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As the ship took off headed for it's destination Cassie sighed and began to walk around the ship eventually ending up in front of the room of Carrie Jupiter. About to knock and check on her Cassie stopped deciding it was perhaps best not to and turned to leave before she heard a bit of crying coming from inside the room.
Hearing this Cassie grew concerned and went inside and saw that Carrie was curled up crying as she went over to her "Carrie? What's wrong?" Cassie asked.
"N-Nothing. I'm just...it's just that I keep remembering that day. I couldn't stop anything from happening." Carrie said and Cassie pats her back.
"There there. Everything will be fine once we..." Cassie started as the ship shook and the alarms sounded.
"Controls aren't responding. Everyone prepare for a crash landing!" The voice of Basil said coming over the intercom as the ship crashed. The lights flickered for a moment and then went out, but after landing they came back on everything seeming normal.
Everyone in the ship ran out to check out what it was that hit them and were greeted to a familiar site by Sky "Krybots! I thought they were all destroyed after..." Sky starts then stop and looks to the others.
"I think this would be a good time to morph." Sky told them as the Lore Keepers nod bringing out their morphers, but what surprised them was Alice and Basil bringing each bringing out an SPD morpher.
Sky noticed this and was slightly taken aback "Aren't those..." He starts as Alice nods.
"Yes. The special morphers Kat was working on that don't connect to the morphing grid in any way. She issued them to us before we left." Alice said as AV's eyes turned a dark orange and she frowned.
"Well then let's just get to it." Cassie said as she stood near Carrie protecting her.
"Unlock The Legend/SPD, Emergency!" The five called out morphing as Sky engaged them regularly.
Taking their opportunity Cassie, AV, and Alvin morphed into the remaining core colors of the SPD team while Basil and Alice went SWAT mode.
The six seperated fighting the monsters back except AV and Sky who were working closely together. As they continued fighting something about what happened on the ship bothered her as did Alice's lie. She could also tell that Sky was holding something back as well.
Sky jumped over the Krybots and broke out into a run "Take care of Carrie!" he shouts running off.
"Hey! You're suppose to be helping us!" Cassie called out as AV followed after doing the same.
"It'll be fine Cassie! Just stick with Carrie!" AV called out as she followed after Sky.
"Traitor!" Cassie shouts before firing upon some Krybots that got to close to her and Carrie.
Alvin ducked and back away from the sword swings of the Krybot that he was fighting and saw what was happeing "Now what are they doing?" Alvin asked out loud putting a hand to his chin in thought before he jumps back flipping away from slice.
Alvin landed on his hands and used his feet to block an oncoming attack as he thought. He recalled on the ship a female figure, and when they crashed she briefly saw it leave along with Carrie. Yet Carrie was out with them being defended.
"Now how can that be possible. Unless...of course. That's what's going on." he thought and flipped again flipping over the Krybots and broke into a run.
"Take care of my portion okay Cassie?!" Alvin called out.
"Hey! Don't leave me here!" Cassie shouts as Basil and Alice come to her.
"We need to get her out of here." Basil said as Alice grabs Carrie's arm.
"You can handle these things right Cassandra?" Alice asked.
"O-Of course I can! But..." She started as the other two nod.
"Good. We're counting on you Miss StClare." Basil said.
"This way Miss Jupiter." Alice said as her and Basil took off towards where the ship had crashed.
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Meanwhile Alvin had followed AV's trail which took him to a smaller working ship and he walked inside and saw AV at the controls "...So did Sky tell you who the 'Carrie' was that was out their?" Alvin asked as AV glance back smirking a bit.
"No, but I did notice what exactly was happeing. I'm also not the only one here." AV said as someone else came out and Alvin nods confirming what he thought.
"Thought it was you on the ship. So that mean's if your here then she is pretending to be Carrie." he said.
"Yep." A female voice replied.
"We got to head back to Earth. Sky told me we will be needed there for the second part of the plan, and to follow this signal." AV said taking out a phone given to her by Sky which tracked the fake Carrie.
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Meanwhile Cassie finished up fighting the Krybots and heard a sound she looked up seeing their crashed spaceship working and flying "I thought he said the controls weren't responding! What is going on?" Cassie said out loud and took out her morphor.
Using it's teleport function, but decreasing it's range she managed to get back onto the ship before it left the planet. Yet as she left the planet she could tell that something was defintely wrong.
"We're going the wrong way. We're heading back to Earth." Cassie thought as her confusion grew as she snuck around.
"Where are we going? This isn't he right way." The voice of Carrie reached her ears as the sound of Alice huffing in anger was heard.
"Shut up. It should be pretty obvious by now who we really work for Miss Jupiter." Alice says her voice laced with venom.
