After the attempted sabotage of the Sperm Ward located in the Bokiro District you would think that the daughter of our ruler, Master Vile, would lay low for some time before showing her face again to her ultra pissed father but that is not the case. Angel Irene, a week after the attempted, and failed, sabotage attempt on one of Gamma-Vile's most secured facilities, attacked the remaining camps on her father's newly conquered planet of Earth in the island nation of Australia then came back strong and completely destroyed the camps on the island nation of Japan then the day after hoped from one small island to the other located in and around the Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman and South Chine Seas causing havoc in the camps located there.
"All she's doing is creating more problems for the citizens of my new planet, Earth." Master Vile said when asked about his daughter. "Her resistance and defiance is making preparations for the clean up and rebuilding, not to mention the lessons of who their new ruler is, hinder."
Angel Irene, the youngest child of Master Vile who is guessed to be between two hundred and ten to two hundred and fifty years of age, is now being claimed by Master Vile as his daughter-mate. Through the Prominent Family Law, Master Vile is allowed to do this due to his side branch (of the family Surfeit) is new. It does seem fitting that Angel Irene is a good clean and excellent pick for the honor, her powers and abilities are great and with Master Vile's rich blood and further strength in abilities and powers they should have plenty of good offspring to carry on the Vile name. Master Vile has two older children by his first wife, Scordida, who are alive and well so how is it that he is allowed to do the Prominent Family Law? He has claimed that any such offspring born through his oldest daughter, Rita Repulsa who is a young young age of fourteen thousand fifty years of age, might not fit the card of good breds due to her choice of a husband and her inability of certain powers. He also states that he fears any offspring fathered by his current only son, Rito Revolto who is a scant three thousand years of age, not because of his abilities but because of his dense mind. Of his three (current) offspring, the only one of logical choice is his youngest who has not only proven how intelligent she is but also how strong in her abilities she is.
Master Vile is the oldest son of the extremely powerful and terrorsome KurukVile Surfeit, born through his first, and only wife, Irka Shaidon. Master Vile is the oldest of KurukVile and Irka's offspring, being a full five thousand years older than his sister, Dara Dara, and six thousand years older than his younger brother, Triskull.
"It is very important that we capture her!" KurukVile said when asked about his youngest granddaughter. "She's slowing up progress. Not to mention she's starting to piss me off."
KurukVile and his wife are both helping Master Vile in capturing Angel Irene, although yet they have not captured the fiery red-head the family is confident that it will be soon. Currently the family is down to just Master Vile, his father, KurukVile, and mother, Irka, in the attempts to capture Angel due to both of Master Vile's older offspring being injured and both of KurukVile and Irka's younger offspring being injured. A group of reporters have been invited to the planet and have been setting up cameras and shooting documentaries of what is going on on the planet which have been a great hit on GV-TV channel 262. Master Vile and his family have relocated to a location on the continent called North America in a place called California waiting for their chance.
Katherine Hillard lowered the Gamma-Vile newspaper out of her view and looked out at the shield. Rolling her eyes, she tossed the paper over to Aisha who had said she wanted to read it. Kat laughed inside when she thought how much the newspaper article she had just read had missed. For a fact, Angel had used a weapon that Dione had given her to finish the job of taking back Earth. It had been a combo-wrist gauntlet sword made of the lightest of metal and purple energy. All Angel had to do was point and whoever was in the area would go up in smoke. She had used the weapon all over, finishing the job of taking Earth back in less than a week. Everyone was back in their respective locations getting their lives back on track, of course while doing so with a safe red pulsating energy shield around their location that repelled any monster that touched it. Whoever had written the article had also failed to mention that Master Vile had not been in the locations that Angel had gone to to take back Australia, the islands and Japan, he had been no where in sight in fact.
