Episode 6: Big Sister
It was just another Saturday to most, nothing big was happening other than soccer, football and other sporting events. But to Sonny, it was the day she became a big sister. She had signed herself up to be a big sister for someone, she didn't really care who, as long as she got to help them and be the big sister she always wanted to be.
She walked into the substation, a cheerful smile on her as she skipped her way over to the counter with a basket of fruit and a bottle of water in her hands, everything swinging as she skipped. Justin, who hadn't noticed the arrival of his friend for obvious reasons, looking at girls, jumped in fright as the annoying ringing of the counter bell echoed around the sandwich shop. His head snapped upwards, gasping at the chipper face appearing out of nowhere.
"Whaa! Sonny where did you come from?" Justin asked, taking a calming breath. Sonny gave him a questionable look before pointing towards the door.
"Through the front door, you know the big one out front that's forever opening and closing?" Sonny teased, finding amusement when Justin's face turned red from embarrassment.
"Uh right, That not what I meant um… Why are you so chipper today?" Justin asked quickly changing the subject.
"I'm getting a… little sister today!" Justin blocked his ears as she screamed out of joy. Once she stopped Justin smiled excitedly, taking his apron off and to her side hugging her.
"Oh my god, I didn't know your mother was pregnant, do you know if it's a boy or girl yet? Well cause it's a girl you said little sister, OMG this is amazing." Justin was practically jumping to the moon and back, excited for his childhood friend. Meanwhile Sonny just stood in awe. She had never seen Justin act like a little hyperactive kid before, ok she had, but never like this.
"My mother isn't pregnant." Justin stop jumping confused by her statement, staring at her in wonder.
"If your mother's not pregnant than how are you becoming a big sister?"
"I'm part of the big sister for a day program." Sonny explain. "It's where I act as someone's big sister for a day, you know hang out and be friends with them."
Justin walked back around the counter, placing his apron back on as he got down someone's order while Sonny continued to talk about the program.
"And so I'm meeting her here. Today I'm going to be the ambassador of fun, I even got a hat" She finished, placing a red hat with a fan and white letters saying ambassador of fun on her head. Nick and Nico walked in, the two were surprised to see so many people in the substation at 9:45 on a Saturday morning.
"Hey guys." Nick said as he and Nico walked towards the counter, smiling at the group while Nico was more curious as to why everyone was here to actually pay attention to his friends.
"Hey Justin was there a monster attack that we weren't informed about with the monster taking pity on this place and leaving it alone and so everyone figured it was safe in here? And what's up with the hat?" Nico finally turned around and lost focus when he saw Sonny's hat.
"Well, Max' sandwich, to the max, became a great hit and now people are eating popcorn for breakfast." Nico and Nick nodded their heads in understanding before turning to Sonny.
"I'm the ambassador of fun today and I wanted a hat." The boys started to laugh at her answer, it just seemed a bit childish for her to want a hat for it.
"So is Alex up yet?" The four gave each other a look, letting Nick's question sink in before burst out laughing. Everyone that knew Alex knew that she never got up before eleven, unless her parents flipped her bed or Max threw a bucket of water on her.
"Ah, good one." Nico commented, not realizing a little girl was just behind him and Nick, shoving them both out of the way with displeasure.
"Ok out of the road, move it or lose it, etc, etc." The girl gained a stare from each one of the rangers before she opened her mouth again. "Are you Sonny?" she asked sweetly.
"Yeah." Sonny answered, taken back by the girl in front of her. "What's your name?" Sonny asked a little afraid to find out.
"I'm Dakota." Dakota said sweetly once more, almost making Sonny forget how rude she was to the guys. "And I'm your little sister for the day, meaning you give me everything I want." Dakota now stood on top of the stool, just bigger than Sonny looking down at her, yelling her head off.
"Hey you may be my little sister for the day but that doesn't mean I'm your salve." It was the rangers turn to be taken aback, since Sonny never get cross like this before. What surprised them even more was that Dakota didn't budged, she didn't even blink as Sonny yelled at her.
"You done?" She sweetly asked once.
"Yeah I am, so now that's cl…"
"Good now buy me toys!" She yelled, interrupting Sonny. "Get that stupid hat off your head and fruit! Are you trying to kill me." The four had to take a step back from her.
Nick actually found it amusing, they could stare face to face with the most terrifying monsters that Rita could throw at them without blinking an eye and what they're afraid of is just a little girl with an attitude problem. He couldn't help but laugh at this.
"Well Sonny, we're going to be over there if you need us." Nick said as he and Justin, while laughing, were pushed away by a scared Nico, being directed to their usual booth.
"Please don't need us." Nico pleaded before leaving Sonny alone with a snotty brat. Sonny couldn't really blame them for doing that, after all she didn't even want to put up with this brat. But she was upset that they didn't want to help her out, after all she thought friends were meant to help each other out. She guessed that wasn't the case, not in this situation. And unlike them, sadly, she promised a day with Dakota and of course she had to fulfill it. 'Stupid idiotic conscience, why was I born with one again?'
"So Dakota what you want to do first?" Sonny bend down, giving out a fake smile as she came face to face with Dakota, wishing she didn't asked the small girl, while she spoke.
"Haven't you been listen!" She spat on Sonny face, Sonny jerking up and wiping her face with her pink sleeve. "You're going to buy me toys and ice cream."
Sonny suddenly felt like her spirit had been ripped out of her very body, and thrown a side waiting near the dump. This girl is going to be the end of her, she just knew it. She actually wanted to cry and did as Dakota, grabbed onto her wrist and dragged a reluctant Sonny towards the double doors of the substation.
"I feel so sorry for her." Nick and Nico nodded in agreement as they watched their friend sigh in defeat and get dragged by the hand by the little girl.
"Hey she wanted a little sister." Justin and Nick turned their attention to their friend before once again nodding their heads in agreement.
Chad and co sat in a booth on the other end of the substation, Harper holding a file on everything they knew on the five rangers. Since they knew little the file wasn't that big.
"Ok we know the red ranger has obviously mastered karate or something and know the black ranger loves to dance." Harper told her companions. "As for the other three, we know nothing about them."
"Well it's a start." Chad took a sip out his drink as he watched a video clip on his phone of the power rangers fighting a wolf monster. "But I, which I mean we, need more information."
"Well how do you expect us to get it, it's not like we have any superpowers to find out." Grady replied in-between bites of his sandwich and looking up from his comic. "It's not like someone just gonna show up and give us a hint as to who's the rangers are."
"Hey guys! Guys! I heard you're looking for the power rangers, is that true? What are you up to?" The three teenagers turned their heads towards Zeke's freaky smile. "I heard you're looking for the power rangers."
"What? How did you… um I mean no of course not, what made you think that?" Chad tried to cover the truth, but of course failing miserably.
"If you let me in I'll tell you a hunch I got on one of the rangers." The three teenagers stared at one another, sharing a gaze before turning back to Zeke.
"You're in."
"Ok, I believe Justin Russo is a power ranger." Zeke sat down next to Chad pointing towards Justin who was talking to Nick and Nico at that point of time.
"You think Justin Russo is a power ranger?" Chad asked, looking sceptical towards Zeke.
"Yeah, Justin never goes to chess clubs, alien clubs or any other form of clubs anymore and always seems to disappear when the rangers are around."
"He also wears a lot of blue." Grady pointed out, while staring at the clad blue warrior.
"Oh your God!" Chad was shocked beyond belief, he didn't understand how he missed it, it was so obvious and what makes it worse is that Zeke realized it before he did. He couldn't figure it out and therefore he must do something he has always done in past invents… lie.
"Justin is the blue ranger, glad I thought of it." Chad smiled before looking at the stares he was getting from his fellow comrades.
"Um…? Wasn't it Zeke's idea?" Harper pointed out. Noticing the glares from his comrades, Chad started to dart his eyes back and forth starting to get nervous at the glares before accepting defeat.
"Yes, now that's clear, we now must stalk Justin Russo." Chad yelled, getting the near by tables and booths' attention. The other three nodded their heads in agreement, smiling embarrassedly at the stares.
