Chapter 126 Doubting Red

Even though football tryouts are way over.. The guys on the team have been informed of something new.. It seems that a coach from a semi pro football team is coming to Terra Falls High school to observe the school's football team and to invite those he thinks are most suitable to join his semi pro team.. In the locker room, the guys are all in their football uniforms.. They just came from outside of practice.. One guy, his name is Dylan Olson spots Ryan sitting on the bench closest to his locker and looking very timid like. The reason why is simple.. Ryan wants to join the semi pro football team but he feels like he won't be good enough to be accepted.. And that is because his last few games weren't up to par. Dylan is 17 years old, he has short dark hair, brown eyes and a very strong muscular build, he's also Caucasian with a mixture of African descend. He goes over to Ryan and asks him.

Dylan-Hey man you worried about that coach coming to see us?

Ryan looks up at him and responds.

Ryan-Nah.

Dylan-Why not? It's going to be murder because we all want to get picked.

Ryan-It probably won't be as bad as you're making it seem.

Dylan-I hope I get picked. I really do.. It would be so cool. Then maybe when I'm done with the semi pro team I'll go off on a pro team.

Ryan-Wishful thinking dude..

Dylan-Wishful thinking never hurt anyone.

Ryan-I know.

By the way Ryan has already gotten his car out of the repair shop again.. It's looking better than before.. He hopes nothing else happens that will once again make him take his car right back to be repaired.

The day moves on.. Underground, Queen Minerva sits on her throne.. She summons Princess Andromeda but she doesn't get a response. She asks the rest of her evil court a question.

Queen Minerva-Where is Andromeda?!

No one knows, they all respond telling her they don't know.

Queen Minerva-No one knows at all!

She growls.

Myanthor stands before the Queen and speaks.

Myanthor-Perhaps we should look for her?

Queen Minerva-If she's gone then she can stay where she is! We have more important things to do!

Myanthor-Yes Queen Minerva.

She orders everyone in her presence.

Queen Minerva-CONTEMPLATE! THINK OF AN IDEA! AND IT BETTER BE WORTH MY TIME!

Everyone becomes startled and do as they are commanded.

The end of the school day has arrived.. Nakia, Zelda and Kimberly are outside of the school building waiting for Ryan.. Nakia has on a yellow blouse that buttons up, a pair of blue jeans, and white tennis shoes. Zelda is wearing a pink dress with a nice white shirt and low heel pink shoes. Kimberly has on blue jean shorts, a white tank top and black sandals. Eventually Ryan shows up.. He walks out of the front door entrance and he has on now a red shirt, black jeans, and white sneakers. Nakia notices him looking a little down.. She puts her arm over his shoulder and asks.

Nakia-Are you okay hon.?

He responds meekly.

Ryan-Yeah I guess so.

Nakia-That's not a very reassuring answer.

Ryan-I'm just a little worried about some coach coming here in a few days.

Nakia-Coach for what?

Ryan-A semi pro football team. After high school if I'm accepted I could go play for them.

Nakia-That's really nice.

Kimberly adds.

Kimberly-And you're nervous you won't make it?

Ryan-Yeah.. This would be a dream come true for a guy like me.

Nakia asks playfully.

Nakia-I thought I was your dream come true.

Ryan smiles and says.

Ryan-You are babe. But I'm talking football.

Nakia-I know.. I know..

Ryan-I just hope I don't do a sloppy job when he shows up. I'm really having serious doubts. Like I'm not strong enough or good enough

Nakia-I'm really positive you'll be fine.

Zelda-Yeah Ryan, don't be so down.

Ryan-Hmmm.

Queen Minerva's crystal ball has shown her Ryan talking to Nakia and the others. She smirks as an idea slowly makes its way to her mind.

Queen Minerva-So, the Red Ranger is having doubts about his performance is he.

She chuckles and says to the rest of her court.

Queen Minerva-You foolish idiots! Enough contemplating! I have already thought of another idea.

She looks deeper into the crystal ball and says to herself.

Queen Minerva-I know the perfect being that will make the Red Ranger doubt himself a lot more, and at the same time collect his and the other's energy! Hahaha!

At the weather station.. Jeremy has put the power cell Lightwing made into a jar.. He watches over it for a few minutes till he gets tired of hear the radiating sound of Princess Andromeda's voice coming from it.

Nakia and the others gets into Ryan's car.. When he set himself down in the seat, Nakia becomes more worried about him because he's acting all sluggish and sad.. So she comes up with an idea she hopes he'll like. He closes the drivers side door and puts the keys into the ignition as she says.

Nakia-Hey Ryan. How about we..

She looks at Zelda and Kimberly, then back at Ryan..

