Chapter 2: Flames of Anger

After Scorn was sent running with his tail between his legs, everything sort of quieted down, the staff at the school sent everyone home canceling any other after school activities, everyone was a bit shaken by the Grublin attack and the hundred foot wolf warrior that stomped through the city.

We all went home after everything was settled, I usually drove to and from school so I had some time to process all of the insanity I had just been thrown into. I was a Power Ranger now, that still hadn't quite settled in with me yet, you always heard of the Power Rangers from the news and blogs, I never thought in a million years I'd be one, let alone the red ranger, the leader of the group, it would be cool if it wasn't so terrifying.

I was not the first guy you looked to when you needed a leader, I was brash, short tempered, and terrible at giving orders, how the hell was I supposed to lead a team of dragon powered superheroes to fight the doom dragon to end all doom dragons? Not to mention I had to still balance it with school and other teenager things. God… I'm so screwed aren't I?

I decided to turn on the radio, if anything to escape the deafening silence, but, of course, escape from Power Ranger stuff was not to be had this day, as it was naturally all over the news.

"New Harmony was rocked today by what everyone was calling a "full blown monster attack" at the local High School, apparently "rock like monsters" attacked the school after hours, and eventually some kind of giant "wolf knight" wrecked most of downtown New Harmony" The radio DJ said. "However, the destruction could have been a whole lot worse if this wolf monster wasn't stopped by what many people believe was a Mega Zord!" He continued, seeming quite excited by the Mega Zord part, "It seems that our little town has gotten it's own group of Power Rangers to keep the bad dudes away, we'll give you more info as soon as it become available, but for now, we've got some I Prevail coming up here on New Harmony's number one rock station, WKB 22.1, the Slash!" The DJ said before the song came on.

I guess I shouldn't have been too surprised enough people saw us to get people talking about the possibility of New Harmony based Power Rangers, I mean come on, a giant dragon themed gestalt robot was kinda hard to miss. But it just felt so weird hearing someone talk about something I did on the radio like that, that something I took part in was important enough to count as news. I didn't know whether to feel proud for having so many people be thankful for me helping saving the city, or terrified that I was probably going to let them down eventually.

"Well with an attitude like that you just might,"

God not the voice again, was this going to be a thing now? I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the red gem in my morpher glowed whenever the voice went off, this told me that the voice was… somehow connected to my morpher, one could question why your super hero transforming device needed to come with a free voice in your head but I'm not the great purple dragon Spyro so what do I know right? Maybe it was some kind of AI or something meant to teach me how to use it, like Siri, only in your head instead of on your phone.

"I am no "AI" human!" The voice snapped, clearly offended I just compared him to Siri, "I am a Dragon Spirit contained within the spirit gem that powers your morpher," It corrected me, well excuse me for making a logical guess!

I tried my best to focus on the road, the last thing I needed was to get in an accident because my morpher decided to be chatty, "I have a name you know!" The voice growled, "I am Ignitus, in life I was the Guardian of Fire, I taught Spyro how to use the element of flame, I am not some "voice" in your head!" He barked at me.

Okay, time out, why the hell would Spyro do this? This guy was his mentor and probably friend too, what kind of sick twisted freak traps their mentor's soul into a gem to power his super hero team? That's like if Batman trapped Alfred's soul in the Bat Computer! It's kinda messed up. "Spyro needed a source of dragon magic to power the spirit gem in your morpher, for whatever reason he chose to use my magic to power it, when he did, a bit of my soul was transferred into the gem, I doubt even Spyro knows I'm in here," He clarified.

Okay so Spyro wasn't the sadistic psycho who would intentionally trap his close friends into a plastic wrist gadget, I should probably tell Spyro about this the next time I see him, he might want to know his fire teacher is currently hanging out on my wrist. "Actually I'm technically in your subconscious right now," He corrected me… again.

