Chapter 17: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak Evil
Down at the antique shop, Jirou and Mason were struggling to carry a crate into the shop as Beth sat behind the counter doing her homework. Beth looked up for a moment and saw Mason trip over a rug. Mason quickly caught himself by putting all his weight on his right leg and sighed in relief.
"That was a close one," Mason said as he and Jirou sat the crate down beside the counter.
"Hitoshi would've killed you two had you dropped it," Beth told Mason.
"Everything's fine, no worries," Jirou said as he dusted his hands off.
Mason looked towards the backroom and saw that no one else was around.
"Hey, where's everyone else?" Mason asked Beth.
"Logan never showed up after school," Beth told Mason. "I think Ben went to go check on him though,"
"There's no telling what that dork is up to," Mason chuckled as he sat down.
"I'm going to head downstairs and see what Hitoshi is up to," Jirou said as he walked past the counter and headed into the backroom.
"I'll be down there in a minute," Mason said to Jirou as Jirou headed on downstairs.
Mason looked over at Beth and saw that she was still studying.
"You've been reading that textbook ever since we got here," Mason pointed out to Beth.
"That's because unlike you, I want to be a senior," Beth told Mason as she continued reading.
"But I'm not failing," Mason muttered as he looked away.
Over at an auto shop in the city, Ben was watching Logan dig through a toolbox searching for specific tools. Logan pulled out a screwdriver and sighed as he tossed it to the side. As Logan continued digging through the toolbox, a man walked into the garage and picked up the screwdriver.
"What're you doing Logan?" The man asked Logan.
"Oh, Uncle Andre!" Logan screamed in astonishment.
"I see you're digging through my tools again," Andre said as he tossed the screwdriver back in the toolbox.
"Yeah, I'm just searching for some certain tools," Logan notified his uncle.
"Well I can't let you borrow any tools until you return the ones you've already borrowed," Andre told Logan as he closed the toolbox.
"Are you serious?" Logan asked his uncle.
"I'm sure Hitoshi has some tools at the shop," Ben said to Logan as he patted on Logan's back.
"Nah, let's head by my house and check first," Logan told Ben as they walked underneath the garage door.
As Logan and Ben headed off down the street, Ms. Kay stepped out of an alley holding a shuriken in her hand.
"Now let's see what this shuriken is hiding," Ms. Kay whispered as she threw the shuriken.
The shuriken flew into the garage and headed towards an office where Andre was sitting at a desk.
"What on Earth?" Andre said in confusion as the shuriken struck a phone on his desk.
The shuriken began glowing along with the phone causing Andre to jump out of his seat. Dark smoke began emitting from the shuriken as someone began laughing evilly. A large brown ape-like monster with green telephones on its body emerged from the smoke and let out a loud screech blowing Andre against the wall.
"My ears!" Andre shouted in pain as he covered his ears.
"Hey, let me borrow that voice of yours!" The ape monster cackled as his body began glowing.
Andre screamed in horror as his body began glowing.
"Thank you very much," The ape monster said to Andre using Andre's voice.
The monster ran off chuckling and left Andre lying on the floor in his destroyed office.
"What was that?" Andre asked himself as he rose to his feet.
Across the city at Logan's house, Logan was in his garage gathering up tools as Ben was standing outside leaning against the house. A tower of boxes tumbled over inside the garage and fell onto Logan. Ben looked inside the garage and saw Logan shove a box aside struggling to get up.
"A little help?" Logan asked Ben.
Ben chuckled and walked into the garage and helped Logan to his feet. As Logan picked up one of the boxes is phone began ringing.
"It's my uncle," Logan said to Ben as he pressed a button.
Logan held the phone up to his head as he answered the phone.
"Hey Uncle Andre, is something wrong?" Logan asked his uncle through the phone.
"Get back here to the shop, it's an emergency!" Andre shouted through the phone.
"Alright, I'll swing by there in a second," Logan said to his uncle. "I'm just gathering up the tools,"
"Please hurry!" Andre pleaded to Logan.
Andre suddenly hung up causing Logan to put his phone away.
"My uncle wants me to come back to the auto shop," Logan informed Ben.
"That's fine with me," Ben said to Logan as Logan picked the toolbox.
"After we check on him we'll head back to the antique shop," Logan told Ben as the two headed off down the street.
A few minutes later, Logan and Ben returned to the garage and noticed cop cars and an ambulance in front of the building. Logan handed the toolbox to Ben and headed over towards the ambulance. Andre was sitting on the back on the ambulance being checked on by a paramedic.
