The looks they received from the citizens weren't less than they had expected.
As the rangers walked to the park, their minds were on. By now, nothing more than whispers and calls had happened but that didn't mean they were totally safe and just as Kevin's parents had said when they came back to their home, the city seemed to forget the misunderstandings between the power rangers and the sad people.
The streets were as usual full of people walking and on their cars but none of them seemed to do something against them. Time to time, they heard little kids calling them or even the grown up people but they did their best to keep as much calm as possible. In mind the worries were on the top but they wanted to keep them far.
At some point of their walk, the rangers felt like everything was fine because they assure in some stores there were posters hung out in the windows about the Power Rangers Samurai and at some toy stores were action figures too.
They hadn't been there in a while but… Were they famous? It was a possibility, maybe, but it wasn't sure, though any person who has an action figure in stores is famous. But now that wasn't the matter. They only wanted to make the peace with their city.
They made the way to park and stopped in the middle. There was a water fountain and near was the playground.
Kevin shocked gently his shoulder to Mia's as he raised his eyebrows watching the kids play... Mia understood the hint as the day when Kevin was trying to tell her if she wanted to be his girlfriend.
People started to surround leaving them with no way out. Though they weren't close enough of the samurais, they felt like with no air.
"Ok, Jayden. This is it. They aren't that bad as I thought but maybe they're lying. No wait, their faces have changed. They have no anger. Maybe that time passed. They had to overcome that time, we moved faster. Maybe we exaggerated the situation, I don't know"
Lauren turned to see her brother and he was in his thoughts. She nudged him and he backed.
"Jayden well…" Lauren whispered.
The red ranger sighed and nodded his head. When he looked up to the multitude he could recognize two faces. If his memory wasn't bad, he could assure those were the people who started arguing the first time they showed up. It was a woman who had two children in each of her hands and a man.
Just about when he opened his mouth to say a word, a strange voice was heard.
"Come on, you people. What are you expecting?"
Emily closed her eyes and walked closer Mike. She wasn't sure how this was starting. Mike did nothing more than think everything was fine, because if he hugged Emily or show any feeling to her, though it wasn't too much, it could be dangerous.
Mia looked to Kevin and Antonio worriedly and bit her lip. What the question meant?
Lauren took off all concerns of her mind and said "We're here for finally say who we are"
"They're the Power Rangers!" "Hello!" "There they are"
That was what they heard at a time. They were the people calling them and not with voices of despair or hate, but with voices of happiness and pleasure. The children had faces of admiration to see their superheroes and many of some others had their Power Rangers' toys, which surprised the team samurai.
Just like Emily's doctor had said when he went to the Shiba house, there were people who were admiring them and were taking care of them. That blow of fury that one day existed was gone, and it seemed that the people of that city understood what had happened. They had changed.
"Yes, as well as the last time we have returned to assure you that we don't try to do anything more than the good for you" Lauren explained " During this time we wanted to give you space for that, please, understand what were our intentions and that we are nothing more than people as well as you."
"But you all are superheroes" A man's voice was listened "You're Power Rangers"
"No" Jayden shook his head "We come from you, of different parts of this world. And believe us or not, there exist forces more powerful that the humanity could understand"
"You saved us samurai team, you saved the whole world"
"Not at all" an angry voice raised up "Dozens of people died when the big red monster appeared"
"But they won, you idiot. It could be millions times worse if the Samurai Rangers hadn't ended him"
Antonio stepped close to Kevin and whispered in his ear "Buddy, are my ears the treacherous or are there people who are defending us?"
Kevin nodded his head in response. He couldn't believe it. The first time, he almost got shot in his arm and now there were people who would take the bullet for him. It was impressive.
Kevin this time answered "We did our best stopping Master Xandred, seriously. That was the name of the red monster. The others that came eventually were nighloks and I and my team defeated them as well"
"And how can we be sure they're not returning, huh? Years ago the other stupid team stopped them as well, but now, look! They returned"
Jayden clenched his fists" My fa... the past team of samurai thought they had finished. But something failed and that caused the returning of the nighloks. But this time is different"
That only brought confusion to the citizens who began to scream to get their answers. It wasn't normal that superheroes in the films were discovered with their true identities and when that happened: there were famous or contempt.
The Samurai Rangers had not yet determined their status.
"Listen please" Kevin raised his hand to take the attention that for his surprise obtained seconds later "I know that … several of you have met me and … my teammate Mia, we don't have anything special. As well as each one from here, we were chosen strangely to turn into Power Rangers and to be able to defeat the nighloks once and for all …"
"And believe us we were as surprised as you are now," Mia said "But in this world there are many things beyond our reach to be understood and it may seem straight out of a fairy tale, evil exists… likewise superheroes"
When Mia ended, people began to applaud in a warm way. With the exception of a few who were just watching the others and decided to leave.
Mia frowned unsure of what was happening. She didn't know if they were laughing at her or what? But after analyzing well the desire, the faces and attitudes of the people ... They were giving thanks.
Mike saw this as something alarming and leaned over to whisper to Lauren.
"Lauren, in addition to the successful sealing symbol, don't you have one to make a force field to keep us safe?"
"I'm not a magician, Mike"
"Well, you should consider becoming one"
The Green Ranger grimaced and saw the rest of his team, they were so alarmed as him, but before he could do anything, a person raised his voice to ask something
"And where have you been, by the way? I haven't see you here"
"We have been a bit far from here. ...The first time we came to make peace with you, you had many doubts and I think our presence only worsened everything"
"Yes, but this city has recovered" a woman tell.
"Then it seems we're good"
"We have never been better. But understand, we ended up losing friends and family and well, we weren't thinking clearly at the time"
"It was evident" Emily muttered
"So ..." Lauren interrupted "There's no one here trying to hurt us?"
"There is still pain" The same woman said, "But it's not your fault"
When Lauren saw the others agreed with her, the pressure was gone and her eyes watered. Although she even saw people watching them without joy and without any expression, she knew that things would be better. Only it needed to give time to time to calm things down and it was just what they had done.
Without meant to do it, they had chosen the right option.
"This means a lot to us, really, we never wanted to hurt them, believe us. All we wanted to do was ... "
"Protect us"
A voice of a boy made Lauren and others to lift the view, where the voice came.
"Cody" Jayden was surprised to see the child with his father.
"Listen ..." Cody approached the samurais and looked around "I know this is hard but these people are like us. They saved us and the least we can do is to thank them for risking their lives"
Citizens were surprised that the child protected the Samurai Rangers but that was a kind gesture. When Cody noticed the heavy looks, he shrugged "They saved my life once, as well as yours. But I had the ..." he turned to see their faces" ... pleasure of meeting them"
The young group smiled at the boy.
Things were going much better than they once thought. People who listened Cody and his story of how his life had been saved, also began counting theirs, but it was much shouts that the Rangers were limited to smile and nod.
Cody's father waved him to return with him and gave a comforted look to the team.
"Dad, do you think they'll be okay?"
"Cody, they'll be fine, don't worry '"
"Yes! Here we are! Believe it Panorama City, our Power Rangers came back and it seems is permanently. We'll see it we get a closer shot"
"They're doing so well" Emily's mother took her hands to her mouth.
"I'm so proud of them" Ji nodded
"Here are the snacks. Now we'll wait them to come back" Emily's father put down the plate and watched the TV with his wife and Ji.