Oh that's even better! He's in my brain, explains how he was able to read my mind so easily, but my god was that horrifying when you really stopped to think about it, wait… if he's a ghost of a dragon… does that technically make my brain haunted? Aghh… this whole Power Ranger thing was starting to drive me bonkers!

God, I bet The Avengers never have to deal with this crap…

Later That Night…

Of course, when I got home my mother was all over me in seconds, apparently she had seen the report about the Grublin attack at school on the news and thought I died or something. I can't say I blame her really, I mean… any good parent would have a heart attack after hearing their child's school was attacked by other worldly abominations. I of course had to lie and say I managed to hide myself.

So after all that I had decided to spend the night trying to piece together the remains of my completely shattered existence, deciding to do what any teenager who just did something insane in this day and age, I googled it to see how many people were talking about it.

Of course, it was viral, there were several shaky videos on YouTube of the Zord fight, with titles like "Power Rangers in New Harmony?", "Check this out! Epic giant monster brawl!" and my personal favorite, "I almost died filming a Zord Fight at NHHS! (Not Clickbait!)". He in fact did not almost die for the record, Scorn almost hit the window this dip stick was filming from once. I guess that title was just too good for him to pass up.

I even found a few news articles on us, some even having gotten pictures of us fighting Grublins, none managed to get shots of us morphing (thank god!), but it did make me wonder just how in the hell I didn't notice some yahoo with a smart phone snapping pictures of me and my friends beating up rock monsters. Said articles were basically all the same thing, the writer being shocked that a small town like New Harmony had it's own ranger squad, although one of them seemed more stuck on our outfits than anything else… whatever.

But all this was just unreal, I was basically famous now, well kinda, no one knew who I even was under that helmet, but that was still me there, in fabulous bright red spandex, and beating up rock monsters.

There were pictures of the Mega Zord as well, I hadn't gotten a good look at the Zord during the battle, and the Zords just sort of disassembled the Mega Zord and flew off after the fight was over, it was humanoid in shape, as I theorized during the fight, my Zord made up the head and torso, with the humanoid head wearing the dragon head like a helmet, the torso had a giant windshield in the center which is what we saw through while piloting the thing, Jess and Dean's Zords made up the arms, with the heads acting as shoulder pads. Kevin's Zord making up the legs and feet. The Mega Zord even had giant dragon wings coming from it's back, I wonder if it could fly with those things? Whatever, I admit it did look pretty awesome, if not a little hokey.

I felt like I was losing my grip on reality right now, I was now an internet famous red clad super hero with his own giant robot dragon which combined with my friend's giant dragon robots to form an even bigger robot! It was like some lame Japanese super hero show made to sell toys to children or something.

I happened to notice the clock on my computer read ten o' clock PM, I had school in the morning so I figured it was best to get to bed, hoping that tomorrow wouldn't be nearly as insane as today was.

Meanwhile…

Malefor's Castle…

My failure still weighed heavy on me, like a force just above my head that threatened to crush me at any second. Lord Malefor was clearly angry, I just didn't know if he was angry at the Power Rangers for thwarting his attack on New Harmony, or me for failing to defeat them.

What made it worse was how close I was to picking off the red one before the giant metal dragons came into play, he had no sword skills, I had him disarmed and on the ground, but in my arrogance I had failed to notice the blue one before he stopped me. What I wouldn't give to have another chance at that scenario, I'd be celebrating in victory as opposed to wallowing in defeat.

Now I had to rely on Rikor's little monsters to defeat the Power Rangers, Malefor having told me I had my chance at the Power Rangers and failed. It was insulting, but I dared not defy the Dark Master, lest I find myself dead. "This monster of yours better be good Rikor, we cannot afford to underestimate these "Power Rangers" again," I warned the lizard mage.

Rikor put the finishing touches on his latest "masterpiece", some kind of large mouthed creature with a comically long tongue sticking out and one giant eyeball, "I call him "Big Mouth"! His insults can cause the rangers emotional and physical pain!" He explained.

