pay for taking my half brother way, and my father wanted revenge against some 'special veterans' as he called them." Levi continued.
"So they had concocted a plan, and while it did succeed my parents also had to make sure I couldn't do anything after I confronted them and told them I had passed on a message to someone. So they took me and my half brother away somewhere." He continued.
"Me and my half brother was being held captive in a motel, and when my parents left for breakfast that morning I had managed to get us both out, but we didn't get far before they managed to find us again." He says.
"But it was thanks to a few friends that we had been saved. You see after my half brother was taken his dad had gotten in contact with some others and formed a rather large search party, and it was thanks to that search party we were found." He said knowing how much he still owed two particular people.
Another hand shot up "What happened to your parents?" another girl asked.
"Well as you can guess kidnapping and abuse are criminal charges. So they were put on trial for what had happened. My, and I use this term loosely 'mother' has thirteen years left in jail." He said and sighs.
"As for my father well…he did something in court and wasn't able to stand trial. He was sent to a psych ward, but he vanished a few years back and is assumed dead along with another." Levi informed.
"As for me well I was adopted into the Mcknight family." He finished.
Another hand shot up "So your basically saying that when a friend gets taken we should rally together to find them?" a guy asked.
"That is one way to put it. Though I think a friend of mine put it better as 'When it affects one it affects us all'." Levi replied. When Levi said it Sora and AV saw a image of the Music Force Bronze ranger.
Sora and AV blinked and the image was gone, but what they didn't know was that two other people in the auditorium had seen the image as well and was rather surprised wondering what it was that they had just seen.
Xolicernic was nearby listening and had his arms crossed and hat down to cover his eyes and he quickly left not wanting to be possibly seen.
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Right outside the auditorium was Stamper Brander who was about to go in and cause more of a problem for both the school and the two rangers that were inside.
"Ohh…I can't wait to see the looks of pain and hear the screams and looks of fear on their faces." Stamper Brander said childishly with a chuckle and goes to open the door.
"Who am I kidding? I don't have to wait!" she says with a laugh about to throw open the doors. A cough got her attention and she turns to see the four morphed rangers in their Legacy forms.
"Oh sh…" Was all she managed to get out before Leo hit her with his katana throwing her into the school auditorium. All four rangers came walking in as everyone went silent.
"Uhh…Hello there's a monster in the room! Everyone get out!" Cassie says as people finally took notice as Robyn screams and people start to run out Sora and AV getting dragged along in the crowd.
Stamper Brander got up and growled at the four rangers getting rather annoyed "You dare to interfere! My master will have your heads if this keeps on going!" she said.
"Oh really? You can't fight your own battle you over-sized wad of tissues?" Leo taunts angering Stamper Brander.
"T-Tissues! I happen to be stamps not tissues!" she exclaimed.
"Really. Well it's hard to tell the difference. Those things do look the same." Adam said with a shrug.
Cassie rolls her eyes under her helmet "Not the best time guys." She says before throwing a sai at Stamper Brander impaling the sword she had just summoned into the wall.
Stamper went to retrieve her sword trying to pull the sai out, barely dodging a swing from Alvin who had rushed up to her.
As Alvin did this Leo pressed the button to summon his weapon which when pressed a second time is suppose to summon the Lore Blaster. What he didn't know was that if at least four of the six rangers were in Legacy form it would summon a different weapon.
What appeared before them was what looked like a cross between a crossbow and an over-sized blaster with missing components.
Alvin came back tossing Cassie the sai that she had thrown. Looking at it Alvin turned the tomahawk upside down and inserted it into the bottom section creating the handle. AV's blaster appeared and was slotted in the section between the handle and blaster making the trigger. Sora's sword appeared attaching to the top creating half of a scope, and with the addition of Leo's katana it made a full scope. Cassie's sai's attached to the side near the front and Adam's mace acting like an arrow.
All four rangers looked in amazement at the new weapon before turning back to Stamper Brander and taking position with Leo ready to pull the triggers.
"Legacy Cross Blaster armed!" Cassie declared.
"Target locked on!" Adam continues as the blaster hummed with energy.
"Ready…aim…" Alvin said.
"FIRE!" Leo shouted pulling the trigger. A golden beam of energy came out from the blaster at the same time the mace was launched. The mace and beam merged together and hit its target as Stamper Brander cries out in pain and explodes.
"Tale End." All four rangers said together as meanwhile the brands on Sora and AV vanished.
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Xolicernic watched what occurred, but said mostly nothing. It brought him great pleasure to inflict this kind of pain to the two of the rangers. Yet was mad that he couldn't cause more pain.
"No matter. There time will come." He said.
That is the end of episode 14. There are only 6 episode in this arc as for what is to come well even I can't say as while I have most of these chapters planned out I still am working out the kinks. Here's a list of the chapters that are to come in this arc:
Unnamed Filler Chapter (A slice of life chapter focused on characters that aren't the rangers).
OC Team Tribute Chapter (An OC team tribute chapter. I'm unsure who the guest ranger will be).
The Game Master (A filler chapter that features a lot of video game call outs).
OC Team Tribute Chapter (Another OC team tribute chapter. Unsure on the guest ranger for this as well).
Unnamed Filler Chapter (This filler chapter might feature age change, body switching, or even gender swapping).
It's Morphing Time (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers tribute chapter. Green or White he is one of the most well known rangers and will be the guest ranger for this chapter).
I hope that you all will enjoy the coming chapters and…THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR I HAVE REACHED 100 REVIEWS! Until next time this has been decode9.
