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=LOREKEEPERS=
"Unlock the Legend!" The rangers call out morphing into their base Lore Keeper forms as they fought against Diablo's newest monster. It had a black feline like body while attached to its back was a ladder, and hanging from the front of it was some mirrors.
"Bad Luck is going to give you some bad luck rangers. Bad Luck can't be beaten!" the monster named Bad Luck says taking the ladder of it's back swinging it around like an overly large two handed sword. The rangers duck the attack and Cassie being the closest stabs the monster with her sais cracking one of the mirrors.
"That's seven years of bad luck pink ranger is what Bad Luck tells you!" Bad Luck tells Cassie.
Adam looks to the others "I know you guys call me annoying, but even I'm find this alley cat pawsitively worse." Adam says getting a giggle out of AV while the others groan.
"Let's just finish him guys." Sora says and they nod summoning the Lore Blaster, but before they had a chance to fire it Bad Luck is teleported away.
The rangers groan as all eight cancel their morph "So much for finish that guy." Leo huffed.
"I feel the same way." Adam says a bit annoyed that the monster had got away from them.
"Look there is nothing we can do now but wait for Bad Luck to show it's face again. So for now let's just get back to our somewhat normal lives." Sora says to them all and they nod and start to walk back towards LHH it being a school day, and had been lucky enough that the monster attack had happened during lunch.
Adam walked to the front wanting to talk to Sora about something that was concerning him "Sora can we talk? Privately." He asked and before she could answer he pulls her off to the side and waves the others to go on.
Sora gives Adam a small glare crossing her arms "Okay what is it Adam? We're going to be late getting back to school at this rate." Sora asked him.
Adam rubs his arm "It's about AV. I…I don't think she's told us everything that happened to her in the future." Adam says, and as soon as Sora hears him she lets out a sigh.
"Oh good. I thought I was the only one who was noticing her strange behavior." Sora said and Adam looks to her.
"Yeah I was thinking the same thing Adam. AV has been…off ever since what happened in the future. Whenever I try to confront her about it she finds some way to change the subject to something else. I think the Xolicernic from the future said something to her that she doesn't want to tell us." Sora adds on and Adam nods.
"I was thinking that to. Plus she does the same thing to me whenever I try to get her to open up and tell me what happened." Adam admits looking to the ground.
Sora puts a hand on his shoulder "Hey don't worry yourself over it. We can just keep trying Adam. We'll get her to tell us what happened somehow." Sora tells him and he nods as they both walk towards the school.
=LOREKEEPERS=
As the day was starting to end it was noticeable by almost everybody that Cassie was in an extremely good mood. After last class ended she was almost literally bouncing her way out of the final class of the day.
"What's got you so happy Cassie?" Sara asked Cassie as both girls were getting stuff out of their locker. Both were actually rather close locker wise, and after Robyn had left Sara high and dry Cassie had actually been doing her best to get to know the girl more.
Cassie turned to look at her a huge smile on her face "My dad is home, and from what he wrote in his e-mail to me he will be staying home for at least a couple months." Cassie tells her as Sara gives a smile as Cassie had mentioned a while back that her dad is rarely home, and when he is it's usually for a couple days to a week at most.
So it was of no surprise that she was excited as she might not get another chance to spend this kind of time with her father. Especially with the strained relationship that she has with her mother as of late which has only been worsening from what Cassie had told Sara.
"Well I'm happy for you Cassie. Wish I could say the same about my own father." Sara said sighing as Cassie nods in understanding. Almost two years ago Sara's father had disappeared leaving her and her two 13 year old brothers with their step mother and her two horrible daughters.
Cassie closes her locker and walks over to Sara hugging her "Hey I'm sure that your father is alive and well Sara. Someone will find him." Cassie tells Sara who had been tearing up and she returns the hug.
"Thank you Cassie. I'm thankful to have you and the others as friends." Sara said and wipes away the tears and smirks closing her own locker.
"Well I've got to get home. Homework and chores don't do themselves you know." Sara said and Cassie giggled. Sara waves to the pink ranger and is gone rather quickly. Cassie returns to her locker to get the rest of her stuff and head on home to see her father.
Cassie leaves the school alone as many of the others had already left the school or were attending after school activates in the case of Peter, Adam, and AV. Peter was part of the Basketball team which was working harder than ever while AV and Adam had joined an after school study group.