"Yes, and we can't have you testifying to what you saw. After all can't have someone clearing Kruger and making trouble for our boss and his clients." Basil added as the sounds of cuff clicking was heard.
"Why are you doing this? Why frame Kruger?" Carrie asked as Cassie came to a slightly opened door and she peeked in.
"Because he was there, and couldn't have him babble. Would be bad for the boss's public image." Basil said as Cassie watched and saw Basil push Carrie back into the seat.
"Hey Basil. I'm so tired of her whining. Can we just put her somewhere else?" Alice complained and he nods.
"Fine. We'll put her and the pink one somewhere for the rest of the trip." He said and Cassie was confused a moment before he looked to the door and gave a wicked smile making it obvious he knew she was there.
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The shipped landed back on Earth at the warehouse area of New Tech City a few hours later and the two had taken Cassie's morphor. Cassie and Carrie we shoved off the ship by Basil and Alice as the two saw someone else their.
"Carrie Jupiter. It's been to long my dear." An alien in a cloak said his head being the only thing revealed which was green with sharp yellow eyes and long black curved horns.
"Wait...They said what Carrie saw would actually clear Kruger. Then they mentioned they didn't wan't him to babble what he saw because it would be bad for their boss's public image. So does that mean..." Cassie thought and grit her teeth as she grew a suspicion of who it was.
"Why you rotten snake." She muttered and was knocked on the back of the head by Alice.
"A young lady shouldn't speak like that. Now Carrie won't you reconsider? I'd hate to see an unfotunate accident befall you." The alien said as Carrie glared at him.
"You killed my father, and framed him saying he was Kruger's buyer who by the way you also framed. I won't forgive you! I won't stay silent!" Carrie says as the alien sighs.
"It's unfortunate that events unfolded like they did, but alas I couldn't have people knowing I was their. People believe what they want to believe while others take what they read as the absolute truth girl." Reid said as both remained quiet.
"So you really won't consider? Well then..." he starts and looks to Basil before nodding to him.
"...hehe...hahahaha!" Carrie broke out laughing confusing them.
"W-What's so funny!" Alice demanded.
"You guys. Sheesh your all so stupid you don't realize when a bug was planted." Carrie said smirking.
"A bug!" the alien, Alice, and Basil says.
"Yep, and that bug is not the electronic kind. It's the person kind." Carrie said as the cuffs holding her fall off and she kicks Basil back grabbing Cassie's morphor off him and tossing it to Cassie before both knock Basil and Alice towards the cloaked alien.
The three got up as the alien seethed "I don't know how you got out of the cuffs, but it won't matter. The only other one who know's the truth is being delt with as we speak." he said as Carrie grinned.
"Oh really?" she replied.
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At New Tech Hospital a Krybot disquised as a doctor walked about a syringe full of adrenline in hand into Doggy Kruger's room.
Taking the IV it prepared to inject it but is stopped by two hands "I wouldn't do that if I were you." Leo said as beside him an older brown haired woman in yellow frowned.
"I don't think it's going to listen. So perhaps we should just show him the door. Or in this case the window." She said as another curly haired woman in a scientest's outfit opened the window and the two threw the Krybot out Leo smashing the dropped syringe after.
"Looks like Sky and Jake were right. They did come here to try and finish him." The older woman said as the one in the scientest outfit stepped up.
"Please back away. Now then let's see if this will help wake him up." She spoke taking out a small syringe filled with a strange liquid.
The woman in yellow looked to Leo "You better get going." she said and Leo nods.
"Yeah. Nice meeting you Z." Leo said and ran out taking out his phone and brings up a particular number.
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"Because I think your kill attempt just got thrown away." Carrie added as her phone rings and she brought it out putting it on speaker.
"Kruger is fine and still alive. I'm on my way now. Oh and the real Carrie finally made it to her intended destination." Leo's voice spoke surprising Cassie.
"L-Leo? What is going on here?" Cassie asked as Carrie thanks him and hangs up.
"The real Carrie...wait..." Basil started then growled as 'Carrie' giggles and winks before looking to Cassie.
"Sorry about what I did with Sky. I had to." 'Carrie' said before a light engulfed her before fading away revealing Sora.
"Sora! Okay what's going on?" Cassie asked as Sora turned to face the other three.
"It's pretty simple actually. You see when Sky took me off to talk alone he told me of what had been going on inside SPD." Sora explained
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"So you think there's someone dirty on the inside of SPD? And you want my team's help figuring out who it is?" Sora asked and Sky nods as they are inside the command room.
"Yes, and that insider has something to do with the Jupiter case." Sky said.
"Well I'm all for it. When can me and my team..." Sora starts as Sky raised a hand to stop her.
"Not you. There's something else I want you to do, and that is I need you to pose as Miss Jupiter. Kat has developed a better disguise device that will make you appear as an exact duplicate of her." Sky said and she nods frowning at where this is going.