Rikor was certainly… imaginative, we rarely if ever used his monsters before, usually the members of the order were enough to carry out our deeds in the Dragon Realms, but none of us could possibly have been prepared for the Power Rangers. But I sometimes wished Rikor would put more thought into his monsters, as opposed to making things that were ridiculous and childish. I mean, attacking people with insults? Really?

I began the incantation to bring his ridiculous monster to life, I had done it before, but it was still a very difficult spell to cast, only known to high ranking magic users. But eventually, I managed it, Rikors… "Loud Mouth" was now a living creature, the beast sort of looked around for a moment, god it was revolting to see it in motion, but you worked with what you had not what you wanted, "Go to the human realms, cause as much chaos as you can to draw out the Power Rangers, and then kill them," I ordered the beast.

I then created a portal to the Human Realms which the beast traveled through, hopefully it would be the only monster we'd need to use to dispose of those humans.

The Next Day…

New Harmony High…

It was weird being in school after the attack, it was as if nothing had even happened yesterday, granted, the attack had happened after school, but still, you'd think people would be more on edge. I tried to act casual, walking over to my locker to put my stuff away, however…

SLAM!

It seems in all the Power Ranger related excitement I had forgotten that Jake Roth wanted my head on a pike, evidenced by how he slammed his fist against the locker right next to me, "You should have just stayed away from me Foutler!" He growled, "You and Naton humiliated me in front of the entire football team yesterday! If you thought I was going to kill you before..." He added, you'd think after nearly getting killed by rock monsters Jake would forget about me but nope, dude was dedicated I'll give him that much.

I glared at him, "Roth, why don't you just back off?" I snarled, I was not going to take Roth's crap after the day I had yesterday, I was the freaking Red Ranger for god sake! I had more important things on my plate than Roth's inferiority complex! God I just wanted to clock him right in the jaw.

Roth pushed me against the locker, "Oh yeah? And who's going to make me huh? You?" he said, suddenly every eye in the hallway was on us, expecting a fight to break out any second.

I so wanted to just clock Roth right in the face, wipe that smug grin right off his face, however, "No Dylan! Some battles are best walked away from, this is one of them," Said Ignitus, dude you don't know Roth like I do! This clown has been asking for an ass kicking since eighth grade! "I know about as much as you do, enough to know he isn't worth your anger, walk away," Ignitus sounded again, it was clear from his tone he wasn't taking no for an answer.

Roth grabbed me by the shirt, "Come on Foutler! You wanna fight me? Fight ME!" He screamed, slamming me into the locker, this was getting ridiculous, normally I would have done something by now, but the nagging nanny in my brain wouldn't let me for some stupid reason.

However before things could escalate, "Mr. Roth, Mr. Foutler, what is going on here?" One of the teachers said, marching towards us, "You two can see me after school, I will not tolerate fighting on school grounds!" The teacher snapped.

Roth let go of my shirt, "This isn't over Foutler," He hissed at me before storming off.

Great, now I got detention! All because Roth holds a grudge with a death grip! And thanks to Ignitus, I looked like a coward on top of it, I should of clocked the jerk in his stupid face, "And then you would be in far more trouble than you are now, it's like I said young human, some battles are best walked away from," Ignitus chimed in. I didn't ask for your commentary dude.

Later…

Lunch…

The rest of the day had gone mostly without incident, Roth still gave me death glares every time we crossed paths, and I still had that detention looming over me, but other than that my day was just about the same as it'd always been. But one thing that was different today is that my fellow rangers and I spent a bit more time together, evidenced by how we all sat at the same lunch table today.

I was filling everyone in on what had happened, "So why didn't you clock Roth in his stupid face again?" Kevin asked me.

I shook my head, god I was going to sound like a lunatic, "My… "Dragon Spirit" told me not to, this voice guy who keeps talking to me from my morpher," I said, god I sounded insane.

However, oddly the others seemed to react with a mix of relief and surprise, "You have one of those too?" Dean suddenly asked, it seemed I wasn't the only one who had a dragon haunting their brain… goodie.