Cassie lets out a sigh as she leaves "I was wondering when you would come out of the castle princess." A voice jokes scaring Cassie who turns around and glares at the voice's owner who was Leo.
"Could you please not do that Leo! You almost gave me a heart attack." Cassie said as Leo laughs.
"Whatever you say. Just thought I'd stay behind and well…walk you home if you're okay with it." Leo says rubbing the back of his neck nervously as Cassie blushes.
"I-I don't see any problem with it." Cassie said and both begin walking in the direction of the StClare Estate both were a bit quiet as they walked.
"Umm…Why do you want to walk me home?" Cassie asked as they came to an intersection, and Leo just shrugs.
"Well there is a monster on the loose, and well…I'm just a bit worried about you is all." Leo says to Cassie as they walk drawing closer to the estate.
Cassie frowns "I can take care of myself you know. I don't need protection." Cassie said to Leo.
Leo nods "I know that. It just makes me more comfortable knowing you got home safe." He said hiding a blush from the girl.
They arrive at the estate and Cassie turns to look at Leo "Thanks for walking me home Leo." She says and she opens the gate walking through and closing them behind her as Leo walks on him himself.
Cassie opens the front door as quiet as can be going by her mother's standard of wanting her to act like a lady and closes the door just as quiet. She then heard a rather loud commotion coming from one of the dining rooms and follows the noise coming to a cracked door.
"…disgrace I tell you!" The voice of Cassie's mother exclaimed as a masculine sigh is heard.
"Aren't you over exaggerating a bit Jasmine?" The voice of Cassie's father Gerald spoke.
While Cassie couldn't see inside she knew her mother right now was probably scowling, but she grew worried about what they were talking about. Whenever Jasmine talked about something being a disgrace she was usually referring to a person, and it was always someone on the staff of the estate.
"No I'm not! That girl is not fit to consider herself a StClare Gerald!" Jasmine says and Cassie had to suppress a gasp as she learned who they were talking about.
"Me. They're talking about me." Cassie thought.
"She is every bit a StClare as you are Jasmine. Nothing will change that." Gerald says as she hears her mother groan.
"You aren't here to see what her 'habits' are Gerald. She still goes to that public school with those troublesome teens instead of the private school I recommended, she continues to make those horrid drawings, and then there is that infernal stuff she calls 'music'!" Jessica ranted as Cassie was in utter surprise.
Gerald sighed "You know as well as I do that sending Cassie to a private school would not have been best for her. I love her art, drawings, and music. Why have you been treating her like this?" Gerald asked.
Cassie couldn't look in, but knew that her mother was likely glaring now "You know exactly why Gerald. It is impossible to love your own child when you see one with more potential. Like that women and her child." Jessica said.
She heard something slam on a table and assumed it was her father's hands or a glass "Leave Cynthia and Maxwell out of this Jessica! Cassie doesn't even know about her half brother!" Gerald shouts and Cassie takes a step back.
"H-Half brother? I have a half brother, but that would mean…oh dad." Cassie thought.
She hears her mother huff "As much as I would like to they are both family, and seeing as how Maxwell is of age we should consider the possibility of bringing him into the family. He has all the makings of a StClare. Unlike that…that thing!" Jessica says as Cassie tears up knowing that her mother meant her.
It was then that Cassie heard the most unexpected sound. The sound of flesh hitting flesh or to be more precise the sound of someone being slapped "Don't. Don't you dare talk about my daughter like that Jessica. I agreed to our arranged marriage because I wanted t honor our families traditions, but I can see now that it was a mistake." Gerald said as Cassie was surprised to hear about their arranged marriage.
"W-What are you saying Gerald?" Jessica said to him in surprise as it was likely that he had slapped her.
"Why don't I put it in simpler terms for you to understand Jessica. I want a divorce." Gerald said coldly. As it was said Cassie backed away slowly and went running to her room. When she got their she jumped on the bed and started to cry, and continued to until she fell asleep.
[Dream Sequence]
Cassie was running down a long tunnel trying to catch up to something that was in front of her. It looked to be a woman and right with her was a young man, and right with them was her parents.
"W-Wait! Don't go! Please don't leave me behind!" Cassie cries out as it was then that three paths appeared. The woman and young man went down the path on the right, her mother down the center path, and her father down the path on the left.