Nakia-Challenging you to play football?

Ryan looks at her and then the other two.. They exclaim.

Zelda-Yeah!

Kimberly-Come on, we know you're tough.

Ryan laughs.

Ryan-Me playing football with a bunch of girls?

Nakia-Yeah so what? You agree?

Ryan scoffs.

Ryan-Nah.

Nakia adds tauntingly.

Nakia-What you scared we'll beat you?

Ryan laughs again.. He finally gives in.

Ryan-Fine. I'll play football with you all.

Nakia-Good.

She looks back at Zelda and Kimberly, they all give a thumbs up because they know what Nakia is trying to do.

Nakia-First let us change into something more sporting.

Ryan-Of course.

He starts up the car then drives away from the parking lot..

Back to Queen Minerva, a very muscular looking white color beast with an ugly mean face, sharp fanged teeth, glowing reddish eyes and wearing a torn football uniform that doesn't really look like it was made from any kind of fabric on earth stands before her holding a neon colored red football.. She says to him.

Queen Minerva-Muscularr. Welcome. I see you have your energy stealing football with you. Excellent because you're going to need it.

Muscularr speaks in a very heavy deep tone.

Muscularr-I'm just so glad to be here Queen Minerva.

Queen Minerva-Of course you are. Now get to the surface and make trouble for those Power Rangers. But focus your attention on the Red Ranger mostly. You know who the Rangers are.

Muscularr-I sure do. I know they've been making trouble for you for a while now.

Queen Minerva-Exactly, so do your thing and don't make a mistake.

Muscularr-I won't.

He spins around into a very intense explosive disappearance.

About an hour later, Ryan, Nakia, Zelda and Kimberly all go over to Fayne's Park which is really huge.. In fact it's the perfect place to play football. After dropping off everyone at their homes, Ryan waited till they were ready to be picked up again, he still thinks its kind of funny to know they actually want to play football with him. By the way, everyone except for Ryan has changed clothes. Nakia is wearing a pair of blue jean shorts and a white and yellow colored t shirt, Zelda has on a pair of pink shorts, a white top and white sneakers.. Kimberly has on a light blue jean shorts that apparently were accidentally bleached, a short white t shirt and white comforter shoes. Ryan has on what he wore earlier as mentioned before.. Anyway he parks and they get out of the car.. Ryan has his personal football in hand.. They look over and see a few guys already playing football.

The girls all act really tough like.. Like the guys on a football team.. Ryan laughs.

Ryan-Man, you girls are silly.

Nakia puts her arm over his shoulder and says.

Nakia-Oh yeah? Let's go then.. Let's play some football!

Zelda slaps her hands together for a second when she says.

Zelda-YEAH!

Kimberly-Let's play and win!

They get to the a part of the large green field.. Ryan holds up his football and shouts out.

Ryan-Allright, spread out.

They do just that.. Ryan says now.

Ryan-Allright.. I'll explain a few things about football first.

Nakia-We already know.. Its touch or tackle..

Ryan-I'm going with touch football hon.

Nakia-No way! Come on play tackle!

Zelda-Yeah, tackle!

Kimberly-Don't be scared now Ryan.

He laughs again.

Ryan-Are you serious?

Nakia-Yeah we're serious! Tackle football baby!

Ryan laughs again for a second.

Nakia-Come on, throw it!

Ryan-Hold on a second. So it's you three against me right?

Zelda-Yep.

Ryan-All right. So since I have the football you have got to try to stop me from getting over there.. My end zone.

He points over towards the direction of where the other guys are which is quite a distance away.

Ryan-And this area over here where we're standing is your end zone.

Nakia-It is?

Ryan-Yeah.

Zelda-And when the ball is on our end zone that means if it hit's the ground it's a touch down?

Ryan-Exactly.

Nakia-Cool.

Quickly Nakia snatches the ball from Ryan and starts running.. He exclaims playfully and chases her.

Ryan-HEY!

Nakia is laughing triumphantly as soon as she slams the ball down to the ground..

Nakia-WHOO HOO! TOUCH DOWN BABY!

Ryan stops running and lets out another laugh..

Ryan-Oh man.. You're good Nakia.

Nakia-Hehehe.

Ryan-It's a good thing I'm in love with you.

He walks closer to her as she picks up the ball.

Nakia-Why's that?

Ryan-Because I wouldn't be so calm..

Nakia-Oh yeah?

Ryan-Yeah..

He gives her a kiss on the lips and takes the football quickly.. He then takes off running towards the other side.. Nakia exclaims.

Nakia-HEY!

She smirks and says to Zelda and Kimberly.

Nakia-Stop him! Defense, defense, TACKLE HIM!