Master Vile and his family had relocated, but the article had not mentioned where. They had moved their ships from Yellow Stone National Park in Wyoming to an unshielded part of land near Angel Grove. Master Vile and his father would ride on their horses to the shield surrounding Angel Grove and would join the multitude of monsters that had been stationed around the shield in trying to take the shield down. So far, their attempts had been powerful, they had used some of the most powerful abilities she had ever seen, but the shield was holding up, thankfully.
"They miss a lot in these articles." Aisha said, she lowered the paper.
"You been reading my thoughts?" Kat laughed. "Yes, they do. Probably scared of Angel's father to write the full truth."
Aisha looked up, Katherine Howard, or better known as plain Kat, was the current pink ranger but only she and the other rangers, and Master Vile, Rita, Rito and Lord Zedd and Angel, knew that and no one else. Kat had shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes, she was wearing blue jeans and a blue tank top, she had brown slip on shoes on her feet. She was one of the younger members of the rangers, being only seventeen years of age. Aisha was the current yellow ranger, she was eighteen year old. Aisha was wearing blue jeaned shorts, a yellow t-shirt and she had brown shoes on her feet. She was of African-American heritage, her hair was braided and fell down to her shoulders.
"Angel's been checking the shield lately." Kat sighed. "Checking for weak places."
"Has she found any?" Aisha asked, suddenly alarmed.
"No, not yet." Kat answered. "She says it's precautionary."
"She needs to slow down," Aisha sighed. "it's been... what three weeks since she got back?"
"Yep, three weeks." Kat answered. "She came back, slept then went to work and has been working ever since. One of the most busy person I know of. So busy she barely has time to say hello whenever she sees one of us."
Angel had been given somewhat of a heros welcome the day after she had popped up almost naked in Angel Grove, she had been given quite a few clothing pieces and a fully furnished residence free of charge. Her place was a simple one room apartment in a good neighborhood, she had taken all of her things, which included the things that Dione had given her, to the apartment and had placed a heavy sheeting of metal around the box that held all the things from Dione and the items on her ill-gotten family saying that they were in to keep out "overly curious and itchy fingered humans", as she claimed. The mayor of Angel Grove had also expressed a wish to give her a vehicle which she had politely turned down, saying that she was fine with walking. Kat had been to the apartment, it was comfortable but it seemed to her that Angel was uncomfortable with the whole thing. When she had knocked on the door once and Angel had been in the apartment she had been seated low on the couch, looking all over the place with her head almost buried in her shoulders. When Kat had asked about what was wrong Angel had replied that this was all very new and strange to her, that she had been living in caves for so long.
"Do you think Angel's at her place now?" Aisha asked.
"Haven't seen her all day," Kat replied. "maybe she is there. Why?"
"Lets go say hi."
It wasn't a wealthy neighborhood, but by view of the houses which were on one side of the street and the tall apartment buildings on the other you would get that impression. Angel's apartment was the last one on the street, it was in fact on the dead end. When Kat rang the bell on the side of the door she and Aisha waited for what seemed like forever before slowly, ever so slowly, the door was cracked open. When she saw who it was Angel opened the door fully and let them in, she said not a word to them. Kat was surprised that Tommy, Billy and Adam were there sitting on the couch. Kat and Aisha sat across from them on the love seat while Angel walked over and sat on the floor.
"Something wrong?" Kat asked. "Seems everyone is glum in here."
"That's the air Angel is giving off." Adam replied.
Adam Park was an Asiatic eighteen year old with black hair and dark eyes, he wore blue jeans and a black checkered shirt, he had tennis shoes on his feet. He was leaning back on the couch, his right leg was crossed over the other. Of all of the rangers, Adam still didn't see Angel as the good one. He still saw that since she had an evil father she was evil as well and that she needed to be watched at all times. When he spoke Angel glared at him, that made some of the air in the room lift up and get somewhat normal.
"What do you mean?" Kat asked. "What's wrong?"
"Angel's stressed out." Tommy spoke up. "That's about all there is, she's as stressed as a Mayfly looking for a mate before its span of life ends."