Cassie stopped as she looked at all three paths. She could only run down one and try to catch up to the person, but she would lose all possibilities of catching up to any of the others.
"What will you choose?" A voice says as a carbon copy of Cassie appeared in the center path yet her appearance was drastically different. Her hair was long and had more volume to it, and she was wearing some rather fancy and expensive looking clothes, but Cassie could tell from the look in her copies eyes that she wasn't happy.
"I am happy and content living with mother. Father doesn't even deserve the time of day." Copy Cassie says her voice having a more refined tone to it.
Cassie looked to the path on the right as another Copy Cassie appeared. This one wore the same clothes as Cassie, and she did look a bit happier, but her eyes reflected a hidden sadness "I-I love my father, but I wish more could have been done to keep him and mother together. I-I should have done more." The second copy says.
Finally Cassie looked to the path on the left as a final Copy Cassie appeared. This one wore the same clothes as Cassie and the second copy, but all she could offer was a smile, but said nothing. Yet the message was clear what she was saying: she wanted to know more about this other family of hers.
Cassie looked at the three variations of herself scared and nervous "Make your choice." The mysterious voice says again as Cassie looks between the three.
"I-I-I choose…" Cassie starts and looks at them sighing.
"I can't choose. No matter what I answer I can't change what will happen to me." Cassie said as she sits down on the ground starting to cry again.
It was then that she was surprised by the feeling of someone putting a hand on her shoulder. Cassie turned and saw Leo and Sora standing their smiling at her as both help her up.
"I-I want to make my own path in life. To write my own story. If you want a choice then that is it." Cassie says to the voice as she starts to feel herself wake up, a beeping noise in the background slowly growing louder.
[Dream Sequence End]
When Cassie woke she saw that the sun had already set, and turns to the source of the beeping which was her morphor "Yes?" Cassie asked.
"Finally Cassie! Bad Luck is back. Me and the others got him pinned at the old carnival outside town." Peter said over the morphor.
"I-I'm on my way Peter." Cassie said as she opens the window to her room and sneaks out.
=LOREKEEPERS=
The bright lights of the old Legacy Hills Carnival site were shining as the rangers fought against Bad Luck. Sora was morphed into the Epilogue Ranger while the others were in their base Lore Keeper forms.
AV shot off her blasters at the walking embodiment of unluckiness, but Bad Luck just takes his ladder and spins it reflecting the shots causing them to hit other objects in the old carnival site.
The whole battle had been one thing going wrong after another. Sora's sword had gotten stolen and thrown away so it could be anywhere else in the carnival.
Leo currently had his foot stuck in a hole and couldn't get it out no matter how hard he tried. Meanwhile nearby Adam and Alvin were tied back to back by some old yet sturdy wire.
After his communication with Cassie Peter was knocked out cold after a bell from the old carnival strength test fell and hit him on the head hard. Finally Eva was confined in an old magicians box with several locks on it. Due to how small it was Eva could barely move let alone summon her weapon.
"Bad Luck is a winner! Rangers will lose, and Bad Luck will be made general!" Bad Luck exclaimed as it swung it's ladder at the remaining two rangers. Sora ducked low while AV wasn't quick enough and the hit threw her to the side.
"Bad Luck has bested six of seven. Red ranger should just surrender and save Bad Luck the trouble of beating little girl." Bad Luck says as Sora grits her teeth and Bad Luck swings again Sora dodging it again.
"Hold still. Bad Luck have to crush you." The feline says and prepared to swing again when he was interrupted mid swing by a silver and pink blur flying by and scratching him. When the weapon hit the ground it was one of Cassie's Sai's and said pink ranger was right behind and gave a swift punch to the cat's face.
She went over to Sora who picked up Cassie's weapon and gave it back to the girl. Cassie nods in thanks and goes to the box Eva was trapped in and using her sai's like a bolt cutter quickly cuts the locks. She then goes to Adam and Alvin and tears the wires apart with her sais as Peter wakes up recovering from what had the slight head trauma received.
Leo managed to pull his foot out of the hole and AV returned to the group as under her helmet she was extremely annoyed yet also glad that Cassie managed to get to them now.
"No no no! Bad Luck winning! Pink Ranger cheater!" Bad Luck complains.
"Oh I'm sorry did I mess something up for you?" Cassie said sarcastically as the other rangers laugh at this.