Nakia starts running just when Zelda and Kimberly try to bring Ryan down.. But his strength proves to be much stronger, he breaks free from both of them and rushes over to his end zone. When he gets there, he slams the football down and says with happiness.

Ryan-Oh yeah, yeah, yeah! I did it! TOUCH DOWN BABY! HAHAHA!

They all laugh together.. But the laughing stops when Ryan leans down to get the football.. He then notices a spiky foot down by the ball.. That spiky foot kicks the ball with full force..

Ryan-Hey!

He looks up and sees the hideous monstrous beast Muscularr. He now stands up and prepares to fight.

The kicked football ends up hitting Nakia, Zelda and Kimberly all together fiercely, they groan out and fall quickly.

Nakia, Zelda and Kimberly-UUNNHH!

Muscularr and Ryan start fighting.

Nakia groans out and looks up at them.

Nakia-Ughh! Man that hurt..

Kimberly adds.

Kimberly-A lot. Ugh!

Muscularr punches Ryan in his stomach really hard.. He clutches it and moans out in sheer pain..

Ryan-Ugghh!

The monster then kicks Ryan in his face which sends him up in mid air.. He falls to the ground like a dead fly.

Ryan-Ohh man, what strength!

Muscularr turns to the guys who really didn't notice anything till he throws his football at them.. It lands in the center of the guys.. They becomes puzzled by its looks, but that soon disappears, and so their energies. The warped football has taken all of their life force energies, therefore leaving the guys looking like gray blurs that fall to the ground. Nakia screams out.

Nakia-NO!

Zelda-We have got to transform now!

They get up and help Ryan back on his feet.. He's looking very upset and very irritated. The girls stand next to him as he materializes his morpher.. They do the same..

Ryan-Game's over. It's time to get to work!

Nakia, Zelda and Kimberly-Right!

They all swing their arms around once as Ryan shouts out.

Ryan-IT'S MORPHIN TIME!

Now, touching the color coded stars right under their storm symbols on their morphers, they shout out one by one.

Ryan-RED STAR, FIRESTORM POWER, NOW!

Nakia-YELLOW STAR, LIGHTNING STORM POWER, NOW!

Zelda-PINK STAR, WINDSTORM POWER, NOW!

Kimberly-WHITE STAR, SNOWSTORM POWER, NOW!

Their morphers produce a blinding flash of light.. Which has now taken us to an essence of the Universe.

Quickly and very sudden, a large red star appears twirling within the essence, when it stops, a burst of fiery flames breaks the red star into red energy comes together to form into the Red Star Storm Power Ranger. There he stands with his suit glowing and flashing with the color of red as he leaps up and twists his body around.. When he lands back onto the floor of the essence, he commences on by doing a couple of back flips. And finally when the power phase is complete, he lands on his feet which sounds a blazing fire storm and causes an image of flames to appear.

Next, a large yellow star appears twirling within the essence, when it stops, a fierce band of yellow lightning bolts strike the yellow star and completely breaks it into yellow energy that comes together and forms into the Yellow Star Storm Power Ranger. There she stands with her suit glowing and flashing with the color of yellow as she leaps up and twists her body around.. When she lands back onto the floor of the essence, she commences on by doing a couple of back flips. And finally when the power phase is complete, she lands on her feet which sounds a thunder clap and causes an image of fierce lightning bolts to appear..

Next, a large pink star appears twirling within the essence, when it stops, a breeze of powerful winds rip the star to pieces of pink energy that comes together and forms into the Pink Star Storm Power Ranger. She stands bravely as her suit glows and flashes with the color of pink. Now, leaping up and twisting her body around, when she lands she continues on by doing a couple of back flips. And when the final power phase is complete, she lands on her feet which sounds a screeching power wind and causes an image of the powerful elemental wind force to appear.

And last but not least, a large white star appears twirling within the essence, when it freezes, a high force of snow tears the star completely apart therefore the pieces form into white energy that comes together and transforms into the White Star Storm Power Ranger. She stands with determination as her body suit sets off a glow and flashes with the color of white. Now she end up leaping upward and twisting her body around, when she lands she continues on by doing back flips. Finally when her transformation phase is finished, she lands on her feet she sounds a snarling snow force and causes an image of a beautiful snow storm to appear.

Another flash takes us back to the scene.. The Yellow Ranger quickly uses her communicator to contact Jeremy.. He responds.

Jeremy-Don't worry. Already know what's going on.. The other Rangers are on their way.

Yellow Ranger-Great, thanks.

She turns off her communicator. Seconds later, the Blue and Black Rangers flip into action. They land next to their friends.

The monster turns back to the Rangers and smirks.. He says.

