Sorry, guys, there isn't as much action as you'd probably like in this chapter, but I wrote it leaving pieces out for a reason. ;)
"Woohoo!" Mason yelled as he skated down the ramp. He came back up on the other side and back-flipped off of his skateboard and landed back on it at the bottom with exact precision, before coming back up on the other side and jumping off of his Zord.
"Man, I am good!" Mason smirked, then looked around.
No one else was really at the skate park. After the incident the day before with Batissier, the majority of the people in town had food poisoning, including Matt, Spencer, and Jesse. While the others had to stay home to take care of them, Mason decided to go out and have some fun. He had called Kristi to come hang out, but she also had food poisoning, and couldn't make it.
Suddenly, he was pushed and nearly fell down the skate ramp face down, if it wasn't for him catching himself on his skate board and hopping off at the bottom. He looked up and glared at the young man standing at the top.
"What the hell was that for?" He growled, ready to go back up to the top and confront him.
Though, he didn't have to. The young man skated down, smirking as he stopped in front of Mason. He held out his hand. "I'm Will."
Mason slapped his hand away. "Mason. Now, what the fuck was that for?" He hissed, enunciating each word with emphasis.
Will smirked. "Just some friendly competition. Nothing much, man."
Mason pushed him out of his way and went to go grab his stuff. He had enough of this guy and was ready to attack, so decided to leave before he could potentially get arrested for assault.
Will held out his arms in a questioning manner. "Where are you going, man?"
Mason heaved his backpack onto his shoulder. "Home. Anywhere to get away from you."
Will let out a laugh. "Oh come on, I'm not that bad." He smirked once again. "Aren't you friends with that cute Robin girl?"
Mason narrowed his eyes. "Yeah, and you know her boyfriend is also one of my friends."
"You have a lot of friends." Will commented. "Robin, Jesse, that Alice girl, and uhh... What are their names? Matt, Scott, Spencer, and James. Oh and lets not forget Scott's boy toy Nathan and Spencer's older brother Reese."
Mason's eyes widened in shock and he froze on the spot for a moment. Then, he threw down he things and grabbed Will, throwing him against a wall and pinning him there.
"How do you know all this?" Mason growled.
"I know a lot."
"Seems like it." Mason lifted him off the wall and slammed him back into it. "Now, tell me how you know all of this."
"I'm just an observer."
"Oh? Then how do you know their names?" Mason asked, lifting him off the wall once again, but before he could slam him into the wall, Will grabbed him and slammed him into the wall even harder, smiling when Mason's head made a resounding CRACK! against the wall.
"Don't question me. You don't have the right." Will whispered lowly, his eyes burning with fury that wasn't in there a few moments before.
Mason kicked him off of him and reached for his morpher. However, realizing that this was not an appropriate battle for ranger powers, he tried to put it back, but it slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground near Will.
The older teen picked it up and smirked. "I knew it. I knew you eight were the rangers." He grabbed Mason by the neck and slammed him against the wall once more, knocking the wind out of him. Will's eyes suddenly turned completely black and Mason struggled in fear to get away, all while gasping for air that he couldn't get with Will's large hand squeezing his neck.
"Don't tell the other rangers about this, or I will kill every single one of them slowly and painfully, along with the other two." He dropped Mason to the ground and kicked him. He threw his morpher at him. "And it'll be your fault."
"I won't let you!" Mason croaked, standing up shakily.
"You really think you could beat me?" He laughed. "You can't beat me."
"Oh yeah?" He grabbed his morpher. "Dino Squad, Power Up! Power of the Ankylosaurus!"
Will laughed. "That won't save you." He snapped his fingers and an army of people appeared, all sporting completely black eyes.
"What?" Mason asked as Will was lost in the army and a new person in a cloak ran up and kicked him in his chest, making him fly back in the skate ramp. Mason groaned and sat up. "Who are you?" He growled.
The person removed his cloak, revealing a navy colored ranger, more heavily armored than the other rangers are. He snapped his fingers and all the people disappeared.
"Just a guy looking to get a job done." He said, his voice distorted.
"Yeah?" Mason smirked behind his helmet as he stood up. "You're not doing the best job so far."
Navy laughed. "You humor me, Mason. My job is to destroy you and I think I'm doing a good job so far. One kick and you were down." He nodded as if in agreement with himself. "I'm doing great."
He suddenly ran forward, and before Mason could react, he brought his arm down, Mason expecting to be punched, but instead, his arm went to the side and sharp spikes of the side of his arm slashed Mason and he cried out in pain, clutching his chest as he fell to the ground.
