[Note to the reader: From now on, Riley will instead say 'EARTH' instead of 'FOREST'. Just pretend like she said that from the beginning. It just makes more sense with it being that.]
"Did you manage to find anything wrong with my morpher?" Riley began heading down the main elevator. Once at the bottom, she walked to Peter who was still running tests over the super computer.
"Not really. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it. Maybe you were just tired yesterday?" Peter suggested, stopping himself from using the computer.
"So, is Lily really the Wind Ranger?" Riley caught to Peter's plan quickly.
"No. But I noticed her behavior towards you lot and the Power Rangers. I don't think she'll blab." He beckoned Riley over to the table where the crystals were standing.
"Well… That's always good." Riley sighed, looking up at the zords.
"I understand you don't want to be a Power Ranger… But you're- " Peter started, but Riley interrupted.
"Save it. It's okay. I'm doing it for the good of the world, and helping Rodney and Kelz and Eric… And Paul." Riley nodded; she pulled a seat over from underneath the desk with the crystal chambers on top.
She lowered her head and looked over at her morpher. Peter noticed that she was deep in thought, so he began working on the super computer. He found that some of the wreckages that had been made by the previous megazord battles were being slowly repaired by some volunteering citizens.
He scanned over to the school cameras and saw that Rodney was in lesson. He was falling asleep in an Ethics, Peter sniggered and bleeped Rodney's morpher. It woke him up and he started listening again.
Peter scanned over to see if he could see what anyone else was doing. Lily and Kelz were in their Further Maths class. Kelz was writing down the work that the teacher was writing on the board, while Lily was drawing something that looked like schematics on grid paper.
He was interested in her work, so he zoomed in a bit closer, to see what she might have been drawing. It looked like a simplified version of the morphers. Lily moved her arm and showed another part of the schematics, but a smaller version of the morphers. A wristwatch, but it looked nearly exactly like the morphers.
Eric was walking towards the base, talking on his phone. Because the cameras weren't equipped with microphones, Peter couldn't figure out what he was saying.
"So you want me to what-?" Eric paused, confused as to what the person on the other side of the phone was suggesting. "National Championships? No, no I couldn't. I'm not good eno-… Alright. Alright fine! I'll do it… Yeah. Yeah bye…" he hung up his phone and typed in the password in the branch hut.
"What were you talking about?" Peter asked, looking up to the elevator platform.
"What? Oh, nothing important." Eric stepped off, Riley then noticed that he was there. She woke up from her trance and smiled at his entrance.
"Alright. You just here because it's your free?" Peter got back to his computer, trying to figure out what Lily might have been designing.
"Yeah." Eric nodded. He stepped up to the super computer and looked at the screen that Peter was focused on. He then realized. "Do you actually have lessons? You're always here…"
"I only have 2 subjects. What are you doing, Lily?" he zoomed in a bit more to Lily's work, but the camera lost its focus. He curses and zoomed back out. He turned around to face the two.
"Why are you so focused on Lily?" Riley suddenly became interested in the conversation.
"She's drawing schematics of the morphers. She's drawn a smaller version of it, and I'm just curious as to what she's doing." Peter pulled out the conveniently placed seat from under the table and sat down on it.
"Is that important? She's probably just interested." Eric was cut off short since the alarm began ringing. Peter turned around swiftly to see the emergency.
Shadow's were attacking in the town center, everyone was running and screaming from them. The running wouldn't do much good, but luckily the Shadow's weren't making much of an effort to go after the passerby's, their main target was the Power Rangers.
"Oh geez… I'd best call the rangers-" Peter nearly began typing on one of his keyboards, preparing to activate the morphers to call the rangers.
"No need." Riley interrupted. "It's only Shadow's, me and Eric can handle it." Riley ran over to the Green Elevator, Eric followed into the Blue Elevator.
"Deal!" Peter nodded, happy that Riley was raring to go.
"Ready, Eric?" Riley pulled morpher arm up into half of the X.
"Ready!" Eric answered. Peter pressed the Green and Blue buttons for the elevator. The two rose.
"ELEMENTAL!" the two completed the X with their other arm. "POWER UP!" they threw their hands in front of them, palms up. "HAH!" they threw their palms down. The morphing sequence began, the top of the elevator shaft had been reached and the two were blasted off to the town center.
"EARTH!"
"WATER!"
A woman had been cornered by some of the Shadow's who were slowly hobbling along to her. The woman had broken down to her knees and was screaming loudly, begging for help. There was a large crowd of Shadow's gathering in the other direction, making their way to a large crowd of people running away. They were nearly running to get to the civilians.
"I'll get the woman! You get the crowd!" Riley ran over to the slow moving set of Shadow's, and Eric ran over to save the crowd.
"WATER SHIELD!" he conjured his weapon and tackled over some of the Shadow's closest to the back, through the momentum he fell over, smashing some Shadow's focus. However, the rest that hadn't been tackled over were steadily making their way faster to the crowd. "Dang." He stood up and attempted to tackle another set. He couldn't get close enough to try any damage.
'Eric! The spikes on your shield can be fired out! There's a button underneath the hostler, aim and press it!' Peter instructed over the intercom. Obviously, there had been a new feature added to the Water Morpher's system.
"Alright!" he aimed his shield spikes at the Shadow's, "Water Spike Fire!" he pressed the button under the hostler and some of the spikes fired out into the back row of the Shadow's, they lost their focus and the next row of Shadow's were next to be destroyed. "That works really well…"
Eric quickly got himself distracted so the Shadow's and civilians ran over the next hill. He got his head back into the situation and ran after them. The group of Shadow's had separated and begun to attack the civilians that were on the dogs park.
