Chapter Eight
Jarrod looked startled as he and Camille were both face to face with Kartras.
"So you think I was going to buy that trick so easy?" Kartras glanced at the Lion Warrior.
"Actually, I knew you wouldn't buy it," said Jarrod, "but it was worth a shot."
"I shall take energy from both of you, and perhaps I could make you both evil again instead of just destroying you two."
"Camille," Jarrod glanced at his love, "Get help!"
"But what about you, Jarrod?" Camille asked.
"Don't worry about me." Jarrod answered, "I'll hold her off while you get help!"
Camille left the chambers with little hesitation as she shown concern for the Lion Warrior.
"Get her you fools!" Kartras ordered a group of Rinshi. The Rinshi left, going after the Chameleon Warrior. Jarrod began his fight with Kartras seconds later as both warriors were evenly matched during the battle.
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Camille was fighting off against a group of Rinshi. Within minutes despite a strong holding at first, the chameleon warrior managed to beat down all of the Rinshi with ease, "This was too easy! Especially for an ex villain. Now I must get to the others so they can help Jarrod."
Camille vanished in green energy.
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RJ managed to get some of his strength back as he was face to face with Keith. He come to terms that even when the enemy has a ranger's morpher in their hands, they can take their energy from them with that morpher. The Wolf Master knew he had to get his morpher back before he ended up in worse shape.
"Give me my morpher now!" he demanded to the Dragon Warrior.
"So you're now demanding, Wolf Ranger!" Keith chuckled, "Soon as I get to draining more of your energy, you will be begging."
"I'm not the one who'll beg, Pai Zhua Masters don't beg like weaklings, and I'm no weakling."
"Well, if you really wanted your morpher so badly, why don't you just take it?"
"And I shall." RJ looked up before leaping forward and grasping the morpher which was in Keith's left hand. Both fighters struggled with the morpher for a minute. Then Keith got the upper hand and knocked RJ to the floor which caused the Dragon Warrior to chuckle.
"Laugh while you can, dragon warrior. You haven't won just yet."
RJ quickly got on his feet and glanced at Keith, and he posed, ready to continue the fight.
"My," Keith smirked, "I never met anyone who gave me such a challenge before. I could keep you alive a bit longer."
The next thing the dragon warrior knew, RJ leaped a kick which knocked him to the floor. Keith counter kicked which led to the Wolf Ranger to leap on his feet. Keith growled in anger. RJ attempted a blow which would take the morpher out of Keith's hand, but the Dragon Warrior blocked the attack, grabbed RJ by the collar and pinned him to the wall and took a bit more of his energy as purple energy absorbed from his body to Keith, "Now get this Wolf Master, I can finish you off any time I want, but my Mistress wants me to take all your energy in a slow manner so she can have it for herself!"
Keith dropped the wolf ranger as he began to become weakened by the energy drainage.
"He's telling the truth." RJ said to himself as the energy drainage began to take its toll on him.
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Jillian, Nathan and Geneva were with a group of Rinshi causing chaos and Rinshi were taking energy from nearby humans as they were walking down the streets downtown.
"This is quite interesting," Raven looked over at the Pink Ranger, "now we shall find the rangers and destroy them!"
The girls were taken aback as they were knocked to the ground by Casey's tiger spirit. They both looked up as Jillian leaped to her feet and looked to see Casey, Lily, Theo and Dominic all posed and morphed, ready to fight.
"With the strength of a Tiger, Jungle Fury Red Ranger!"
"With the stealth of a Jaguar, Jungle Fury Blue Ranger!"
"With the speed of a Cheetah, Jungle Fury Yellow Ranger!"
"With the power of a Rhino, Jungle Fury Rhino Ranger!"
"I'll take care of those rangers!" Jillian looked over at Geneva and Nathan. The Python and Griffin Warriors nodded in response, as they went to wreck havoc with the Rinshi.
"Stop!" Casey demanded. Casey launched his fight with the warriors as the other three rangers fought the Pink Ranger. Casey and Geneva were neck to neck in battle as they were duking it out. Knowing the possible outcome of the battle, Geneva got out her sabers and aimed for the Red Ranger, who dodged the attack.
"So it's a saber duel you want, well, I'll give it to you!" Casey exclaimed as he got out his weapon, "Shark Sabers!"
The battle progressed on between the two as they had their saber duel. He knocked her down, defeating her before going to Nathan.
Dominic found himself fighting the Pink Ranger as the others were knocked down. He used the Rhino Steel Blade against the Pink Ranger, but she ended up blocking the attack and absorbed some of Dominic's white energy before knocking him down, "Mistress Kartras will be so pleased to hear of this impending outcome!"