"You weren't kidding when you said to hurry," Logan said to his uncle.
"What do you mean?" Andre said in confusion.
"You called me and told me to get back in a hurry," Logan told his uncle.
"I don't remember calling you?" Andre said to Logan in confusion.
"His memory might be fuzzy after what happened," The paramedic pointed out to Logan.
"What happened?" Logan asked the paramedic.
"It was a monster!" Andre cried out to Andre. "It was like a monkey and a phone hybrid,"
Ben walked over and saw that Logan had a worried look on his face.
"I think we should get going," Ben told Logan as he sat the toolbox next to Andre.
"Well we're about to go hang out with our friends," Logan said to his uncle. "Stay safe,"
"I will, don't worry," Andre said to Logan as Logan and Ben walked off.
Hiding in a nearby alley, the monster from earlier was snickering as he eavesdropped on Logan and his uncle.
"Now to get one more thing," The monster snickered as he imitated Logan's voice.
The monster ran out of the alley and began chasing after Logan and Ben.
"Here we go!" The monster snickered as he reached for Logan's Ninja Comm.
"What the heck?" Logan said as he felt his Ninja Comm slide off his wrist.
"Where did this monkey come from?" Ben asked Logan.
"It's definitely the one my uncle was talking about," Logan told Ben.
"I got what I came for," The monster chuckled as he revealed the Ninja Comm in his hand.
"I'm giving you five seconds to hand that back over," Ben told the monster as he pulled out his morpher.
"Then prepare to face Phonepanzee's wrath!" Phonepanzee shouted.
Phonepanzee suddenly took a deep breath and quickly let out screeching sound waves. Logan and Ben covered their ears in pain as the force of the waves blew them back away from Phonepanzee.
"Just to be safe," Phonepanzee said as he approached Logan and Ben.
Phonepanzee took the Ninja Comm off of Ben's wrist and quickly ran off down the street cackling as Logan and Ben lied unconscious on the ground.
Across town at the antique shop, Hitoshi was down in the base working on Masaru. Mason and Jirou walked into the lab and saw Hitoshi working and began approaching him to see what he was working on. Jirou looked over Hitoshi's shoulder and saw Masaru with his back panel taken off.
"What're you doing to him?" Jirou asked Hitoshi.
"I'm trying to modify his language," Hitoshi told Jirou as he continued working.
"So you're trying to make him speak English?" Mason asked Hitoshi.
"Sort of," Hitoshi responded as sat his tool down. "I'm adding a way for him to understand all of us,"
"So he'll be able to understand English," Jirou said as he sat down.
"I'm also upgrading your Ninja Comms when I get the chance," Hitoshi informed Jirou and Mason. "I'll be adding a device that instantly translates anything Masaru says so it sounds like he's speaking English,"
"Nice," Mason smiled as he looked down at Masaru lying on the table.
An alarm suddenly began going off on the computer and caught Hitoshi's attention.
"It's Logan!" Hitoshi told Jirou and Mason.
Hitoshi hit a button on his keyboard and brought up a black screen on the monitor.
"Logan?" Hitoshi asked Logan. "Why can't we see you?"
"Guys, it's bad!" Logan responded. "There's a monster attacking us at the park!"
"We're heading your way now!" Jirou assured Logan as he jumped to his feet.
"Be careful out there!" Hitoshi told Jirou and Mason as they rushed out of the lab.
A few minutes later, the Rangers hurried to the park to help Logan with the monster attack. Jirou came up to the top of a hill and looked around at the areas of the park in the distance. Jirou saw no signs of danger as the others caught up to him.
"Do you see anything?" Jun asked Jirou.
"I'm not seeing any trouble at all," Jirou told the others as he turned towards them.
"Logan, where are you?" Mason asked Logan as he held his Ninja Comm up to his face.
Mason slowly lowered his hand as no one answered his call.
"Something is definitely wrong here," Beth assured the others.
"Stay on your guard," Jun warned the others.
"Ben, are you there?" Mason said into his Ninja Comm as he turned away from the others.
Mason sighed as no one answered.
"Even Ben won't answer," Mason told the others.
"Let's start looking around and hope we find something," Jirou said to the others as he began walking away.
A loud screeching blast suddenly hit Jirou and sent him crashing into Mason.
"What was that?" Beth wondered as she turned around.
Phonepanzee leapt on top of the hill cackling as Mason and Jirou slowly rose back to their feet.
