Chapter Eight. Against All Odds. Part One.
As Dice went down, an armoured Rhyperior mutant went for him, only for Xavier to stop it in its tracks with a kick.
"Hey!" DrillPerior growled. "Back off!"
"Or what?" Xavier retorted, going in to kick the monster again, only for it to block the blow and club him to the ground with a giant fist. As he raised his fist to strike him again while he was on the ground, the Blue Genesis Ranger rolled away and kicked him in the face. Jumping to his feet, Xavier threw a punch that caught DrillPerior in the face. Despite his armour, it looked to have staggered him. Roaring, the monster lowered his head and tore towards Xavier, ready to impale him.
"Tidal Trident!" the Blue Genesis Ranger shouted, the weapon appearing in his hand. It was a three pronged fork-like weapon with the hilt designed to look like the webbing that ran down a Vaporeon's back. The tips of the blades resembled the points on a Vaporeon's neck ruff.
Slamming the weapon into the ground, he propelled himself up above DrillPerior and watched the monster charge underneath him. Landing, he watched the weapon start to glow with a bright blue light.
"Waterfall!" he shouted, swinging it out to send smashing into DrillPerior with all the force needed to climb a waterfall. Roaring in pain, the monster was thrown up into the air before exploding.
"It's raining Rhyperior," Xavier quipped, as body parts showered around him. "Hallelujah."
Emma had encountered a less than friendly face from the past, a Dusknoir wearing a purple cloak and holding a scythe appearing before her.
"Hello, Black Ranger," he chuckled. "Miss me?"
"Not really," she said dryly. "DuskReaper."
"That's DuskReaper13," he said, swinging the scythe at her. Jumping back, she watched it cut through the air where she'd stood moments earlier.
"Sorry," she said. "But I'd have to have met DuskReaper one through twelve to call you that."
Holding out her hand, a black folding fan appeared within her grasp.
"Lunar Fan!" she shouted, already extending it out to slash at DuskReaper13 with a cut of black energy, the attack causing him to shriek in pain. Bringing up his scythe, he again tried to hit her. She blocked it with her fan and kicked him, taking advantage of his momentary stunned state to grab him by the throat. He quickly faded out from her grasp.
Not even pausing to be surprised, Emma jumped up into the air, seeing his scythe cut through the air below her.
"You're starting to annoy me," she warned as she landed. "Black Twister!"
Snapping the fan out in front of her, she sent a cyclone of dark type energy towards DuskReaper13. He yelled as they hit him, forcing the scythe from his hand. Instinctively, Emma jumped for it and grabbed it from the ground, swinging it up to decapitate him. His headless body fell to the ground and exploded in a blast of black smoke.
"Problem being a ghost type," she said, watching the scythe disappear in her hand. "A little bit of yourself can be so deadly."
Nick had his own problems in the shape of a large yellow Electivire with a large ring with miniature drums attached to its back.
"What you meant to be?" he wondered, blocking a powerful punch thrown at him by the creature with some considerable effort. Grunting, he managed to push it away before kicking it in the stomach. If it did any damage, it didn't show.
"You can't stop me!" LiveVire howled, his fists crackling with electricity. "To do anything else would be shocking."
"You're kidding me," Nick said, ducking under a ThunderPunch. "I don't believe you actually just said that."
Rolling his eyes, he held out both arms in front of him.
"Leaf Blade!"
A pair of glowing green energy blades erupted from his wrists. Jumping forward, Nick slashed out twice at LiveVire, the attack cutting deep into his chest. Roaring in pain, he kicked out at the Green Cosmo Ranger and sent him flying back into the ground.
"Not fair!" Nick complained, dropping a hand to his waist. "Cosmo Blaster!"
Yanking the weapon out, he fired several times at the monster, staggering its walk towards him. Drawing a deep breath, he jumped up and hurled himself at LiveVire with a powerful flying kick. As the beast fell back, Nick brought both arms before him again.
"Leaf Blade!"
He struck out with the attack again. This time it had an effect, the creature collapsing to the ground and exploding.
Paige was battling against TropicalStorm, a humanoid Tropius with Swellow wings on his back. She went for him, throwing a punch at his face. His neck snapped aside, dodging the blow, before crashing his wings into her. The White Genesis Ranger was hurled back by the force of his strike, yelling in pain as she crashed into the ground. Jumping back up, she hurled a roundhouse kick towards him, her foot connecting with his stomach. Seeing him stagger, she followed up with a pair of punches before going to tackle him to the ground.
The monster responded by flapping his wings, the force of the gust throwing her back away from him.
"I signed up for fighting a green ranger like I did before," TropicalStorm growled. "You're no challenge!"
She rolled her eyes under her helmet.
"Let's see," she retorted. "How do you like this? Ice Ball!"
Holding out her arms, Paige's body transformed into an orb of pure white energy. Streaking forward through the air, she smashed straight through TropicalStorm's chest, the monster immediately falling down and exploding at the force of her attack.
