Hey guys, I am home for Thanksgiving and ready to spend my break chilling with my folks, preparing for my final two weeks of this semester, eating pumpkin pie, and of course, writing fanfictions!
I shall start this episode by describing Po's lair. Let's just say it is a chamber within the world of Humanitors. It's kind of like the lair for the demons from Lightspeed Rescue but is much less stuffy with the main highlight being Po's throne. Often his brother and sister may drop by. Speaking of which, those two will play a huge role in this chapter.
Also, Po's new attire is similar to the robe
Anyway, enjoy.
The Sei Gate Part One
Po stood with his brother as he examined the new, black designer robe Chasm designed for him.
Po looked up at Chasm and he gave a winning smirk. "Not bad," he then frowned and he scoffed. "But I hate suede."
Chasm rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. Nothing satisfies his brother. "At least it is better than silk." He muttered
Sky approached them and spoke, feeling rather annoyed. "Are you guys done yet? We need to discuss plans to battle the Rangers!"
Chasm tried to calm his sister. "Woah, it is not like we gave up already." As he approached his sister, he stopped in his tracks as the lights flickered all over the lair, alarming the three siblings.
Po looked around curiously. "What in Kartae is going on here?"
Chasm shrugged. "I have no idea, big bro but..."
Sky's eyes widened as she pointed her finger in Po's direction. "Behind you."
Po turned and was shocked to see a figure behind him. His eyes widened at the figure, who turned out to be just another Humanitor. This monster was quite odd-looking, as his face was red and his eyes were a glowing shade of white. His hair was a dark shade of purple, and they were tied into countless dreadlocks that were long enough to reach the bottom of the subject's neck. He wore a white robe with golden buttons, and he was armed with a silver baton with a sharp edge that he can use in battle.
Po narrowed his eyes and pulled out his flute, only to reveal its terrifying weapon underneath. He only half pulled out his sword as he spoke. "How can I welcome you, Buck?"
His cousin chuckled as he started pacing around. He then spoke his voice resembling a middle-aged man with enhanced deepness. "What seems to be the issue, cousin? I am just here to say hello to my fellow friends." He glanced over at Chasm and Sky, the latter being unfazed but the former being rather petrified, shivering in his feet. "I realized you have some sort of Power Ranger problem, which explains how you have not conquered Earth, yet."
Po, feeling insulted, pulled out his sword and approached his cousin. Buck merely turned and acted surprised as Po held his sword up high, ready to strike. "What is your deal?"
Buck grinned as he stood up straight. "As your cousin, I shall pledge my allegiance to you," he spoke, bowing down to his cousin. "I shall be your servant. I spent a very long time in the deepest corners of Kartae. But thanks to a recent power surge, I have gained this type of power." He demonstrated by standing up straight as he turned his head towards a swarm of Karadracs that observed the conversation. He used his baton and laid a hard slash that traveled through the chamber and struck the Karadracs, causing them to shriek and erupt, much to the shock of all three of his cousins.
Buck smirked as he glanced back at Po. "Cousin, I will go to the human world and take care of the two little problems you have."
"Two little problems?" Po exclaimed. "I have 5!"
Buck chuckled as he shook his head, stroking his baton. "No, dear cousin. Those two twins, the Green and White Rangers. They don't know it yet, but all you need is the Power of two Gems to easily sweep through this entire planet called Earth. And I have a plan." He snickered. "It will be glorious."
Po narrowed his eyes and grunted. "Then stop yapping and get on with it. But if you fail, I shall conquer you..." he warned.
All 5 Rangers were at Karate Operations, gathering at the table for a top-level meeting. It was another Saturday, as well as the week before Thanksgiving, but before the Rangers could have off from school to spend time with their families.
Sensei Uni paces around the Rangers as he spoke, his hands behind his back. "I truly believe you kids are just as well to spend your Thanksgiving with your loved ones, however, there is a special task you shall accompany to."
Max stood up bravely. "Whatever it is, we can take it. Right guys!"
"Right!" All of them agreed, with got Uni to shake his head. He motioned Max to come near him. Max nodded and walked around the table and approached his master. Uni revealed what was behind his back a thin scroll that was already rolled up. Max gave his teacher a faithful smile and undid the sheet. Uni was kind enough to teach his students basic Japanese because the words on the scroll were written in that language.
Max could only sugar enough to realize what this meant. He looked up at Uni with a grin. "Are you saying what I think you are saying?"
Uni smiled and nodded. "The task I shall assign you and the others is to travel to the Sei Gate. You five have an appointment with my brother, who is the main keeper. He shall discuss with you about the Sacred Box, which will grant a team of whatever number of members an enhanced amount of power."
All the other Rangers stood up as Max spoke. "We won't let you down, Sensei."
Buck was accompanied by several other Karadracs as traveled through an enchanted forest. "Ah, the Sei Gate. Of course, the Rangers won't hesitate to come here in search of more power. Unknown to them, I shall cut two-fifths of their team apart, and soon they will all fall!" He cackled as he turned. He saw that the Karadracs had indeed captured Uni's brother, Hideo, a middle-aged man who was identical looking to Uni, but with a buzz cut rather than a shaved head. He was bound and gagged as two other Karadracs restrained him.