"Ew, that thing is hideous!" Jun yelled as Beth stood beside her.
"Where's our friends?" Mason asked Phonepanzee.
"I left them lying in the streets after I swiped these off of them," Phonepanzee snickered as he revealed Logan and Ben's Ninja Comms.
"Then it was you who contacted us," Jirou said to Phonepanzee.
"That's right," Phonepanzee snickered as he imitated Logan's voice.
Mason looked over his shoulder and noticed a group of Basher Bots beginning to surround him and the other Rangers.
"We fell for a trap," Mason sighed as he pulled out his Ninja Star Blade.
"And now your Ninja Power Stars will be mine!" Phonepanzee screamed as the Basher Bots prepared to attack.
The Rangers began backing towards each other as the Basher Bots approached them.
"We're not done yet," Jirou said as he went to place a Ninja Power Star on his Ninja Star Blade.
Phonepanzee leapt into the air and fired down a screeching burst at the Rangers below. Jirou dropped his Ninja Power Star as the obnoxiously loud screeching pushed him and the others to the ground.
"My ears!" Jun cried in pain as she struggled to cover her ears.
"I can't move!" Beth shouted as the force of the sound waves held her down.
Phonepanzee began screaming even louder causing the ground beneath the Rangers to begin sinking. The Rangers demorphed while still being hit by the sound waves and fainted from the pain. Phonepanzee landed back on the ground breathing heavily as he looked down at the unconscious Rangers.
"Grab them and come with me," Phonepanzee commanded the Basher Bots. "We can use them to mess with the other two and maybe even the green one,"
The Basher Bots picked up Jirou and the others and followed Phonepanzee into the distance as they carried the unconscious Rangers.
In an alley in the city, Logan slowly regained consciousness and noticed Ben standing at the end of the alley. Logan grunted as he rose back to his feet and caught Ben's attention. Ben walked over and helped Logan stay on his feet as Logan began to stumble.
"Careful," Ben warned Logan as he let go of Logan's arm.
"Where's the monster?" Logan asked Ben.
"I don't know, but he took our Ninja Comms," Ben told Logan as he placed his left hand on his right wrist.
"Why would he do that?" Logan wondered.
"Yeah, plus he didn't take our Ninja Power Stars," Ben said to Logan as he pulled out his Gold Ninja Power Star.
"We should get to the shop and see if the others are okay," Logan said as he walked out of the alley.
"There's no telling what that monster did with our Ninja Comms," Ben said to Logan as he followed him down the street.
"I just hope he didn't use them to trick the others in some fashion," Logan sighed as he crossed the street with Ben.
Inside of an abandoned building, Jirou woke up inside of a cage with the others and saw Phonepanzee holding his Ninja Power Star. Jirou rose to his feet and began shaking the cage in frustration. Phonepanzee turned around and saw an angered Jirou glaring at him and snickered.
"You're not so tough without this," Phonepanzee chuckled as he showed Jirou the Red Ninja Power Star.
"You won't get away with this," Jirou assured Phonepanzee as he let go of the cage.
"That's where you're wrong ninja boy," Phonepanzee said as he walked over to Jirou. "I just need to make one call to succeed with my plan,"
Phonepanzee cackled evilly as he shook a Ninja Comm in Jirou's face. Jirou looked down at his wrist and saw that his Ninja Comm was gone.
"No!" Jirou shouted angrily as he kicked the cage in frustration.
Phonepanzee cleared his throat as he activated the Ninja Comm.
"Logan, Ben, if you guys can hear this, please come help me and the others with this monster in the park!" Phonepanzee shouted into the Ninja Comm as he imitated Jirou's voice.
Phonepanzee sat Jirou's Ninja Comm on a table as he chuckled.
"Now to go wait at the park for your friends," Phonepanzee said to Jirou. "I'm sure they headed back to your hideout after I attacked them earlier,"
"Come on Logan, I know you won't fall for this trick," Jirou whispered as he squeezed tightly on the fence.
Down inside of the Ranger's base, Logan and Ben hurried into the lab where Hitoshi was startled while he was working on Masaru. Hitoshi turned around and saw Logan and Ben breathing heavily at the door.
"What're you guys doing here?" Hitoshi asked Logan and Ben.
"We were attacked by a monster," Ben informed Hitoshi.
"Yeah, and he stole our Ninja Comms," Logan told Hitoshi.
"Wait, did you send that message earlier to the others?" Hitoshi questioned Logan.
