Behold, the Five Fingers of Poison. An elite squad of venomous warriors each possessing a unique and treacherous poison.
Rantipede can strike a hundred times before his opponent can respond.
Naja, the Cobra. Cold-blooded and lethal. It will take but one strike to conquer his foes.
Stingerella's hypnotic dance lures her prey closer and closer… until she strikes!
The cunning Gakko. Master in the art of the surprise attack.
And Toady. Able to ward off the strongest offense. Not smart, but not to be underestimated.
-----Jungle-Fury-----
In was midday at JKP as Casey and Lily were hard at work making pizzas for all the hungry customers. Fran was in the dining room taking orders with Theo and Kaylee was sitting on the steps leading to the loft, enjoying her well deserved break.
"Sometimes, I just can't believe my luck," Casey smiled as he shred cheese for the pizza, "shredding cheese one minute, shredding evil beasts the next!"
"Hey, this whole thing came out of nowhere for you Casey, it's got to be majorly intense, especially for a cub," Lily smiled.
"Well, I'm not a cub anymore," Casey smirked, looking up at Lily. "You don't have to worry about me anymore."
Fran opened the oven and looked inside it so she could see the two, "One large thriller gorilla, extra bananas!"
"Thriller gorilla," Casey smiled, pointing at Fran to let her know he heard her, "Coming up!"
Casey turned to the yellow Ranger and frowned, "Bananas?"
"RJ says, 'everything is better with bananas'," Kaylee mocked from her spot on her stairs, though her eyes told the other two she wasn't paying any real attention to the conversation. She was still staring at the door, as if Dustin was going to walk into the kitchen at any moment in a tux, ready for their wedding. Casey tried to go talk to her, but Lily held him back and shook her head before mouthing the words 'leave her alone'. Casey listened to the cheetah and went back to making the pizza.
"Where is RJ anyway?" he asked.
"He's been working on something in the garage for days," Kaylee answered, still staring at the door.
"We have a garage?" Casey frowned.
Lily turned Casey's attention away from Kaylee, "You get the board, I got the dough!" she smiled, tossing rolled out dough in the air. Casey grabbed a wooden board and caught the dough. He put it down on the table and started sprinkling flour on it. He looked up at Kaylee and started sneaking over to where she was sitting, hoping to cheer her up a little bit.
"Casey," Lily yelled softly. Casey turned to her and shrugged before going to plan B and flicking the flour on Lily. Lily frowned and grabbed some one the cheese in her hand before sprinkling it over Casey's head.
"Whoops, my bad," Lily laughed as Casey brushed the cheese out of his hair.
"Oh, laugh it up," Casey smiled, throwing the flour in his hand at Lily before running to the table, "You're going to be sorry for that!"
The tiger grabbed a wooden spoon and dumped the spoonful of mashed bananas on Lily's head. Lily glared at her friend before a full on food fight started. Lily let out a small laugh as Theo walked in, completely shocked at the mess.
"Look at the kitchen! It's trashed!" he yelled, successfully stopping the food fight.
"He started it," Lily laughed, wiping away some of the flour on her face as she pointed to Casey.
"Did not!" Casey laughed.
"I don't care how it started. We've got hungry customers out there..."
Lily noticed some cheese on his cheek and reached over to pull it off, before eating it. Theo stopped his scolding mid sentence and walked out of the kitchen. Kaylee saw his expression change when he saw Lily practically flirting with Casey and jumped up from her seat.
"Theo wait!" she called after him, only to hear her morpher beep.
"FRAN!" all four Rangers called as they ran for the loft.
-----Jungle-Fury-----
"Surprise!" the red Ranger yelled as he and three other rangers appeared before the monster attacking the city. "We're here to stop you!"
"You're a snake?" Kaylee asked the monster. "Good things Tori's not here. She would freak out!"
"Surprise!" a scorpion monster, with a woman's voice, yelled as she and a gecko monster jumped beside the snake monster.
"Think again!" a centipede monster smiled as he and a toad monster joined as well.