Kevin sighed in relief, "I thought I was the only one," He said.

Jess sort of rubbed her finger around the rim of her Spirit Gem, "They're like guides or teachers, I think they're supposed to guide us on how to use our powers or something," Jess theorized.

Kevin just scoffed, "Cyril apparently didn't get the memo, all he's done is nag me about "keeping appearances up" and "being online too much," it's like having a movie critic in my brain," He said, revealing his dragon spirits name to be Cyril.

Dean chuckled, "I haven't really had any problems with Terrador," Dean said, also revealing his dragon spirit's name to be Terrador.

Jess sort of fidgeted a little, "Volteer kinda has a tendency to ramble, but he did help me finish my science homework last night," She said, it seemed all four of us had a dragon ghost in our morphers, as if being a Power Ranger wasn't weird enough by itself, now we had dragons taking refuge in our brains… god that sounded bad out of context… and even a little in context come to think of it.

I groaned, "Yeah, but all Ignitus accomplished was making me look like a wuss in front of the entire school," I said.

Dean however didn't seem to see it that way, "Or he just saved you from getting suspended," He said, "Roth will back off at some point, there's no need to beat him up man," He added.

However, before I could give my side of the argument, all of our morphers sounded with a loud beep, suddenly a hologram shot out from them, showing a tiny little Spyro head that looked like it was sticking out from the table, not exactly the most dignified showing of the great purple dragon I must say, "Rangers, sorry to interrupt but Malefor has sent a monster loose in the city, you need to stop it before it hurts someone," He instructed us before disappearing as quickly as he came.

This however, created a problem, "How the hell are we going to get out of here without anyone noticing?" I asked, no one seemed to have an answer, as an awkward silence befell the group.

However, Kevin suddenly had an idea, as he grabbed the mashed potatoes right off his tray, "FOOD FIGHT!" He screamed as he tossed them right at some poor soul across the room, and in nothing flat the entire cafeteria descended into chaos as food began to fly! "There, now the teachers are gonna be too distracted by the food fight to stop us," He said.

You know Kevin, there were better ways of getting us out of the cafeteria than starting a food fight! Now we had to dodge flying food as we tried to sneak out of the cafeteria! Thanks a lot oh great Blue Ice Ranger!

We all managed it however, although Dean got hit in the head with a flying milk carton, and I took a chicken nugget to the eye… the eye! But once we got out we were ready to go after our monster.

It took a bit of looking but eventually we found it just sort of stumbling around town hall, waving it's stubby arms around like a guy in a bulky costume, it could only be described as an eyeball with arms and legs and a large goofy grin and long tongue sticking out, I guess Malefor didn't go for aesthetics when picking his monsters. "Hey you!" I shouted. The monster turned, "You picked the wrong city to mess with pal! It's morphing time!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Red Fire!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Blue Ice!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Yellow Electricity!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Green Earth!"

With our morphing done, we quickly went after the creature, kicking and punching it, I almost felt bad for the thing but considering I had a bit of aggression to work out right now, the monster must suffer. However, suddenly it turned to Kevin, "Ha! You act all cool, but deep down you know you'll never be good enough!" It said, before I could even question it, Kevin was suddenly sent sailing backwards in a wave of sparks. Well that was odd, the monster began to laugh, "Ha! You Rangers are so thin skinned! One little insult and you fall apart!" It cackled.

Dean summoned his Earth Ax, "I don't know what you did to Kevin, but I'm not going to fall so easily you overgrown eyeball!" He said before lunging at the thing.

However, "Ha! You're nothing but a dumb jock pretending to be a super hero! A shame daddy never comes to your games huh?" It said, how the hell did it know that? But just like Kevin, Dean was suddenly bombarded by a spark explosion, knocking him to the ground.

Jess was next, trying to get the monster with a roundhouse kick, "You're nothing but a whiny, wilting flower who couldn't even make friends beyond her stupid pet jock!" It said, same result as the previous two, sparks then grounded.

