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Chapter 57: Words that Hurt

At Boardman High, the students were arriving by car or bus to school. Chris and Paige arrived in Chris's car. "So Chris, ready for the auditions tomorrow?" Paige asked.

"Oh yeah, I'm going for the role of the Cat in the Hat," Chris replied.

"You'll be per…" Paige was interrupted by a horn honking. She looked up to see a red convertible, with the hood up, coming at her. Paige got out of the way as the car parked in the space.

Then a girl who was around their age stepped out of the car, she was as tall as Paige with long brown hair that was tied in a pony tail. She was wearing a pink coat and khaki pants. "Nacy St. Claire, what the hell were you thinking!" Paige shouted.

"Oh that was you Paige," Nacy replied, "I shouldn't have honked at all."

Paige was getting angry, but Chris placed his hand on her shoulder and said, "Just let it go."

The two continued their way into the school when they got inside they saw Nacy bump into Tyler. "Watch it ya tall freak!" she shouted.

"I'm sorry," Tyler apologized, "But you ran into me."

"Don't give me you excuses," Nacy said with a huff, "Thanks to you I lost track of the hottest guy in school."

Nacy started to walk away as Paige and Chris walked up to Tyler. "What was that about?" Tyler asked.

"That's Nacy St. Claire, she's a spoiled rich cheerleader who bullies others for no reason," Chris explained.

"And she has something against me for some reason," Paige added.

Nacy was wondering through the hall until a female voice called out to her, "You have such beauty."

Nacy looked around and saw a hooded figure underneath a stair case, "Who are you?" she asked.

"I'm just a wonderer looking for the most beautiful woman on Earth," the figure said.

"Well you're looking at one," Nacy said.

"I know, that's why I want to give you the rare black diamond necklace," the figure said as she pulled out the necklace and placed it around her neck.

"Thanks, I know deserve this," Nacy said as she backed up and bumped into a girl, "Watch where you are going beaver teeth!"

Unknown to Nacy, as she walked away, the girl's teeth started to transformed into actual beaver teeth.

Then a boy was passing by accidently stepped on Nacy's foot, "Ow! Watch where you walk with those big feet!" Soon the boy's feet started to grow and burst out of his shoes.

"And here starts the power of Acid Toung," the figure said as she disappeared.

On the moon, Zedd and Rita were trying to figure out a new way to defeat the Power Rangers. "What can we use to defeat the Power Dweebs," Rita said.

"Don't worry Rita," Darkseid said as she appeared into a throne room, "I have a monster in the making thanks to a Dark Jewel."

"What kind of monster is it this time?" Zedd asked.

"She is called Acid Toung, whatever she says to a person they transform to her description," Darkseid explained.

"How will that defeat the Power Rangers?" Rito asked.

"It means that if Acid Toung says something to the Power Rangers, they'll turn into what she said," Scorpina cleared up.

"Oh," Rito said.

Back at the school, the Rangers and the other students were noticing that some of the students were having weird things happening to their body parts. With what was going on, the rest of the school day was canceled.

The Rangers, along with their friend Julian, were walking into the parking lot wondering what was going on. "I don't get it, what could be causing all this," Tyler said.

"Do you think Zedd or Rita used their magic to charm something that affected the students?" Julian suggested.

"Or it could be the Dark Power," Haley added.

"I was thinking that as well," Z said, "I'm going to try sneak back in to see if there is any trace of the Dark Power."

The Rangers then passed the window to see the students that had bizarre transformations. They saw a boy with a big belly, a girl with a large forehead, and a nerdy boy with fur eyes.

"Poor guys," Emile said.

"Excuse me," Nacy said as she shoved the Rangers to the side.

"What's with you today?" Paige asked.

"Well we were going to have cheer practice, but it was canceled because some selfish students wanted to ruin my perfect day. But I'll still make it perfect with a shopping spree at the mall."

As Nacy was walking away the Rangers started to discuss what to do and decided to go to the Command Center. "Guys I'm going to catch up with you later," Paige said.

"Why?" Haley asked.

"There is something I need to do first," she replied.

"Alright, call us if anything happens," Tyler said.

With that the Rangers went their separate ways.

A few minutes later, Paige arrived at the mall and saw Nacy walk into a store. Paige kept her distance as she watched Nacy walked to the makeup stand. "Hi, I'm here to buy more of my usual makeup," she said to the older woman behind the counter.