The four snapped their heads towards Justin and the others, startled at seeing that the boys were getting up and walking over towards the small group. The only thought in each of their heads was did they hear him. Which Zeke, Grady and Harper wouldn't really be surprised about, they'd be more surprised if they didn't hear Chad.
"Quickly basic manoeuvres ." Chad said just over a whisper. With that they grabbed a menu and placed it over their faces, trying to look casual while keeping an eye on Justin. Of course this was a complete failure.
"What's with them?" Nico asked as the three young warriors past the four as he started his ascent up the staircase, while Justin and Nick both stopped to stare at the four in question
"Oh they're trying to figure out who the power rangers are." Justin replied, as if it was nothing, walking past both Nick and Nico.
"Haha good luck with that, they're to awesome to get caught by those guys." Nico smirked before the three started to laugh, the laughter echoing through the substation at the four spying teenagers.
On Luna Palace Rita once again watched the rangers, finding the little girl that was with Sonny interesting.
"She's the one." Rita screamed standing up straight as she looked down to the world, Baboo and Squatt having no clue as to what Rita meant by that.
"What you mean you evil one?" Rita turned around to Squatt with a giant smile on her face that frighten the two.
"My evil green ranger, she's the one." Rita turned back as she got a better look at the little girl with Sonny. "Sure I'll have to increase her aging process, but she's the one that's going to take down the power rangers."
"Mistress are you sure you want another power ranger around, don't the rangers already kick your butt?" Rita spun around, face redder than a tomato, if possible, pointing her staff at the blue buffoon, a red energy beam blasting him to the wall.
"You buffoon, she'll me on my our side, like I already mentioned." Rita screamed, frightening her minions. "And they ruin your plans!" Rita stormed out of the room, a trail of fire left behind as she barge into Finster's lab. "Finster, I need a monster and not just any monster but a brainwashing monster and make it a dinosaur. I'm going to show them if you play with dinosaurs you're going to get eaten."
"Of course my Queen, just give me a second." Finster got to work, creating a creature of his Mistress' demands.
"Rita wants a monster that can wash brains? Well ok." Squatt said before being hit in the head by Baboo.
In the bedroom of Alex Russo, the teenage girl rested happily within the confinement of her sheets. Curled up in a ball, a content smile pasted on her face as she slept, not knowing that her wakeup call was hovering just above her bed.
Nico and Justin, who were wearing putties outfits, were on the right side of her bed, closer to the door, chuckling to one another. Meanwhile Nick, who suggested not to wear the outfits, stood on the left shaking his head, already knowing the outcome to this catastrophe and that it wasn't going to be pretty.
Starting the count down with his fingers, Nico chuckle a little too loud, waking up their fellow comrade as he got to two. Alex woke up, not bothering to hide or contain her yawn as she sat up in bed, stretching her left arm while rubbing her right eye with her other hand trying to get the sleep out. She was definitely unaware of her brother or friend's childish scheme.
Noticing something from the corner of her left eye she turned her head around to see a grinning Nick, a warm smile appearing on her face, not one bit bothered by his presence. She pulled her sheets aside as she swung her legs over the edge of the bed, not ashamed to show Nick she was only wearing black boxes and a yellow tank top.
"Hey Nick, how long have you been there?" Alex asked, still not noticing the boys' antics, which was one of the reasons why they had sweat drops on their heads. The other reason being that she was so casual about some guy in her room, watching her sleep and not caring she was only in her P.J.
"Only a couple of minutes." Nick replied, turning his gaze from the brunette to her clock, amazed at the fact it was still on and had the right time on. "You're up earlier than expected." Nick smirk, knowing that the outcome he was awaiting for was about to commence.
"Yeah well I have places to go and people to see you know." Alex replied getting up out of bed. "I'll be right back Nick I'm just going to the bathroom for a seco… ARGH" Alex screamed on top of her lungs as she turned to face her bother and friend.
The boys chuckled at this, both grabbing the bottom of their masks preparing to take them off. Unfortunately for them they were to slow compared to Alex. With one quick motion Alex shot over bed and quickly landing a roundhouse kick to Justin's face knocking him to the ground.
Before Nico could even register what happened, Alex landed on her bed before kicking him in the side, sending him toppling over Justin's fallen form. He now sat their gasping for air, winded from the sudden assault, while Justin laid where he landed, slowly going onto all fours, reaching up to rub his cheeks.
The two slowly got back up, trying to register what happen before seeing Alex towering over the top of them, preparing to pounce at them. The two started shaking with fear as they stared into her furious eyes, afraid of what may come.
Not wanting to feel her wrath, the two ripped off their masks, revealing their faces to the ticked off yellow ranger, sighing in joy as they watch her retreat from her assault. Nick on the other end, smiled at the three, trying to hold back a laugh.
"Alex! Alex! It's us!" Justin yelled, while he took off the mask getting a stern glare from the younger Russo. Justin slowly and painful got up and almost stumble over while he walked over to the mirror on the opposite end to Alex's bed. He stared watery eyed as he rubbed his left cheek where there was a newly made footprint shaped mark, still a little stunned that his own sister had kick him in the face.
"God Girl! Why did you do that?" Nico asked in between breaths. Nick walked around the bed, believing it was safe, and could no longer hold in the laughter.
"That's for trying that idiotic stunt." Alex replied as she leapt off her bed and stood beside Nick, getting a look of disbelief from the two boys.
"YOU KNEW IT WAS US AND STILL ATTACKED US!" The two yelled in complete sync that was kind of creepy.
"Not at first, but I continued my assault anyway. Don't worry, I didn't put too much effort in it." She replied, a cheeky smile spreading across her face.
"Getting beaten by Alex, I won't tell if you don't?" Justin said turning to face Nico, seeing Nico having the exact facial expression as himself.
"Agreed."
"Ooooh guuyys." Alex replied amusedly as she pointed at Nick who at that moment was holding up his phone, chuckling at the three.
"Who needs TV when you have you guys?" Nick chuckled, getting groans from the two other boys while Alex laughed.
Sonny, having the day of hell, had finally had time to rest by the park bench as Dakota ate her ice cream. She stared up at the sky, her eyes scanning the clouds, smiling every time she noticed how some of them looked like animals and for a second one of them reminded her of Nick.
Because there was two patches of blue and where they were and shaped it gave the cloud a serious, humanoid face. Sonny laughed at this, while either not noticing the little girl glare or just not caring. Sonny had laughed once or twice and Dakota, having no soul, found her laughter annoying and demanded that she never laugh again time and time again. Sonny didn't listen to her of course, if she wanted to laugh she would and no one could take that away from her not even this little brat.
"Sonny what did I told you about laughing?" She asked sweetly, batting her eyes, looking innocent. "I said no LAUGHING!" This little pest was going to be the death of her, she just knew it.
"Hey listen here little missy, I'll laugh if I want to." Sonny snapped back, getting frustrated with the little girl sitting beside her, her eyes burning with rage. For a second, Sonny thought she saw the little pest jump in fright.
"Well guess what, what I say goes so if I say to shut up than SHUT UP!" Sonny was taken aback by the girl. Never in her life had she ever meet a little brat like her, a part of her actually wanted Rita to attack, just something for her to vent on or at least get away from her.
"Quit your day dreaming, I want toys!" Dakota barked, jumping out of her seat, finishing her ice cream cone and starting to drag the resentful Sonny by her hands.
Sonny couldn't believe the crummy job that this little girl's parents did at raising her, at this moment she wished she could give the girl parents a piece of her mind. God, if you love me, please save me. Sonny sighed as Dakota dragged her off to who knows where.
Chad and his crew sat in the same booth as before. For over about half an hour they fell silent, all of them trying to think of a way to expose Justin as the ranger they claimed him to be.
Now Chad saw himself as a patient, kind hearted, unselfish young man, but his so call patience had easily went dry as he glared daggers into the three in his booth. Instead of thinking of a plan they were doing their own things. Chad some times wonder why he even put up with this. He then reminded himself he wanted the money and the role in movies to show the world he was the greatest actor in his generation.
But at this rate even he knew that his dream wouldn't come true, especially right now with everyone slacking off as they always were. He focused his glare at the lot of them before focusing in on Grady, annoyed he was reading one of his comics instead of thinking of a way to expose Justin Russo.