"What the hell?" Mason stared at Navy's arm in wonder as the Navy ranger stood over him.
"What were you expecting? A tea party?" Navy sneered.
"Were you expecting me to go down this easy?" Mason growled.
He quickly got to his feet and brought out his sword, bringing it down to hit the navy ranger, but he blocked it with the same arm. "How does this not hurt you?" Mason asked, frowning under his helmet.
"Why would it? You're too weak to hurt me, even at your best." Navy laughed, throwing his arm up, making Mason's sword go flying, before he punched Mason hard in the chest, causing him to fly into the skate ramp.
~PRDS~
"I wonder if Mason's having fun." Alice voiced as the rangers sat in the living room, Matt, Spencer, and Jesse finally beginning to feel better.
Robin chuckled. "He's probably telling himself how great he is."
"You got that right." Matt laughed.
Jesse nudged Scott, who was intently focus on his cellphone. "Mmm?" Scott didn't look up from his phone.
"What are you doing, man?" Jesse asked. When Scott didn't answer, Jesse put his hand in front of his phone, but instead of getting a vocal reaction, Jesse's hand was swatted away like a fly. "Damn, defensive much?"
Scott sighed exasperatedly and sunk back into the couch. "I texted Nathan earlier and he's been in the middle of his text ever since. Look," He gave his phone to Jesse, and at the bottom of the screen, there was a little bubble with three dots moving towards the right, letting him know the other person was texting. Jesse looked at the time stamp and his eyes widened.
"He's been texting you since 8 in the morning? Dude, it's like 2 in the afternoon."
Scott glared at him. "I know. I wonder what happened."
"Maybe he was in the middle of texting, had something else to do, and forgot to continue."
"He doesn't usually forget."
Jesse chuckled. "Don't worry, it's probably not a big deal."
"How can you be so sure?" Scott asked, glancing worriedly at his phone and back at Jesse.
Jesse opened his mouth to speak, but the alarm cut him off. "Great." He muttered.
Alice, James, Robin, and Scott stood immediately, followed by Matt, Spencer, and Jesse. Robin opened her mouth to tell them not to come, but Matt cut her off, "We're going. End of discussion."
Robin sighed, but nodded and the seven left AD. As they left, Scott's and Spencer's cellphone's lit up with a text message each, from Nathan and Reese respectively.
Nathan: help
Reese: 911
~PRDS~
"Let go!" Reese growled as he was dragged through an unknown location.
About an hour ago, he was walking to Rite-Aid to grab some medicine for his mother, father, and brother, all of whom were some of Batissier's victims, when suddenly a car pulled up beside him and Zorima jumped out of the car. Having been in ranger battles before, he fought back, kicking and punching any monster that got too close when a cloaked figure jumped out of the passenger seat and punched him in the stomach, winding him, but not stopping him. Reese punched the cloaked figure in the facial area, but cried out in pain when his hand was met with a helmet.
"You're one too? That's impossible." Reese shook his head, backing away. "There are only ten powers." He began reaching into his pocket, but a Zorima caught his hand and twisted it back behind his back. He winced and leaned down quickly, throwing the Zorima off of him and into another.
"You know, you're not bad." The cloaked figure commented. "Not bad at all. You have a similar fighting style to the rangers."
Reese's eyes narrowed. "Your point?"
"I know who you are, Reese Morgan." Reese's breath caught in his throat, but he kept a calm facade. "Well, obviously. You just said my name." He smirked half-heartedly.
The cloaked figure growled and pushed him against the wall behind him, knocking the air out of him.
"I know you know what I mean." As Reese opened his mouth to deny it, the figure spoke again. "You wouldn't deny it if it cost everyone you know and love their lives, would you?"
Reese sighed. "I know what you're talking about? But so what?" He growled. "How does that help you? We'll defeat you, whether you like it or not."
The cloaked figure let go of him and pulled out a sword, pointing it at him. "Now, unless you want a repeat off last time, I suggest you come with us."
Reese stared at the sword and back at the cloaked figure. He could just make out the design of a helmet. A ranger helmet. However, it was not one he recognized.
He quickly brought up his foot and kicked the sword high into the air and away from them. "Make me." He hissed, thinking he could overpower them if he just got to the sword of this mysterious ranger. Although, it didn't turn out as planned. Reese was punched, kicked, and beaten into the car, where someone else, an unconscious boy, was next to him with a sack on his head, and his hands tied. Reese was too weak from being beaten to up much of a fight at the moment, so the cloaked ranger just put a sack on his head.