"No, it had to have been the monster," Logan said to Hitoshi.
"A few minutes ago, another message came in from Jirou," Hitoshi told Logan and Ben. "He said they need help at the park,"
"Are you sure it's Jirou?" Logan asked Hitoshi.
Hitoshi began typing on a keyboard and brought up the latest news reports on the screen.
"I don't think it is," Hitoshi said as he scrolled through the news. "There's no sign of a monster attack in the news,"
"So the monster is trying to trick us," Ben affirmed as he crossed his arms.
"Exactly," Hitoshi agreed as he turned off the monitor.
"We need to think of a plan to trick the monster," Logan said as he began thinking to himself.
"If anyone can think of something, it's you Logan," Ben claimed as he patted on Logan's back.
"Give me a few minutes and I'll see if I can think of something," Logan said to Ben as he walked over to a whiteboard.
Logan began writing on the whiteboard with a marker as Hitoshi and Ben stood back watching.
"My ears are still ringing from that loud monkey's screaming," Ben groaned as he placed his hand over his left ear.
"We need a way to counter those sound waves," Logan murmured to himself as he continued writing on the whiteboard.
"I think I might have an answer," Hitoshi said as he walked over to the whiteboard.
Hitoshi picked up another marker and began drawing on the whiteboard.
"We need sound waves of our own to cancel the monster's out," Hitoshi told Logan and Ben.
"And how are we supposed to emit sound waves that powerful?" Logan asked Hitoshi.
"I think I can handle that," Ben answered as he leaned against the wall. "If we can get some loud speakers that is,"
"That's right, we can use your guitar!" Logan gasped as he turned towards Ben.
"So you'll plug Ben's guitar into a couple of speakers and counter the monster's sound waves," Hitoshi said as he continued writing on the board. "This just might work,"
"Where are we going to get speakers from though?" Ben asked Logan and Hitoshi.
"I think I can figure that out," Logan told Ben as he nodded.
Across the city at the school, Logan and Ben snuck inside and came up to a door at the end of a hallway. Logan quietly opened the door and stepped into the room with Ben right behind him. Logan turned on the light and revealed many stacks of cardboard boxes filling the room.
"Are you sure there are speakers in here?" Ben asked Logan.
"Yeah, this is where they keep decorations and equipment from plays and stage shows," Logan told Ben as he opened a box and looked inside.
Ben moved a stack of boxes aside and saw a large black speaker sitting in the back corner of the room.
"Hey, I found one!" Ben informed Logan as he pulled the speaker out of the corner.
"Good, but we'll need more than just one," Logan grunted as he pulled a heavy box to the side.
"We better hurry," Ben said as he sat the speaker next to the door. "If we get caught, we'll be in big trouble,"
Logan slid another stack of boxes aside and found another large speaker.
"Nice, but we still need a few more," Logan huffed as he pulled the speaker out from the back.
Ben opened up a box and found a stash of smaller speakers.
"Would these work?" Ben asked Logan as he revealed one of the small speakers.
"Yeah, we can do something with those," Logan nodded as Ben carried the box over.
Logan picked up one of the large speakers and began carrying it out of the room.
"Come on, Hitoshi is waiting outside in the car," Logan said to Ben.
Ben picked up the other large speaker along with the box of smaller speakers and followed Logan out of the room. Ben chuckled as he watched Logan struggle down the hall with the speaker.
"You good up there?" Ben asked Logan.
"I'm good," Logan muttered as he struggled to carry the speaker.
Ben and Logan made it outside and loaded the speakers into the trunk of the car.
"We're going to return these, right?" Ben asked Logan.
"If they don't get destroyed," Logan chuckled as he got in the car.
"Alright, let's go get things set up in the park," Hitoshi told Ben and Logan as he hit the gas.
Inside of the abandoned warehouse, Phonepanzee watched as the Basher Bots released Jirou and the others from their cage. The Basher Bots lead the Rangers over to Phonepanzee while they were chained together by their ankles. Phonepanzee suddenly began snickering as he noticed the anger in Jirou's eyes.
"Soon your friends Power Stars will be mine and then I'll have all but one," Phonepanzee told the Rangers.
"Logan won't fall for your little trick," Mason chuckled as he looked away.
"He's smarter than you think," Jun said to Phonepanzee.
"We'll see who's smarter," Phonepanzee snickered as he snapped his fingers.
The Basher Bots started walking and dragged the Rangers along behind them.