Grady, giving up practically the second they started, now sat reading one of the comics he had decided to bring. The others had told him off about this but he claimed it to be his way of thinking.
"Grady are you even thinking?" Chad asked, twitching his eyes in annoyance. Grady looked up from his comic and stared at him, a nervous grin appearing on his face.
"Yeah of cause I am. I'm just arr… seeing how… the bad guys gets the superhero to pull off his mask." Grady replied, finally coming up with a good excuse showing off his goofy smile.
Meanwhile both Zeke and Harper had also gone weary and started to chat in "alien talk." "Alla kitdock." Zeke said, Harper actually knowing what he said and laughing at his joke.
"Tinnka, blib." The two were starting to get on Chad's, and those around them, nerves. "Oh! Oh! Gatte buya."
"Wow Harper, you should join alien league, we'll defiantly be able to defeat those Gaspers Geeks if you do." Zeke told her.
"Um I think I should do a rain check on that." Harper smiled at him which quickly faded away as she turned her head across the table.
Chad eyes scan the three
"How are we going to expose Justin for who he really is if you're all slacking off?" Chad screamed to the heavens, once again gaining many more people's attention.
"Who I really am? That's a pretty good question." A rather familiar and amused voice asked behind the blond. Chad turned his head around nervously as he came face to face with Justin.
Chad, Zeke, Harper and Grady stared dumfounded as Justin and Nico, who was using Justin as a leaning post, stood directly behind Chad.
"Oh hey Justin… what are you doing here?" Chad asked nervously, eyes shifting side to side looking for some kind of distraction but getting nothing.
"I live here." Justin stated as if it was the most simplest thing in the world, which it was.
"So why are you guys trying to expose Justin for?" Nico asked amusedly, wondering what the four were up to, though he had an idea.
"Arrr…? We wanted to expose that Justin is, arr…" Chad thought trying to come up with a cover up, but it was safe to say that he wasn't any good at making a back up story.
"We were going to tell the world that Justin was the most handsomest man in the world and we thought everyone should know." Harper spoke up, stopping Chad for making a bigger fool of himself than he already was, while staring up at the now disturbed Justin, dreamily.
"Yes we were going to tell the world that Justin was handsome." Chad replied, chipper at the start for covering up the truth but quickly discourage as he realized what he just said. Everyone seemed to stop, like time froze in place for the rangers and Chad and co. The only reason why you knew otherwise was that Chad, Zeke, Grady and Justin faces were turning red and a smirk spread across Nick face.
Justin crept back a bit, even though knowing full well that Chad was lying it was still kind of creepy and embarrassing beyond belief.
"YOU'RE GAY!" Nico yelled as he pointed to the blond, yelling loud enough to catch the whole substation's attention and within seconds the substation was filled with laughter. Both Chads' and Justin face turning as red as a tomato.
Chad shot out of his seat, immediately after the laughter started and charged for the door screaming on top of his lungs. "I'M NOT GAY!" His fellow comrades followed right after him.
Chad continued to run even once he past the double doors of the substation and sprang to the left, still screaming he wasn't gay and gaining weird stares and looks from passing citizens, almost not noticing the putties costumes near the bin.
Coming to a halt, Chad turned back around, slowly walking to the costumes and picking them up as the other three reached him. A mischievous smirk spread across his face as he looked up to the others. "I have a plan."
Back at the Luna Palace, Finster's machine was once again in the progress of making a new monster for Rita Repulsa. All the gears were rolling, clicking and banging as it went through the process before finally blasting the monster out.
Once the smoke cleared, Rita instantly came face to face with a tyrannosaurus like creature with the stegosaurus spikes on its back with a tail that looked a lot like a mace and to top that he had a red triangular gem on his forehead.
"He's repulsive. he's brilliant! I shall call him Chaossaurus. Now my monster I want you to go to Earth, kidnap this child and bring her to this cave." Rita ordered the creature, showing him an image of the girl and cave.
"Yes me Queen, me will do as me been told." Within seconds black and red lights encased the creature and shot out of the castle towards Earth, leaving a weird smile on Rita face.
They were still in the park, something Sonny took joy from. The little princess, note the sarcasm, needed to take a pit stop and now Sonny waited by the door awaiting for it to creep open and release the little demon inside.
Sonny wasn't sure what was taking Dakota so long and she wasn't even going to ask. Besides, it's not like she cared, the longer she was in there the more time she wasted. And of cause the more time she wasted meant less time being bossed around and listening to her endless whining and let's not forget the closer it came to getting rid of her for good.
The young brunette's brown eyes gazed upwards, staring up into the unknown. She brought her head back down, squirting her eyes as the wind pick up, protecting her eyes from the dust that came with it, her hair waving in the wind. That calm, relaxing sensation overcame her whole being, no words could ever describe this wonderful feeling within her, it was so soothing, so peaceful.
She was so into the moment she almost missed the echoing sound of her phone beeping in her pocket. Sonny casually and calmly raised her right hand and placed it into her pocket, grabbing the rectangular device and removing it from its resting place. She brought it to her face, her eyes reading the text and smiling a bit when she read Alex's name. She smiled even more when she read the content inside, reading that she and the boys were heading to the park and that she could meet them there.
Sonny placed her phone back to where it came from and gazed back up to the bright blue sky. Her smile grew bigger by the second until it became her usual chipper smile.
Sadly though her peaceful, calm, happy presence faded away instantly as the toilet door swung open, slamming into the wall and making Sonny feel glad she was leaning on the other side.
"Okay off to the mall." Dakota barked, walking off not bothering to see if Sonny was following.
"Stop right there." Dakota froze on the spot, frightened by the demanding, angery voice of Sonny. She had never once heard someone speak like that to her, no one. Everyone usually feared her, she was shocked that a pushover like Sonny would dare. You wouldn't expect her to shout out of rage. "I am not your slave, or someone you can boss around. And since we did everything you wanted to do, we are going to something I want to do and that is to wait for my friends in this park."
"No! I want to go to the mall." Dakota shout, recovering from her fear.
"No we are going to stay here." Sonny responded, she was definitely not going to take no as an answer.
"Me want younger girl, older girl go away." The duo snapped their heads to the side, eyes going wide at the mix and match project of a monster snarling at them.
"What the hell?" Dakota stated taking a step back while Sonny took a step forward, glaring daggers at the creature before her.
"What do you want?" Sonny yelled at the creature, getting into a fighting stance, one that was taught to her by Nick.
"Me just want girl, if you give girl to me, me won't slam." He growled, eyeing the pink ranger, taking multipliable steps forward. With every step it took, the tenser Sonny seemed to get, sweat starting to form and fall from her face as fear filled her eyes.
She wished she could morph, bring out her power bow and send an arrow his way but sadly Dakota was around, and she knew if she morphed than she no doubt tell reporters or blackmail her later on. So in other words that was a big no.
"Listen here you overgrown gecko, she might be the most annoying, the most bossy, the most obnoxious person on the planet but I won't let you even touch one hair on her head." Sonny roared, watching as the creature stopped mere feet away from her.
"Me shall slam, me shall stomp, me shall crush you! Die human. ARRRRRR!" The creature roared rushing towards the pink ranger, closing the gap within seconds, arm up high, claws ready to strike. With one quick slash, Sonny was sent tumbling to the ground, blood spilling from her new flesh wound. As Sonny rolled, her blood dropping where she rolled, she could hear a scream coming from Dakota before she was stopped by her back slamming into a tree, gasping at the pain.
Sonny struggle to get up but couldn't, feeling her left arm give every time she tried to move it and her chest wasn't much better. She opened her eyes, just barely, her hair falling on her face so she couldn't see everything, but what she did see was that the creature held Dakota in his hands. Sonny blinked for only a second but once she reopened them the young irritating brat and the overgrown gecko were gone. She could still hear rushing footsteps, feeling the ground shake around her telling the monster hadn't gone far and Dakota screaming, ordering the monster to let her go was a big help.