"I'm sorry, but we are sold out of the brand you usually buy," the woman said, "Maybe I can interest you in another brand."

"What? You expect me to wear other makeup! Those are for clowns like you, not beauties like me!" Nacy shouted.

As Nacy was walking away, the woman was started to turn into a clown.

Paige continued to follow Nacy to the clothing section of the store, where Nacy started get upset again and went to a young man who works there, "Why are there last season's clothes still doing here?" she said.

"I'm sorry ma'am but we got a delay in our shipping and won't get them until next week," the young man explained.

"Then you just lost me as a costumer!" Nacy shouted, "If you'd kept a better eye on your shipments then you wouldn't make people dress up like Quise Moto, like you might do."

Again when Nacy walked away the man started to change; his face started to deform and a hump was forming on his back.

Nacy was walking out of the store to a nearby coffee shop, and bumped into another woman, "Watch it fat ass!" she shouted.

"I knew it had to be her," Paige said to herself, "But what could be doing this?" Nacy walked out of the coffee shop and Paige noticed her necklace. "Worth a shot."

Paige walked over to and Nacy had a disgusted look on her face, "What do you want now blondie?" she asked, "I'm having a bad day since the store doesn't have what I want."

"Listen Nacy, I need to see that necklace," Paige said.

"No way, you are not worth the rare black diamond," Nacy said, "I mean look at you, I bet that blonde hair of yours is fake."

Paige sighed and scratched her head and realized that her hair is a wig. "Nacy you don't understand…"

"No!" Nacy interrupted, "You think that you can tell me what to do, but I'm the best and I can do anything that I want to do!"

Nacy pushed Paige and she went flying right into a table. Paige looked up to see that Nacy's face started to transform into an ugly snake face, her skin became gray and scaly and she was now wearing a ruined pink dress and the necklace became a tiara as it went to her head.

At the Command Center, the Rangers, with some help from Alpha, were trying to figure out what could be wrong with the students with the weird transformation.

"This doesn't make sense," Aref started, "According to the computers, there are no spells cast on the students."

"Maybe it is the Dark Power?" Brittany suggested.

"Well I did sense a faint use of the Dark Power, but it was away from the students," Z said.

Then the alarm started to go off, "Just in time too," Chris said.

"Oh no, a monster is at the mall where Paige is at," Alpha said as a image of a monster attacking Paige.

"Come on let's help her," Tyler said, "It's Morphin Time!"

"Shadow!"

"Turtle!"

"Phoenix!"

"Frog!"

"Saber-Toothed Tiger!"

"Lion!"

"Dragon!"

"Gold Ranger Power!"

At the mall, the Rangers arrived to confront the new monster. "Stop right there monster!" Tyler shouted.

"Monster?" the monster asked, "I'm no monster."

"Well whatever's going on, when something like you is around, bad things happen," Jon said.

Aref walked over to Paige and said, "You better get out of here."

Paige nodded as she got up and ran away leaving the Rangers to fight.

"Why are you Rangers here?" the monster asked.

"We are here to stop you before you can cause harm," Haley said.

"You know I believe that you Rangers are really weak. You can never fight without the suits," the monster said.

Soon the Rangers felt something off; they felt weaker as if their energy were being drained. Then they started to have a hard time standing up, "What's happening?" Chris asked.

Soon they heard evil laughter in the air as Zedd, Rita, Goldar, Scorpina, and Rito appeared near the monster, "Well done Acid Toung," Rita complemented.

"Acid Toung? But my name is…"

"Don't say that pathetic name!" Zedd shouted, "That was the old you, now you're the monster that helped us defeat the Power Rangers."

"But we only got eight of the Rangers," Rito pointed out.

"Way to ruin it Rito," Scorpina said.

At the Command Center, Paige arrived confused. "Zordon, what am I doing here? I should be helping them," Paige said.

"We know Paige, but we found out how to help everyone," Zordon said.

"Well I know that Nacy was the source of it all. But how?" Paige asked.

"I seems that Darkseid used a Dark Jewel to give Nacy the power that would lead her to become Acid Toung," Zordon explained.

"How can I stop her power?" Paige asked again.