Adam snickered at Tommy's comparison of Angel and a Mayfly, Tommy wasn't laughing though. He was serious. Tommy Oliver was the white ranger and the leader of their group, he was nineteen years old and of Native American descent with long brown hair that was being held back by a rawhide strip and deep brown eyes, he had a slightly tanned complexion. Tommy was wearing a white muscle shirt that was tucked into blue jeans and brown boots, there was a black belt going around his waist. Angel again glared at Adam, when Adam saw her glare he stopped laughing and mumbled that he was sorry.
"Calm down some, take a night out or something." Aisha said to Angel. "How is the shield?"
"Solid and strong, no way anyone is getting through that baby." Angel replied, her voice came out hoarse.
"Any way for your grandfather to come up from underneath of the shield?" Aisha asked.
"Not a chance," Angel replied. "that shield goes down pretty far into the ground, some ten miles down to be precise."
"Okay then cool down." Aisha chuckled. "No way for any of them to get in."
"No way to get in." Billy spoke up. "How easy is it for one to get out though?"
"We can get out, and in." Angel answered. "The shield is designed for keeping my father and his menagerie of beasts out."
"Wouldn't that be a major flaw?" Billy asked. "For us to be able to go in and out? Couldn't one in the city decide to go onto your father's side and..."
"Tell me who is going to do that?" Angel asked. "What's the purpose? Go out, get an order than come in, take the shield down then be captured and forced into accepting my brute of a father as your ruler."
Billy looked down, the glasses on his face slid down his nose and he shoved them back up. Normally, he would be wearing contacts but today his eyes had been hurting him some so he had switched to wearing his glasses. He was wearing a blue muscle shirt, a blue checkered flannel shirt was tied around his waist, and a pair of blue jeans, on his feet were a pair of heavy duty desert boots. He was the blue ranger and he was the oldest of the rangers, being almost twenty years old. Angel stood up and went to a counter, it looked as if she was looking through something, Kat couldn't tell but she thought she heard the sound of paper being shuffled around. When she turned around Kat's figuring had been correct. Angel had a wallet in her hand and had some bills sticking out from the flap.
"I s-s-suppose I can afford a night or two on the town." Angel replied.
"Great!" Kat stood up. "Where to?"
"That joint in the center of town has caught my eye." Angel slowly walked over to the door. "Rex's, I think it is."
"That's a dance club!" Adam exclaimed. "I don't think we can go in there."
"Not that club, the one beside it." Angel chuckled. "I've seen teens going in and out of that place almost all night."
"That's even worse!" Adam moped. "O'Henchey's is another dance club. It's also a bar."
"We can't go in there." Kat sighed.
"I think it is alright." Angel opened the door and left the apartment.
When the rangers left the apartment they had expected that Angel would have been long gone but they stopped dead in their tracks when they saw her leaning up against a dark red vehicle with white flames on the hood and side. The car was like none they had even seen before, it wasn't long but it surely looked it from a distance, the hub caps were big and so were the tires, there were two exhaust pipes curving out from the car, a curly antennae stuck up near the windshield which was black, the windows were also black. When Angel saw their faces she burst out laughing, she laughed until tears rolled down her cheeks.
"It's a Gamma WTXZ," she said after wiping her face. "A Gamma-Vile vehicle."
"It looked alien!" Adam exclaimed. "Where did you get this thing?"
"Take three guesses, the first one is obvious." Angel winked her eye at Adam.
"Gamma-Vile, Dione or... well I can't think of a third guess" Tommy guessed.
"You got it on the first guess my friend." Angel snickered. "Hop in and hold on. This baby puts the vehicles here to shame."