"You didn't fight as hard as I expected." The ranger shook his head in disappointment and closed the door and drove until they were where they were now, where ever that was.
Now, Reese had rested enough to put up a fight, so the ranger tied his arms back. The other boy had awaken during the car ride, and was also trying to fight, but it wasn't easy when their arms were tied back and they couldn't see. During the car ride, they had managed to grab their phones and type something to someone, they were particularly sure who, but they sent it before their phones were taken away and thrown out of the car window.
Suddenly, they came to a halt and the bags were ripped off of their heads. They were pushed down on their knees when they tried to stand.
Reese looked over at the other boy. "Nathan?" He asked, though his voice came out a bit mumbled; his lip was swollen.
"Reese." Nathan really didn't look better than Reese felt, but he was a bit confused as to why Nathan kept looking off to the side over anywhere else. He turned his head and gasped. There was a window on the wall and through it they could both see Alice looking through it, though it seemed as if she couldn't really see through it, then turning around to check on Matt and Mason, who were both unconscious on the floor. All three of them looked pretty beat up.
"Can they see us?" He asked, looking up at the cloaked figure.
The cloaked figure laughed. "It's one way glass. Why? Are you afraid they'll find out who you two are?"
"They couldn't." Nathan spoke up, looking away from the captured rangers. "We're not even morphed."
"Oh you will be." He laughed before he pushed the cloak off of himself. It revealed the navy ranger.
"Who are you?" Nathan growled. "And how did you get those powers? There are only ten."
"No, you thought there were only ten. Kyro was hiding it from you two, Alice, Mason, and Dr. Parker." Nathan grimaced at the mention of the first purple ranger, remembering him and Scott talking about him. "All the originals. But Chaos knew and sent me to steal it."
"That's impossible." Reese shook his head. "Even if Kyro was hiding it from us, how would you steal it? If he was hiding it from us, then he damn sure was hiding it from the Deboss army. Besides, no human would be able to get into AD without invitation. It's too heavily guarded by the staff."
"Yeah it is impossible for humans to get in. I'm not human, I'm a demon." Navy said proudly. He smiled at the shock on the two boy's faces. "Now, let's get down to business. Chaos!"
A chair turned around to reveal the head general, and the two boys tried to reach for their morphers. "Good. Morph. We'll need you morphed anyway."
The two stopped at the sound of Chaos' voice and glared at him. "You'll never have us on your side, Chaos!" Nathan yelled.
"We'll see about that. Zorima!" The foot-soldiers ran in and took the two rangers morphers and pressed the button to morph them. Both Reese and Nathan were suddenly morphed into rangers. Both colors were very similar: silver and gray, respectively. However, helmet shape and the shiny quality of Reese's suit told the differences for them.
Feeling a surge of power, the two were able to break their bonds, but not fast enough to not get trapped in an orb of power. Both them groaned in pain as they felt a different kind of power surge through their bodies. An evil power.
"What.. are you.. doing to us?" Reese choked out.
"You'll see." The navy ranger laughed in glee.
Meanwhile, in the other room, Mason awoken with a start. "Mason." Alice addressed angrily as she ripped off her sock and wrapped it around Matt's arm, which had a large bloody gash along it. Both rangers before him looked pretty beat up, and he felt similar to how they looked, not that he would ever admit that to them.
"What happened?" He asked, his voice hoarse. "Why is he unconscious?"
"Well, you decided to take on a army of.. well, demons, on your own and got your butt kicked. So, we stepped in, and you, still thinking you could handle it, took on the lead one in your weakened state and got knocked out, making me and Matt help you, which got us captured. The others got away, thank god." Alice told him. She was glaring at him.
"I could handle it, but a new ranger attacked me." He said, his eyes widening as he remembered it.
Alice rolled her eyes; it was clear she didn't believe him. "Yeah right. There was no new ranger. And anyway, even if there was one, why would he or she attack you?"
"Because, he was evil! He was a navy colored ranger and I bet he was a demon too."
"Maybe you were imagining things." Alice suggested. "You're not always right, Mason." She narrowed her eyes at him, "How are you feeling?"
"Better then you two, probably." Mason answered.
"Good." She then glared again and slapped him in the face, making him sit up a lot straighter and glare back at her.
"What the fuck, Alice?" He yelled.
"You and your overconfidence is what got us here! You need to learn that not everything is about you! Matt is seriously hurt and we can't help him because of you!" Alice yelled back. She took a deep breath and calm down a bit. "Look, confidence is great. Possibly one of the best things a person could have, but you have to learn when it's too much. Do you understand?"