"I'm sorry, but I need you to pretend to disagree with the mission. I'll also need someone to help Z and Kat watch after Kruger in case someone comes to try and kill him as well as someone to pilot one of your Megazords as an additional precaution." Sky adds.
Sora grins "I know just the people." Sora said as the sounds of footsteps could be heard coming from two different directions.
"Okay. Time to put on a show. Make it good Sora." Sky said.
"My pleasure." Sora said and punches Sky and started to yell.
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"I stowed away on the ship along with someone else, and when we crashed Sky killed the lights giving opportunity for my friend to get Carrie off the ship while I used the disguise to take her place." Sora said and turned to the other three as she glared at the alien.
"As for you. I know exactly who you are. It took me a while, but I finally figured it out." Sora said angry as the others began to close in on their location.
"Alice and Basil were assigned to the team not long after Z left due to her situation at the time. The one who recomended then later assigned them to B Squad had to have been someone pretty high up in SPD. High enough to completly ignore other offical's concern's about the two's criminal past because they were working with them." Sora starts holding up one finger.
"Secondly the fact that this person knew Kruger's moves well enough to copy them means they had to have been someone pretty close to him, and no one is closer than a particular high ranking member of SPD as they trained with Kruger according to some old files." Sora said adding a finger.
"Third. When the ship got fired upon they were already there like they knew the route so it had to have been someone who knew the misson details." She continues holding up a third finger.
"Fourth. This person had access to the detained remaining Krybots, and the only people who have that kind of access is B Squad and high ranking SPD officals." Sora said grinning as she added a fourth.
"And fifth. What really caught my eye is the fact that this person used a Disguise device when only very few exist. I have one, B Squad was each issued one yet they can't use them as their currently being repaired after a mission they took a while back, and the last one...the last one belongs to you!" Sora said pointing to the alien.
"Supreme Commader Reid of SPD!" Sora finished as the others arrived except for Jasmine.
"...So a child is the one to figure me out." the alien says as he cloak falls revealing Reid's SPD outfit.
"Yeah, and you're not so bright. Jake and Sky knew someone in SPD would be planning something soon so they set this all up to expose you." Leo said as AV nods.
"Carrie is already telling what happened. Just give up now." AV said as Reid scoffs.
"Me the Supreme Commander of SPD give up? Never. I will deal with you, and then I will go and kill her like I did her father. No witness no crime." Reid said and then tosses his uniform revealing a complex armor on his body.
Sora frowns and glances to the other's as their morphors glow and shift to the SPD rangers "Let's go right into them guys." Sora said and the others nods.
"Unlock The Legend!" They said togehter morphing into the SPD rangers.
"SPD, Emergency!" Alice and Basil declared morphing as well before going SWAT. As they were about to fight though Reid raised his hand as if calling for something before a giant bone like creature rose up from the ground.
"Destroy this city Copy Grumm! And the rangers with it!" He ordered and the copy raised it's staff about to fire when it was hit by a blast. Approaching it was the Metal Megazord, but it appeared different now as on the shoulders and legs looked like large bike parts along with what looked like the front of a motorcycle for the cockpit. The blaster was longer and a smaller white blaster was in the other hand.
"I got this one guys. The Metal Patroller can handle it." Jasmine's voice spoke from inside as she was morphed into Omega Ranger.
"Thank's Jasmine!" Sora said as they charged at the three.
"It's Showtime!" Sora declared.
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AV and Cassie fought against Alice countering her gunfire with their own and were getting in more hits on her than she was on them.
"Ugh! Wreteched urchins! Stopping trying to destroy my beauty!" She exclaimed as Cassie rolled her eyes under her helmet.
"So her true nature finally came out huh? She's just an angry beauty queen." Cassie states and rolls out of the way.
"Yep." AV agrees firing back and hitting her knocking her away.
AV and Cassie got together "Finish it together?" Cassie asked and AV nods.
Cassie gets down on her knees preparing to fire as AV stays behind her "Take this!" Both shouted firing and it hits knocking Alice away as she was knocked back down to her base SPD form.
Meanwhile Alvin and Leo were fighting Basil who slash at them as they countered with their own blades "You two are strong. Why don't you join us?" Basil asked as he knocked them away.
"Thanks for the offer, but no." Leo said and charged again landing a few hits.
Basil laughs "You are foolish. You could have anything you ever want. So what if people get hurt?" He said and block a bunch from Leo, but Alvin came right behind hitting him.
"It matters to me. Only people who care about themselves would say and do the things you've done." Alvin said and punches him again knocking him away and this time it was strong enough to force him back to base SPD form.