'Come on Sonny that little brat needs you.' With one more thrust Sonny leapt off the ground, groaning as she did, her breathing more noticeable. Holding her bleeding left arm, placing pressure on the wound, the brunette quickly scanned the area. The pink warrior easily spotted the overly large gecko, eyes narrowing as she removed her right hand from her shoulder, grabbing her morpher.
"It's Morphin Time…! Pterodactyl!" She hissed, a bright pink light encasing her injured frame.
Meanwhile Nick, Nico, Justin and Alex walked through the park, their laughter being heard throughout the area. They were walking in groups of two, with Nick and Alex out back, smiling laughing, or in Nick case smirking and chuckling, to whatever Justin or Nico were demonstrating at the front.
The four, meaning Justin, Nico and Nick, split a cab down to the park. Alex had sent a text to Sonny moments ago, telling her they were on their way and told her where they'll be, if she actually showed up was still questionable since Sonny didn't reply.
Neither Nico nor Justin really wanted her to be there. Not to be mean to Sonny, in fact they would have loved for her to join them, relax and have some fun. The only problem was that they fear that little girl that Sonny promised to spend the day with and didn't wish to cross paths with her again. Especially if they could help it.
Both Nick and Alex told them they were being idiots, more Alex than Nick who said she wasn't that bad, and that if Sonny wants to come and bring Dakota than that's just fine. Which Nico and Justin than replied with that Alex hasn't even meet the child yet and couldn't talk, but still they end up dropping the conversation when Alex send her friend a text.
So there the four warriors walk, trying to get to their arrange destination, joking around, making faces and enjoying each other presence. It's not every day they get to hang out with one another with Rita gone quiet, so they weren't gonna take it for granted.
The four were too distracted by each other to notice the two stray putties that were chasing a more wider girl across the park until they heard her scream.
The four snapped their heads to the direction of the scream, noticing the wider lady wearing a pink dress as she ran for her life from two putties, all of them staring in shock and disbelief that they were unaware of this. Noticing the four of them she quickly change course and dashed off towards them.
Justin and Nico quickly went into a stance ready to fight, while Alex, who stared skeptically at the whole thing, turned to face Nick with a questionable glance. She was kind of stunned to see that Nick was already looking at her as she stared into the serious, calm eyes of the red ranger. She found it kind of weird that Nick knew she was going to turned to face him, but none the less he nodded his head, answering her unspoken question.
"Guys chill, it's nothing." Justin and Nico snapped their heads around to face their fellow rangers, shocked that neither of the two seemed to be intending to help the lady out.
"But Nick, she needs help and those are putties, it's our duty as r…." Justin was about to pronounce rangers when Alex spoke up.
"Check again, the putties are acting dumper than usual and that's Grady in a dress." The duo did what they were told and took a second glance, eyes going wide in disbelief as their jaws flung open.
It was true, Grady was in the pink dress, wearing lipstick and eye liner. It was a really disturbing sight and just like Alex said the Putties were acting weird. One of them was holding a mirror and stared at itself every few seconds. As for the second one, it held its nose, while waving his other hand in the air
"Now that just disturbing." Nico shuddered, holding himself as his body shook with of displeasure, Justin not much better.
"At least he's not trying to tell the whole world you're the greatest guy in the world. Hey! Even though it's still creepy beyond belief they're right I am great, maybe I should let them pass it around." Justin said out of thought, getting an are you kidding look from his friends.
"Justin get over yourself and Nico it's not much better than the time when you and Grady wore hula skirts and coconuts." Alex replied.
"Hey those coconuts were cool." Nico quickly defended, the four rangers forgetting the approaching idiots.
"Yeah they are on a girl." Alex stated firmly, turning her attention to Grady as she heard the loud, heavy breathing of the gender confused teen.
"Please! oh please! help me." Grady yelled in a damsel in distress, rushing over to the young warriors.
"You can quit acting Grady we know it's you." Justin said, slouching down a bit, becoming calm and relaxed.
"And I'm going to guess that the putty that's holding the mirror is Chad and the one doing the swim is Zeke?" Nico question, watching Grady waving back and forth, starting to have a fit.
"Oh, how did you know it was us?" Grady asked, whining like a little child.
"It wasn't hard to guess." Nick replied, pointing behind Grady to Zeke and Chad's lame attempt to act like putties. "How come you got stuck as the damsel in distress, why not Harper?" Nick asked after a moment of thought.
Grady turned to face the eight curious eyes, a shy smile spreading across his face at the same time it was going red. "Well you see, she thought we were being foolish, and ran off and I kind of wanted to wear a dress."
"I feel sorry for asking" Nick replied, placing his hands in pockets and backing away while the other three laughed silently to themselves. Nick found it quit amusing, but also disturbing in many ways. He never wished to see Grady in a dress and now actually seeing it made him realize why.
Grady turned to his friends, or in Chad words the boss and the minion, watching as they got a meter away. 'Man, they're slow' was the thought that past the rangers' minds. "Sorry guys they already know."
"What!" Chad screamed, frustrated as he ripped the mask off his face. "How? It was because of you two, you both are pathetic especially when it comes down to acting."
"Haha and this coming from the guy who kept on staring himself in the mirror every two seconds while wearing that outfit." Alex laughed.
"Put me down you idiot or my father will hear about this!" Chad was about to retort when the ground beneath the group of teenagers shook only seconds before a mutant dinosaur came springing out of the bushes, a little girl in hands. The group stared out of disbelief, none of them quite sure if it was the fact that one of Rita's monsters had kidnapped a little girl or if it was because Dakota was ordering it to let her go.
"Mon…Mons…Monster!" Chad, Zeke and Grady screamed in perfect sync, before dashing off in fear, zigzagging across the park and waving their hands in the air.
Meanwhile, the four rangers just stood there glaring at the reptilian fiend, both Alex and Nick ready to go while the amazing duo stood there looking impress. This didn't get past neither Nick or Alex who raised their eyebrows in question.
"Wow that's the best acting I have seen today." Justin said, impressed by what he thought was an act.
" I know right, I wonder who it is." Nico replied as he clapped.
"Are you kidding me?" Alex spoke out frustrated, stepping in-between the oblivious duo and throwing her arm out towards the monster. "That's no loser in a suit, that's an actual loser."
"What?" Justin question turning to face Nico, then to Nick and back again to Alex. "Are you sure?"
"Get your fossilised butt back here and bring back that brat!" The four rangers snapped their heads around just in time to see the pink ranger, clenching her left arm, running after the dino reject, her left hand in a fist.
"Positive." Alex replied, kind of stunned that Sonny would call someone a brat.
"Well guys let's give her some back up." The black, blue and yellow rangers, glaring at the monster, nodded their heads in agreement as Nick walked in front.
Nico, reached back for his morpher, but stopped in mid thought, looking back up to the other rangers. "Uuuum? Do we have to?" Nick and Alex quickly snapped their heads in shocked at what the black ranger just said.
"He does have a point, he did only take Dakota and if you ask me he's be doing the world a favor." Justin spoke. "So if we fight him we'll be going against the world." Nick stared at them in amazement before turning to Alex, hoping she was still positive as to what they needed to do. But sadly even the yellow ranger went into question.
This was frustrating, even though the two did have a point, Alex couldn't leave the girl and just forget about her. Yes she was a brat but she was still a victim and it was their duty to save the innocents, even if they weren't so innocent. That was it, Alex knew what to do and that was kick Zordon's butt for choosing her as a ranger after she got Dakota back.
"Guys she needs us and she's still an innocent." Nick pleaded, the three only continuing to debate. Nick sighed at the lack of corporation, turning around and reached back for his morpher.
"Sabre-Tooth Tiger!" A yellow flash bolted past the red ranger, the yellow light fading to reveal the yellow ranger dashing off to the battlefield. "Come on slow pokes, we got a brat to save."
Nick, slowly recovering from shock, smirked at the yellow ranger as he continue his reach for his morpher. "Come on guys we can't let the girls show us up." From the corner of his eyes, Nick watched as the two nodded, once again in sync, Nick's eyes lighting up at his friends. "It's Morphin Time!"
"Mastodon!"
"Triceratops!"
"Tyrannosaurus!"