"You need to destroy the tiara," Alpha answered, "But to save Nacy; you'll need to destroy Acid Toung."

"Okay, I think I know what to do," Paige said, "It's Morphin Time!"

"Serpent!"

At the mall, Paige was rushing over to the villains, "Oh look, the Orange Ranger is here," Goldar mocked.

"Shut up Goldar!" Paige said, "I'm here to save my friends!"

"Oh she thinks she can fight Acid Toung on her own," Rita said with a laugh.

"I don't want to fight," Acid Toung said.

Zedd got annoyed and zapped Acid Toung with his staff, "You are a servant to us, now fight!"

Acid Toung ran over towards Paige.

Paige pulled out the Power Whip and lashed it at Acid Toung, hitting her.

Acid Toung opened her mouth and white needles fired out. Paige quickly dodged the attack, but the needles hit nearby stands and stores. She then lashed her whip at Acid Toung's leg and pulled her to the ground.

"What are you doing?" Rita shouted, "Say something it will make her weaker!"

"Okay," Acid Toung replied, "You Orange Ranger have to be weak to have a color that no other Rangers used."

The villains watched to see something happen to Paige, but nothing was happening.

"What's going on!" Rita shouted, "Why isn't she getting weaker!"

"It won't work now," Paige said as she used her whip to knock the tiara off Acid Toung's head. Paige's whip started to glow and lashed it at the tiara, destroying it.

"Why did you destroy that?" Acid Toung shouted.

The other Rangers were back to normal and running to Paige's side. "Great job Paige," Chris congratulated, "But how come you weren't affected?"

"Come on guys; let's finish this with the Power Cannon!" Paige shouted.

"Okay, then," Tyler said a little confused, "Formation!"

"One!" Z and Brittany shouted as they stood next to each other.

"Two!" Emile and Haley shouted as they stood next to each other.

"Three!" Chris and Paige shouted as they stood next to each other.

"Four!" Tyler and Jon shouted as they stood next to each other.

"Power Cannon!" the Rangers shouted as the Power Cannon landed on the Rangers shoulders, and then they placed their hands on their colored panels.

Aref raised the Golden Power Staff and energy was gathering at the top, then he fired balls of energy at Acid Toung.

"Fire!" the Rangers shouted as the cannon fired a golden ball of energy at Acid Toung.

With all the energy hit Acid Toung, she let out a scream and burst into sparks of light.

The light started to reform together and Nacy St. Claire was back to normal.

"We'll be back!" Zedd shouted as he and the other villains teleported away.

"Are you okay?" Haley asked as she and the other Rangers.

"I think I am," Nacy replied.

"That's good," Aref said.

"Come on guys we need to get out of here," Tyler said. The Rangers nodded and teleported out of there.

At the other side of the mall, the Rangers were demorphed. "So Paige, how did you not get affected by Acid Toung's words.

Paige smiled as she pulled out a pair of ear plugs from her ears, "I thought that if I can't hear what she said it won't affect me," she explained.

Some of the Rangers were surprised at the news. "So this power could only be stopped if used ear plugs?" Jon asked.

"Yep," Paige replied as the Rangers went to join the crowd, but they were shocked when they saw Nacy being placed under arrest. "What's going on?" Paige asked.

"The girl is being placed under arrest since she was the one who attacked," a nearby man answered.

"They can't do that!" Paige shouted as she rushed though the crowd, "What do you think you are doing?"

"We are taking her in for destruction of private property and endangering the innocents," the cop replied.

"Why are trying defend me?" Nacy asked.

"Because it you were transformed be Zedd and Rita you. And I saw that you were still yourself when you were forced to fight the Orange Ranger," Paige explained.

"Well we need take her to the station," the cop said, "But I think you might find this interesting."

The cop handed a piece of paper to Paige before the left with Nacy.

The Rangers rushed over to Paige. "What does it say?" Z asked.

"It says: Rangers wanted for destruction of private and public property, vandalism, and endangering lives. Reward for all nine Rangers 100,000 dollars," Paige read.

The Rangers couldn't believe what they heard, "Why would they do that?" Aref asked.

"It's a stunt they are using to try to get their hands on our technology," Emile stated.

"That means we need to be on our toes for next time," Tyler said.

A/N: Another monster submitted by Keybladeauraofpie, I hope you all enjoyed it.