A BETTER TEAM, PART 2.
Dick and Kal faced each other. Kal, believing it would be a piece of cake for his strength, and honestly, was somewhat justified, as it was very rare for aliens with superhuman strength to reach planet Earth; so he threw punches to the chest of the so-called Dick Grayson. Dick, surprisingly, Dick came to block a single blow, since he dodged them with great agility, as if he had already seen it coming. Kal kept hitting Dick's chest, but Dick got up and hit him with a revolving kick in the helmet. Kal threw hooks, so Dick somersaulted backwards, fleeing from Kal's blows and pulled two black sticks from his back. The sticks were black with a small red part at the end of each.
"You're good," said Dick. Dick waved his electric rods and ran towards Kal.
Dick threw himself at Kal, and being trained in hand-to-hand combat, he threw fast, swift blows at Kal, and although Kal blocked a few blows, Dick macheteled Kal again and again using his electric rods. Kal was being massacred with the accurate strokes of the supposed Red Ranger from Area B. Kal managed to capture Dick's staff, but the wand emitted electricity, causing Kal to tremble before he could release it. Dick took the opportunity and hit Kal's chest with his electric rods.
"They are electric rods, dumbie." Dick said before a weak Kal. Kal took a few seconds and threw a blow so hard that Dick blocked the blow with his poles, but by the force of the blow, Dick fell to the ground. "You're stronger than me, but nobody beats a Red Ranger," Dick said before going back to fighting him.
Diana threw blows with both hands towards Victor. Victor blocked all of Diana's blows with great tenacity and agility, almost the same as Dick's. Diana remembered her training with Major Wayne, so she kicked Victor's ribs, which was successful. Victor ran to Diana, who jumped to avoid his attack, but Victor jumped to the same height as Diana and caught her in a surprisingly strong grip that Diana could not break. Diana fell to the ground with twice the strength of Victor's weight and strength. Victor sat on top of Diana and started hitting her on the helmet, and surprisingly, he had almost the same strength as Diana. Diana managed to capture Victor's hand before he hit her again, and began to beat Victor, while doing this, Diana took out her Morpho and drew her sword. With his sword, Diana cut him in the chest, knocking Victor off of her. Diana got up and managed to hit Victor several cuts in the arms, but Victor formed a sword with his arm, something totally strange, and the match was even again.
John created metal fists with his mind and started attacking Garfield, who surprisingly did not defend himself. John took advantage of the fact that Garfield did not attack or defend himself, so he increased the number of attacks every five seconds until he got tired. Garfield, surprisingly, attacked John with superhuman strength. John created his metal fists again so he could counterattack Garfield's attacks, but without much success, he had grown tired of all his attacks on Garfield. Garfield managed to grab John by the arm and threw him several meters away from him. John got up and, knowing that Garfield was less tired, he created a machine gun with which he started firing at Garfield, and surprisingly, Garfield moved with extreme agility on all sides and even managed to hang from the wall.
Barry's speed was the only factor that allowed him to hit Koriand'r in the chest with an efficient hit. Kory would not allow a man to beat her easily, and especially to humiliate her with a swift blow to the chest. Kori hated this and started firing everywhere Barry was, but since he was fast, it was almost impossible to hit him. Barry kept distracting Kori for too long, until finally he felt it was time to attack her, so he ran to Kori and hit her on the back, Kori did not turn around, and Barry did attack her head on, but when he touched her chest, a large amount of fire began to emanate from Kori. Barry backed away and tried to flee, but Kori threw him bursts of fire at him with her hands, knocking Barry down. Putting the shot, Kori formed a large fireball and threw it at Barry, creating a huge explosion. Fortunately, Barry got up and ran around again trying to get Kori to hit the others with her fireballs.
Raven and Shayera had a more even fight than expected. Both pink Rangers were trained in hand to hand combat. Shayera attacked Raven, and curiously Raven could barely defend herself from Shayera's precise and somewhat unpredictable blows. Shayera kicked her in the chest. Raven got up and started attacking with blows, but Shayera took a big leap and hit her in the chest, knocking her to the ground. Shayera was about to give an electric shock that would give her the victory, but Raven moved her hands to Shayera, managing to lift her up and slam her to the ground.
"Do not underestimate the darkness," Raven said.
"So you're a rude girl with telekinetic powers, but you can not dodge this." Said Shayera taking a gun from her Morpho (she managed to do it because she put her Morpho behind her back) and shooting Raven.
Raven fell to the ground, and Shayera ran against her, still firing but Raven moved her hands again, but this time, a giant purple crow flew towards Shayera. Shayera stopped and shot the raven again and again, but it did not help, the raven managed to reach her, and, like a stampede, knocked down Shayera.
Diana and Victor continued their duel of swords. The fight was more equal than they thought, but Diana began to take advantage and was about to beat Victor. Victor had to admit that she was a very strong and skillful girl, but he would not let her beat him, so, when Diana was going to swing the death blow, Victor undid his sword from his hand and converted it into a big, metallic hand, with which he caught Diana's sword. As he caught Diana's sword with one hand, Victor's other hand became a cannon with which he shot Diana, throwing her several meters away.