He sighed. She was right. If he didn't think he could handle it on his own and just called his friends earlier, they wouldn't be in this mess. He nodded. Alice smiled. "Good. Now, we need to figure out..." She trailed off when the door opened and a formerly black-eyed demon opened the door and whispered one word. "Run."
~PRDS~
"See, I told you there was a problem!" Scott cried, turning to Jesse, who was, like the others, sitting in the front room trying to pinpoint the missing rangers on the monitor.
"That three rangers are missing? Yeah, I know that's a problem." Jesse nodded his head, giving his friend a strange look.
"No! Well, yeah, but that's not what I'm talking about!" Scott exclaimed. "I mean with Nathan."
Jesse chuckled. "What now?"
"You won't be laughing at this." Scott told him, showing the green ranger the lone message sent his boyfriend.
"Oh my god." Jesse said in shock. "You think he got captured too?"
"I'm not sure." Scott said worriedly. He texted back, Babe, what's wrong?
But, unlike the usual right away response from the boy, none came. It wasn't even read.
Meanwhile, Spencer picked up his phone off the table and turned it on, immediately seeing the message from his brother, and his eyes widened. "No." He whispered, but since the room was quiet except for Scott and Jesse, everyone turned to him.
'What's wrong?" Robin asked as the blue ranger sat down on the couch.
"No, no, no, no!" He cried, and suddenly, Jesse and Scott also had their eyes on him. Jesse moved forward and sat next to his best friend. "What happened, Spence?"
Spencer, however, was frozen in place. He was too scared.
"Spencer? Spencer!" Jesse shook his shoulder, and after a moment, the boy finally looked at him. "What happened? Is everything alright?"
"It's Reese. The Deboss army has him!" He jumped up and was about to run out of the room when Jesse grabbed his arm and Robin stepped in front of the door, preventing him from leaving. "Let me go! I need to help him!" He growled.
"How do you even know?" Robin asked.
"Because he texted me 911. I told him that if anything from the Deboss army attacks him, for him to text me 911, and if he got away, he was supposed to come straight here, but this was texted almost an hour ago and he's not..."
"Help!" Alice's voice drifted in from the other room.
The ranger's burst out of the front room to find the three missing rangers on the floor, beat up, and the door wide open.
"Guys!" Robin screamed, running towards them, helping Alice up, while James helped Mason, and Jesse helped Matt up, however, since the red ranger was still unconscious, he was just a dead weight in Jesse's grip.
"You guys escaped?" Scott asked incredulously.
"Technically." Alice said. "A demon actually let go of it's host and let us out."
"Did you see Reese?" Spencer asked frantically, his mind going back to the time his brother was seriously hurt by a monster and he was unable to help.
"Or Nathan?" Scott asked hopefully.
"No, why?" Mason asked.
"They are missing." Both boys answered at the same time.
As if on cue, the two boy stumbled through the door, beaten and battered, and fell on their knees. Scott and Spencer's eyes widened as they exchanged looks before running forward to catch them as they fell forward.
"Babe, are you alright?" Scott asked as he turned the boy over and cradled him in his arms.
"I am now." Nathan said, smiling weakly.
"Reese?" Spencer asked his brother worriedly, holding him up and looking him over.
"I'll be okay, Spence." Reese assured him tiredly.
Both pairs hugged each other, but what no one noticed was a flash of red in both of the boy's eyes.
~PRDS~
The navy ranger waved his hand through the air and a portal opened, showing what was happening in AD. He zoomed in on Spencer and smirked, having heard about his past from around the school.
He snapped his fingers and a monster appeared, modeled after a maze. "Excellent." He smiled evilly under his helmet. "This is going to get a whole lot more interesting."
Are you guys ready for the special? I am! If you were wondering yes, it is about Spencer and yes, it is maze themed, similar to my previous story, PRAA, but trust me, this will be different.
Oh, and did anyone watch the premiere of Power Rangers: Dino Charge? I thought it was pretty good, and different for the way they executed the first episode.
Next time on Power Rangers Dino Squad: While the other rangers are trapped in a maze by a new monster, Kokodoko, Spencer is left to defend the city when the silver and gray rangers attack. However, once he finds out the identities of the two, he finds himself torn and begins to break down into some old thoughts. Meanwhile, the other rangers have to face a similar fear for them all to get out of the maze, and get out in time to save Spencer and break Reese and Nathan free of the evil possessing them.