"Oh yeah," Paige quipped, returning to normal. "Still as cold as ice."
Meanwhile, David had gone to battle CyberHead. Approaching the monster, he threw a punch at its face, the blow barely registering. CyberHead responded by hitting him back. David kicked him in the chest, only for the half-robotic creature to grab his ankle and toss him up into the air.
"Okay, you're making me angry!" David bellowed, picking himself up. "And you won't like me when I'm angry! Blazing Spears!"
A pair of red spears appeared in his hands, as they did he swung out with one and crashed the point into CyberHead's body. It barely left an impression on the metal. Shrugging, the cybernetic foe brought both hands together and fired a Flash Cannon attack towards him, David bringing both spears in front of him to block the attack.
"How does it feel, Red Ranger!" the monster taunted. "Not so easy now, is it?"
Grunting with the effort, David pushed the attack aside, dispelling it into nothing.
"I've had harder," he said. "Firespin Dance!"
Spinning around with the spears in his hands, his body transformed into a massive cyclone of flames that streaked forward and smashed straight into CyberHead, the powerful blow hurling him back. David turned away, confident he'd beaten the creature.
Then he felt CyberHead grab him by the shoulders and throw him into the ground. Hard.
"Still not going to be that easy!" CyberHead roared. Countering, David jumped up and tried to impale him through the chin with a spear, to little effect.
Diana's opponent was none other than M-Ball, a half-cyborg creature with body of a Magmar, its metallic parts spray painted to match the Magmar's body. It's four limbs had been replaced by bionic parts and half of the Magmar's face wass covered by a piece of metal. Mounted on the arms of the Magmar were bazookas that designed like a Magmortar's arms.
"A whole new world to convert to the joys of Magmarism!" the creature intoned, firing his weapons at the Yellow Cosmo Ranger. "Are you interested in salvation at the hands of the great device when I send you off to become part of its workings."
"Sorry," Diana retorted, her Cosmo Blaster drawn to return fire. "I already belong to a religion. The cult of Diana. Want to make a donation to my retirement villa on Edenis?"
"Heresy!" M-Ball roared. "You shall be cast down into the fires that fuel the great device, roasting for…"
She shot him in the face, momentarily shutting him up. In that moment, Diana went for him, throwing five, six, seven kicks into him in quick succession. As he staggered, her fist started to glow with a bright white light.
"Mega Punch!"
Sweeping up, the powerful blow caught him straight in the face, M-Ball being hurled up into the air. As he landed far away, Diana saw him explode.
"Hope you don't find your salvation," she said dryly.
Close by, Luke was fighting a creature the Lost Zone Rangers knew as SlimeCargo. He was a green Magcargo humanoid monster, slime oozing from every pore of his skin.
"Alright Oozie," Luke said, going to kick him. "Let's see what you got!"
The creature absorbed the blow and tried to strike back by throwing a Sludge Bomb at the Purple Genesis Ranger. Ducking aside, Luke threw a punch at the shell on SlimeCargo's body and succeeded in only hurting his hand.
"This isn't getting me anywhere," he said aloud. "I need to try something else!"
A hand dropped to his waist and brought up a Genesis Blaster. Pulling the trigger several times, he sent the laser assault down upon the creature who was staggered by the blasts.
This time, SlimeCargo tried to fire a barrage of rocks at him. Again, Luke dodged, rolling aside.
"Psycho Spear!"
He held out his hand to watch as a large spear appeared in his hand. The hilt of the weapon was purple with black stripes, while the point at the end also purple with a red jewel in the middle.
"What you going to do with that?" SlimeCargo wondered, taking a step back.
"I'm going to stick this where it'll hurt!" Luke said, the weapon glowing with a psychic type energy. "And believe me, when I do, the sun'll shine there! Psycho Cut!"
He hurled himself through the air and impaled SlimeCargo through the chest with the weapon, watching as he fell back and exploded in a cloud of noxious smelling fire.
"Or something like that," he muttered. "Think I should have saved a better quip for here."
"Great ancestors, grant me the power to strike down this foe!"
Hearing BoneShaman speak brought back bad memories for Naomi Springfield. Thankfully, she had a means of getting back at those memories. She went towards him, throwing a barrage of carefully placed kicks into his body. With each blow he yelped, but brought up his staff to try and beat her back.
"Ruby Staff!"
Her own weapon, a direct predecessor of the one he wielded, appeared in her hands. It was a white staff with a ruby in it. Quickly, she used it to block BoneShaman's attack.
"You can't beat me, B-S," she whispered. "I helped create you!"
"Great ancestors!" he roared, like a broken record. "Give me the…"
She broke her staff out of the clinch, kneed him in the stomach and rammed the tip of her staff straight through his suddenly gaping mouth, twisting it upwards to snap off his jaw. As he fell backwards from the violence of her attack, her weapon began to glow.