"Do not mess with a master of technology," Victor said, mocking Diana.
Kal was being dominated by Dick. Despite having given a very good fight, his lack of skill ended up being defeated by Dick's great ability for combat. Dick hit Kal again and again on his back and chest. Kal used his last strength to grab Dick's hands and stop the electric strike. An already confident Dick, did not want to electrocute Kal, because he already saw it very pathetic to make it more humiliating. But Kal was quick to use his almost infallible attack. Kal fired his heat vision against Dick, shooting him a few meters.
The other four Rangers from Zone B went to Dick and checked to see if there was anything wrong. Something surprising is that Victor took Dick's electric rods and threw them into the sky, where they exploded.
The Rangers of Zone C gathered and waited for them to fight again, but unexpectedly, the Morphers of the Rangers of Zone C sounded.
"Rangers, get back to base," Major Wayne said.
"But commander ..." Kal said.
"Immediately," commanded the commander.
"We can win now ..." Diana said angrily.
"Get back to base now or I'll take your Morphos away!" Co-complainant Wayne yelled.
"Oh, come on," said Kal.
The Rangers of Zone C followed them. The Rangers of Zone B decided not to pursue the Rangers of Zone C, since they had "defeated" them and now they could continue the fulfillment of their master's mission.
"Flee, Power cowards," said Dick. "Now let's continue with our mission."
"Yes, sir." The four Rangers from Area B said at the same time.
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In the conference room, Major Wayne was not in sight. Since Major Wayne was not in the conference room, the Rangers did the only thing they could do, brag and blame the one who did a poor job in the battle.
"I took the Red Ranger out, which kept them from attacking each other, so you're welcome." Kal was very happy.
"I was about to beat blue, but Bruce interrupted us again." Diana said hitting the center table.
"You almost beat blue, I had green at my mercy," John said, pointing to himself, meaning "I'm better than you."
"I went crazy with the yellow one," Barry said putting his arms on Kal And Diana.
"It's not true, that girl kicked your ass," John said.
"She did not kick my ass like that little girl to Shayera," Barry said mocking a bit about Shayera.
"But I was stronger than you and everyone else. You did not resist anything. "Shayera said just as angrily as Diana, but Shayera did not hit the table.
"Of course not, I resisted more while you tried to quote, to beat the pink Ranger."
"That is not fair. She had the same power as you, but she had more strength, "Shayera said hurting John's pride.
"And she was stronger than you," John said.
"That's enough, John." Kal said.
"No, it's not enough:" John said.
This detonated the bomb and everyone started arguing. All wanted to hurt the pride of the other Rangers, to improve their wounded pride after being defeated by Rangers from another area of the country. Well, not defeated, but they were a hard blow for everyone.
Major Wayne arrived accompanied by J'onn. J'onn, as usual, had his electronic board, but this time he was a little nervous about the conversation the commander was having with his Rangers. The fear that the commander had became a reality.
"Enough, Rangers." Major Wayne said. "you did a terrible job of stopping the Rangers from Zone B."
"Because you gave us the dumbest order!" Diana said. "We could have beaten them, but you underestimated us and ordered us to leave!" She shouted, hitting the center table again.
Commander Wayne did not even flinch, but went to the screen where he played the video of his Rangers' fight against the Zone B Rangers. First they saw how the fight was very even, but then they saw how the fight was being dominated by four rangers from Zone B (Dick, Victor and Raven) and one from Zone C (John). Later they saw how Kal fired his heat vision against the electric rods, causing an explosion that almost destroyed them. Major Wayne turned to his Rangers, keeping the same neutral, cold expression.
"I thought I told you not to hurt them because they may be the Zone B Rangers, and it seems like I told you in another language," Major Wayne said. "It was wiser to take them away to avoid catastrophic damage."
"But they were overcoming us," Kal interjected. "That explosion served to calm them down."
"I do not think so, cadet. Those Rangers are more trained because they've been a team for almost three years, and you barely control their impulses, unlike the Prince cadet. "
"You underestimated us! We proved that we could face them! "Diana yelled.
"I never said you could not face them, but it was better that you did not hurt them," he said, keeping his voice neutral.
"Curious, you care more about Zone B Rangers than we do," Shayera said.
"That seem like it commander," John said.
"Hey, no offense to the commander, but it did not seem bad when the yellow Ranger blew me up in the skies," Barry agreed.
"As I said before, you have not done anything right," Major Wayne said. "But we're not here to blame someone, but if that happens, it's all my fault," Major Wayne said with great difficulty to contain his desperation and anger at his desperate and defiant Rangers. "Now, we have to beat the Rangers in Zone B, fine, and without causing them catastrophic damage."
