Ivan is Back
Chapter 8- Into the Wild
Like Tommy when news had reached the ninjetti six and Jason they all agreed to head out to teams without their powers until a power source could be linked to the team. Therefore, Rocky had been delegated to go to Turtle Cove and seek out the Wild Force rangers. After listening to Jason and Tommy give a rundown of what they knew of the team; most of which was just the red ranger and what Tommy had gathered for his video diary years before, Rocky could only hope that Cole's reckless actions had died down over the years or the next ranger to be buried could very well be a red.
"Jason, yeah look, I'm outside of Turtle Cove and it looks like the town has already been attacked from a distance. Didn't you guys mention that the rangers base was a floating island? Yeah, well how the hell am I supposed to get there?" Rocky waited for a response.
"Taylor? Wait, isn't she married to the Quantum Ranger in Silver Hills."
A voice behind Rocky spoke, "yeah I am. Let's move."
Taylor and Rocky went to a certain place and the next thing Rocky knew he was on the floating island of Animaria. He followed Taylor through a small tunnel and frowned when he saw that the other rangers were there bandaging their wounds.
"Welcome, Red Ape, I am Princess Shayla."
"How did you know I am the ape?" Rocky had never met someone who could sense their animal spirits before.
"I can sense the playful ape inside you. I also sense that your team members have also awakened their spirit animals as well."
"Wait, they have spirit animals? You didn't tell me I was going to retrieve a ninjetti." Taylor spoke.
"That is because I was unsure if the ninjetti was the one coming to assist us Taylor. Please, calm yourself."
Rocky watched as Taylor went over to the other girl and helped her bandage her arm before taking in the damage done to this team of heroes. It looked like their black and blue rangers were just that, black and blue. From what he could tell there was really no outside damage done to them aside from bruises but it looked like they could possibly have a couple of internal injuries. The lone wolf as Rocky summed up was banged up pretty good and assumed that this was Merrick; the 3000 year old warrior. Looking towards the red ranger, Cole, he saw that he had sustained quite a bit of damage of his own. His arm looked to be dislocated and his face pretty bruised. From what he could tell about the girl in white all she had suffered was a banged up arm and a scratch on the head.
"What the hell are those things?" Taylor muttered as she closed the first aid kit.
"Ivan's foot soldiers. They don't really have names. You are lucky you all made it out alive. Unfortunately, the reason I am here is to help prevent any more casualties in the rangers forces." Rocky answered.
"Casualties? Who?" the other girl spoke.
"Chad Lee. Lightspeed Rescue Blue ranger. He used his weapon in self-destruct mode to take out as many as he could with him. He died a hero's death."
"Wait, lightspeed still had their powers though." Cole spoke up.
"Exactly, the other ninjetti and myself have spread ourselves out among teams whose powers are not linked to the grid at the moment. Our blue ranger Billy is working on a way to reconnect them."
The rangers all gathered around the table and began to work out some sort of system where none of the town was left unprotected but the rangers weren't spread too thin as well. Unfortunately, with seven rangers and a town the size of Turtle Cove it wasn't going to be easy.
While Rocky was settling in with the Wild Force rangers Billy was just arriving at the Aquabase in Mariner Bay. Kim had requested he go to them and see about linking the blue ranger's morpher to the others so they would still have the weaponry if need be. Billy on the other hand had other ideas, he didn't think that after losing their fellow ranger and friend they would want control of his morpher linked to theirs and so he was going to try and convince the rangers technical analyst to take control of the powers.
"Billy Cranston? Tommy called and said you were coming." Carter said stepping forward to greet the blue ninjetti.
"I'm terribly sorry for your loss. If there is anything I can do to help please let me know." Billy spoke sincerely.
He knew what it was like to lose someone and he hated the fact that another team had to go through the loss as well now. He wasn't quite sure how to approach the topic with this team because he didn't want to come off as an insensitive jerk.
"Mr. Cranston, I was just wondering what you could tell us about the things that attacked the city." Captain Mitchell spoke up.
Billy sighed, "is there a place we can sit and talk? This goes back to the year 1995."
Dana and Carter led Billy to their rescue ops, the same place they had sat a couple of days before after losing their blue ranger and friend. As the captain gathered the other rangers Dana began picking up the files left on the table from where they were looking for possible candidates for the blue ranger powers.
"Ivan Ooze was released from his hyper lock prison in 1995 and destroyed our powers. This being done we traveled to the distant planet of Phaedos to get the great power. The power of the Ninjetti, something that Kimberly and myself are trying to possibly connect to other teams as well. We used Ryan's Comet to destroy him, or so we thought. Apparently, he had fused himself with the comet and reformed inside it. His generals broke him out and since he has attacked six teams without hesitation. He killed the Aquitian rangers and has injured all others. Unfortunately, Chad was the first earth ranger lost in this war, we fear he won't be the last though. Kimberly, our leader for this war has asked me to help you merge the blue ranger powers with your own; however, I feel that would be a disaster to this whole team. I know this is sudden but perhaps you need a whole new blue ranger." Billy spoke.
"Wait, how does a pink ranger with only three years experience get to lead this war?" Ryan asked still confused about Kimberly's role.
Billy's face turned hard, "that pink ranger has suffered greatly due to being a ranger having almost died twice while she wore the suit, being turned evil by Divatox, and she is the only ninjetti to have stayed in sync with her spirit animal."
"I was just curious about how she was the leader." Ryan answered.
"Forgive me, Kimberly has been the closest thing to a sister I have ever had and I am very protective of her. Just don't question her leadership or Jason and possibly Tommy will have something to say about it."
Captain Mitchell spoke up again, "who do you have in mind to take the blue ranger morpher?"
Before Billy could answer someone came in talking about a blue jeep type vehicle outside the base. They pulled up a video image and Billy demanded they let him in. Before he could explain anything beyond that the driver of the vehicle was in the base.
"Captain, I'd like you to meet Justin Stewart."
Author's Note: There will be more of the Wild Force rangers in a later chapter, I have to rewatch parts to get a vibe on how to work their battles again. R&R below.