"So these are the Pai Zhuq students?" the scorpion asked. "I'm SO not impressed."
"They look pretty sorry to me," Gakko, the gecko, frowned.
"And ugly," Toady, the toad, added.
"Us, ugly?" Kaylee laughed, "You obviously haven't seen Kira on a bad day!"
Theo turned to Kaylee and glared at her for the random comment, "Can we just fight?"
"Yes," Rantipede, the centipede smiled, "Let's get this fight started."
"By the power of Dai Shi! Inner beast arise!" the five fingers of poisons yelled.
"A hundred legs to strike you! Rantipede!"
"Fangs full of venom! Naja!"
"Queen of the toxic dance! Stingerella!"
"Master of trickery and deceit! Gakko!"
"Skin stronger than armour! Toady!"
"We are the five fingers of poison!"
"Poison?" Casey asked.
"Yawn!" Kaylee frowned.
"Get them!" Naja yelled as the five fingers attacked. Each ranger took care of one of the poisons, while Kaylee took on two. The poisons were too powerful however and trampled the Rangers.
"They're too strong! We have to regroup!" Lily yelled, clutching her ribs. The others all nodded, including Kaylee as they helped each other run in the other direction. The fingers of poison laughed as they watched the Ranger retreat after only a few minutes of battle.
"Pathetic," Naja laughed.
-----Jungle-Fury-----
"I liked it better when we were just fighting one at a time," Casey breathed as he and the other Rangers ran by the bottom of a mountain, with rocks and boulders surrounding them.
"I feel you there," Theo frowned.
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion that knocked all the Rangers down. The five fingers appeared and created a pyramid. There was black and gold lighting as Dai Shi appeared at the top of the pyramid.
"Dustin..." Kaylee frowned, looking up at her fiancé. It pained her to see him stand against her, but she knew she had to stay strong, "What are you doing here?"
"Dustin is gone!" Dai Shi yelled.
"No he's not!" Kaylee yelled back. Dai Shi smirked as he threw off his cape and turned into his armour form.
"I challenge you to a battle green Ranger," Dai Shi smiled.
"You're fight's with me Dai Shi!" Casey yelled, stepping forward.
"Casey? Are you crazy?" Lily asked.
"What are you doing, stupid?" Kaylee frowned. Casey looked back at the green Ranger. He knew Kaylee wasn't going to be able to hurt Dustin, so, being the red Ranger and the leader of the team, he took it upon himself to fight her battle.
"I can't back down now," Casey smiled. He grabbed her Solar Morpher, "Jungle Beast! Spirit unleashed!"
"I call forth the spirit of the mighty lion!" Dai Shi yelled as a lion, very similar to Dustin's old Zord, was summoned.
"Call to the beast inside! Free the tiger!"
The two cats rushed at each other and fought in midair while Casey and Dai Shi leap at each other, then clashed in mid air, punching one another a few times before falling to their feet. Casey then swiped at Dai Shi, who managed to block all of the blows. He grabbed the tiger's arm and spun him several times. Suddenly, Dai Shi landed a powerful punch on Casey's chest, sending the red Ranger back with his friends.
"The tiger is tamer then I thought," Dai Shi laughed. He raised his hand up and snapped his fingers.
"Yes master," Stingerella smiled as she walked up to Casey and jabbed him in the chest.
"What are you doing?" Kaylee yelled, kicking Stingerella away from her leader when she heard Casey scream out in pain.
Dai Shi laughed, "Her poison is in your bloodstream, goodbye Red Ranger."
Dai Shi turned around and disappeared along with the poisons.
Casey was left on the ground, clutching his wound in pain as blood leaked through his fingers. The other three quickly ran over to him, helping him up. They had to get him back to the loft quickly, before he lost too much blood or the poison spread too far.
-----Jungle-Fury-----
Casey was sitting in his hammock, with Kaylee holding his hand as a green glow surrounded her. All she needed was to get the poison out of Casey. Lily walked up to Casey and put a washcloth on his head.
"Thanks," Casey coughed weakly, "I feel much better."