Back at the Luna palace Rita watched with rage as the Chaossaurus ran away from the rangers. "What the hell is he doing?" Rita screamed, her face turning a furious red as she waved her staff from side to side in frustration. "Why doesn't he just teleport?"
"My Mistress, with all that power and strength something had to go." Goldar replied to his Mistress's fit.
"Sadly he's right Mistress." Finster agreed. It went quiet for a second until Rita screamed to the other end of the galaxy and back, her four henchman jumping in fright.
Back on Earth Chaossaurus continued to storm through the park, constantly debating whether or not to just eat the small, whinny, complaining little brat. In fact he had come close but quickly chose against it not wanting to fail Rita. Especially since she'd probably make his skin into a coat.
"Get back here!" And to make it worse, the pink ranger was on his tail and so he didn't have enough time to find that spot Rita wanted the brat.
"Me must keep on running, me must not fail, me not want to be a coat for me Queen." Chaossaurus puffed, his stomping making the Earth shake beneath his feet, feeling his hollow heart beat a mile per second.
He wasn't to worried about the pink ranger, for each second that past the distance between them grew and soon he could no longer see the pink, injured warrior. He stared back down at his arms at the over bossy girl before staring back up, unaware of what's about to unfold be for him.
"Power Sword!" In a flash of glowing red orbs, all gathering in front of the prehistoric reptilian monster, the red ranger flew through the air, sword up high, slashing at the monster side opposite to Dakota.
With a huff, Nick landed on one knee and one foot, the point of his sword out to the right, shimmering in the sun's rays, a smirk forming behind his mask as the Chaossaurus fell to one knee. After making sure that he was steady, Nick slowly stood back up while turning around, getting into a stance with both his hands on the red sword and placing it by his side, ready to strike if need be.
"You know for a big guy like yourself I figure that you'd be stronger." Nick taunted, his amusement unable to hide itself within his voice. "Now why don't you let the girl go and we can do the usual monster, ranger cliché."
"Oh, ok and what's that?" The monster asked dumbly as he turned his head to the side, his red glowing eyes glaring daggers at the red ranger.
"Oh you know, we fight, you grow big and then we blow you up." Nick answered, creeping closer to the ground, parting his feet away from each other. "And so can we hurry this up, I want to be back for dinner."
"Haha, You think you can crush me, me crush you, me slam you, me destroy you." The monster laughed as he got off his knee and snapped around to face the rangers very own bold leader, not bothered or even faze by Nick's earlier assault. "Me shall have much pleasure destroying red bug."
Nick was taken aback to the point of dropping his guard and took a step back as Chaossaurus charged at him with speed he couldn't apprehended considering how bulky the monster seemed to be.
Rekindling the fire within, Nick placed all his weight into his back leg as he pulled his sword to his left before pushing off the ground, moving at a speed not even he was aware he was capable of, as he shifted his body, placing all of his weight onto his other leg as he stomped into the ground. Shifting his foot, Nick brought up his sword, sure he was about to slash of the creature's head as his sword followed his movements.
At the last minute, Chaossaurus ducked under the silver blade that would most probably would have taken his life away, and lashed out with his black, blood tinted, claws, glowing with black and red energy as they slashed Nick.
"This will kill you."It whispered as the red gem on his forehead started to glow. An ear piercing, primal cry of pain left the red ranger mouth as his sword fell out of his now unclench hands.
It was then that Dakota went silent, eyes bugging out. Even her breathing went silent and her face went pale as the red ranger fell. It was then that the four other rangers caught up to the disturbance only to watch the final few seconds of their fearless leader's fall to the ground. His sword, after meeting the ground, rebounded off the solid earth before coming to a halt.
"Nick!" The rangers screamed, scared for his safety.
The monster laughed in victory at defeating the red ranger, the rangers' proud warrior, and Dakota's ranting, before eyeing the other rangers. "Me love to crush, me love to slam all me opponents, but me Queen wait for me."
The rangers quickly rushed at the gruesome creature, coming too late to save the child as Choassaurus shot up to the sky in black and red lights and flew off in a random direction, unknown to the rangers. Not bothering to stop or even slow down, the rangers rushed to their fallen leader's side, watching as a red glow engulf the young hero of Earth and his sword before leaving an injured child on the ground.
"Nick! Nick!" Alex cried as she placed a hand on Nick's back, shaking him furiously, trying to get a sound out of him. Fear overwhelmed the yellow ranger for each second that her childhood friend didn't respond. She couldn't even hear him breathing, his heart beat seemed to be getting slower by the second and soon after that panic filled Alex. The fear of losing her friend was too much to bare and she started to shake him harder, more furiously, screaming out his name.
Nico quickly moved over to the young feminine hero of Earth, restraining her arms and placing her in a bear hug, stopping her for reaching Nick while Justin turned Nick around.
Alex struggle in Nico's arms, screaming out Nick's name as a yellow and black light burst out of the two warriors of Earth, the light quickly fading away to reveal the young brunette and the African- American. Tears were visible as they came down Alex' cheeks and landed upon Nico's arms. She continued to struggle, trying to get her arms free, but Nico wasn't having it. Alex even tried hitting his chest but that also fail to get her free. Finally letting up, Alex let her tears freely fall, not caring who saw them as she hid her head against Nico's neck.
This was truly a rare sight to see, Alex falling into someone's protective arms while breaking down. Nico had only experienced this once and that was when Sonny was sent to the hospital after blacking out. He didn't really know how to react to this so the only thing he could do was try something and hope it worked. He loosened his grip a bit and rubbed the yellow ranger's back in comfort. He was quite glad that she moved in closer, meaning that whatever he was doing he was right.
Justin, who had demorphed back to his usual self, sat by Nick's side, looking over the younger teenager, placing pressure into his gut while placing his ear to his chest, listening to his heart beat, and even placed his ears near Nick's face trying to hear any sound of breathing. Justin stared up at his best friend and his younger sister, watching her cry into him as he sat there and let his clothes get drenched. He then looked up at Sonny who had also arrived and demorphed when he wasn't looking and was kneeling down beside Nico and Alex, placing her head on Nico's shoulder, staring at the blue ranger. Tears to were in her eyes as well. Justin could tell it was a mix of fear and pain, fear for Nick's health and pain from her still blood dripping arm. He knew she would have to get her arm checked out and that they should have placed something over it to prevent infections or blood lost but at that moment none of them were thinking right.
After one last push against Nick's gut, the young warrior went into a coughing fit from the lack of air. Nick slowly sat up, getting support from the blue ranger, coughing in his right hand while his left supported him up.
"What hit me?" Nick asked tiredly as he looked around only to see a yellow and pink blur before he went stumbling down again, groaning at the added pressure.
"You're alright!" The girls squealed together, Alex wrapping her arms around Nick while Sonny leaned on Nick with her good side, making sure her blood wouldn't fall on her shirt.
"Yeah of cause, why wouldn't I be…? Oh right." Nick said realizing of the recent event. "Where's Dakota? And Sonny are you ok?"
"The monster slashed me before he snatched Dakota and Rita has her now." Sonny replied lowering her head out of guilt. Dakota, even though she was annoying, she was her responsibility, it was she who should have kept Dakota safe.
"Come on, let's get to the command centre, I'm sure Zordon knows what to do." Nick replied, struggling to get up, only managing to get back on his feet thanks to the help of Justin and Nico. "And maybe he can do something to heal your arm."
"Right." Sonny replied as the five looked down at their communicators and hit a button before vanishing in multiples glowing colour orbs to the command centre.
In an unknown cave in New York, Dakota laid on the solid, firm ground fast asleep from the monster's abilities. Chaossaurus stared at the girl in silence, growling on top of her, wishing his Mistress would I allow him to swallow her.
His red eyes darted away from the small, helpless little girl to the glowing purple and red swirling energy that slowly turned into the old, mighty hag herself.
"Well done my monster you brought the girl, but next time DO IT FASTER!" Rita screamed, Chaossaurus jumping in fright. "Now let see." Rita raised her staff over the little, sleeping brat. Rita smirked evilly as Dakota started to glow red in response to her gem within her staff.
"Mistress can me eat her after this? Me hungry, she be good snack before rangers." Rita turned her head in rage, glaring at the monster who slowly back away from the fuming witch hag.