Sora meanwhile had been fighting Reid and forcing him back as the others had "It's over Reid. Just come in with us quietly." Sora said as the rest of the team joined her as she glances back and notices the Copy Grumm was just destroyed by the MPM.
"Never! I will defeat you! No matter...no matter what sacrifices I must make!" He says and grabs Alice and Basil by their throats.
"W-What are you doing?!" Alice asked.
"L-Let go o-of me!" Basil demanded, but both were ignored as Reid glowed and the two screamed as they turned into red and yellow energy going into the suit which grew becoming bulkier and stronger. The two morphors fell to the ground and clattered forward near the rangers
"H-He just." Alvin sputtered in shock.
"He took them. He took their lives to make him stronger." Leo said frowning. He may not have like either of them, but what just happened was disturbing.
"Much better. With this kind of strength you can't win." Reid said as Sora frowns and glances down to the two morphors.
"Guys. You go SWAT! Were ending this...now" Sora said as she grabbed her own morphor and AV and Leo grabbed the two on the ground in understanding.
The others nod going SWAT as quick as they can and dodge a blast that came from the gems on the shoulders of the armor.
"Battlizer Morph: SPD Stage 2!" Sora declared as she changed into the Stage 2 SPD Battlizer, but she was wielding her own Longsword alongside the rest of it.
AV and Leo clicked open the morphors as a red X and green O started to flicker "Supreme Commander Reid of SPD. You are charged with murder..." AV starts.
"Illegal sales of blackmarket materials..." Leo picked up.
"And various other crimes." Sora said as red energy charged into the blade.
"How do you plead?" Alvin asked.
"Guilty or Not Guilty." Cassie states.
"You just don't get it! I am SPD! You can't judge me!" Reid said as a the the morphors settled on the red X.
"Wrong answer." Sora said as the four got into positon beside her and charged the SWAT Blasters and fired.
Sora swings both blades twice as red energy gathers to their points "Fire Drive!" She declared holding them out in front of her like a blaster and shots a large fireball the converges with the other blasts that hit Reid.
When it clears all that is left is a containment card with an alive and loud talking Reid inside it. Turning back to normal Sora goes and picks it up.
"Tale End." She declared with a smirk and looks to the others.
"So how about we get back to them? I'm sure their going to want this." She then adds.
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The group returned to Delta Base and handed the containment card to the now concious and awake Doggy Kruger after Sky and male in red explained the situation to him.
"I see. Well than you for what you've done rangers. Now though perhaps you should return to your own city." Kruger said and Jasmine nods.
"Yeah we should. It's been nice we could help, but..." Jasmine started and Kruger nods.
"I see. Well at least let Officer Tate and another take you back. It's the least I can do. If you are in need of anything just let me know." Kruger said
"We might take you up on that offer. Well i guess it's bye for now." Sora said as she and the rest left.
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Maya sighs as she relaxed and was sitting with a young man of 17 at a coffee shop "So your going to be attending Legacy Hills High this fall. That is certainly unexpected." Maya says with a smile.
"Yeah. I know I'm smart, but I actually do want to finish school at a normal pace. I love Angel Grove, but I do miss you guys." the male said as Maya smirked.
"Especially Aria right?" Maya said as the male sputters.
"N-Not fair Maya!" he said and she chuckles.
"Hey look on the bright side. You're going to be 18 soon." Maya said to him.
"Thanks for that. So how's things going over here?" he asked and Maya shrugs.
"Okay, but I think I'm close to figuring out more than a few things." Maya told him.
"I figured. I also heard from CJ...So those two are part of your team." He states and Maya nods sighing.
"We all miss her Maya, but Princess Liberty did what she did not just for us. It was also for them." the young man said.
"I know." Maya said and shakes her head.
"Maybe...maybe Lurre was right a while back. Maybe it's time I told them." Maya said as the young man raised an eyebrow.
"Tell them what specifically?" he asked.
"Everything. About my past, the gemstones, the prophecy, Princess Liberty. All of it." Maya said as the young man huffs.
"Not all of them will believe you, but if your going to do it then you better be prepared." He said and Maya nods.
"Thanks. It's been good talking to you." She said getting up as did the young man.
"Same. Well I've got to get home. Bye." He said and waves Maya returning it as she head home as well.
As she does the box she always carries glows a bright shade of red surprising Maya who then smiles "She's shown her Leadership shines through even some of the more difficult choices. Well done." She thought.
That's the end of Episode 18 and the SPD tribute chapter. Now this was a rather fun chapter to write and adapt, but their are parts that I cut as well as just doing something different for the ending as I felt that I dragged things on long enough. Maya seems like she's ready to start talking about her past to the team, and if anyone who has read a particular story they know how sensitive she is about her past. As for who it was she was meeting up with well...I will leave that to your guys speculation and let you guess. So until next time this has been Decode9!