"Are you sure?" Lily asked. Theo growled under his breath as he joined his friends.
"He said he was fine. Leave the guy alone," he said.
RJ popped up from under the hammock, scaring Kaylee. She lost her balance and fell off the stool she was sitting on.
"Standing up to Dai Shi took a lot of guts," RJ smiled, helping Kaylee up.
"Or not a lot of brain cells," Theo smirked. RJ, Casey, Lily and Kaylee turned to the blue Ranger and frowned.
"Theo, I'm ignoring you're negative energy," RJ frowned, moving his hands in such a way, that it looked like he was actually trying to push away invisible energy. "Casey, I'm working on something new for you that you're gonna love! You just power it up with your tiger spirit and it'll blow your mind!"
"Is it dangerous?" Lily asked. Theo looked up at his best friend and sighed as jealousy took over.
"Casey already has one mommy, he doesn't need two," he said.
"You don't hear me complaining," Casey smiled, getting comfortable in his hammock. Lily smiled at the red Ranger while Kaylee and RJ exchanged glances, trying to figure out exactly what Casey meant by that.
"Well, lights out team," RJ smiled. "We're up against a major badass and we all need some rest."
RJ walked off to his room, leaving the others to do as they pleased. Lily followed her master, patting Casey on the shoulder as she walked off. Casey smiled at the cheetah, then turned to Theo and smirked. The jaguar frowned and ripped the towel off the tiger's head. Kaylee was last to leave as she sighed at the conflict between the two boys. So far it was a cold war... but she knew it was going to grow.
-----Jungle-Fury-----
"Okay Dustin! This is going to end here and now!" Casey yelled as he and Dai Shi stood alone in a forest. Both the villain and the hero were morphed.
"In your dreams!" Dai Shi laughed. Casey charged at the lion master, but Dustin simply raised his hand. "I call forth the spirit of the mighty lion!"
The lion charged back at Casey and blew him back.
"CASEY!" Lily called as she jumped up in bed, sweat dripping from her forehead.
"MONKEY HEADS!" Kaylee yelled as she was awoken by Lily screaming. The blonde turned to the yellow Ranger and frowned. "The Hell?"
"Sorry Kaylee," Lily frowned.
"The Hell?" Kaylee asked again, "You okay?"
Lily turned to the older blonde and smiled, "Um... yeah... just a nightmare."
"Okay but, next time, don't yell..." Kaylee pulled her blankets back up and put her head on her pillow. "I already have no idea what goes on in my head when I'm awake. I don't wanna know what happens in there when I'm sleeping. The hell was up with monkey heads?"
-----Jungle-Fury-----
Lily woke up the next morning and walked into the loft, only to hear the alarm buzzing. She headed over to the monitors and saw Rantipede on the beach.
"Red Ranger! Let's finish what we started! I can take you out single-handedly!"
Lily looked around the loft and saw everyone was already at work. She smiled to herself, grabbing her solar morpher, "Not while I'm around."
-----Jungle-Fury-----
"Nice to see you again!" Lily yelled to the giant centipede as she joined him on the beach. The centipede stopped pacing and turned to see a ranger in yellow spandex.
"Yellow Ranger?" he frowned. "You're not the one I wanted to fight!"
"What's the matter? Afraid of being beaten by a girl?" Lily teased.
"I supposed any Ranger will do," Rantipede smiled, turning into his monster form.
"Is that a challenge?" Lily smirked.
-----Jungle-Fury-----
Kaylee walked up to the loft, with the phone in her hands. Ronny had just called the pizza place after hearing about Kaylee and the new Ranger deal. She had called to congratulate Kaylee for being chosen once more, saying it was an honour to be thought of as one of the best Rangers to walk the Earth, but she had also called to offer her condolences to Kaylee. She heard that Dustin had been possessed by the Dai Shi, and knew it was going to send her best friend through a whirlwind of emotions.