"No you buffoon, she will be my new evil green ranger, if you even dare try to I'll turn you into a wall ornament understand!"
"Yes Mistress me do! Me do!"
"Good." Rita replied turning her attention back on to the girl, slowly accelerating the girl's growth. "It won't be much longer now."
In the command centre the small android was quickly at work, pressing buttons and twisting knobs, trying to track down the little girl that got kidnapped. Meanwhile Zordon was deep in thought while watching over New York, waiting for the rangers' arrival.
Zordon couldn't think of any reason why Rita wanted this little girl, he couldn't understand her method. It's not like a special event was coming and there's nothing to gain. There was nothing that little girl could do, unless... Zordon shook his head in disbelief, there was no way Rita would take just a little girl when there was hundreds of better candidates, but what if…? Zordon closed his eyes, focusing all of his senses, making them sharper, trying to track down a certain power signature.
It was proving to be harder than expected, all the powers signature he could sense were those that were encased with the warm, relaxing, and gentle vibe of light. There were a few Spine chilling, dreadful sensations but none that caught his attention for long. The rest were mostly of humans, and being people with no connections to the morphin grid or any unusual powers, it was easy to cross them off his list.
The floating head in a tube almost gave up on his search when suddenly he felt it, the dark, eerie presence of no one other than Rita Repulsa and that dark item that she held. Zordon's head shook out of discomfort of that cold, dreadful chill that the darkness always seemed to carry. He was also getting a small headache as his sixth sense screamed in his head, telling him to be cautious and stop trying to track the power.
As the five coloured, glowing orbs gathered into the command centre and started to form into the five teenagers, Zordon's eyes snapped open, no longer able to focus on the two separate evil identities. After a few minutes of recovering from his senses, he scanned down at the young warriors that filled up the command centre, each one looking concerned for both Zordon and the bleeding Sonny.
"Zordon what's wrong? What's happening? Why did Rita kidnap Dakota?" Sonny asked repeatedly, walking forward, her hand still on her shoulder.
"I'm afraid Rita has kidnapped Dakota so she can become the new green ranger." Zordon replied. The looks on the rangers' faces were more than a little shocked at the news.
"We were afraid that this might happen." Alpha spoke up walking up to the rangers after turning one more dial. "And we were hoping it would never come."
"So wait, Rita has a power coin?" Justin asked stepping in front of the other rangers with his arms stretched out.
"Sadly yes." The android replied going back to work on finding the girl's exact location.
"We have to stop her, if she has a power coin then we're in danger, where's Dakota?" The other rangers nodded their heads in agreement as Nick stepped forward in front of the four.
"She is located in cave on the outskirts of New York, you can't miss it, you just go straight forward and turn a left towards the glowing red lights and the ugly gecko."
"Ok can't argue with those directions, let's go!" Alex cheered thrusting her fist into the air enthusiastically.
"Oiy, she's a bit too enthusiastic for saving a little brat." Nico sighed as the five turned around about to teleport, awaiting Nick's command but just before they could the four rangers, Zordon and Alpha all turned their heads to the injured brunette.
Looking up from her wrist Sonny stared at the curious faces of her fellow friends and comrades, the staring contest lasting for a full minute before the silence broke.
"What?" Sonny asked, not able to take the silence any longer, her curiosity getting the better of her.
"What do you think you're doing?" Nico asked calmly obvious fighting the urge to tell her off for going off into battle.
"Dakota is my responsibility I have to go." Sonny responded, kicking off the argument, the others turning around to face her each one having a serious and firm facial expression.
"Your responsibility is to yourself at the moment Sonny; let us worry about Dakota and Rita." Nick told the brunette calmly but with that 'I'm not in the mood to argue about this' tone in his voice.
"But Nick I…?"
"He's right Allison; you aren't in any condition to battle, you're already lucky you don't have nerve damage." Zordon told her. "You are to stay here let Alpha look at it."
"But…" Sonny started before lowering her head in defeat as the others' facial expressions become more firm, obviously not backing down from their decision and they far outnumber the pink ranger. "Fine I'll stay and it's Sonny Zordon."
"Right this way Sonny." The rangers watched as their friend disappeared from sight as Alpha led her somewhere else in the command centre.
"Rangers Rita has put up a barrier over the cave so you must get Dakota out before we can teleport her to a safe location. And be careful with the monster rangers, his hypnosis ability can be fatal. Nick was lucky last time." The rangers nodded up to the giant floating head.
"Alright thanks Zordon, ok guys back to action." Nick yelled and in four different colours the four teenagers vanished from the command centre and reappeared onto the frontlines.
Across the open field red, black, yellow and blue orbs could be seen flying off straight ahead, stopping less than a mile away from the entrance of the glowing red cave.
"Well that was easy to find." Alex said, dressed in yellow spandex, glaring at the glowing red cave through her helmet as she sat on one of her knees.
"Yeah but the rest won't be." Nico replied leaning down a bit so the tall grass could hide him from sight.
"Hey Nick you fought the monster before, can you give us an idea what we are up against?" Justin whispered, Nick just barely hearing him, lying on his gut, grabbing the tall grass and shoving it in his face, wanting to blend in to his surroundings.
"His strength is unimaginable and my attack did pretty much nothing to him." The three gasped in shocked at this. Not once had a monster not been phased by their assaults. "And to make things worse that gem on his forehead has some kind of hypnosis ability to it."
"What? Does this guy have any weakness?" Justin asked, whispering a little louder, afraid and shock at the same time.
"Well even though his speed is decent for his strength and size, he's not too bright, but other than that, no."
"Well than, we're definitely in for a good, long, thrilling battle then." Nico replied sarcastically, turning his attention back to the cave.
"Well might as well get this party started." Nick replied as he started to sneak down to the cave, keeping close to the ground. "Come on guys and remember, stay together. We are going to need everything we got to defeat it."
Rita continued to channel her magic through her staff and into the girl, her eyes shut as she chanted, placing all her concentration on the little girl. Well, that was until her sixth sense started screaming in her head, quickly picking up the heart warming, loving embrace the light always gave.
Her eyes snapped open, gasping in utter shock, as her head slowly turned to the cave entrance, her jaw wide open and reaching to the ground. There was no way Zordon or the rangers would have found them, let alone crept up to the entrance. She took all the necessary precautions, she even did every chant she knew to keep her hidden while she turned the brat into a killing machine.
"Chaossaurus it's snack time, the rangers are out front." Rita barked, turning her glare at the monster. A wicked smile spread across Chaossaurus' face as he sniffed the air, taking in the power rangers' scent.
"Me kill, me eat, me enjoy meal." Chaossaurus roared as he charged outside the cave.
The rangers jumped at the terrifying, enrage roar, stumbling a bit with the small earthquake that followed only a few seconds after. Nick tilted his head upwards, glaring as the dinosaur charged out of the cave, making a direct course for them with his sharp pointy teeth shinning in the sun light.
"Guys prepare yourselves! Power Sword!" In a flash of Red light Nick's sword quickly formed in his hands as he sprang off the ground he and dashed off towards the monster, keeping close to the ground.
"Nick! Power Daggers!" Alex called, rushing after her childhood friend and bold leader, her daggers appearing in a flash of yellow lights.
The monster chuckled at the two foolish acts. He went into laughter when the red gem on his forehead starting to glow. "This will hurt badly." Chaossaurus raised his claws, placing his arms in a cross position, red and black energy swirling around them before he unleashed the blast. Four energy blades were then directed and charged right at the two rangers, exploding at impact.
"Nick! Alex!" The boys yelled as they watched their friends as they were sent flying backwards, losing track when the dust cloud over took the two, but within a few seconds red and yellow blurs flew out of the dusk cloud and landed a few feet away, rolling.
"Me so strong, me destroy you with ease." Chaossaurus laughed, stomping closer to the four of them. "Me shall eat yellow first."
"I don't think so, Power Axe!" With one giant leap Nico sprang into action, a tight grip on his axe as he held it by his side. With one swift motion Nico raised his axe ready to strike the monster that injured his friends.