Buck's baton lit up as he transformed into a replica of Hideo. He cackled as he then teleported to the entrance of the Sei Gate.
"Karadracs, stay behind until I lure the main three Rangers!"
The foot soldiers all nodded and squealed in agreement. Buck smirked in his new disguise as the Karadracs vanished along with the real Hideo.
The Sei Gate was a somewhat large temple in the middle of the sacred forest. It was like a traditional, two-story Japanese-style house with a large, square gate securing the perimeter.
Buck, disguised as Uni's brother, walked through the gate, only to find the Rangers standing out on the porch, waiting for Hideo.
Max looked up ahead and spoke to his friends. "Hey, that guy over there looks a lot like Sensei."
Bonnie stood up from the steps and smiled. "That must be Hideo."
Buck, not wanting to spoil his disguise, folded his hands and put on a smile as he approached the Rangers, who all stood up and walked back towards him.
Max held out his hand. "Hello, you must be Hideo."
Buck smirked as he shook Max's hand. "Yes, and you must be Maxwell, the Red Ranger."
"Sure am," Max spoke. "Allow me to introduce you not some of my friends." He glanced over to his right. "These two are the Blue and White Rangers, my pal DJ and friend Bonnie." He then glanced over to his left. "And this is my friend Maya, and the boy standing to her left is Bonnie's brother, Donnie. They are the Yellow and Green Rangers, respectfully."
Buck couldn't help but snicker as he was so close to initiating his plan. Even worse for the Rangers, he knows all about their plans to obtain Ninja Mode, and he was going to prevent that from happening.
He just nodded his head and motioned the kids over to the inside of the house. "Come sit. We shall relax with some tea."
"Here are some more Serum, brother," Chasm spoke, handing a cup of some strange mixture to Po.
Po chugged the entire thing as he groaned. "Has that red-faced creep done anything yet?"
"He has accompanied the Rangers as we speak," Chasm spoke. "It's only a matter of time before he pleases us all."
Po chuckled. Buck better hope to appease the King, however, unknown to Po, Buck has bigger plans than to just work aside with Po.
The 5 Rangers sat at the round kitchen table as the newly disguised Bucks stood off to the side to make them tea. He brought out 5 cups and color-coded them to match the Rangers' respective colors, adding a strange, overwhelming potion into the Green and White cups, no doubt for both Bonnie and Donnie
After doing so, he drops the tea bags into each of the cups of hot water and lays each of them in front of the Rangers.
"Thank you," Max spoke with a smile as he received his cup.
"Much appreciated," DJ spoke as he began sipping his tea.
"Thanks," Maya spoke as she began dapping her tea bag up and down into her cup."
'Hideo' smirked as he looked up at both the twins, who were both still engaged in their random conversation about body odor as the disguised villain handed the tea over to them.
"Thank you so much," both twins spoke simultaneously with wide grins. Buck was all too excited just as both twins took their first sip. Donnie wrinkled his nose as he spoke.
"This tastes funny," he spoke.
Buck began to panic at the thought of being exposed. "Sonny, it's cultural tea, and I find it offensive that you would think that it is funny just because it is different."
Bonnie nudged Donnie's shoulder as she spoke coldly. "Yeah, Donnie, how could you be so rude?"
Donnie rubbed his shoulder as he spoke. "You are right sorry." He and his friends continued to enjoy their tea. Once they were finished, Max spoke up.
"That was delicious!"
"No doubt," Maya added.
"I'd like another cup, please," DJ spoke politely, shaking his cup. He looked over to his right and was immediately concerned as Donnie started to move his head lightly, and looked completely under the weather. Sure, Donnie may have played sick before, but those other times were just excuses he could come up with to skip training, but this was serious. His face looked heavily flushed and all sounds that came out from his mouth were just mere groans, most likely from discomfort or pain.
"Donnie, you alright," he asked, putting a hand on his shoulder. He only began to panic as the Green Ranger fell off his chair and collapsed onto the ground. His sister did the same and her head collapsed upon ton the table.
"Donnie!" DJ screamed as he got off his chair to aid his friend.
"Bonnie! Bonnie, are you alright?" Maya spoke hysterically, shaking her friend's head, but Bonnie's only response came out in slight moans.
Max spoke up and faced the man known as 'Hideo'. "What have you done to them?" He was shocked as Hideo's response came out in a psychotic laugh before he began to transform, revealing him to be the Humanitor known as Buckateer.
Max's eyes lit up, and so did DJ and Maya's as they face the monster before them. Buck only cackled as he spoke. "I'd like to challenge you Rangers in a fight, with the legendary Ninja Mode on the line."
Max and his friends backed up and put on their Karate stances. "What do you want from us?"
Maya spoke up. "I read about the guy in the Karate Archives when I was with Ellie." She glanced over at the monster and glared. "You will never get our Powers from us!"
Buck only cackled as he spoke. "Oh well, then I might as well strip two fellow Rangers from your team, a favor for Po himself. I'd be in the Garden when you need me." He laughed before popping a smoke bomb and vanishing.