Putting the vehicles of Earth to shame was a complete underscore of what the vehicle did, the doors swept up instead of to the side and the seats in the back went all around the vehicle while there was just one seat in the front and that was the drivers seat. Kat, at first, that that the vehicle had a clutch but when, after Angel inserted a skeleton key into the ignition after taking the wheel she punched the clutch in she realized it wasn't. The vehicle jolted forward, driving them back into their seats hard, then steadied. Adam's brain formed the idea that Angel was a horrible driver at first but when the vehicle calmed down and the ride became smooth, so smooth that he forgot he was inside of the car, he tossed that idea out and started to enjoy the ride. The windows were tinted, they were not black but were tinted. The upholstery of the vehicle was a deep purple with the seats being a lilac color. The steering wheel was a plain metal circle with grooves along the edges, it was connected to the dashboard by a sturdy and shiny steel pipe about as thick as a man's leg. The carpet underneath of Adam's feet was the same color as the upholstery.
"It starts rough," Adam said, breaking the silence after a while. "but it feels like you're not in a car when it smooths out."
"That's the clutch in action," Angel said back, she never took her eyes from the road in front of her. "the clutch also acts as an extra brake."
"Why can't we have cars like this?" Kat asked. "This one beats all!"
"You ever drive before?" Tommy asked.
"Nope and I don't even have a license." Angel admitted. "There's a cloak on this vehicle as well."
"You drive pretty well for someone who doesn't have a license." Adam said.
"Thank you." Angel said. "You learn things when you've lived as long as I have."
Angel talked some about how vehicles were in the early twentieth century, how they rattled so much you felt as if they would fall apart and you'd be riding nothing but air before you fall on your butt in the dirt. She also mentioned how much they didn't hold up in accidents, she gave an example of how when a Model T had crashed into a cow and the front of the car had near crumbled off of the vehicle. She did praise the vehicles of the current age, but she also mentioned that she liked the vehicle she was driving quite a lot. When they pulled in front of O'Henchey's Angel pressed a button and suddenly the door on the right side of the vehicle swung out. The rangers and Angel got out, before she led the way into the building Angel pressed a button on the skeleton key and the Gamma WTXZ disappeared from view.
"Will anyone know it's there?" Kat asked.
"Nope, I parked in a no parking zone." Angel gave Kat a wink.
"I demand that we get cars like that here!" Adam exclaimed.
"I'll put a memo to my father about it." Angel opened the door and motioned everyone inside quickly.
Kat felt a bit uncomfortable in the club, there were waitresses walking around in skimpy outfits and dancers dressing in barely anything on the stage. Angel led them over to an area in the club that was away from the stage, that made it a bit easier for Kat. When they took a seat a waitress came over and took their order. Kat and Aisha simply asked for a glass of water while Tommy, Adam and Billy asked for a coke. Angel was the only one who ordered something alcoholic, she ordered a Pina Colada with an orange slice thrown in for taste. When the drinks arrived Angel downed hers in nothing flat then ordered a full glass of whiskey and some lemon wedges.
"How'd you get the car?" Adam asked. "Did you steal it or something?"
"I want to say no but yeah in a way." Angel replied. "While at Gamma-Vile getting a stack of newspapers I saw the car, it had a hefty price tag of, in our money, over fifty grand. Transformed into my father, went in and got it."
"How in the world did you come off that one standing?" Kat asked. "I mean..."
"I know, even I was surprised. My father's biiiiiig ears went dark red and I had to hide my eyes in order for me to not be noticed." Angel laughed.
"So you bought the car in your father's image?" Tommy asked. "How? Did you steal his credit card or something?"
"Nope, was able to get some cash from the vault in bank in the area." Angel replied. "Paid in full, although I think I could have talked him down. The guy seemed rather scared when I went in."
When the whiskey and lemon wedges came Angel went silent. Adam was about to ask her something when she got up, grabbed her drink and the lemon wedges, and went off to the bathroom leaving them at the table all alone. When she returned her emerald-green eyes were bloodshot, there were tear trails down her face and she walked a bit unsteadily on her feet. When she sat down she shook her head a little then leaned back. When the waitress returned Angel asked for a simple glass of water.
