Power Rangers: Hyper Strike
What has gone before…
After a vision of who the second ranger, Kyle goes to Australia to recruit her. After getting Ann to agree, (Granted, not that hard) they were attacked by Tyranus, Nitra, and a group of foot soldiers called Darkcrons. Then, much to her horror, Ann's toy Pikachu was transformed into the monster Pikalator. After some teamwork, and a little help from The Power, they defeated him by transforming the monster into a real, living Pikachu and head to find the third ranger.
They had better hurry up...
Six Come Together, Part 2: The Blades of Wind
Unable to teleport too close into town this time, the two new Rangers had been walking for about twenty minutes to a house in North Carolina. Specifically, a house with an old friend of Kyle.
As the two made it to the door Kyle turned and looked at his sister, "Ann? Just let me handle this. She's more likely to trust me, than you. We have gotten along very well and she doesn't know you at all."
"Fine." Ann agreed, understanding her brother's reasons. This was going to be hard to believe coming from a friend. Coming from a stranger, well, it would most likely result in a visit to a hospital were the wards had padded walls. Sighing and visibly bracing himself to be laughed at, Kyle went over and knocked at the door. A short girl of 21 with black hair appeared at the door, eyeing the pair curiously.
"Hello…" she greeted them.
"Excuse me, are you Carter, from Cary, North Carolina, USA
TIME: 14:00hrs, Local Time.
After some brief introductions, Kyle was at a loss to explain himself. Ann snickering in the background at his difficulty wasn't helpful either. He shot her the darkest look he could manage and saw her grinning widely.
"You told me to let you handle it," she mouthed, grinning impishly, and Kyle suddenly found himself entertaining visions of strangling her. Reminding himself that murdering his, currently, only team-mate in front of a potential team-mate would not be the best first impression, Kyle turned back to Carter.
"Uhh, what I'm saying is..."
"You want me to be a Pink Power Ranger and help save the world, right?" Carter finished with a chuckle. Sighing, Kyle nodded.
"Let me guess. You don't believe a word of it. Ahh, typical. This makes things SO much easier." Still grinning, Carter shook her head.
"Actually, I do believe you. You're not the type to lie, even if I only knew you online. You kinda have this lone wolf vibe about you. Someone who wouldn't ask for help even if you needed it. The only people who I could believe about this stuff are you and Seth. Am I warm?" she asked.
"Pretty much," Ann replied, amused. "Nobody in their right mind would believe me... Most of them actually know me." Scowling, Kyle turned to his sister.
"You're a BIG help." he responded sarcastically.
"I try," shot back Ann, smirking.
Looking at the siblings oddly, Carter asked, "Does this mean I wear pink spandex?"
"Oh… Yeah," Ann said, grimacing in sympathy. She hated pink.
On spaceship far above the Earth, a very different conversation was taking place.
"I can't believe you two couldn't handle two rookie Rangers!" Dantai huffed. Nitra shrugged.
"We made the classic mistake. We underestimated them. But at least WE didn't send a pathetic puffball of a monster like Pikalator! They didn't even have to destroy him!"
The wolf called Tyranus glared at her slightly. "You think you can do better!
She returned. "Couldn't do any worse..."
Dantai glared. "Fine. Tyranus, send a monster to deal with them while I discuss things with my sister. And get rid of the Red Ranger first."
The wolf bowed, "Yes sir. I've chosen the perfect one."
During the conversation, Kyle would glance out the window every couple of minutes, as though he was expecting someone.
Carter moved over to him, "What's up? Why are you looking at the window every second minute?" He shrugged.
"Just waiting till they send their monster of the day. Because if this was Rita right about now..." Just then a loud explosion rang through the street outside.
The three of them ran over to the street where a monster appeared. It looked more like an Etemon mixed in with a lobster than a monster. It had brown hair styled in an Elvis kind of way, had claws instead of hands and held a spear in his right claw and a blaster in the other.
Ann joined them at the window, "...is when she'd send the monster," she finished, sighing. "They sent Radster! Even I know him! What I don't know is whether to be glad we're not facing someone tough or insulted."
Carter turned to her, "He can't be that bad. Can he?"
"More to the architecture than us." Kyle mused. "Ready?" Carter nodded, looking slightly nervous but reassured by the other two Ranger's scorn for the monster.
"Time to Strike!" Ann began.
Kyle smirked, "Going Hyper!"
"FLAME JAGUAR!"
"LIGHT PEGASUS!"
"WIND BUTTERFLY!"
Kyle and Carter underwent similar metamorphosis, but Ann's was slightly different. All of them had their animal on the chest armour. The face of the animal also made up the helmet. The suits had a single holster for the blaster. The suits had a unique but familiar design: The Rangers' colour mixed with white for Kyle, Carter, and Purple mixed with grey for Ann. Their element also had an effect on their suits and attacks. Plus of course, Ann and Carter's suits included a skirt, much to Ann's disgust.