"No. People are going to get killed… Peter!" he spoke through the intercom to Peter. "Emergency! I don't know what to do! Th-There's people being attacked by the Shadow's! I can't attack all of them at once!"
'Don't panic, Eric! Remember, just stay focused! Here, I'll send you the Unity Morpher!' Peter transported the Unity Morpher over. 'Just remain cool and collected. You remember how it works. Right?'
"Yeah. Yeah I can do this." He dropped the focus of the Water Shield. "Unity!" he held his arms in an X. "ELEMENTAL!" he threw his hands out in front of his, fists down. "HAH!" he pulled his arms out to his sides.
A blue crystal shard appeared in front of him and shone over him and his suit. He back flipped into the final part of the action, a breastplate formed on him as he waited to complete the transformation. "WATER MODE!" he stood tall, finishing the morph sequence.
"Water Shield!" he summoned up the Water Shield, which had upgraded itself due to the Power of Unity. A bright rainbow colored line circled around many of the spikes that protruded out of the shield. "This is better…" a thought then occurred. 'If the Unity Morpher upgrades the power of Water, then it must upgrade the weapons. "SHADOW SEAKING WATER SPIKES! FIRE!" he created a new technique. The spikes fired out of the shield and began to fly about, looking for targets.
Each of the spikes found a Shadow to direct themselves at; all hit their target with optimum accuracy. The Shadow's Focus was lost as was the Unity Morpher's. Eric returned to his original Water Ranger form. All of the citizens were safe.
Riley ran as fast as she could to the woman that needed her help. She conjured up the Earth Daggers, firing them at the Shadow's that were limping ever so faster to the woman. Riley tried her best to try and get the Shadow's attention by firing as many Daggers at them as possible, but it became increasingly harder to grasp all the Shadow's focus.
She jumped high over the Shadow's, and to the woman who had been cornered. She made herself into a barrier, blocking the Shadow's from attacking the woman.
"Don't worry. You're safe." She reassured her. "EARTH DAGGERS!" she conjured up some more of her Daggers and fired them at the Shadow's. Their Focus was lost and most of the front row disappeared.
The Shadow's now began to move at Riley with increasing velocity. She had to act quickly if she wanted to save the woman and herself. She summoned up some more daggers and threw them at the remaining Shadow's. Luckily, the Shadow's lost their Focus and Riley was left with the woman, both safe.
"Thank you so much!" the woman thanked Riley before standing up, she ran to the dog park, passing Eric on the way.
"You're welcome…" Riley watched her run off. She had a warm feeling inside, she had just saved someone, and it made her happy to get a 'Thank you'.
"Ril-" Eric stopped himself before he made a big mistake. "Earth Ranger!" he continued running for Riley. "You okay?"
"This is difficult… By ourselves at least…" Riley stretched out, looking around to see if she could find anymore Shadow's.
"Yeah…" Eric spoke minutely, turning away from Riley. "I-… I don't think-" Peter teleported them back to the base. The Green and Blue elevator's lowered with the de-morphing Riley and Eric.
Riley's phone bleeped. She took it out of her pocket and searched around on her phone. She noticed that it was bleeping to signify that she was going to be late for lesson if she didn't hurry out of the base as quickly as possible. She swiftly made for the main elevator, Peter thumbed the button and the elevator ascended.
Eric walked over to a table that Peter had placed in the center of the base, he sat down on one of the seats and rested his arms on the table and he slumped his head on top. He pondered of what had happened today. How he reacted when trying to save the civilians. He hesitated. He panicked.
"Haven't you got any lessons now?" Peter began typing around on the super computer, looking over at some of the rangers, making sure Riley was making it into lesson in time.
"What~?" Eric lifted his head over to Peter. "No. I've got no lessons until 4th. Have you got any?" he tried to continue conversation, though his voice still glum with what sounded like doubt.
"Yeah I've got a lesson now. I'd best leave…" the main elevator reached the bottom of the shaft. Peter tapped across a few more buttons on the keyboard of the super computer before he ascended. "If you feel like coming back up to the school, don't feel obligated to stay in the base!" he had to raise his voice before he reached the top of the shaft.
Eric was still watching the top of the elevator shaft. Waiting for something. He didn't know what he was waiting for. Maybe he wanted to talk about what he was feeling. But he never liked to admit that he wanted help, he always wanted others to figure it out. Figure out if he was upset or not. Typical man.
He sighed and looked away.
Rodney had just finished his Ethics lesson and was wondering what everyone else was doing. He knew that Lily had a lesson, Kelz he wasn't too sure about. She might have had an English Literature lesson, but she might have had BTEC Drama.
Riley had a Chemistry lesson, so Rodney laughed when he remembered this. Rodney had always laughed when someone mentioned how hard, Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics or Biology was. He wasn't very supportive, but he did take all the easy subjects. But he wasn't that interested in going to a university.
When walked through the Heart Space of the school towards the main entrance. He watched as Peter ran past on the way to his next lesson. He thought that Peter had Computing, but he was running in the opposite direction.
Eric was the one that he had no idea about. He didn't know if he had a lesson, or if he had a free. But the thought of Eric quickly left his head. He thought about other matters, which mostly involved his morpher and being a power ranger.
"I wonder what Paul's doing right now…" he looked up to one of the skylights.