"Mist Ball!"
A small white ball of steam rose up from the tip of her staff, before she brought it back and smashed it towards him, the ball hitting him square in the stomach. Groaning in pain, BoneShaman fell back and exploded into a shower of bones and skin.
"Nobody's going to bring you back this time," Naomi said. "That was too easy…"
Without warning, BoneShaman rose from the ashes of his former self, raising his staff high above his head to strike her down.
"You cannot defeat me for I have the protection of my ancestors!" he howled. "Their power lies within my staff and therefore…"
A quick sweep upwards of her staff and the length of bone in BoneShaman's hands was nothing more than splinters. Ten seconds later, he had exploded again, no way back for him this time.
Max was fighting the cyborg known only as Minnet, a a Minun humanoid, with robotic ears, arms, torso and legs, with its head remaining organic. He threw a punch at the creature, smashing it in the face. Barely flinching, Minnet responded by striking back with a Thunderpunch. Feeling the electricity stream through his body, Max yelled, collapsing to one knee. Minnet threw another punch at him, ready to take advantage of his stunned state. Summoning up his strength, the Red Cosmo Ranger grabbed the fist and pushed him back. Jumping up to his feet, he threw a spin kick at the cyborg and slammed him into the ground.
"Owww!" Minnet complained. "I didn't want this. Why are you fighting back?"
Rather than answer, Max brought out his Cosmo Baton and went for him, slamming the weapon into his face several times. Battered and bruised, Minnet tried to let out a Discharge attack.
Gritting his teeth under his helmet, Max held out both fists, the two of them bursting into flames.
"Fire Punch!"
The electricity hit his flaming fists, crackled around the fire for a moment and then dispersed. With Minnet shocked, Max leaped for him and slammed several fiery punches into his body, the skin instantly scorching under the blows. Minnet howled in pain, staggering back. One final punch to the face and he went down in a heap, exploding into a shower of metal and fire.
Nahir had been pounced on by AquaBat, an aqua-blue coloured Golbat with silver blades on his wings. He buzzed towards her, ready to slash out with his wings. She jumped backwards to dive under the blades. As he soared above her, she kicked him in the chest. He grunted and tried to slash around at her again, the blow catching her across the stomach. Dropping backwards in pain, she had to roll away and avoid him biting on her neck.
"Storm Staff!" the Yellow Genesis Ranger yelled, summoning her weapon into her hand. A long yellow and white staff appeared, several Jolteon heads forming ridges along the weapon. A crackle of electricity erupted from the end of it, Nahir swept it towards AquaBat and sent him staggering.
"My very own bat-prod," she said. "Keeps you back."
Again, she swung out at him and knocked him onto his back.
"You give?" she wondered. "Or you want me to hit you some more?"
He roared and rose up from the ground, shooting an Air Slash at her. She brought up her staff and blocked the blow. Running towards him, she slammed the Storm Staff into the ground and used the leverage to hurl a flying kick at him. As he flew back, her weapon began to crackle with electricity. Nahir brought it back and slammed it into the weakened AquaBat.
"Spark Strike!"
Shrieking, the monster fell from the sky and exploded as he hit the sand. As she landed, Nahir shrugged.
"You thought you could take me, you were in for a surprise," she said. She then regretted that she hadn't said shock…
Riku had LickFairy to contend with, a Lickitung/Clefairy hybrid carrying a bag advancing towards him.
"Miss me, Purple Ranger," he giggled. "I missed you. I missed not adding you to my collection."
"Man, you must have spent more time in the Lost Zone than was good for you," Riku said, dodging a punch. He kicked LickFairy in the face. "No way that was happening."
"Oh, I beg to differ," he said, opening up his bag. "Once I get you, I'll have a full set of…"
Riku kicked him again, before bringing out his LZ Blade. He slashed at the monster, only for him to rise up and hit back with his tail. Jumping up from where he'd fallen, Riku turned the blade into its blaster form and dropped it back into its holster. He then took out the Psycho Bazooka and pointed it at LickFairy.
"You feel lucky?" he asked. "Do ya?"
He pulled the trigger, sending a Psybeam attack towards the monster. It hit LickFairy in the stomach and sent him flying back across the battlefield. He buzzed straight through another fight and hit a sand dune, exploding.
"You're part of my collection now," Riku said. "Monster's that I've put down."
Crane hadn't expected to see LickFairy fly by. He was busy fighting for his life against a monster with the body of a Dragonite, but with three different heads. One Flareon, one Vaporeon and one Jolteon. It had been a distraction, even Eevee-Beros looked nonplussed…
Author's Notes.
Yeah, I'm splitting it into two parts. One full chapter of this would just about drive me nuts.
But yeah, hope you enjoyed it though. Battles and all that.
Some familiar faces there from Lost Zone.
Thanks for the reviews. All appreciated.
But the rest of it will be up at some point. And I intend to write a preview for Forever Blue at some point.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
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