Cassie then huffs "Well to bad. Sora you don't mind that I take the lead on this one?" she says the last part directed to the red ranger who nods.
"It's Showtime!" Cassie says as all the rangers except for Sora press the button to engage Legacy Mode.
"Battle Legacy, Upload!" The morphors sound off as Sora looks through some special forms she has access to and finds on in particular and nods knowing it will have to do.
"Battlizer Morph: In Space!" Sora declared.
-Battle Legacy Morphing Sequence-
Peter's form was wrapped in silver energy as appearing over his chest was a best plate whit angular pauldrons reaching out past the shoulders. A slightly oversized diamond shaped silver belt buckle took the place of the normal as white-silver boots with gold knee guards and trim appeared as well as similar colored arm guards and gloves took place of the normal. His sword straightened and became thinking resembling a broad sword.
Gold energy flowed around Eva's form as a singular solid piece of gold armor formed going from her shoulders to her waist. The pauldrons were connected to it and went upwards for a half foot to a point. Reinforced gloves with gold arm guards formed on her hands the same with her boots. On her chest set a round oval with a small emerald like jewel coming out of it. Finally her circular blade became larger and she gained a second one.
-End Morphing Sequence-
-Battlizer Morph Sequence-
Sora's Epilogue Ranger form was replaced by that of the Red Space Ranger modified for a female and it pulsed with power and flashes a bright red. When the flash clears she looked mostly the same, but there was some noticeable changes. There was an added blue section on the suit while the normal white boots had added red to it and some of it was solid and stuck out. The most significant change was the large wing like pack on her back resembling wings.
-End Morph Sequence-
Bad Luck was slightly scared by the change of events and grabbing the mirror around it's neck it reflects the light off the mirror which comes off as a beam. When it came close instead of hitting the rangers it made contact with a bright lavender energy shield.
Cassie and Adam were the first to take action flying forward and hits the monster with sais and mace and it stumbles and drops it's mirror.
"Oh no! Bad Luck break mirror! Bad Luck now have seven years bad luck!" Bad Luck exclaimed not seeing AV charging forward with Leo as AV lets loose a charged blast and Leo swings his sword.
Bad Luck yelps dodging the sword strike, but was too close to AV to dodge the charged blaster from her dual blaster. The attack didn't hurt Bad Luck, but it did manage to knock the ladder off his back and it falls to the ground folding out at the same time Bad Luck goes under it.
"No! Bad Luck walk under ladder! Now Bad Luck have even more bad luck!" the feline says.
Alvin, Peter, and Eva were next as Peter and Eva ran at the feline's sides and Alvin was coming from above. All three strikes made solid contact with the cat the noise being enough to startle a nearby black cat and it ran out crossing Bad Luck's path.
"Black cat has crossed Bad Luck's path. Now Bad Luck has the worst type of bad luck!" Bad Luck says trembling and hears a noise and looks up to seeing the red ranger flying in the air with a helmet like thing over the actual helmet.
"Target locked on…Fire!" Sora says as missiles fire from it and make contact with the monster who yells in pain as it is destroyed.
"Tale End." Cassie said.
=LOREKEEPERS=
The following day was a Friday and seven of the eight rangers that day came together curious. Cassie had told them all she had something she had to tell them that day, and wanted them all there.
They each took a seat at their usual table as Cassie was the last to arrive and takes her seat letting out a sigh "So what do you want to talk about? You made it sound rather important." Peter asked.
"Y-Yeah. I-Is everything alright?" Eva adds on.
Cassie sighs "No. I'm actually experiencing some trouble at home guys." She says to them as she tears up. She then began to tell them about what she had heard the other day when she got home, what she learned, and what was possibly going to happen.
"D-Divorce? Your dad wants a divorce?" Alvin asked and Cassie nods.
"And I have a half brother. All I know is his first name is Maxwell." Cassie tells them and sighs.
AV gives the older girl a sympathetic smile and puts a hand on her shoulder "If you ever need someone to talk to we're here for you Cassie." AV says as Adam nods.
"Yeah. I know how a divorce can affect someone." Adam says as Cassie gives the group a small smile.
"Thanks everyone. I-I really just think I needed to tell someone, and I'm glad you all listened." Cassie said to the others.
Sora nods "Just don't go starting to do anything. We do care about you Cassie." Sora said.