"Sword of Flame!" I summoned my sword, "You picked a bad day to tick me off!" I growled before going for a huge slash, but the monster rolled out of the way.

I readied for another attack, "Ha! You like to think your tough Foutler, but deep down you're just a scared little boy," The creature said, oh you son of a bitch! You're gonna-

BOOM!

Before I knew it, I was blown right off my feet, sent sailing through the air, I tried to catch myself, but the monster wasn't done with me yet, "Aww, what's the matter? Little Red Ranger gonna cry?" The monster mocked me, oh I am going to enjoy beating your face into mush! "Maybe you can go tell daddy about it? Oh that's right! You can't can you?!" it laughed.

I growled, "Don't you talk about my father!" I screamed before another spark explosion knocked me back, sending me tumbling ass over tea kettle right into a hedge.

This guy is so dead! "Dylan stop! This creature is using your anger against you! Calm down and don't pay his words any heed!" Ignitus said, but all I cared about right not was taking this son of a bitch down!

I charged him again, sword held high, ready to cleave this jerk in two! "Oh you're a lot of fun red boy," The monster teased before dodging my slash, "Another wild swing from the wild man! What's wrong? You mad Red Ranger?" it mocked me again.

And just like before, I got blown up, and that one put me down for the count, my body hurt too much to even lift my head, god what keeps hitting me? I tried in vain to stand up but my body made it's case very sternly that I was going to lay down and like it. I heard the monster's annoying laugh as I fell uselessly to the ground, "You teenagers are all the same, you just can't take it when someone makes fun of you!" It snickered.

Wait… is that what was happening? It's insults were literally hurting me? God that is so dumb, but yet, so weirdly ingenious… "And now… to finish the "brave" Red Ranger off for good!" It said, oh god it was seriously going to murder me with sick burns… life is stupid…

However, before that could happen, "LIGHTENING STRIKE!" Jess came for the save with a lightening bolt right to it's back sending it tumbling back, "You seemed to have forgotten you have three other rangers to deal with!" She said. The other two rangers joined her side, weapons drawn.

The monster got up, "You haven't seen the last of me Power Dorks! I'll be back!" it said before vanishing in a puff of smoke.

The others quickly rushed to help me up, "Dylan? You okay dude?' Kevin asked as he helped me to my feet.

It took a minute for me to recover, "I… I'm okay…" I said, I was honestly more humiliated than anything else really. I let that stupid monster get the better of me. That's twice now I've let some jerk get one over on me today. Speaking of, "We'd better get back to school, I still have to serve that detention with Roth," I said.

We all de-morphed and left, suffering our first defeat as Power Rangers, I doubt it'd be the last one either…

Later…

Detention…

We hadn't heard anything from Spyro about the monster for the rest of the school day, I was still kicking myself for letting that thing get the better of me like that! Man I suck, but I knew that next time I saw that thing, I'm taking it out.

But first, I had to deal with detention, and Jake Roth. Can't decide which one is worse really. It was only me and Roth in here though which I found a bit odd, you'd think more than just the two of us would have gotten in trouble today especially after the food fight Kevin started.

Neither of us dared utter a word, just exchanging the occasional dirty look, however this stalemate was broken when the teacher entered the room, "Dylan Foutler, Jacob Roth, you two know why you're in here right?" The teacher asked us.

"Because Roth is a violent psychopath and I just happened to be his target?" I said, Jake didn't take too kindly to that comment, as his face showed nothing but pure rage, but knew if he up and attacked me the teacher would stop him.

Speaking of the teacher, "Not exactly Mr. Foutler," he said, "You two have been at each other's throats all year, and I'm putting an end to it today, that is why I had you two separated from the rest of the students serving detention today, we are going to end your little feud today," The teacher said.

Jake stood up, "Screw that! The only way I'm not pounding Foutler is if he's expelled!" Roth blurted, or you're expelled, I'm pretty sure admitting to the teacher you're going to physically assault me isn't going to win him over.

