Chapter 22
At the living room area Ji was already sitting at the table, looking over the map of the city. The rangers and Nariko quickly gathered around the samurai mentor, taking a look at the map too. Ji sighed and looked at the rangers "There's no nighlok detected but there is a disturbance at the water fountain…"
Suddenly from outside everyone heard the rev of a motorcycle engine leaving the front yard and looked towards the doors. Realizing what had just happened Ji exclaimed "He took my bike!" Jayden quickly ran out of the household to follow after Scott, the others watched as he left. Nariko looked to the other rangers "You guys better follow after Jayden and Scott, I have a feeling that they're going to need the help." Kevin nodded at this "Nariko is right, come on you guys!"
Meanwhile at the city docks Antonio happened to be fishing there when he was attacked by Grinders. The gold ranger managed to fend the machines off on his own until Scott showed up and got rid of them. Soon more Grinders appeared and followed after Scott who moved to another dock. There he easily got rid of the machines by using his blaster with no problem at all.
Once the Grinders were gone from sight, Professor Cog showed up at this time and was surprised to see the RPM ranger "What do we have here? You again? I thought I finished you ranger red!" Scott charged at the evil machine with his sword drawn "Told you I'd track you down!"
Once again the two went into battle and while they fought Scott declared "Whatever you and Master Xandred are up to, it's not going to work!" "First this world and then they go to destroy yours!" "They'll never make it back there!"
As the two rivals continue to fight Antonio showed up and began watching the fight. Not long after his arrival, Jayden and the other rangers showed up too.
"Antonio!" called Emily
"Hey guys! Check it out look!" exclaimed Antonio
The rangers joined their fellow gold ranger and drew their spin swords. "Sorry we're late." Told Jayden "Who is this guy? What's going on?" wondered Antonio "Fight now, talk later!" "Right go it!"
And with that said the samurai rangers charged at Scott and Professor Cog with their swords drawn. Joining in on the fight Jayden questioned Professor Cog "So you're working with the nighlok?" "Yes we have a deal, it involves you and after you're destroyed the human population will be squashed like grapes, ask ranger red."
Scott angrily growled at this and charged the machine "Shut up motor mouth!"
Professor Cog easily blocked the rangers' attack and hit all of them with one of his own. Scott was the only one left standing and once again he charged at the professor "You're mine Cog!" the two easily blocked each other's attacks but Professor Cog was one step ahead of Scott.
He pushed the RPM leader away from him "And these are for you! Hypno bolts!" dark purple glowing bolts came out from Cog's chest and hit Scott straight on. The RPM ranger fell back right next to Jayden who was slowly getting up. Scott quickly got back on his feet and was about to go attack Professor Cog again when Jayden stopped him "Wait! What are Hypno bolts, how do you feel?" "Like fighting!"
"Ranger red you'd never seem to know when you are beat. Ha, ha, ha!" chuckled Professor Cog
"It's simple I'm not beat! That's what you tin cans don't know, I'm a power ranger I don't give up!" told Scott who again charged at Professor Cog
Unfortunately though the evil machine once again sent out his Hypno bolts which hit Scott once more and this time hit Jayden. The attack sent the two red rangers flying back to the edge of the docks. Professor Cog casually approached the two rangers "You're a pest ranger red! I made a deal to get rid of the samurai rangers. Sending you away is a bonus!"
Professor Cog put out his wrench hand and a dark purple vortex began to appear. Realizing what that is Scott looked to Jayden "A vortex! That'll send us to my dimension!" "You can't escape! Vector vortex!" exclaimed Professor Cog
The evil machine sent the vortex towards Scott and Jayden but before it could reach them, Kevin and the others got in front of the two red rangers and shielded them. In result the group got sucked into the vortex and the blast from it sent Jayden and Scott from the dock to the water below. Once the rangers were gone from sight Professor Scott scoffed "Huh! That takes care of five rangers and my Hypno bolts can work their magic on the red rangers."
5 minutes went by and the two red rangers were climbing back onto the dock. Jayden who had demorph in the water was the first to climb onto the dock. He turned to Scott who was in the process of getting back on. The red samurai ranger held out his hand "Here Scott let me help." "I don't need your help!" snapped the RPM leader who finally climbed onto the dock and began walking away. Jayden frowned at this and shook his head before following after Scott.
Soon they were sitting on some crates drying off from their little dunk in the water. The two sat then in silence until Scott broke it "Your team sacrificed themselves…" "Yes…They protect me because they think I'm the key to stopping Mater Xandred…" "Oh wow…You're pretty full of yourself aren't you?" "No it's not like that…And before you make judgments, take a look at yourself!"
Scott remained quiet at this while Jayden sighed "Do you think Professor Cog sent my team to your world?" "That's a safe bet…And if they're there then my team will help them." The red samurai ranger nodded at this and turned his gaze to the ocean waters.
"Jayden!"