"Those Gold and Yellow Ninja Power Stars will be the icing on the cake for Galvanax!" Phonepanzee squealed in excitement.
Out in the park, Hitoshi and Logan were setting up speakers in the trees as Ben was standing under the tree practicing with his guitar. Logan attached a wire to the speaker and dropped down from the tree next to Ben. Hitoshi climbed down and handed Ben a wire with a plug on the end of it.
"Just plug that into your Rockstorm Guitar and you'll rock this monster's world," Hitoshi explained to Ben.
"Got it," Ben nodded as Hitoshi stepped away.
"You get back to the base where it's safe," Logan said to Hitoshi.
"I plan to," Hitoshi chuckled as he began jogging away.
"I'll go wait for the creep to show up and lead him right to you," Logan told Ben.
"Let's get the show on the road," Ben said as he hid behind a tree.
Logan ran off up ahead and left Ben behind. Logan pulled out his morpher and placed his Ninja Power Star on it.
"Ninja Spin!" Logan shouted as he spun the Ninja Power Star on his morpher.
As Logan transformed, he leapt up into the trees to go into hiding. Logan looked out in the distance from a branch on top of a tree and saw no sign of a monster in the area.
"They told me to be here," Logan whispered to himself. "Now where are they?"
Logan turned and faced another direction as Phonepanzee appeared in the area with the Basher Bots behind him.
"Now we play the waiting game," Phonepanzee chuckled as Logan noticed him from the tree.
Logan looked behind Phonepanzee and saw his four friends with black bags over their heads.
"Don't worry guys, I'm going to save you," Logan said as he tightened his grip on his Ninja Star Blade.
"Where are they?" Phonepanzee screeched impatiently.
Phonepanzee turned away as Logan dropped down from the tree.
"I'm right here monkey boy," Logan said to Phonepanzee.
Phonepanzee spun around and gasped when he saw Logan behind him.
"Hey, where's the Gold Ranger?" Phonepanzee asked Logan.
"If you want this, you'll have to come and get it," Logan taunted Phonepanzee as he showed the Yellow Ninja Power Star in his hand.
"Hey!" Phonepanzee screamed as Logan ran off away from Phonepanzee.
Phonepanzee began running after Logan and left the Basher Bots with the other Rangers behind.
"Get back here you brat!" Phonepanzee shouted as he chased after Logan.
Logan ran past the tree Ben was hiding behind and gave Ben a hand gesture. Ben stepped out from behind the tree and startled Phonepanzee.
"There you are Gold Ranger!" Phonepanzee gasped as he began running towards Ben.
"Enough monkeying around!" Ben yelled as he struck his guitar causing loud sound waves to emit from the speakers hidden in the area.
Phonepanzee screamed in pain as he was knocked around by sound waves from every direction.
"My ears are bleeding!" Phonepanzee screamed in pain as he covered his ears.
Ben struck his guitar again, but this time no sound waves were emitted from the speakers.
"What the heck?" Ben said in confusion as he struck his guitar again.
Logan ran back up and saw that one of the speakers was blown out in the tree.
"Time for another idea," Ben told Logan as he unplugged the Rockstorm Guitar from the speakers.
"We need to finish him before his ears stop ringing," Logan informed Ben as he pulled out a Ninja Master Mode Star.
Logan placed the Ninja Master Mode Star on his Ninja Star Blade and quickly activated it.
"Ninja Master Mode!" Logan shouted as armor appeared on him along with his Ninja Star Blade transforming into a Ninja Master Blade.
Logan revved up the saws on his Ninja Master Blade as Ben placed his Storm Star on his guitar.
"Ninja Tornado Attack!" Ben shouted as he swung his guitar causing a tornado to surround Logan.
Phonepanzee rose back to his feet groaning in pain and saw Ben up ahead with a human sized tornado beside him.
"Uh oh," Phonepanzee said in horror as he saw the tornado fly towards him.
"Ninja Master Final Strike!" Logan shouted from inside of the tornado as he spun inside striking Phonepanzee repeatedly with the Ninja Master Blade.
Phonepanzee screamed in pain as the tornado flew past him causing him to explode.
"This phone call is over," Logan said as he returned to his normal form.
Ben caught up to Logan and put his arm over his shoulder.
"We make one heck of a team," Ben cheered with Logan.
"The others are still being held captive by a few Basher Bots," Logan told Ben.
"Then we better go help them out," Ben said as he and Logan went off to find the others.