Chaossaurus smirked smugly at the black ranger as he raised his right hand, blocking the attack and stopping the axe in its place.
"What?" Nico cried in shock, trying to continue his axe slash but with no luck.
"This end you black ranger, this will kill you." Nico glared underneath his helmet, sweat falling from his face as he paled as the monster's right hand and gem started to glow.
Quickly reacting, Nico placed his left foot behind his right and spun to the side using the force of the monster's strength when he thrust his glowing hand out and shoved Nico's axe back away to which it came, just narrowly dodging the monster claw, glad for his love of dancing.
Twisting his wrist 180 degrees he once again whipped out his axe, jumping in midair while twisting his body around, forcing the monster back. As he made his way back around Nico twisted his wrist back right around and slash diagonally as he landed. Not wanting to slow down Nico then placed the axe to his side and ran right passed the monster, slashing at its side and skidded to a stop a few meters away, smiling at his success.
"Haha! That tickle, it's me turn." The monster laughed while Nico gasped in shock. Time seemed to slow down for the black ranger as he slowly turning his head around, fear building as the monster whipped around, his tail flying freely while making a direct course for Nico.
Just as the Chaossuarus tail was about to make contact, a blue lance shot forward, ripping the air as it soared through it and slammed into the tail. This altered the flight path and sent the tail plummeting down to the ground, making a thunderous boom and a small dust cloud that covered the ground as a blue figure landed in-between the monster and the black ranger.
"Don't worry Nico I got your Back." Justin commented as he struggle to keep the monster tail down.
"But your back got nothing." Chaossuarus yelled as his claws once again glowed in its violent lights, preparing to strike the blue ranger down only for his arm to be reflected off the black ranger's axe as he rolled over the leaning blue ranger's back and swung his axe vertically.
"Yeah I don't think so." Nico taunted, lashing out with his leg, slamming it into the monster's chest and forcing him back from the two rangers.
"Snacks no fight back." The monster cried out, complaining at the two rangers. "Me will crush you!" Both Nico and Justin snapped into a fighting stance, getting ready for whatever the monster may do as it charged forward. But he only made it so far before red and yellow beams of energy shot out of nowhere and blasted the monster on its side.
"You guys ok?" Nick asked as he and Alex jumped in front of the other two rangers, blade blusters ready for action.
"Yeah we're cool; in fact we're doing great." Nico boosted. "In fact we don't even need your help."
"Nico don't get over your head, it's going to take a lot more than that to finish this guy off." Nick replied turning his head away from the black ranger and back to the monster before his eyes drifted off towards the cave. 'And we still need to get Dakota out of here.' Nick turned his gaze to the monster in thought, before turning his gaze back to his fellow rangers. 'We might be able to hold this thing off for at least for a little while, while one of us grabs Dakota.'
"Alex, me, Nico and Justin will hold this guy off as long as we can, in the mean time I want you to try and get Dakota."
"What! No way I'm not letting you guys fight this thing without me." Alex retorted firing a blast out of her blade bluster along with Nick as the monster charged for them again, buying some more time for arguments.
"Alex this isn't up for discussion." Nick replied placing his blade blaster back into its holster and resummoned his power sword.
"But…?"
"We'll be find Alex, now go." This time Nico put in, stepping in front of Alex and raising his axe, getting ready for the second round of this fight.
"Fine, if you're sure." Alex replied hesitantly, stepping away from the group, while keeping an eye on them and another on the monster before sprinting off for the cave.
"Why you going?" Chaossaurus yelled at the yellow ranger changing his path directory to the yellow ranger while the gem on his forehead started to glow once more. "Me want you to st… OWWW!" The monster screamed as he tripped over the red ranger's sword and plummeted to the earth, causing a small shock wave where he landed.
"Where do you think you're going the party is only just beginning." Nick taunted as he jumped backwards to give himself some distance between himself and the monster.
"You'll pay." Chaossuarus roared before he sprang back to action, trying to ram his claws into Nick. He thrust forward only to miss his target as Nick quickly swooped down and struck the monster's leg with his sword once again, tripping the monster again.
"And here I thought you said I'll pay." Nick once again taunted as he watched the reptilian monster get back to his feet, growling in anger.
Making her way through the cave Alex couldn't help but shiver, not because it was cold but because of that chilling, dreadful presence of darkness. At the time, Alex wasn't aware that she was sensing Rita and the coin, she wasn't even aware she was sensing the dark forces at work. All she knew was that this dreadful feeling, the sweat that was coming from her forehead and how anxious she was feeling was all leading to one thing… something evil was just around the bend.
Noticing the candle lit and the eerie glowing red lights at the end of the tunnel, Alex crept to the end of the tunnel and quickly jumped to the tunnel wall at the sight of a white hair old hag. Alex peaked her head out from the tunnel and watched carefully as the old hag concentred as her staff hovered above Dakota. Alex's eyes snapped wider in shock as Dakota's body was glowing in reaction to the hag's staff.
'This isn't good.' Alex thought as she move her hand to grab her blade bluster and adjusted it to it blaster form before springing off the wall and blasting the staff, knocking it out of the hag's hands.
"ARGH! What the! Who dares interfere… You!" Rita screamed as she snapped around to see the yellow ranger.
"Of course it was me, I made sure interfering was part of my job description." Alex smirked at Rita. "After all it is my favourite pass time."
"Well yellow ranger you have interfere with my plans for the last time!" Rita replied her staff flying back into her hands.
"I'm sorry have we meet before." Alex asked, not remembering ever seeing this witch before, and since she couldn't Alex figured she hadn't met the old hag before since who could forget an ugly face like Rita's
"Hello I'm your worst enemy." Rita screamed, waving her hands in the air and performing like a monkey as she jumped on the spot while Alex blinked in question.
"Mr. Laritate? Why did you dress up like an ugly, old hag?" Alex exclaimed, pointing at Rita who's left eye started to twitch as the vein o her forehead popped out.
"I'M NOT AN UGLY OLD HAG!" Rita screamed as a fireball shot out of her mouth and straight for Alex who just dodged the blast by dropping and rolling. Alex than stared at the newly blackened wall.
"Okay so you're a dragon dressing up like an ugly old hag. But you forgot to hide your horns." Alex pointed out as she stood back up.
"I'M RITA REPULSA YOU POWER BRAT!" Rita screamed once again.
"Ohh, I thought you'd look tougher." Alex taunted, laughing to herself as Rita's face turned a very dark shade of red which led Alex to predicting that Rita's head was about to explode.
"Why you!" Rita thrust her staff forward, a blast of red energy heading straight for Alex. Relying on nothing but her instincts Alex ran forward, quickly springing downwards into a roll on the ground, dodging the blast and pointed her blade bluster in front of Rita.
Stunned at the shocking twist of events, Rita kept still as Alex pulled the trigger blasting Rita backwards into a nearby wall.
"I can't believe that work." Alex proclaimed before dashing off towards Dakota, giving the girl a quick check over to make sure she was ok before lifting her up and placing her on her back, groaning at how much the little brat weighed. "Gosh she's heavy."
"Zordon, Alpha come in I've got Dakota, I need you to teleport her the second we're out of the cave." Alex called, activating the communicator as she started her slow walked towards the tunnel that led to the exit.
"Alright Alex, the teleportation progress is already ready for use." Alpha's voice replied over the speaker. Alex nodded her head, not knowing why since Alpha wouldn't be able to see it, and continued her walk until…
"Why you little power brat! Give me back that brat."
"Whoa!" Alex cried as she dived out of the way of a blast of red energy, only mere seconds before it reached its target. "Well I think that's my cue to RUN!" Bolting forward, Alex ran through the dark, eerie tunnel, turning and twisting when the tunnel did, hearing the cry annoyance from of none other than Rita Repulse.
Both Justin and Nico were send flying by the powerful attack of the Chaossuarus. The two grunted as they crush landed and rolled on the ground, only coming to halt when the force of the attack die out.
"This easy." Chaossuaurs laughed as he moved towards the two injured rangers, being stopped as Nick skidded to a stop to his side after ramming his sword across the monster's gut before jumping to the side away from the monster as it swung its tail at the red ranger.