He along with Scott turned their heads to see Nariko running towards them. Jayden immediately got up from the crate "Nariko!" she tackled her fiancé, wrapping her arms around his waist in a tight embrace "Are you all right Jayden?" "I'm fine Nariko." Breaking the embrace the princess immediately noticed something was wrong "Jayden…What happened to Kevin and the others?" he sighed at this and grabbed her hand "I'll explain everything to you when we get back to the household." "But Jayden!" the red samurai ranger didn't say another word but drag Nariko away with Scott having to follow the couple.
It happened to be nighttime when the three returned to the Shiba household, upon entering the building Jayden stormed into the hallway and stopped in front of the dojo where Ji was prepping a practice dummy. Sensing that something is wrong Ji asked "Jayden? Where's the rest of the team?" "Sucked through a vortex, probably to where this guy came from!" snapped Jayden who pointed a finger at Scott.
Annoyed by this the RPM leader brushed pass the red samurai ranger "Yeah well it's their fault…They got in the way…"
Jayden angrily glared at Scott "No they saved us!"
Noticing her fiancé's strange change in attitude, Nariko gently grabbed his arm "Jayden…You need to calm down…What's with the sudden change in attitude? I've never seen you act like this before…" "It's all because of Scott! If it weren't for him then my team wouldn't be stuck in another dimension!" "Jayden…" "I don't see what you like about him anyway."
Surprised by his remark Nariko stood in front of the red ranger "Jayden we talked about this, I don't have any interest in Scott at all." "And how do I know if that's the truth? What if it was all a lie?" "Jayden…I would never lie to you and you know that very well!" "Yeah whatever…" and with that Jaden brushed pass the Yamada princess.
Greatly shock by what just happened Nariko quickly turned around and watched Jayden go around the corner towards his room. Ji who was also shocked by this quickly made his way over to the princess. Tears already filled her eyes as the samurai mentor pulled her into a hug "Nariko…" "Ji…What's happening to Jayden?" "I'm not sure but I promise you I will find out." Nariko nodded at this before burying her head in Ji's chest and started to cry.
The next morning Ji and Jayden had gathered around the living room table, looking down on the city map. Nariko was there too but sat away from her red ranger, the event that happened yesterday was still running through her mind, she remained silent as Ji and Jayden began to discuss with each other. "Unbelievable…" muttered Jayden "If I didn't know any better I'd think the map is malfunctioning." Admitted Ji "There's so many of them…" "A major nighlok force is gathering…This doesn't look good…" at this time Scott showed up, joining Ji and Jayden at the table looking down on the map. Jayden glanced at the RPM leader and looked to Ji "We've got it." "It's a piece of cake." Admitted Scott
Ji looked at Scott who said "Oh I mean a piece of cake for me but for him…" he gestured towards Jayden "Uh…Not so sure…"
Jayden glared hard at Scott before storming off "See you later buddy."
Nariko immediately stood up from her seat and ran after her fiance "Jayden!"
Though as she reached outside Jayden was already riding away on his horse, Nariko stopped in her tracks and muttered in worry "Oh Jayden…"
Suddenly the Yamada princess heard a loud engine rev behind her, she turned around to find Scott upon Ji's motorcycle. Nariko quickly got out of the way in order for Scott to quickly drive off. Just as he left on the bike, Ji just came out in time to see the RPM leader and said in frustration "Not again!"
Out on the road the two red rangers were having a race against each other, seeing who would reach the battle first. Turns out that Jayden won the race and reached the battle first before Scott. As the RPM leader arrived at the battle, he was greatly upset to be beaten by Jayden. Angry for him being there he began fighting with Jayden. This resulted in a duel between the two red rangers. Professor Cog who was obviously at the battle was greatly pleased by the effects of his Hypno bolts.
Their duel raged on with both rangers blocking each other's attacks, it soon ended where Jayden was hit by Scott's blaster and in turn the RPM leader received a blow from Jayden's spin sword.
"Yes victory!" exclaimed Professor Cog
Scott who looked fine from the blow, laughed a bit as he brushed his shoulder "Ha! Not a scratch!"
Jayden was also fine from the shot he received and pulled out a silver emblem from his suit "You could've turned that laser down a notch, but the shield you gave me turned out great."
Scott pulled out a slip of paper from his suit with a symbol upon it "Yeah! So did your symbol power, good job! You know Mentor's plan worked out perfectly."
The RPM leader then handed Jayden his spin sword "Here!" "Thanks!"
Scott then turned to face Venjix's evil minion "Nice to see you again Professor Cog! Oh and thanks for teaching me the fake out trick!"
"What?" growled Professor Cog
"Yeah good try with your mind control bolts, my mentor and fiance noticed that we were acting weird and they figured out a way to reverse your poison." Told Jayden
(Earlier, way before the battle)
Scott and Jayden were in the living room with Nariko and Ji, the RPM ranger laid a finger on Jayden who smacked his hand away "Don't touch me!"
He then pushed Scott's helmet and two began pushing each other, Ji quickly went over to the two pushing them apart. Nariko who was standing near the bookshelf was currently looking through a journal. Finding what she was looking for, the princess looked to the samurai mentor "Ji!"
He looked at her and quickly left the two red rangers, Ji stood by Nariko's side and took a look at the journal "That symbol most likely will work." The samurai mentor took out a samuraizer similar to the rangers and wrote the symbol in the book. He then sent the symbol towards Jayden and Scott.