"Power…"
"Rangers…"
"Hyperstrike!" Red moved to front of the group. "Hyperlaser, Spiral Mode!" Their blasters then transformed into short swords. The lobster moved closely to Red Ranger.
"That was some nice show, baby! But let's see how you deal with this. Darkcrons, get them! Let's get this party started!"
"Oh, no you don't!" Red said as he dealt blow after blow on Radster.
Ninjor nodded as he watched the fight. He'd designed the suits to recognise not just colour, but shade. Kyle and Carter were Light, as pure and true as either Zordon or Ninjor him self could have hoped. Ann, on the other hand, was a Shadow, which was slightly worrying. Ninjor didn't doubt the young girl's commitment, but she'd be more vulnerable to the Dark side than the others.
'I'll just have to keep an eye on her...'
Behind her helmet, Purple Ranger grinned dangerously. "OK, you Etemon reject, take this! Wing Shield, Solar Beam!" A bolt of energy shot up into the sky from Purple's Shield, which then lanced down and hit Radster and the remaining Darkcrons at double the Ranger's usual strength. Pink looked at the remaining debris, stunned, as it seemed nothing was left of Radster. There was certainly nothing left of the Darkcrons.
"I can't believe it's that easy!" she laughed.
"Me either," Purple grumbled. "What a loser. Well, at it was a quick…" She trailed off and swore colourfully, making several interesting suggestions about the members of Dantai's family tree, as amidst the smoke Radster climbed to his feet, seemingly unharmed.
"Baby, don't tell me that was your best shot! Elgar could've made a better shot!"
"I wasn't aiming," Purple pointed out.
Despite Radster's stinging words (and some worry at Ann's), Red Ranger let Pink Ranger go ahead. "Give them your best shot and make it count!" Pulling out what seemed to be an oversized, pink Hi-tech bow, Pink Ranger took careful aim.
"Let's see if you get my point. Actually, I have three. Triangle Tri-Bow, Split Arrows!" As she fired the bow, the triple shot she sent seemed to split and curve straight into Radster's chest causing him to smoke and explode. The male Ranger breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well at least that's done with," Red remarked.
"Rangers! I'm not done yet, baby!" The three turned around to see Radster still alive.
Purple groaned loudly, "This is just getting embarrassing!"
"Only just?" shot back Pink. "This was embarrassing from the start!" Red's communicator went off.
"Kyle here."
Ninjor replied, "I'm currently sending a new combo for your weapons. You can create the Terra Blaster by forming the Star Sword, Triangle Tri-Bow, and Wing Shield."
Red Ranger nodded, "Let's do it!"
"Wing Shield!" The Shield formed the core of the weapon...
"Triangle Tri-Bow!" ...the Bow went on the front sideways, forming a crossbow shape...
"Star Sword!" and the Sword went along the top. The result was not dissimilar to the MMPR Blaster.
"Terra Blaster, Fire!" A typhoon filled with Light and Flame hit Radster dead center causing him to explode, this time for good.
"Later days, Radster!" Red exclaimed, calling up to the sky, "Hey, Tyranus. You've got to do better than that!"
The wolf in question was furious. "They mock ME! They'll pay for this insult!" Nitra chuckled.
"You can't say you didn't deserve it. I mean Radster? C'mon. Fortunately, my plan is much better."
He groaned, "That overgrown tin can? That's pathetic."
"Wanna bet?" Nitra ginned. "Trust me, they won't know what hit them." A large six-foot figure covered in black insect-like armour walked over.
"I'm ready to get rid of those pests immediately."
"Good. However, get rid of Red first. He's more dangerous," Nitra commanded.
"Actually, I believe my talents would be best suited to taking out the Purple Ranger first," the figure corrected.
"How so?" Tyranus asked. The figure chuckled evilly.
"Because she will make the most interesting meal..."
After helping Carter get her stuff ready, Ann received a message on her communicator. "Congratulations on your mission Rangers, however I found out that the fourth Ranger is in Arizona."
"Arizona? That means the Ranger is… Oh damn." Kyle cursed.
Carter grimaced, "Seth. We better get him before Dantai does.
"Let's go," Ann agreed, with a sigh.
Halfway there, three down three to go...
But the next challenge will be one of the hardest...
Co-author's note: Okay, it was short but you know how the saying goes. "Short and sweet." Besides, give me a break. I've had to rewrite all three chapters. I'm sure the disappearance of the green Ranger has been noticed by anyone re-reading this. Due to a… disagreement, Alan has quit co-writing this fic with Kyle and so I've taken up the mantel of co-author. However due to a few plot factors we had to re-arrange the order of appearance for the team. The new Green Ranger will appear in Chapter 6. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed the re-written chapters. Blue Squirtle15 (Ann Star)