"I'm fine," Angel said when she saw that the rangers were looking at her. "a bit woozy but fine."
"Where's your drink?" Tommy asked.
"And the lemon wedges?" Billy added.
Angel explained that she had left the table to consume her drink in private, this was partly because she didn't want them to become worried and partly because she wanted some privacy while doing so. What she had done, she explained, was squeeze the juice from one of the lemon wedges into her nose then drink half of the glass of whiskey before taking another lemon wedge and repeating the former action only doing so with the other nostril then she had drank the rest of the whiskey. She said that it was an old technique, you were more concerned about the juice in your nose than the whiskey that you just downed. When she was finished all of the rangers were looking at her with their mouths agape.
"You trying to kill yourself!" Adam exclaimed.
"I'll be able to drive fine." Angel replied.
"Drive? I'm not letting you drive me anywhere after what you just said to me!" Adam shouted.
In truth, Adam had spoken for all of them. The rest politely agreed with him, the short outing ended on a polite note for the other rangers. Each excused themselves after telling Angel to be careful on the drive home then left the building, when Kat existed the building she though she saw a blue shape hiding behind a bunch of trash cans but she didn't stop to double check. She walked alongside Aisha and Tommy, Billy had gone the other way saying he was going to catch the bus.
"Adults scare me sometimes." Kat admited. "But I guess they know what they are doing."
"Angel's two hundred and fifteen years old," Tommy sighed. "I suppose she knows about all how it all goes with drinking."
"I'll check up on her later on tonight." Aisha offered. "Take some aspirin and some light food with me so if she's sick..."
"I'll go with you." Kat said.
When Angel left the club a few hours later she was near dump with drunkedness, she had had a good time out but it was time to head back to her apartment and sleep off the whiskey and other drinks she had drank. She uncloaked her vehicle and climbed in, she was about to close the door when a hand caught against it, holding it up. Her vision was fogged up, but she could see well. Standing in front of her was a tall man wearing dark clothing and black boots that had chains around them. He had bleach blond hair and deep blue eyes and a sharply pointed nose.
"Yes?" Angel inquired.
"Look lonely." the man replied. "You want company?"
"You know mister," Angel leaned her arm casually on the wheel of her vehicle. "you are the only one man has asked me that."
"Such a shame!" the man exclaimed. "A heroine like yourself should have all the company in the world."
"You are very nice." Angel said.
"So, do you want company for the night?" the man asked. "Or do you want me to scram?"
"Get in," Angel replied. "been almost fifty-two years since I been with a human male."
It had grown dark out, the stars were almost hidden behind a blanket of gray clouds and there was no moon out. Kat and Aisha walked side by side, a look of worry on their faces. They had brought with them a box of cooked noodles for Angel, thinking that she would need them after the whiskey drink she had downed while at the club. When they stood in front of her apartment the first thing they noticed was that the vehicle was missing, Aisha walked out with her hands positioned in front of her until she felt something in front of her, she smiled at the thought of Angel cloaking the vehicle even when it was in front of her residence. They walked around the vehicle, their hands held out to be sure that they didn't walk into it and injure themselves or damage the vehicle. When they were around the car they went to the door, before Kat knocked she got a bad feeling. She reached down and tried the door knob, it twisted in her hand and the door opened, Angel had not locked the door of her apartment.
"Must have stumbled in and forgot to lock the door behind her." Aisha chuckled.
When they walked into the apartment they knew that what Aisha had said was wrong, dead wrong. They heard the yelling then they heard the bedsprings bouncing. Aisha dropped the noodle box and ran to the only room in the apartment. She swung the door open and snapped the light on. The sight before her made her shriek with horror and disgust. Angel was lying on her back on the bed, her wrists were bound with string up against the headboard and a gag was around her mouth. On top of her was Blue Globber. When Aisha had ran in Blue Globber had been throwing it pretty hard at Angel, but when she started shrieking at the top of her lungs he leaped off and ran out of the apartment. All Aisha had seen was his blue back, a thin sheet concealed the rest of him, and his gold head. When he had run out he had taken the bedsheet with him.