Back by the tree where Phonepanzee left the Basher Bots, a man in a hoodie saw the Basher Bots holding four people captive. The Basher Bots noticed the man approaching them and readied their weapons to attack. The man blocked one of the Basher Bots attacks and stole the club from the Basher Bot as he kicked it aside.
"Come on you worthless piles of scrap," The man said as he struck another one of the Basher Bots with the weapon destroying it with ease.
The man suddenly hurled three shurikens at the final Basher Bot and hit it in the chest causing it to collapse to the ground motionless. Jirou and the others began struggling to get the chains off of their arms as the man walked up to Jirou. The man pulled the black bag off of Jirou's head and revealed himself to Jirou. Jirou's eyes widened in disbelief as the man struck the chains holding Jirou's arms. Jirou quickly removed the cloth covering his mouth as the man ran off into the forest.
"Seiji!" Jirou shouted as he went to take a step.
Jirou tripped and fell to the ground and caused the others to fall with him.
"Jirou!" Logan yelled as he and Ben ran up to check on them.
"Get me out of these chains," Jirou commanded Logan as he rose up.
"What's wrong?" Logan asked Jirou.
"My brother was just here!" Jirou burst out as Logan struck the cuffs on Jirou's ankles.
"Didn't he die?" Ben asked Jirou.
"That's what I thought too," Jirou said as Logan freed the others.
Logan noticed a box on the ground and picked it up to see what was inside. Logan opened the box and saw the other Rangers' Ninja Power Stars inside along with their Ninja Comms. Jirou quickly grabbed his Red Ninja Power Star and bolted off into the forest.
"Where's Jirou going?" Beth asked Logan.
"Seiji is still alive and just saved you guys," Logan informed Beth.
"Does that mean Ripcon is still alive too?" Mason asked the others.
"I hope not," Jun sighed as Logan handed her the Pink Ninja Power Star and her Ninja Comm.
Out in the forest, Jirou was running full speed searching for his brother. Jirou came up to a cliff with a creek below and turned around as he groaned in frustration. Jirou began heading back towards the park and was suddenly attacked by someone from above. Jirou opened his eyes and saw Seiji holding him down with his hand covering Jirou's mouth.
"Do not come after me," Seiji ordered Jirou. "Galvanax cannot know that I'm still alive,"
Seiji got off of Jirou and began walking away.
"You can't hide forever," Jirou said to his brother.
"I can try," Seiji told Jirou as he continued walking.
"We can help you Seiji!" Jirou shouted as he began following Seiji.
"No you can't," Seiji grunted as he looked over his shoulder at Jirou.
Jirou threw something towards Seiji causing Seiji to come to a halt as it struck the tree beside him. Seiji looked at the tree beside him and saw the Red Ninja Power Star stuck in the tree.
"I'm not telling you to come with me, I'm ordering you to," Jirou told Seiji.
Seiji pulled the Red Ninja Power Star out of the tree and threw it back to Jirou.
"I'm not a Takayama anymore Jirou," Seiji informed Jirou.
"Don't you dare say that," Jirou scolded Seiji. "You can redeem yourself,"
"You would understand if you were there," Seiji told Jirou as the two came up to a small campsite.
Jirou looked around at the campsite as Seiji sat down and placed a log on the burnt ash pile.
"This is where you've been hiding since we defeated Ripcon," Jirou said as he sat down.
"Yeah, now you can leave and never come back," Seiji demanded as he started a fire.
"I'm not leaving without you," Jirou told Seiji as he crossed his arms.
"Then we can rot out here together," Seiji sighed as he leaned back against a tree.
As the sun began setting, Jirou and Seiji continued glaring at each other as the fire between them grew larger.
Inside of her lab, Madame Odius was working on a clock as Galvanax stepped into her lab. Madame Odius set her tool aside and sighed as she turned towards Galvanax.
"That monkey failed," Galvanax told Madame Odius.
"Oh, I know," Madame Odius nodded as she turned back to her desk.
"Your chances of living are decreasing every time one of your spirits fails," Galvanax informed Madame Odius.
"Once this device is ready we will have those Power Stars for certain," Madame Odius said as she revealed the clock to Galvanax.
"We better, or Basher Bots won't be the only things in the trash heap," Galvanax threatened Madame Odius as he stepped out of the lab.
The door closed behind Madame Odius as she squeezed tightly around the handle of her tool.
"You don't know what I'm capable of," Madame Odius snickered as she placed a panel on the clock.