"Can not we just ambush them and kill them?" John asked. "Not give it a bad thought, but they're not the Zone B Rangers. The Rangers would not act like that."
Commander Wayne walked and stood a few meters in front of Diana and John.
"Then you want to challenge my orders. Right? "He asked making the same cold and chilling look, that for this time, it worked on Diana (who was tired of fighting, for now), since John agreed not to challenge him. "All right. But we can not destroy them or hurt them. J'onn. "
"We found out that the Rangers they fought against are the Zone B Rangers. We used an expert scanner and compared them to the medical records of the Zone B Rangers, and yes, it's them." J'onn said with a Little explanation that even a lazy teenager could understand. "In addition, we detect a change in their brain waves, as if they were under certain mental control. Your turn, commander. "
"And there's only one person who can exercise such effective mind control, and it's not Jervis Tetch." He said for the Rangers to discard the Crazy Hat they faced a short time ago. "That man is Edward Nigma, aka the Riddler." Major Wayne said going to the table, followed by the Rangers.
"The Riddler?" Kal asked.
"Yes. Edward Nigma or Edward Nashton, aka the riddler was a Justice League technician obsessed with getting attention. When his speech got worse, he tried to become an intellectual god using a mental control device that would transfer all our knowledge to his mind, fortunately, the Zone C Rangers beat him and locked him up. Unexpectedly, he escaped almost two years ago and we did not hear from him until now. "Commander Wayne explained in detail.
"How do you know he's the one behind all this?" Diana asked, but with interest, not anger.
"Because the Riddler's henchmen always have question marks on their uniforms, which are always purple. Besides, he wants revenge against Dick Grayson. "Major Wayne said without emotion.
"But why do you maintain that the Zone B Rangers do not deserve to be finished?" Barry asked.
"Because I know Dick Grayson, when he was the blue Ranger of Zone C." Major Wayne said with a brief sigh.
"How?" The five Rangers asked at the same time.
"What? Did you think you were the only Rangers in the history of Zone C? "He asked something cheerful.
"But when did that happen?" John asked.
"More than two years ago, Dick Grayson was the Blue Ranger of Area C before he decided to move to Zone B for personal reasons along with the Rangers you just met." Major Wayne said, changing from a neutral attitude to a calm
"And you were his commander?" Shayera asked.
"Our roads crossed before," the commander replied.
"Oh yeah. This is like the typical stories of revenge against the man who overcame him and now returns to the place where it all began. This looks like the classic detective movies, do not you think? "Barry asked my cheerful, trying to keep the others calm in the conversation.
"Now what do we do?" Kal asked.
"J'onn and I are working on a device to be able to take mental control of the Rangers," Major Wayne replied. "In the meantime, you will stay here and avoid facing the Rangers until we finish the apparatus to free the Rangers."
"And what will we do while that happens?" Kal asked.
"you can train more, study the recording, take the blame, complain, yell at me or whatever, but you will not leave the base."
"Then you will let people be endangered and not send us to fight against them to prevent that from happening?" Diana asked, angry again with the commander's lack of empathy.
"Not exactly, Prince." Major Wayne replied. "Now, it would be better if you do not leave the base while we work or there will be serious consequences. Let's go J'onn. "
"That cocky and believed commander." Diana said.
"Wow, you're lucky to have survived this argument:" Barry said leaning his arm on Diana's shoulder.
"Well, Diana, we should go to the entertainment room." Kal suggested.
"Then will they sit idly by?" Diana asked as she removed Barry's arm from her shoulder. "Will they be cowards and will they just obey orders?" Diana asked almost shouting.
"We are not cowards, Diana, but the commander gave us an order, and if we have learned anything from our previous experiences with him, it is that he has tricks up his sleeve, and that he will surely punish us if we disobey him." Kal said trying not to make her angry. The other Rangers agreed with Kal.
"Hiding or sheltering is not the style of an Amazon. So, if you do not want to avoid the destruction of the city, then I will do it on my own. "Diana said.
"The commander will kill you when he knows what you did," John said.
"Do not try, Diana," said Shayera. "Please."
"Then help me," Diana said in a gentle voice, but no one responded, because of the fear they had for Major Wayne. "Well, then I'll do it all by myself," Diana said before leaving. She left the base and was determined to look for a fight to prove she was a better Ranger than the rude and rude Major Wayne thought of her. But she wanted at least, Shayera had accompanied her, but she was alone this time.
Before ending this chapter, I need to say something:
I want to dedicate this chapter to Pua Magasiva AKA Shane Clarke, the Red Wind Ranger of Power Rangers: Ninja Storm. Pua was the actor who played Shane Clarke during Ninja Storm, and was one of the best Red Rangers in the history of the series. For that reason, I believe that it should be honored with this chapter. By the way, Ninja Storm was the first season I saw from beginning to end, and I will always remember Shane with a lot of love and joy.
Rest in Peace, Pua Magasiva (1980-2019).
NEXT: A BETTER TEAM, PART 3.