Chapter 3: Past Warriors
Trent finished off the Hidiacs with his laser arrow attacks and sword. Chip was in a trance as he watched him work. When the monsters vanished, Trent powered down.
"That was awesome!!! Can you teach me that???" Chip said, running over. Trent looked at him like he was insane.
"Uh, that may be kind of hard since you're not a ranger." He said to Chip.
"Yes I am!! I just….well….I'm retired." Chip said, looking away. Trent gave him a look, knowing he was afraid.
"Come on red, you have a lot to learn about being a ranger." Trent said, walking away with him.
"Uh, my name is Chip." He said while walking away.
Kryuel decided to attack the city while Imperious and the others were busy tormenting the rangers.
"Quake with fear you fools." Kryuel said, blasting the buildings with his cane in town.
"Hold it!!" A voice said. Kryuel turned around to see Daggeron standing there with his arms crossed.
"If you want a fight, then I'm right here." He said. Kryuel laughed it off and points cane at her.
"You? Challenge me? I didn't know you were in such a hurry to die." He said in anger.
"I'm not the one who's going to die!" Daggeron said, pulling out his Solar Cell Morpher.
"Magical Source, Mystic Force!!" Daggeron morphed into Solaris Knight. Kryuel was not impressed. "How about we raise the stakes a little?" He said. Kryuel spun his cane quickly, summoning monsters from the past.
"I summon the beasts who have fallen to the Mystic Force." He said. Monsters appeared from before, the Mucor, the Clawbster, and Taxi Monster.
"This isn't good." Jenji said, peeking out of the lamp. Daggeron backed up. "You're telling me." He said.
"Laser Lamp!" he said, firing at them, trying to put up a fight, but it didn't look like he'd win.
Tori threw Vida over her shoulder with little effort and Vida landed hard on her face.
"You're not using your abilities to the fullest, and did you ever think to use your wind power in a fight?" Tori asked.
"Well, magic is one thing, but fighting is totally different." Vida said, getting up.
"Is it?" She asked, while walking on the water by the waterfall. Vida scratched her head and couldn't believe this girl was showing her up.
Vida took a stance. "Wind Power!!!" She spun out in a tornado at Tori. The two started sparring again.
"Move like the wind V." Tori said. Vida rolled her eyes.
"You sound like an old Chinese martial arts master." She said. Tori laughed at the though of her referring to Cam's dad.
"Your problem is, you're afraid you'll lose, you must have a heart of steel. The best advice I can give you is to have a tempered heart. If you feel you can't lose, you won't." Tori said, blocking V's attack.
Vida just sighed. "You're right, one little fight and I thought I'd never win again." She said.
"I think you're ready for a higher level of training." Tori said, smiling.
Madison ran away with Ashley through the schoolyard and up to the gate where Necrolai was waiting with her goon squad.
"Missed me?" Necrolai cackled. Ashley looked at her, knowing she wasn't kidding now.
"This way!!" Ashley said, pulling Madi off again, this time into the gym pool. Madison stopped her in her tracks.
"Why are we running away??" Madison shouted. Ashley looked back at her "You're the new female ranger, you tell me." She said.
Madison blinked for a second. "I'm afraid. I've always been afraid. I've felt I'm not good enough for the team. I always get turned to stone or captured or something. That's why I'm no good to the team." She confessed.
Ashley put her hands on her shoulder. "That's your problem right there. You doubt yourself too much. The female rangers are just as much a part of the team as any of the guys. You bring your own power to the table." She said, trying to will Madi back.
"How sentimental!" Necrolai said from the entrance. Ashley and Madi turned around to see them.
"Ready to run again?" Ashley asked. Necrolai laughed. "Yes little ranger, run away, because you have no chance of beating me!!"
Madison stood in front of Ashley and clenched her fist. "I'm tired of running." She said. The two of them took fighting stances and took the goons head on. Both Madi and Ashley stood their ground and worked together.
"You boys need to cool down." Madison said as she pointed her wand at the water and threw a tidal wave from the pool at Necrolai and the Hidiacs, carrying them away.
Ashley jumped for joy. "2 4 6 8, who do I appreciate? Madi! Madi! Gooo-" Madison pointed her wand at her.
"Don't do that, please." She said. Ashley stopped dead in her tracks but then smiled.
"I see you got your confidence back." She said. "Just remember. Nothing good can come out of being too nervous. Always fight back, even when it's hopeless." Ashley said, patting her on the shoulder.
In the woods, Xander was on his knees begging and pleading Danny to teach him how to fight.
Danny sat on a log and sighed. "Look friend. There isn't anything I can really teach you. I'm not the teaching type anyway. I just work in a flower shop."
Xander shook his head. "No, you got tremendous power. I want it too. How do you do it?"
Danny put his hands on his knees. "Well, for one thing, I love nature, and I don't want any harm to come to it. So, that's why I fight, to protect."
Xander looked up.
"I like nature too, I was strong as a tree once, but now I've lost my courage. I can't go back there and let those things mess up my face. That's my meal ticket." He begged.
Danny sighed and scratched his head a little as he stood up. He saw an axe on the ground next to a sprayed tree. He went over, grabbed the axe and went in to chop the tree down. Xander used his vine power to tie Danny up before he could.
"THAT is the motivation you needed." Danny said, smiling. Xander nodded, letting him down. The training began.
At a mountainside not far from the graveyard, Jason and Nick were sword fighting. Nick held up okay, but Jason was a pro. He blocked Nick's attack and held his sword to his neck.
"No! No! No!" Jason said, knocking Nick down with a swat. Nick looked up at him as Jason held his sword to Nick's throat. "You must have no fear of death, or hurting your enemy. How can a scared sword ever hope to win?"
Nick knew that Jason had gone through some hardships in his time by the look in his eyes. "Haven't you ever felt like you were about to die??" Nick shouted back.
Jason pulled his sword away and turned his head away. "Let me tell you about a battle I had in a dungeon in another dimension. I was unmorphed, no weapon, against a huge gold barbarian with a sword. I had no chance. Yet, here I stand today."
Nick stood up slowly with his sword.
"If you can't conquer your fear of death, you can never win." Jason said. Nick looked down at his sword and clenched it tightly.
Daggeron's troubles were three times the trouble as he tried to deal with the three monsters ganging up on him.
"I hope you like statues. You're going to be one." Clawbster said as he prepared to shoot Daggeron and make him a stone statue. Daggeron jumped at the last second and the shot bounced off a glass wall and hit Clawbster.
"Not again!!!" he shouted as he froze.
Daggeron shot back at the others and tried holding his own. "I could sure use the rangers right now."
Trent was showing Chip some new arrow tricks with his laser arrow attack. Chip waited with his crossbow to eagerly try and show off.
"Now let's see what you can do." Trent said. Chip pointed his crossbow at the target, and blasted a concentrated blast, destroying it.
"Not bad, but you could do better by focusing on multiple targets and not just one." Trent said, watching.
Chip looked at the target and scratched his head. "I don't understand." As soon as he could ask why, more Hidiacs showed up. "Great!!" Chip shouted angrily. Trent's eyes lit up. "Fire a shot into the air." He said.
"Why?" Chip asked. "Do it!!" He shouted. Chip fired a thunder blast into the air. Trent looked up. "Now shoot that one." Chip did, and when both blasts collided, thunder rained down on the Hidiacs, electrocuting them. "Whoa!!" Chip said.
"You see? Even comic book heroes sometimes have to use their brains instead of going all gung ho into battle." Trent said to Chip, who nodded. "I'm ready to go!!! Now about those autographs…." Chip said. Trent sighed.