Minh's Misadventure

Minh looked at the cars parked outside the Cranston Tech headquarters.

She glanced over a sleek car before moving ahead. "Maybe too much of a flex."

She rolled her eyes at the motorcycle. "Overdone."

Finally, she smiled on seeing the familiar Radbug and gave a nod of approval.


She drove the car through the cliffside, randomly pushing the buttons, thinking at least one of them would be for the flight mode.

"Come on!" She yelled in exasperation. "Why won't you fly?"

As she traversed the empty road, she saw an overturned car before her and a man waving his hands. "Help! They are after my boyfriend! That way!"

The man pointed ahead and Minh pressed the accelerator. "Hero practice won't hurt!"

She swerved the car past the man and saw a man in pink shirt trying to fight off four putties by himself with help of a tree log.

"Move! Move!" She yelled frantically and the man turned to look at her in surprise before rolling out of the way as the Radbug slammed against the golems, smashing them into globules of clay that splashed across the windshield.

"Yeah! What a mess!" She cried happily, clicking a button as the wiper cleaned the putty dirt from the windshield.

"Whoa!" She yelped as the car finally took flight and the winds blew her hair back.

She turned behind to see the couple embrace happily and waved at them before flying up through the clouds.


The junkyard wasn't hard to locate. She had been there many times with her mom and Uncle Billy to salvage the junk and keep it clean.

The city looked so peaceful from up in the skies and she gently lowered the car down in the middle of the junkyard, where the monsters lay trapped.

She parked the Radbug before hopping out of it and glared at the monsters.

"Somebody's lost!" Minotaur grunted.

She glared up at the restrained monsters.

"Hey girlie, did you take a wrong turn?" Snizzard snarked.

"You don't remember me from the cemetery?" She asked, her voice shaking with anger. "You messed with my people and your boss killed my mom!"

"We work for an intergalactic war criminal. You will need to be a lot more specific." Snizzard hissed.

"I am Minh Kwan! And you are about to face the Sabretooth Tiger!" She shouted at them, pulling out their morpher and pointing it at the monsters.

Nothing happened to her surprise.

She had saved that couple out of benevolence, no personal feelings involved because that was the right thing to do, just like taking these monsters out would make the world a better place!

"Wha- I am doing the world a favour!" She exclaimed, tapping the coin. "Work! Damn it!"

The monsters laughed seeing her frustration.

"Stop laughing, freaks!" She snapped at them, raising her morpher yet again. "Sabretooth Tiger!"

Laughter again.

"Stop laughing!" She yelled. She put her morpher back and pulled out her blade blaster and pointed it at the monsters, immediately making them stop.

"You won't dare!" Snizzard said fearfully.

"We are defenceless!" Minotaur pleaded. "Where is your honour?"

"Where was yours when you attacked and captured rangers?" She retorted, her fingers on the trigger.

"Now what do we have here?" A screech drew her attention as Rita and Scrozzle walked out from behind her.

"Another kid playing the hero!" Rita leered at her. "I tend to make that difficult! Ask your mom!"

"Rita!" She snarled, turning her blaster at her and opening fire. Scrozzle yelped, scurrying behind the witch who cackled as she rised her staff, absorbing the attack before retaliating with her own energy blast which threw Minh back and knocked the blaster out of her hands.

Minh grunted as she got up. Her eyes drifted towards her fallen blaster and she ran towards it only for another blast to destroy it.

She looked up at the witch and snarled. "If I can't blast you to nothing, I will take you down the old-fashioned way!"

Minh took a deep breath, taking the Praying Mantis Style fighting stance. She joined the forefinger and long finger in each of her hand while folding the rest. She hoisted her hands up and lifted one leg, just like she had trained so many times before.

Use your enemy's strength against them. Her mother's words whispered in her ear.

She looked at the robot, inspecting it for any weak points. Her entire body was made of hard metal. Minh's eyes drifted towards her staff… the same staff Rita uses to channel her magic. With that gone, she stood a chance.

She lunged at the witch, who dodged the attack, trying to whack her with her staff.

Minh leaned back, letting the staff rotate above her before retaliating with a kick that knocked the staff out of Rita's hands and into her own.

"NO!" Rita screeched as the young girl snapped it into two by hitting it against her leg. A wave of black magic dispersed in the air as she tossed it to the ground.

"You will pay for that, girl!" Rita snarled, charging at her, only for Minh to dodge it and kick the robot in the back, sending her rolling in the dirt.

"My queen!" Minotaur cried from above.

"You will pay for what you did to my mom!" Minh yelled, only to feel a jolt of pain force her to her knees.

Scrozzle giggled, appearing from behind her, pointing a taser at her. He pressed a button and another blast of electricity hit her, sending her flying against the Radbug.

"Valiant attempt, child but foolish nevertheless!" Rita commended, getting back on her feet. Scrozzle picked up the broken pieces of her staff and handed it back to her, which she joined together with a burst of crimson energy. "But didn't your uncles and aunts tell you that evil doesn't play fair?"

Minh tried to get back to her feet, only for the witch to swing her staff in a sweeping motion, knocking her legs and forcing her to fall back on the ground with a thud.

She winced in pain as Rita chuckled.

"Now what to do with you…" Rita pondered, as she pointed the staff at her, the ruby emblazoned in it glowing ominously.