After Kaylee had explained everything to Ronny, and swearing to call her if she felt over her head or just couldn't handle the pain, she told the driver she was fighting alongside her sister. Needless to say, Ronny wanted to talk to Lily to make sure she wasn't falling for a prank (Kaylee had pulled some nasty ones on her during their time as Rangers,).
Kaylee jumped down the last few steps, happy that RJ allowed her to have her cookies before breakfast and knocked on her bedroom door. There was no answer, so the blonde started speaking.
"Lily! You have one new phone call!" Kaylee laughed, opening the door. She looked around the room for Lily and walked out when the cheetah was nowhere in sight.
"Ronny, I'll be right back," Kaylee said into the speaker as she set the phone down on the table by RJ's chair.
Kaylee searched the room for the younger sister, as she did she decided to continue her conversation with Ronny.
"You know, this totally means we have to team-up at some point!" Kaylee giggled, looking under the sofa cushions. Maybe Lily had shrunk like she had all those years ago. She didn't want the yellow Ranger to be traumatized like she was.
"Yeah," Ronny smiled, and Kaylee could hear it over the phone.
Kaylee looked inside the cookie jar, stealing a few of the chocolate chip ones as she did. She put the lid back on, but it made a small ding sound as it hit the jar.
"You're not searching the cookie jar, are you?" Ronny asked. Kaylee bit her lower lip and smiled before turning to the phone, her mouth full of cookies.
"Mo..." the blonde said.
"Kayl, are you coming back soon?" Casey called when he and Theo walked into the loft.
"Have you guys seen Lily?" Kaylee asked. "She's not here!"
"You lost her?" Ronny frowned. "I knew I should have just dropped by."
"Keep your racing pants on. I'm sure she's... holy legs!" Kaylee frowned when the monitors suddenly turned on and the green Ranger saw the cheetah was fighting Rantipede on the beach.
"What's she doing fighting that centipede all on her own?" Casey asked with concern on his face.
"Who's she fighting? What?" Ronny asked. Kaylee grabbed her solar morpher from her pocket and the phone.
"Come by JKP in a few hours and you'll get the details," Kaylee told the older sister. "Right now we've got a cheetah ass to save... I think... she seems to be doing pretty well, actually..."
"Kaylee!" the boys called.
"Coming!"
-----Jungle-Fury-----
"Cheetah jabs!" Lily yelled as she continued to punch the centipede. Rantipede was also punching the cheetah, but neither one of them were making contact with the other's body. Suddenly, Lily lost some of her speed, allowing Rantipede to get a few shots on her.
"Jungle Bo!" Lily yelled, pulling out her weapon.
"You're mine!" Rantipede smiled. He went back to punching, and Lily started blocking his punches with her Bo. When Lily finally went on the offensive, she got Rantipede to his knees and laughed.
"Hey!" Theo yelled as he and the other Rangers joined the cheetah on the battle field. Lily saw her friends and sighed. She knew she was in for hell with them. "What's the deal, going off on your own?"
"I seem to be doing just fine!" Lily smiled to herself. She saw Kaylee hit her helmet with her hand and groan.
"Not for long!" Rantipede yelled before growing tall. Beside him, on the ground, were Rinshi warriors.
"You guys use the Megazord!" Casey smiled. "I got these guys covered."
"You sure Casey?" Lily asked; concern in her voice. Casey shook his hand and put his hand on the yellow Ranger's shoulder.
"Positive," he smiled. "I think Kaylee's gem thing really worked."
"Let's go guys!" Kaylee smiled, summoning her snow leopard spirit and forming the Megazord with blue and yellow Rangers.
"Time to test RJ's new invention!" Casey smiled. "With the strength of a tiger, Strike Rider, cruise!"
A red bike was created using the tiger spirit summoned by Casey. The red Ranger jumped on the bike and smiled at the speed of the vehicle.
"Tiger Strike! Full Throttle!" he yelled, speeding towards the Rinshi. With his new bike, he easily took out all the Rinshi.
-----Jungle-Fury-----
"Take this!" Lily yelled, temporarily taking control over the Jungle Pride as she attacked the overgrown bug with her cheetah jabs. Rantipede blocked out all the shots as he wrapped his upper body around the Megazord.