"Angel!" Aisha shrieked, she ran up and ripped the gag from her friends mouth.
"That big blue freak!" Angel screamed. "Grab me some clothes! Quick!"
Kat ran in as Angel was throwing on her clothes, Angel was cursing under her breath and looked rather angry, Aisha looked shocked. Kat was surprised as she had thought she had seen Blue Globber run from Angel's room, she hadn't had a chance to see exactly who it was as she had hugged the wall letting him pass. After she had clothed herself, Angel grabbed the two swords that Dione had given her and ran out of her room, Aisha and Kat were on her heels. When Angel got outside she slammed the door behind her and the girls, she locked it with her key then turned and pressed the button on the skeleton key of her Gamma vehicle. When it decloaked she, Aisha and Kat ran to it, leaped inside and had just settled in when Angel had punched the clutch and the vehicle started and pulled forward with a jolt. It was when they had gotten out of the neighborhood that Angel started telling them what had happened.
Kat's eyes grew wide and her mouth dropped when Angel explained that she had brought a man who had claimed to be thirty years of age back with her to her apartment. She claimed that she had given him something to drink then he had pointed and gestured at her bedroom door, being a bit drunk Angel hadn't thought anything about it and had led him in. Next she had known he was sitting on her bed, pulling her in and giving her kisses, all the while removing her clothes. When her clothes had been removed he had told her to lie down and she had complied, it was then that he had tied her wrists to the headboard with the chords of the blinds. When he had finished he had stepped back and taken out a vial filled with blue liquid which he had drank in full. When his guise had changed from that of a bleach blond man with deep blue eyes and a sharply pointed nose into the hideously ugly Blue Globber. She had been able to send out one scream before she was gagged then he had mounted her rather roughly.
"Did I say he was a big blue freak back there?" Angel asked.
"Yes and to me he is a big blue monster!" Kat exclaimed. "That is horrible!"
"Make that a small blue freak." Angel chuckled.
"Where are we going?" Aisha asked.
"Remember when I was telling you that the monsters and my father and his brood cannot get into the shield but we can enter and exit as we please?" Angel turned her head slightly towards them.
"Yeah..." Aisha replied.
"I have no idea how he got in but he cannot get out." Angel said. "So we have a monster running amok in Angel Grove which I need to take care of."
"Cast him out good and proper, Angel!" Kat said loudly.
They rode in silence for a short while, the vehicle was smoothly moving along until it suddenly lurched to the side. Angel yelled out and pulled the clutch back, there was a squeal as the brakes ground into the road, when the vehicle was pulled to a stop Angel pulled the door on the left side of the car open and got out, she was swiftly followed by Aisha and Kat. Angel looked at the tires in the back of the vehicle, there was a whoosh of air coming from one and it was deflating fast. There were deep skid marks from when the brakes had been applied on the vehicle on the road.
"Someone threw this at the car!" Aisha stood up, in the palm of her hand was a four-inch shuriken, the ends were long claws and the texture felt like tough leather.
"One of my grandfather's prized shurikens." Angel said after she was shown the shuriken.
"How'd your grandfather's weapon get in here?" Kat asked.
"Blue Globber?" Aisha was guessing.
"A good bet," Angel replied. "who else?"
"How did Globber get in anyways?" Kat asked. "I meant to ask you earlier."
"Although no monsters can get in, or out, there might have been one or two given orders to stick around Angel Grove before the shield was put up." Angel answered, she was walking around to the other side of the vehicle.
"Why would your father order one to do that when he needed all the monsters in the camps to be on look out for you?" Aisha asked.