The teacher responded to that how you'd expect, "Sit back down Mr. Roth, or I'll have to speak with your coach about removing you from the team," He threatened him, Roth reluctantly sat back down. "Now then, you two are going to be doing some cleaning around the school, hopefully a joint task will get you two to find some common ground and cease this insipid fighting," He said before handing Roth and I two trash bags.

So that's his plan? I have to clean up the school with psycho Jake? Hell no! Jake was probably going to shove me into the dumpster out back and leave me there! "Don't even argue with me Mr. Foutler!" The teacher suddenly said, "I see that look on your face, but you need to set aside your anger if you're going to get anywhere in life," He added.

Later…

The teacher brought us outside, "The attack yesterday did a lot of damage to the football field and parking area, Principal O'Hara wants both cleaned today, and if I see even one punch thrown while you're out here, you're both suspended! Am I clear?" He said, both of us reluctantly nodded. "Good, now get to work," He said before leaving.

I can't believe I'm doing this, and with one of Malefor's monsters on the loose to boot! I'm sure the others are out looking for it while I waste away the afternoon with one of my least favorite people in the whole school! How is that fair? "This is all your fault Foutler!" Roth yelled, "Now I have to clean up those monster's mess because you can't take a punch!" He snapped.

I turned to him, "Me? How about the violent neanderthal that decided to jump me this morning? Oh I forgot, nothing's your fault right?" I snapped back, this was already miserable enough on it's own, I did not need Roth trying to pin the blame on me on top of it!

Roth sneered, "You're the asshole who brought his stupid friend to humiliate me yesterday! Not to mention all the times you've beaten me and my friends up! So don't go playing innocent you scrawny little twerp!" He snapped back, there was no reasoning with him, the guy was a grade a jerk store and there was no changing that.

"I only beat you guys up because you're attacking me first! It's called self defense Roth!" I snapped back. This whole thing wasn't going to accomplish a thing, Jake always thought everything was everyone's fault but his, dude's just a psychopath!

I just went back to picking up broken pieces of fence and trash, the sooner I got this done, the sooner I could get away from the brainless wonder! "Despite Jacob being clearly in the wrong, you have to admit your temper has contributed to this problem," Said Ignitus, come on dude not now, I'm already miserable enough already! "You too often let anger corrupt you Dylan, in the fight with Scorn, the monster, and your dealings with Jake Roth, you need to learn to temper your anger," He continued, "Anger is like fire Dylan, uncontrolled it spreads and destroys everything in it's path, you must learn to control your temper," He added.

What do you want me to do? Make friends with the violent neanderthal that's been tormenting me since middle school? "No, I want you to make peace with him, Like I said, anger is like fire and destroys everything, Jacob Roth has already allowed his own anger to destroy his life, do you really wish the same for yourself?" asked Ignitus.

As much as I hated to admit it, he had a point, just look at Roth! He's an asshole, and in turn lost all the respect of his peers. His girlfriend dumped him, his coach is considering cutting him, his grades are in the toilet, as much as I like to think I'm nothing like Jake, my short temper has caused me to mess up more than a few times, and my only real friends are the other rangers, "Sometimes it takes the failings of another to see the flaws in ourselves, let go of your hatred Dylan, make peace with Roth," Ignitus said.

God I hate this, the last thing I wanted was to interact with Roth, but if Ignitus was right…

BOOM!

You've gotta be kidding me! Here? Now? Sadly yes, as it seemed that Malefor has decided to send more grublins to attack the school again, I guess when at first you don't succeed, try and try again until it eventually works! "Crap!" exclaimed Roth, "It's those monsters again! What do we do?" He asked.