Inside the Megazord, the three Rangers had their arms glued to their side as something invisible tied them up.
"I hate this feeling!" Kaylee yelled as she struggled to break free.
"I got this, guys!" Theo smiled, pulling his arms up, breaking Rantipede off him.
"Get him!" Kaylee yelled. The three Rangers reached out and the Megazord grabbed Rantipede's head with its hands and started spinning.
"Oh boy!" Rantipede yelled before being thrown down.
"Just like the other bugs at my house..." Kaylee smiled, lifting her foot up and stepping down on the centipede, "SPLAT!"
-----Jungle-Fury-----
Casey walked into the kitchen at JKP and frowned when he saw his favourite cheetah doing the dishes by hand.
"Whoa, is the dishwasher broken?" he asked, walking over to the other side of the counter.
Lily didn't stop scrubbing the pizza plates as she looked up at Casey momentarily, "Nope, RJ's orders. He thinks I need to learn a lesson for taking off on my own."
Casey smiled as he took a dish towel and started drying off all the wet dishes Lily had already cleaned. After all, if Lily was risking her life to protect him, he might as well risk pruny fingers for her.
"Well, I'm flattered that you put yourself out there for me," he smirked playfully.
"Flattered?" Lily frowned, handing the red Ranger the pizza plate before moving onto the cheese shredder.
"Yeah, it's obvious you have a thing for me," Casey smiled. He didn't notice that Theo had walked down the stairs at that exact moment. The blue Ranger watched his two "friends" in the room and sighed before walking back upstairs, heartbroken.
"Casey!" Lily laughed, hoping her ears betrayed her, "You're a great guy but..."
"But?" Casey frowned. "Aww, c'mon Lil, you can't have a but!"
"Actually, I have a butt," Lily smiled, turning around and pointing to her ass, "But, I see you as more of..."
"Lillian Chilman!" Ronny called from the entrance of the parlour, interrupting the cheetah. Lily recognised the voice and ran for the kitchen door. She stopped when she saw who it was.
"Well, well, if it isn't the famous Veronica Robinson," Lily smiled. Casey walked up behind the dirty blonde and frowned when he saw Lily was acting all buddy-buddy around famous stock car driver Ronny Robinson. To make matters even more surprising, Kaylee was there beside Ronny, and Ducky was sitting on Ronny's head. Lily hugged Ronny.
Now Casey was in total shock. Ducky was to Kaylee as the green chair was to RJ. No one was allowed to touch Ducky without Kaylee's permission and supervision. And that wasn't something you could get easily. So far, only Kira and Tori had the permission to touch Ducky, and Tori was the only one exempt from the permission and supervision part.
"Casey, this is my sister," Lily introduced once she saw Casey's confusion.
"That would explain everything!" Casey laughed. The laughter suddenly stopped when realisation hit. Did Lily just call Ronny Robinson her sister?
"You're her sister?" he asked, staring in shock. Growing up, his father had shown him a lot of Nascar races, and amateur races. Casey preferred the amateurs because he got to watch them grow into the sport, much like he had to grow in baseball to become the (kinda) pro he was now. He had seen Ronny a few times and always knew she would make it. When she did, he watched her first race and saw her accident. He heard about her handicap and how she might never be able to walk, never mind race again. He also followed her story when she recovered from her paralysis and jumped back into the dangerous sport, only to come out on top. "You... are Ronny Robinson's sister?"
Ronny laughed, hitting the front of Casey's hat playfully, "Yep, I'm the munckin's sister, and her predecessor as the Yellow Overdrive Ranger."
"You're the yellow Ranger before... and you're her..." Casey's jaw kept moving, but his words stopped suddenly. Lily smiled, using her two fingers to shut his mouth for him.
Kaylee began to laugh as she grabbed Casey's arm, "Lily and Ronny are sisters, and yellow Rangers, Nothing all that new," she grinned, pulling him into the kitchen so the two girls could catch up.