Muscularr-I'm gonna wipe you off the face of this planet Rangers! Startin with you..

He points at the Red Ranger.

Muscularr-Red Ranger! Cuz we all know how weak you are!

Red Ranger-Say what?!

Muscularr-You heard me!

Pink Ranger-Let's get him.

White Ranger-Right!

The Red Ranger stops them before they can do anything.

Red Ranger-No! You stay back.. I'll take this freak!

The Yellow Ranger protests.

Yellow Ranger-What? Ryan no! We're a team. We'll all handle the monster.

Red Ranger-No! I said stay back!

The intensity of his words startle the others.

The Red Ranger says to Muscularr.

Red Ranger-Bring it on.. Its you I'll wipe off the face of this planet!

Muscularr-Ooooh tough words from a has been!

Red Ranger-I'll show you who's a has been!

The Red Ranger charges at Muscularr.. He tackles him and tries to bring him down, but his strength isn't enough.. Muscularr kicks him away like yesterday's garbage.. Again the Red Ranger charges and pushes forward both of his gloved hands in the shape of fists.. The monster catches both of his fists and starts to bring on a crushing feeling..

Red Ranger-UUGHH!

Muscularr-Give it up, wimp! You're finished!

Red Ranger-No.. I'm not! And I'm no wimp!

The Red Ranger lifts up his lower body while the monster still has a grip on his fists. His boots start to flare with red power as he says.

Red Ranger-DOUBLE FLAMING POWER KICK!

He gives the monster a double kick to his face.. The monster screams out and lets go of the Red Ranger's fists.. When he's free he sighs..

However, the monster's face has become enflamed. He's screaming out in complete agony because the flames are really hurting him.

When the monster manages to put out the flames.. He looks up to see the Yellow and Pink Rangers up in the air.. Their weapons are powered up.. The Pink Ranger throws her wind javelins at the monster just when the Yellow Ranger releases a triple lightning arrow at him.. The crashing impact causes his body to surge out a bit.. Next, the White and Black Rangers are up in the air.. They strike him fiercely with a double kick..

Muscularr-UGGH!

When all four Rangers land, the Blue Ranger starts up his ultimate attack.

The Blue Ranger creates a blue essence.. He stands within the essence as a large beautiful blue sparkling tidal wave appears right behind him.. The Blue Ranger's gloved hands begin to glow and take control of the powerful tidal wave.. He then directs it toward Muscularr as he says loudly.

Blue Ranger-TIDAL WAVE VORTEX!

The tidal wave splashes down onto the monster with tremendous force.. While the monster is inside of the wave, the power stings and strikes him, it is also spun around very quickly inside till the tidal wave completely disappears.. The monster is now found totally disoriented.. It falls to its knees slightly, soon after it vows revenge and disappears. The Pink Ranger destroys the warped football with her star laser pistol, therefore all of the stolen energy returns to their rightful owners. After they wake up, the Pink Ranger tells them they have to get away from the park.. They obey.. She then regroups with her friends.

The others look at the Red Ranger.. He pounds his fist into the ground with furiousness.. The Yellow Ranger goes over to him and says.

Yellow Ranger-Ryan what's wrong?

He says nothing.. Then after about two minutes of silence, he speaks.

Red Ranger-I'm weak.

Yellow Ranger-What are you talking about? You're not weak!

Red Ranger-Yes I am. I couldn't beat that monster without my powers!

Yellow Ranger-Of course not. None of us wouldn't of been able to either.

Red Ranger-You don't understand!

Yellow Ranger-Then explain it to me!

Red Ranger-All I know is. I've got to think of a way for me to be stronger!

Yellow Ranger-Ryan..

He raises his arm upward and causes his Ranger suit to sparkle a bright red.. The redness soon forms into a beam of streaking light that moves upward into the sky and disappears.

The Yellow Ranger sighs.. The White Ranger walks over to her and says.

White Ranger-I think this whole football thing is really getting to him. He feels weak because of the monster, and because he thinks he's not going to make the semi pro team.

Yellow Ranger-I know. I just wish he wasn't so doubtful about himself. I have to help him out of this trance.. I love him.

White Ranger-I know Nakia..

The Yellow Ranger says to herself.

Yellow Ranger-Ohh Ryan..

Meanwhile, back at evil's base.. Queen Minerva becomes highly upset at Muscularr.. She says to him seriously yet calmly.

Queen Minerva-You first performance was less than commendable. I thought you were worthy!

Muscularr-Please give me one more chance. I'll defeat the Rangers..

Queen Minerva-You had better hope your words mean truth Muscularr. You have one more chance. So don't waste it!

Muscularr-I won't Queen Minerva.

Everything fades to black..