It was weird seeing Roth express an emotion that wasn't either smugness, or rage, and as much as I'd love to leave Roth to the mercy of the Grublins, Ignitus was right, I needed to move on from hating Roth, it wasn't worth it, especially in the face of earth's destruction, honestly given a choice between the two, I'd take Roth over Malefor any day, at least Roth wasn't a world destroying maniac! He was just a jerk at worst, "We're going to have to work together and fight them off," I said.

Roth did a double take, "Are you serious?! Why the hell would I work with you?!" He yelled.

I guess I should have expected that reaction in fairness, but still, "Because the teacher is right! We do need to get over this dumb feud! And if we don't those things are going to kill someone! So get over yourself and fight the monsters Roth!" I snapped.

Roth went to argue, but one look at the current situation caused him to rethink his stance, "Fine! But I still think your a worthless dork!" He said, I guess that was as far as I was going to get with him, and I think dealing with these Grublins would be a lot more satisfying as a team building exercise than cleaning junk up off the floor.

So both of us began to fight the rock monster foot soldiers, despite being a violent jock, Roth wasn't doing too bad against the Grublins, kicking and punching them away, he still had no form or anything, but it was something.

I meanwhile, was doing much better against them this time than I was the first time I tried fighting these things, I don't know if my status as a Power Ranger had anything to do with it or not but I wasn't exactly going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Roth then went for the dumpster, opening the lid, "Yo Foutler! Let's take out that trash!" He said, I will say right now it is weird hearing him say that and agreeing with it, I kicked a Grublin right into the dumpster, Roth tossing another one in and slamming the lid on them, soon enough Roth and I began to think the herd significantly, and soon they were all down. "I have to say Foutler, for a nerd, you fight pretty good," He said.

Was… was that a compliment? From Jake Roth?! "Thanks, you didn't do too bad yourself for a psycho neanderthal," I said back, maybe Ignitus was right after all and I did need to move past my hatred of Jake? I felt better already in fact.

However, suddenly someone else decided to join the party, "Well well, if it isn't my favorite little playmate," Said the monster from earlier, that explained why the Grublins were here, apparently the monster wanted another shot at me.

There was no way I could fight this thing unmorphed, but I couldn't morph in front of Roth without revealing my secret identity either, "Roth, go get help, evacuate the others if you can, I'll hold this thing off!" I said, if I could get Jake to break off from me this would be a lot easier.

However, "Are you insane?! That thing will kill you!" He objected, Jake being concerned for my safety was surreal to put it nicely, but I really needed him to bail right now.

"I'll be fine, just do it!" I said, Roth went to argue, but decided to comply, running off to evacuate the school.

The monster laughed, "Well aren't we a brave little Power Ranger! Too bad you can't hope to beat me! You're too hot headed and you know it!" It said.

I braced for another explosion, but nothing came, "What?! Why didn't that hurt you?! My insults are supposed to hurt people!" The monster whined, stamping it's foot like a petulant child.

It took my a minute to get what was happening here, but I eventually figured it out, "I need to control my anger," I said to myself, it made sense, the monster's insults only physically hurt, when they emotionally hurt, as long as I let go of my anger and took it's insults on the chin did I stand a chance against the thing. "You can't hurt me with your words if I don't let them hurt me! Words only have as much power as you give them! And I choose to give them no power!" I said, man it felt good to finally get one over on this thing! "And now, it's time for me to give myself more power!" I said.

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Red Fire!"

The monster growled in annoyance as I morphed, "You think you can beat me Red Ranger? You can never beat me! You don't have what it takes and never will!" He said, trying once again to hurt me with his words to no avail.

"Sword of Flame!" I called, summoning my weapon, "Just give it a rest dude, sticks and stones may break my bones but your lame insults will never harm me!" I said, I began to charge my fire energy into my sword, causing it to light on fire, "But I'm sure that this will harm you plenty!" I said before winding up my swing, "FLAME SLASH!" I called out before slashing downward with my sword, slicing him right across his giant eye.