"Come on, you have to try harder than that." Nick taunted as Nico and Justin stood back up. Hearing the other two rangers' heavy breathing and seeing a glance of them holding their sides, Nick knew that this battle couldn't go on much longer, for their sake. Heck, even Nick was feeling the stress coming from this battle. But he wasn't naive; he knew that this battle would most likely be drawn out, especially if Alex didn't get there soon.
If only Sonny was there then they would have had a better chance and have made the Power Blaster and send this monster packing. Nick watched the monster as he rushed forward, eyes narrowed as he looked for any weaknesses or something that could give them an edge, but with this monster's strength and durability, he couldn't see anything. It was so frustrating; Nick could actually feel his head explode out of rage when he remembered something just moments ago…
"Why you going?" Chaossaurus yelled at the yellow ranger changing his path directory to the yellow ranger while the gem on his forehead started to glow once more. "Me want you to st… OWWW!" The monster screamed as he tripped over the red ranger's sword and plummeted to the earth, causing a small shock wave where he landed.
"You'll pay." Chaossuarus roared before he sprang back to action, trying to ram his claws into Nick. He thrust forward only to miss his target as Nick quickly swooped down and strike the monster's leg with his sword once again, tripping the monster over.
'His legs, they aren't as protected there.' Nick realize, smiling underneath his helmet. "Guys aim for his legs."
"What?" Nico asked, but was too late for his brave leader quickly rushed back into battle, running as straight as he possible could with his sword out to the side.
"Hahaha Red ranger has no brain!" The monster laughed as he swung for Nick's head, shocked when Nick ducked under his claws, falling and sliding on his knees, whipping out his sword as he skidded passed and enjoying the sound of the monster's roar of pain.
Justin and Nico smiled underneath their masks with Nico jumping on the spot while Justin twisted in excitement.
"What the?" Chaossaurus questioned as he got back on his feet, watching as the rangers circled him.
"You won the first two rounds." Nick replied.
"But round three." Justin spoke up.
"Is all ours." The monster turned his head at the three rangers as they spoke and continued when they stopped, making sure they wouldn't get the drop on him, but to his sorrow, he failed as a blast of yellow energy soared across the landscape, passed in-between the red and black rangers and collided with his hip.
"You can say that again." Alex cheered in as she ran up and in-between the Nick and Nico.
"Where's Dakota?" Nick asked staring at the spirited yellow ranger.
"Don't worry Zordon and Alpha took her off my hands and sent her somewhere safe." Alex replied turning her attention back to the monster. "So what do you say about destroying this guy once and for all?"
"I'm all for it." Nico cheered before rushing in, Alex not far behind, placing her blaster back into its holster and summoning her daggers once again.
Recovering from the earlier blast, Chaossaurus lashed out with claws, diving for the black ranger who didn't retreat or hesitate, he just continued to launch forward as Alex brought her daggers into a low guard and redirected the claws to the side. Meanwhile Nico span on his heeled while lowering himself as he stood side by side the monster and swung his axe into the monster's knee joints, sending him crushing into the ground.
Not taking a moment to spare, Alex lashed out with her daggers and struck the monster's head, destroying the gem on his forehead before both she and Nico dashed off to a safe distance. The four rangers quickly let go of their weapons, letting them vanish back to where ever they came from before pulling out their blasters and shot four different colour beams, all colliding with the monster.
As Rita finally made it out of the cave she watch in anger as her monster roared in agonizing pain before it fell back and exploded from the rangers combine attack.
"No, my monster! CURSE YOU POWER RANGERS!" Rita screamed before teleporting out of the area and back into her Luna palace as the rangers cheered for their victory.
"Oh yeah, that's how it's done." Nico cheered as he began his victory dance while Justin and Alex cheered in their own way.
Meanwhile Nick stood just above the remaining, black soot from the monster, glaring at the spot for who knew how long. Questions and thoughts filled his mind. He knew something big was about to occur, he could just feel it and whatever ever it was, it's going to be huge.
Later Alex, Nico and Justin sat in their usual booth, watching the news as it showed their latest battle, a smile on their faces, pleased with their work. Sure there were some things they wished that they could have done better, but all in all they saved the day and they all got to see another day and that was what it's all about in the end.
"Well that was fun." Sonny said bringing the three rangers out of their lines of thought and taking their attention from the news. "That little brat blamed me for everything that happens today."
"Well it wasn't you're fault Sonny." Alex replied making room so the brunette could sit down. "Besides, she's out of your life hopefully forever so let's party."
"I'll go for that." Nico replied, raising his glass of coke and tapping Alex's raised cup before taking a sip. "So how's your arm?"
Sonny stared at Nico for a second, blinking a few times before staring down at both her arms, mentally smacking herself in the head for forgetting about it.
"Oh its fine, Alpha healed the wound and told me I was luckily the monster missed my nerves, but told me to take it easy for a day or two." Sonny replied rubbing her now covered arm.
"Here you go Sonny." Sonny and the other rangers turned their heads to the side a little frighten how Nick just appeared out of nowhere holding two drinks.
"Thanks Nick." Sonny happily took the beverage from the young warrior, taking a quick sip before placing it on the table while Nick grabbed a spare seat from an unoccupied table and sat with his fellow rangers.
Sitting down at the end of the table, Nick looked down at his drink, watching it ripple within the cup, lost in thought and not noticing the four set of eyes that focus on him. It was quite obvious that something was on Nick's mind. Sure he always seemed to be lost in his own thoughts and he was the quieter one out of the group, but each one them knew when something was bothering the brunette.
"You do know nothing will happen to your drink if you look up for a second." Nick smirked at this as he looked up to the dark haired girl at the other end of the booth.
"With you around I can't be so sure." This got a small laugh from the others but that didn't last forever to Nick's discontent, he was hoping that they would drop the subject while he thought some more but of course they won't leave him alone until he told at least one of them of his thoughts, mainly because if you tell one that one will tell the other three.
"I was just thinking that Rita's monsters seem to be getting stronger by the day and now the mention of the green power coin and she actually came to Earth. I'm afraid we might lose this war." Nick told them truthfully as he concentrated on a certain spot on the table, his head resting in his hands.
"What you mean Nick, we've been doing just fine." Nico replied, looking a little to relaxed even though knowing Rita could make her own green ranger.
"Yeah just barely, we have a lot of trouble at all of our battles, we just barely win. Remember the snake monster, we almost die there, or when I got capture by Goldar and if she manages to find a suitable green ranger than we could have to take away a life or give up our own, we were lucky today but what about tomorrow." Nick replied looking at each one of his friends to see all of them reacting to it differently. Justin face was paling and muscles were twitching at the thought while both Alex and Sonny went into silence and stared at the table while Nico leaned off the seat and went into a thinking gesture.
"What do you think we should do?" Nico asked breaking the uncomfortable silence.
"We need to prepare." Nick replied after a moment of thinking. "The war has only just begun and we still have a long way to go."
"Do you think we can do it?" Justin asked, speaking up for the first time in awhile as he and the other rangers turned their questionable facial expression towards Nick.
"Yeah we can do it, we just need to stick together and have each others' backs, that way nothing can touch us." Nick smiled knowing he was saying the right things as the others seemed to become more relax and smiled along with him. "We just need to hold on and be there for each other, as one team. And pick up our game a bit, both as individuals and as a team. I'm not planning to lose to Rita or any of her monsters."
"That's our Nick." Nico replied as he stood up and raised his drink.
"As one team." Alex said getting a nod from Nick.
"We can do it." Justin replied.
"No matter what is thrown our way." Sonny started.
"We'll always land on our feet." Nico continued.
"Together." Nick finish.
And there you have it with a near death experience Nick has realize that he and the other rangers have a long way to go just not in battle but also themselves. And what about Chad gaining a new member with his belief Justin is a power ranger.
Hey guys sorry for the delay of the epi, i just gang a few more assesments task, all being due this week, and had to study for three tests and fanfiction wasn't working right, fun right. i want to take the time and thank everyone who's reading, and especially those who are reviewing, my story. Speaking of which, slothkeeper i had a laugh reading your review and wondering if i could use your idea with Twani?
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Until next time readers.