Max turned and spoke. "Maya, DJ, after him! I'll watch over the twins!"
Maya and DJ spoke. "Right!" As they drifted out of the kitchen, through a dojo, and out the backdoor.
Max struggled to get Bonnie up to her feet. He glanced over and was delighted to see Donnie managed to barely get onto his own feet, but he leaned against the wall and it was clear to Max that both twins needed medical attention right away.
Meanwhile, Maya and DJ morphed as they entered the Garden. The Yellow and Blue Rangers were suddenly ambushed by several Karadracs, some of them armed with stone swords, but they were hardly a match for Rangers.
As she struck a foot soldier with her blade, Maya spoke. "Hey, where is that red-faced guy?"
DJ replied as he slashed one of Karadracs. "I don't know. You think he would turn up?"
Just then, Maya felt a huge figure charge at her. She dodged his attack and charged at him once he managed to get up on his feet.
Buck, seem to have no problem battling the Yellow ranger as he dodged over one of her attacks, before finally having enough and striking her twice with his baton. Maya cried as she collapsed onto the ground in pain.
"Maya!" DJ called out before turning his attention to Buck. "I've had it with you!" He lunged at the monster.
"Oh yeah?!" Buck teased as he open his mouth. His tongue stretched to an unbelievable length as it wrapped around DJ in mid-air. DJ landed on his feet and struggled to break free from the grasp of the mighty tongue.
Maya, seeing what was going on, pulled out her gun and lunged herself into the air, shooting blast at Buck. This caused the monster to shriek and his tongue to lose grip on DJ. Once DJ was free, Maya helped him up.
"You okay?" She asked.
DJ nodded, gripping his arm. "Yeah, better than he is going to be."
Buck got up to his feet. Maya spoke up. "You handle the Karadracs, I will deal with him."
"On it," DJ spoke as he turned and charged at the remaining Karadracs.
Max groaned in pain as he held Donnie to his right and Bonnie to his left. Both twins were heavily ill as Max tried to get them to a location where he can open up a portal and travel back to the dojo.
Max sat both twins by a tree as pure exhaustion took over his body. He panicked once he realized they were not moving and was completely unconscious. "No, no, no, no!" He spoke, lightly tapping both on their cheeks. "Guys, wake up. Wake up!"
He glanced over and gasp as Buck was getting an upper hand on Maya.
Maya aimed her bow gun at Buck. "Fire!" She spoke, firing blasts at him. But Buck leaned to his left and dodge. He opened his mouth and caught Maya with his tongue.
Maya squealed as could barely breathe. "Let me go!" She choked out.
"With pleasure," Buck spoke as his tongue began to light up, electrifying Maya. She screamed and sparks began to fly out. Once Buck reeled his tongue back into his mouth. Maya was already in pain, smoke emanating from her body. She got up back onto her feet as Buck called out. "Now you were toast!" He spoke, charging at Maya. His baton began to power up, and before Maya could do anything, he laid a hard slash upon him.
Maya was sent flying into the air, once she landed on the ground next to DJ, she had demorphed. The pain was too much for her brain to handle, and she felt the world crumble around her as a white background began to blur her vision.
"Maya!" DJ spoke. Buck cackled. DJ looked up with deadly eyes as the monster spoke.
"Now you are next!" But then, Buck heard someone call out.
"Air gush!" Buck held a forceful wind send him to the ground. He grunted as he turned and saw Max, now fully morphed glaring at him.
"Ah, Red Ranger! It is nice of you to join the party." He snickered, but just as he began walking toward Max, DJ spoke up.
"Max, get out of here! I got this!"
Max glanced over at DJ and spoke. "But DJ..."
"JUST GO!" DJ hollered. "HELP THE TWINS!"
"Oh no, you don't!" Buck called out. He raised his baton and used his capabilities to have hard lightning bolts strike upon where Max was standing. Max cried out as the bolts struck him, causing an explosion that was big enough to send him flying, causing him to demorph, just 5 feet to where Maya was.
"No, Max!" DJ cried. He knelt next to both of his friends, who were both out like lights. He stood up and faced buck.
"Now you are next!" Buck spoke. He put his baton to his sign and gather his hands to gather the raw energy around him. He managed to develop a huge, glowing ball of energy. Before DJ knew it, Buck chucked the ball to where the Blue Ranger was.
DJ screamed as the ball struck and exploded upon him, sending him back towards the ground. He demorphed and groaned in pain.
Buck cackled as he spoke. "I thought defeating the Power Rangers would be much more of a challenge. Soon, I will rule the world!" He then turned to where Donnie and Bonnie were, by a tree.
Buck teleported himself next to where Donnie and Bonnie were. DJ lifted his head as his vision began to blur, but all he managed to see what the mere glimpses of Buck picking the twins up and teleporting through a portal before the exhaustion took over and he laid his head back against the ground and was out cold.
The three Rangers, now defeated and unmorphed, laid next to one another, unconscious, in the middle of a garden. They couldn't even hear their communicators go off. Someone was trying to contact them.
"Max? Max, do you copy? This is Ellie! Max?! DJ?! Maya?! Anybody?!"
To be continued...