"Sneak attack." Angel replied. "A surprise attack, find out all you can on the enemy then while the enemy is down go get the troops. It's an old battle technique, one that's been used countless times before civilization was civilization."
Aisha was about to ask Angel something when she heard running feet, next she knew was that she was flat up against the car with Blue Globber on top of her. Kat ran forward and kicked the monster off. When Blue Globber got up from the road he was sent flying again, Angel had done three air punches, three transparent fists had flown at him and drove him back against the wall of a building across the road. He never got a chance to get up and defend himself before Angel was on him. She punched him in the face, in the stomach. She kicked him between the legs and when he grabbed her, holding her arms to her sides, Angel reared her head back then dropped it forward, sinking her teeth into his shoulder deep enough to break his skin. He yelled in pain and dropped her, his dark blue blood flowed down his chest. Angel had just gotten into position to begin a fire attack when he took off. Before Kat's and Aisha's surprised eyes he ran at the shield. Angel turned and sent her already charged fire attack at him, he was engulfed just before he got to the shield. There was a series of sparks and an explosion before blue-black smoke rose from the spot he had been at before.
"Did you destroy him?" Kat asked.
"No, son of a bitch got out of the shield somehow." Angel snarled.
"Could it of been your abilities that allowed him out?" Aisha asked. "You was flaming him just before he reached the shield."
Angel wiped her mouth with the back of her hand then coughed out a blue colored glob of spit which could have been some of Blue Globber's blood mixed with saliva, it made Kat and Aisha sick just seeing it. She next threw her hands at the shield, attacking it with a combination of fire and water attacks and blasts before heading into energy and lightning blasts and attacks. Each time the shield would give off a series of sparks then an explosion would occur. When Angel walked to the shield she held her hands out in front of her, she walked right through it. There was no crackling energy as she went through and there was no reflection that became warped, her attacks had canceled the shield that she had just gotten through investigating.
"Can you replace that part of the shield?" Kat asked.
In answer Angel walked to the inside of the shield and raised her arms, her hands held straight up. A new red shield formed over the open space, when she lowered her arms she had an angry look on her face, her emerald-green eyes with the small ring of golden-yellow around the pupils were blazing. Kat walked up to her friend and gently patted her shoulder, she understood, the Blue Globber had found a weakness and Angel had practically shown it to him herself. After a few minutes of standing, her shoulders and chest heaving up and down with each angry breath, Angel turned around and went to her vehicle. She pressed a button of the skeleton key and the back of the vehicle opened. Angel wasted no time in replacing the flat tire.
School went slow the next day for Kat and Aisha, they told the other rangers before their classes started what had happened then they talked further about it during lunch. When school let it each agreed that the day had been long and that they were glad that school was out for the day. With the backpacks slung over their shoulders they trudged to Angel's, wanting to speak to her further about the night before. They had not a chance to say hello when they walked into Angel's apartment, Angel was having a rather hot conversation with General Faulk.
"Take a seat, I'll be right with you guys." Angel said.
"She comes into the mayors office saying that the shield is weak on the inside only when her powers strike it then she says that Angel Grove had a monster in it which prompted her attack on the shield!" General Faulk was yelling at the mayor's secretary, a pretty brown-haired woman with brown eyes. "She's riding around this place like there is no problem in the world! Someone has to take her up a peg or two!"
"Oooo look at me I'm shaking in my booties." Angel wrapped her arms around herself and feigned shaking. "I take one night on the town and get blasted for discovering a shield of my creations weakness."
"You said that red shields are powerful and that no monsters of your father's armies or your father will be able to penetrate it." General Faulk turned towards Angel angrily. "Now you say there is a flaw in it. This being here is no hero, this... half-breed is a danger to our society! She needs to be cast out! Only then will those monstrosities leave us be!"
"She's trying her best to help us!" Kat screamed. "You cast her out we become vulnerable, her father will still claim our planet as his and he will then initiate his plan to make us honor his rule."