Once being hit by the symbol, both rangers fell to their knees from the sudden dizziness. Jayden was the first to stand up on his feet, he held out his hand toward Scott to which he took letting Jayden help him up.
(Back at the battle)
"Once our heads were cleared we knew we had to team up and turn the tables on you. You made the mistake of underestimating us. We're humans you can reprogram our motors that easily." Said Jayden
"But thanks for letting us ride right onto your doorstep." Said Scott
"That's the last time you'll make a fool out of me! Sergeant Tread!" growled Professor Cog
The nighlok sergeant under the command of Master Xandred looked to the moogers and grinders "Attack, get them!"
The group of moogers and grinders did as they were told though they did not stand a chance against Jayden and Scott. While the battle raged on Jayden and Scott stopped in their tracks as they heard something crackle in the air. "Jayden! Do you hear that?" questioned Scott
Both he and Jayden looked up in the sky to see a vortex appearing. From it Kevin, Mia, Emily, Mike and Antonio came out from it, landing safely right next to Jayden and Scott.
"Good timing you guys!" said Jayden
"So you missed us?" asked Mike
"Like you wouldn't believe!"
"Took us awhile to reverse the vortex." Admitted Kevin
Emily went over to Scott's side happily telling him "Scott your team says hi!"
Professor Cog was lying upon the ground thanks to Jayden and Scott while Sergeant Tread growled and charged at the ranger group.
"Time to finish what we started!" declared Jayden
With that said the rangers attacked the nighlok sergeant one by one before turning their attacks on Professor Cog who had gotten up at this time.
Repeating the same process they did on Sergeant Tread, the rangers successfully defeated both Professor Cog and the nighlok sergeant.
Though before the rangers could celebrate their victory, a huge mooger army showed up being led by a nighlok named General Gut, but that did not stop the rangers.
Not hesitating at all the ranger group charged at the mooger army, ready to take down every creature in sight.
The huge battle raged on to the point where the rangers were facing a giant General Gut. Even though he proved to be difficult to handle, the rangers didn't give up and with their combined powers defeated the hideous General Gut.
Much later the rangers were making their way to the subway station to see Scott off. Nariko happened to be with the rangers as they were making their way towards the station entrance. Though before they entered Jayden stopped "You guys go on ahead…I'd like to talk to Nariko alone for a bit."
The rangers nodded and made their way inside the station, once the couple was alone Jayden turned to the Yamada princess "Nariko…I want to apologize for the way I acted last night…" "Hey…It's ok, it's not your fault, it was Professor Cog's hypno bolts that made you act like that." "I know but…What I said to you…I didn't mean any of it." "I know you didn't Jayden." "Nariko…I heard you crying when I left to my room…And knowing that it was me who caused your tears-"
Nariko gently cupped her fiancé's face "Jayden that's enough…I forgive you…What's done is done and there's nothing you can do to change it." "I just…I just don't want to lose you because of what I said…" "Jayden you could never lose me over that…" "I love you Nariko." "I love you too Jayden." The couple shared a tight embrace which lasted for quite a bit. Soon Jayden broke it and rubbed Nariko's back "Come on, we better head in or the others will wonder what's taking us so long." "Ok."
Once inside the station a subway train was all ready to departure, Scott looked at the train then at the group "All right…It's time for me to take the fight back to my world." "Thank you for helping us save the city." Said Jayden, Scott chuckle at this and shook his head "No…Thank you…Look if Professor Cog had succeeded, my world would've been in big trouble. You guys are pretty good, even though you are tragically old school." Everyone lightly laughed at this, soon they heard a light ding indicating that the train was going to leave soon.
"Well…It's time for me to go…" announced Scott
"Say hi to your team for us!" said Emily
As the RPM leader began making his way to the train, Mike ran up to him and exchanged a few words. Once they were done Mike came back to the group and in turn Jayden went over to Scott for a little chat "Scott…Once again thank you…" "No problem…"
The RPM leader then gestured his head toward Nariko "She's means a lot to you doesn't she?"
Jayden nodded at this "Yeah…She's the light to my world…"
"You've got a beautiful girl Jayden, you take good care of her you hear me? If not I'll come back here and beat some sense into you."
"Don't worry I will…You take care Scott…"
"You too, tell the others I said take care all right?"
"I can do that."
The two red rangers gave each other a firm handshake, once letting go Scott stepped into the train. As he was inside the doors closed behind him and the train slowly took off. Once the train was gone from sight Jayden returned to his rangers and fiance.
In turn they began leaving the train station and made their way back home. Nariko looked at Jayden asking "So…What did you and Scott talked about before he left?" "Oh just some things, we thanked each other again." "Is that all?" "Yup." Seeing the look that the Yamada princess was giving him, Jayden chuckled and wrapped his arm around her waist, laying a kiss upon her forehead. He looked at his ranger team "Come on let's head home and get some well-deserved rest." All of them nodded in agreement and happily followed after the couple back to their samurai home to enjoy the peace they had for now.