"Yeah. Sora is right about that so really as AV said if you ever need someone to talk to talk to us or call us." Leo says to her. Cassie blushes at the concern Sora and Leo are giving her.
It was then that the bell rang signaling the end of lunch and the start of the second half of classes. Cassie was by herself for the first class after lunch and sits at a table by herself.
The teacher comes in and clears his throat to get the students attention "It appears we have a new student joining us. Now students be kind and do not ask any nosey questions." He says and looks to the door nodding to welcome the student to come on in.
The boy that walks in is 17 and stands at 5'7 his skin tone rather average if not lightly tanned. He had short red hair and blue eyes with freckles on his face and wore a set of round rim glasses. He wore a white top with tan slacks and had a tan shoulder bag slung on his arm.
He looked around nervous "Umm…Hello everyone. I'm Maxwell Johnson, but please feel free to call me Max." The boy says and the teacher directs him to take the seat at the table with Cassie.
The boy looks at her and smile "Hi there miss. I hope that we can get along." He says as Cassie nods.
"Cassandra, but call me Cassie if it's easier for you." Cassie replied as she looked at Max.
"Could he possibly be? No…Things like that just don't happen. It's just a coincidence." Cassie thought shaking the thought away. Yet she couldn't get the nagging feeling away that she was sitting right next to the person she wanted to find out more about the most.
=LOREKEEPERS=
Meanwhile in an unknown location the wolf beast named Zoelle had recovered and was standing inside what looked like a high tech lab, and to her side was Abbinus.
"Ahh I see you have recovered. Good. Diablo wants to meet the last of Vaatu's elemental generals." Abbinus says as they both leave and are accompanied by Recks.
The area they came to looked like something pulled straight out of an old science fiction move. The entire room was round with a module in the center of it while off to the sides were control panels that were being operated by Shades and Gearz.
In the back sitting at an advance computer was Diablo who was glancing over blueprints to what looked like a space cannon. When he saw Zoelle, Recks, and Abbinus he shut it off and got up looking at the hybrid.
"I see you have recovered." Diablo says before coming forward and grabbing Zoelle by the neck.
"Now give me a reason I shouldn't end you for what your master did to me." Diablo says coldly as Zoelle struggles to breath.
"Because…I can help you…red ranger…won't risk attacking me…would be bad…for host…" Zoelle says between breaths. Curious as to what she meant he let her go as Zoelle falls to the ground.
"How can you be so certain as to this?" Diablo asked as Zoelle smirks.
"Remove the control necklace and you will see why." Zoelle says and Diablo looks to Abbinus and signals her to remove the control necklace. Zoelle's form flickered briefly before she was reverted to her human form which collapsed to the ground.
Seeing who it was Diablo knew that they could use it to their advantage and signals for Abbinus to put it back on before the person could recover.
After Zoelle regains form she gets up and smirks "I see you understand why she won't touch me." Zoelle says.
"Indeed. We can actually use it to our advantage so it seems." Diablo says.
=LOREKEEPERS=
Sora arrived home and saw her father who was looking rather worried "Dad is everything alright?" Sora asked.
"No. Your mother…she's missing Sora." Zane said to her.
Sora's eyes widen "According to her employees she didn't arrive at work yesterday, and no one has seen her today." Zane continued worried for his wife and unborn daughter.
Sora goes up to her father and hugs him "It-It's going to be alright dad. You'll see. Mom will be found. I'm sure of it." Sora said trying to comfort her dad as well as herself.
And that is Episode 2 of Season 2. Okay in Season 1 I feel that I didn't do well on the first set of character chapters, and I am hoping to improve that in this arc which will focus mainly on the rangers pasts and relationships with others besides the rangers as well as some side events such as the search for Rena Daniels, Cassie looking for her half brother, and the senior rangers coming to term with the fact they will be graduating soon. I hope you all like Eva and Peter's Battle Legacy's which the group has only 7 more uses of before it's done for good. Now the Battlizer Morph's was something I decided to add in since SM didn't do anything worthy of a Battlizer, and I thought it would be cool to include the use of Battlizer's from past seasons. So if you guys have a particular Battlizer form you want to see next put it in a review. Also I did originally plan to include a flashback in this chapter, but it was already starting to get long so I didn't, but the next one will probably have a couple. Until next time this has been decode9!