"You stay out of this young lady!" General Faulk yelled. "If it wasn't for this thing here her father wouldn't be on this planet in the first place. Get rid of the thing that draws them in and they will leave. Hell, I'm all for handing her over to them just to get them off my planet."
The General was now in Angel's face, yelling his head off which was a deep red, his blue eyes were a-glow with angry. Angel said nothing for a short while then came back with something that thoroughly angered General Faulk, and made Kat very proud. The General, after hearing her call him a coward, swung his fist. Angel's elbow swung around her and she almost turned fully around, her face bore the look of shock, it quickly turned to pure anger.
"How dare you!" Angel shoved the General hard. "How dare you hit me!"
"Get use to it Kitten!" General Faulk yelled. "Because I'm moving in, enough of this slacking!"
"The hell you are!" Angel shrieked. "I won't allow it."
"You will because it's happening!"
General Faulk practically shoved a piece of paper in Angel's face, Angel slapped it from his hand then grabbed it from the floor. Her face went from being red to being white, her pupils dilated to almost nothing while the golden-yellow ring, while staying a ring around her pupils grew larger. She tore the piece of paper in two pieces, wiped both pieces on her behind then threw to them to the ground. She next shoved the General out of the way and headed to the kitchen, Kat followed at her heels. The kitchen had light wood cabinets and an island, a white refrigerator stood to one side with a small space between it and the oven. Angel had a microwave, coffee maker and a can opener, there was no kitchen table in the room. There was no room for one.
"Sometimes I hate men." Angel said, she was leaning against the counter. "They think they can waltz in and take over."
"What did that paper say?" Kat asked.
"General Faulk went down to Washington saying I was a danger so they gave him orders to keep me in his sights at all times." Angel snickered. "Which also means, by the Government, he is to live under my roof."
"Will you be okay?" Kat asked. "Do you think he'll..."
"He doesn't have the balls to do what you are about to ask." Angel turned around, her pupils, and the golden-yellow ring around them, had gone back to normal.
"Does he know about the car?" Kat asked. "Do you think he'll..."
"What's he going to do? Send it to the border for being an illegal alien or send it to the junk yard?" Angel leaned back against the counter. "He knows about it, yes. I've been reported as not having a license and will have to take a test to get one. But since the car is already in my name it can't be touched. My property."
Kat had never seen anything like it before, the next two weeks for Angel was more stressful than the ones before General Faulk had showed up and the prime culprit was the General himself. General Faulk had taken residence up in Angel's apartment, he slept on the couch while Angel slept in the bedroom with the door locked up tight. If anyone was to knock or ring the bell, the rangers included, General Faulk would be the one answering the door. He would demand who it was, then ask what their business was which would prompt Angel to shove him to the side and let the person who had rang the doorbell or knocked on the door in. She had passed the drivers test after taking it one time, General Faulk had tried to get the Gamma WTXZ impounded after he had seen it but in the end Angel had won that battle. The vehicle was hers, registered with all the proper paperwork, he couldn't touch it. Whenever a fight would spark up between General Faulk and Angel it would start off as vocal then the General would get physical. In all Angel had showed up with bruises on her arms, a bruised cheek and some really red ears, the General would typically be seen in worse condition.
"Does he insist on riding with you or...?" Adam asked, Angel had sneaked out of her apartment and from under General Faulk's nose.
"He's deathly afraid of the Gamma WTXZ," Angel chuckled. "which is why he tried to get it impounded. Said that any vessel from another planet looks like my vehicle it is a danger."
"He had someone test it right?" Kat asked. "I read in the paper he had someone test the vehicle."
"Yep, had all sorts of tests run on it." Angel replied. "He was pissed when it passed with flying colors."
"So, between your father and the General who is better?" Aisha leaned against the table top, her eye closing in a wink.
"The General of course." Angel replied quickly. "At least he hasn't tried tearing the flesh from my back with a whip. Yet!"