The monster screamed as he fell backwards in a flaming heap, I turned around, striking a pose as the monster exploded behind me… badass…

Meanwhile…

Back at Malefor's Castle…

Dammit! I should have known that Rikor's stupid monster wouldn't be able to kill the Power Rangers on it's own! Even with the Grublins I sent to aid it! There was only one option now, I grabbed one of my growth potions, "You may think you've won Red Ranger, but let's see how you fare against Loud Mouth when he's as tall as a mountain!" I said before opening a portal and tossing the potion through it.

Back at the School…

I heard the sounds of glass shattering behind me, confused, I turned around only to see the monster was now suddenly a hundred feet tall! Oh was this bad! I was alone here so summoning the Mega Zord was out of the question, I guess I could try fighting it in my own zord but it would still have a size advantage!

"Dylan!"

Suddenly the other rangers showed up, "Roth was evacuating the school," Said Jess, "We came as soon as we could when he told us you were still in the parking lot!" She added, Jake Roth just unwittingly saved my life, I needed a moment to let that sink in, but not too long as that monster wasn't going to wait for me to get over my shock before squishing us like bugs!

"We need Dragon Zord Power NOW!"

Just like they did yesterday, our Zords came flying in, only this time instantly forming the Mega Zord! Well that was convenient! We all leaped into the Mega Zord, ready to take this thing down, "Alright guys! This guy's powerless if we don't let his insults get to us, so keep your heads up and let's take this thing down!" I said.

Kevin just slowly turned his head towards me, "Wait… thats what was making us explode? Who even comes up with something like that?" He questioned.

Dean leaned forward, "Dude, we're in a giant robot made from several other giant robots fighting a giant monster, don't question it," He said. Kevin just sort of threw his hands in the air and we went to work.

The monster began to cackle again, "You think your stupid robot can beat me? I bet you can't even drive that thing!" It tried to mock us, man was that weak, he's really running out of material if thats the best roast he's got.

The Mega Zord simply decked the monster in the face with it's giant metal fist, knocking the stupid thing over, "Your words don't cut as well as they used to dude, but this sure will!" I said, "Legendary Dragon Sword!" I called, summoning the giant sword again, the sword began to glow with it's signature purple energy again.

The Mega Zord swung down, slicing the monster in two, "NO! This can't be! I can't be beaten by dorks like you! NOOOO!" It cried before exploding… again.

We all cheered in celebration, "Now that's what I call a roast!" said Kevin, coming in once again with the groan worthy pun, not that I was much better with the cutting pun, but hey, I got wrapped up in the moment.

Later…

After the dust settled and the zords went away, I found everyone out front, Jake waiting for me, "There you are Foutler, I thought when that thing grew you'd be squished or something," He said, it was still weird having him be anything but homicidal towards me, but I guess the situation had changed his tune a bit.

I had to think of an excuse though, "Y… yeah, thankfully the Power Rangers came when they did or I'd be dead right now," I said, I guess it wasn't a total lie, if the others hadn't found me I probably would have been killed.

Then the teacher came up to us, "Well, it seems something good has come out of this sudden monster attack, it's good to see you two have put your little feud behind you," He said.

Roth and I both just looked at each other, I knew we'd never be friends, but maybe we could at least not be trying to kill each other, "Yeah, I guess it did," I said simply, Roth oddly nodded in agreement.

He then cocked his head, "Don't get it twisted though, you're still a dweeb," He said, well I guess I couldn't expect anything else really.

But it was fine, I guess I learned something today, that I shouldn't let my anger control me, both as the Red Fire Ranger, and Dylan Foutler, Roth and I will never be friends, but that doesn't mean I need to be hostile with him either… I actually feel much better now that I've let go of that hatred just like Ignitus told me, thanks Ignitus.

He didn't say anything, but I could have sworn I heard Ignitus chuckle a bit from my morpher…

A/N- Ah it's just not Power Rangers without the moral at the end is it? I wanted to use this kind of monster to establish some things about the rangers, things that I do plan on expanding on later on.

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Update 8/9/18: Fixing a few embarrassing typos