Theo was next to fight against the Pink Ranger as the Rhino Ranger took his fall. He did well striking down the pink ranger with his jungle claws, but when the blue ranger fought with his Jungle Tonfa to try and beat down the pink ranger, but his efforts were futile and she took a bit of Theo's energy, with blue energy transferring from his body into her.
"Theo!" Lily was the next to fight against Jillian as she immediately got out her weapon, "Jungle Bo!"
The Pink Ranger blocked the attack, "You really thought you were going to win so easy, girl?"
The Pink Ranger knocked down the Yellow Ranger to the ground.
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At the alleyway nearby, Master Finn, Master Swoop and James were connecting two poles to opposite sides of the alleyway.
"This is the area where we have been detecting the portal location." said Master Finn, "RJ came up with this invention for teleportation from our world to the fortress, and it was made in case of a situation like this."
"Did he tell you the correct codes to activate the system?" James asked. The shark master nodded in response as he pressed a few buttons which created a blue and purple portal in between the two poles.
"We got the portal open," Master Swoop looked at the other masters, "now we go into the Fortress of Despair and get RJ."
"And let's hope it's not too late." Master Finn said as he appeared worried for his son.
"Don't worry, Finn. RJ is strong," the bat master gently placed his hand on his friend's shoulder. Seconds later, James and the two masters entered into the portal which led them into the Fortress of Despair before the portal closed.
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"Let's end this now! We don't want to fight you!" Lily told the Pink Ranger.
"Why? Because you'll know I will win?" the Pink Ranger asked.
"No," Lily answered, "because if you were really a ranger, you'd be on our side and not on the side of evil as Kartras is!"
"Kartras is my Mistress, and she will soon rule the world! As for you rangers, it appears as if the Wolf Ranger is about to be destroyed before the rest of you!"
Casey, Dominic, Theo and Lily all were shocked hearing about this.
"What did you do?!" Casey demanded.
"Isn't it obvious?" the Pink Ranger replied, "I came by your pizza place today and I sent your friend to my fortress where he is at now! The Dragon Warrior is draining the life out of him as we speak. With the wolf ranger in his hands, I'll take care of all four of you now, and the Yellow Ranger shall be next!"
She picked up Lily and started draining energy from her. Yellow energy from transferring from her to the Pink Ranger. The yellow ranger struggled to break free, but no avail.
"Lily!" Casey cried out. Dominic growled in anger as he prepared to launch an attack.
"Hang on, Lily!" Theo rushed to his love's rescue, getting out his weapon, "Jungle Fans!"
The sudden attack from the Blue Ranger knocked the Pink Ranger to the ground and freed Lily from her clutches. Geneva tended over to her team mate, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," the Pink Ranger looked up as she was standing up, "but I think we should continue on, do you?"
"I'm in for it." Geneva nodded in agreement.
"Me too." Nathan replied, rejoining the group.
"Not for long!" Dominic decided to do something about this, "Rhino Warrior Mode!"
Casey, Lily and Theo all looked at each other. "I don't know what Dom is up to, but we should see to summon our megazords as well." Casey suggested.
Lily and Theo nodded in agreement.
"Jungle Master Megazord!"
Raven and Jillian looked to see the two Megazords ready for action.
"Hey!" Geneva whined, "They're not playing fair!"
"No kidding," Nathan scoffed.
"Don't worry about a thing," the Pink Ranger replied, "I'll take care of them!"
She blasted her pistol at the Jungle Master Megazord but the Rhino Megazord leaped in front of the blast and used its shield to knock down the Pink Ranger and the three warriors. Geneva powered down by the attack, but the pink ranger did not as she helped up her comrade, "It's not a complete loss. We still have the Wolf Ranger in our hands! Let's get out of here! Power Rangers, heed this! You have not seen the last of the Pink Ranger nor of the Dark Elite!"
In a flash of black energy, the Pink Ranger, Nathan and Geneva were gone.
The rangers powered down from their Megazords and costumes.
"They got away again!" Lily exclaimed.
"No matter." Casey assured the team, "We got the upper hand for now."
"However the Pink Ranger's has become more stronger than when we last seen her." Theo looked at the others. "And we don't even have a hint of who the Pink Ranger is behind the mask."
"On top of that, we still have to rescue RJ." said Dominic.
Seconds later, the four saw Camille appear before them, "Rangers! Jarrod's in trouble! He's at the Fortress of Despair fighting Kartras!"
"Great we're really in a bind," Dominic sighed, "not only do we have to find out the identity of the Pink Ranger, but we also have to save Jarrod and RJ."
"James and the masters are already doing their part in finding RJ," Casey said, "maybe they can help Jarrod too."
"We need to get back and think of a plan to save our friends." Theo told the others. Casey, Lily, Dominic and Camille all nodded in agreement before returning to JKP.