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There was something different about today. Shelby knew it as soon as she woke up. Something in the air told her that today would be special, and the feeling nagged at her the entire time it took to get ready for a day at the Amber Beach Dinosaur Museum. She wondered about this as she walked to the museum and found herself lost in thought when a hand waved in front of her face.
“Hello, Earth to Shelby,” Tyler’s beaming smile came into focus and Shelby could feel her face warm.
“Hi Tyler.”
“Thinking deep thoughts?”
“It’s nothing,” a rush of shyness washed over Shelby as she made eye contact and then looked away. She could face down monsters, rampaging dinozords, even her own father’s crushing love, but put her in front of her crush…
“Are you sure? If something’s up you know you can tell me.”
“No. Nothing’s wrong. I just have this weird feeling about today,” she opened the front door to the museum and the two walked in together, “I don’t know what it is, just a feeling I guess.”
“Maybe it’s blossoming psychic powers?” the Red Ranger asked with another grin.
Shelby laughed and shook her head at how silly Tyler could be. So focused in battle, but such a kid at heart. She was about to reply when Riley came up to the two of them with a serious look on his face.
“Miss Morgan wants to see us.”
The Pink and Red Ranger shot a look at each other as they followed quickly behind Riley. However, instead of taking them down to the secret base underneath the building the Green Ranger led them to the Dino Bite Cafe. Even stranger the entire wait staff of the café was present. Shelby frowned. This must not be Ranger business.
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“Thank you all for coming,” Kendall said to the gathered staff. A tall man Shelby didn’t know stood beside her, “This is Kapena Mahelona. The Board of Directors for the museum has hired him as a consultant for the café.”
The look on Kendall’s face seemed neutral, but Shelby had aggravated the older woman enough times to know when she was bottling up her annoyance. She glanced at Tyler and was embarrassed enough to see him looking at her. He raised an eyebrow and the silent message passed between the two of them. How was this going to affect their Ranger activities?
“This shouldn’t be seen as a mark against the past performance of the Dino Bite Café,” Mr. Mahelona began, “The Board is just interested in fixing a few issues that have arisen a few times.”
“Like kitchen fires?” Riley quietly whispered somewhere behind Chase’s back. The taller boy casually shifted his weight and kicked back at the Green Ranger.
Just then Kendall’s phone went off. She looked at the screen and then quickly made eye contact with the Rangers. Clearly alien bio-signs had been detected.
“I’m so sorry Mr. Mahelona, but something has come up, and I’ll need Dig Team B to help me with….. something,” she immediately started to walk away as the Rangers filed out after her.
“But what about-?”
“We’ll have to continue this conversation later.”
Kapena stared at the quickly retreating group and sighed, “This is going to be worse than that pizza place.”
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Six set of tennis shoes pounded against the pavement as the teenagers ran passed screaming civilians. Miss Morgan had located the attack by the harbor and sent them out immediately.
“Do you think the consultant was the weird vibe you got this morning?” Tyler asked Shelby as they hurried along.
“I don’t know,” the young woman replied, “Let’s hope it was that easy and not something worse.”
Tyler nodded and pulled the group to a halt in front of a group of Vivixs and the monster of the week. This one was some sort of fisher themed demon with a trident.
“Ah, Rangers, I wondered when you would arrive. It’s time for you to sleep with the fishies!” the great beast of a monster bellowed as he leveled his two pronged polearm at them.
“I don’t think so,” Tyler declared confidently, “It’s Morphin’ time you guys! Dino Charger”
“Ready” the others called out in response.
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Ever the proper warrior, Sir Ivan was already beginning to analyze the battle to discover where they had gone wrong. Even while he struggled to rise from his spot on the ground with his fellow rangers he replayed the last few minutes in his head. The Fisherman monster, called Big Katch, was faster than expected and kicked like… well… a ship, judging by the shape of his strange boots. He along with his battalion of Vivixs had pushed the rangers back. They now found themselves twitching on the ground and surrounded by the enemy.
“Hahaha!” Big Katch boomed as he shook with glee, “You Rangers are the best haul I’ve ever brought in!”
Suddenly, a high pitched voice called out, “Titanic….. BUSTER PUNCH!”
A flash of bright light filled the area as a figure passed through the group of monsters before the rangers. Vivix flew through the air, and Big Katch was knocked back.
Their rescuer stood firm between the heroes and the monsters. Light glinted off the silver helmet and golden spaulder as the figure straightened from a battle pose.
She very gently brushed dust off of her skirt.
“The… the Silver Ranger!” Riley cried out finally rising to his feet with the others.
“It’s… a girl!” Chase said looking at the miniskirt the Ranger wore.
“She very strong” Koda remarked.
The Silver Ranger jerked her head to the side to look at the people behind her, “We will talk later. For now, “She raised her hand and suddenly made a fist, “It’s time to fight!”
The Silver Ranger charged forward and the other Rangers spread out to engage the Vivix. Ivan moved to assist their new comrade against Big Katch.
“I think you were right about today,” Tyler said to Shelby. She patted her on the shoulder and lifted his blast, “Come on, let’s go!”
“Wait is this?” the Outlaw said as he stood back up and saw the new combatant charging at him, “Another Ranger? That just means a new opportunity to net me an energem!”
“I don’t care what you’re after, brute,” the Silver Ranger replied readying her arms for a punch, “I didn’t travel across the country to watch you destroy the Power Rangers.”
A yard away from her target she suddenly launched into the air and landed a kick against Big Katch’s chest. Sir Ivan moved in beside her and sliced a crossed the monster’s side. The Silver and Gold Ranger moved together landing blows and trading positions in perfect synch as Big Katch struggled to keep up. Eventually the villain fell to his knees as the other Rangers ran up, having defeated their opponents.
“Have you had enough?” Tyler yelled.
“Ooooh! You just wait, Rangers. I’ll be back and then you’ll get ship wrecked!”
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The Rangers gathered around the Silver Ranger and bombarded her with questions.
“Where did you come from?”
“How long have you been a ranger?”
“How did you find your energem?”
“You teach me to punch like that?”
“Whoa, whoa,” the girl raised her hands to fend off the inquiries, “I just had my first battle with monsters. A moment if you please.”
A swirl of silver energy surrounded her and the ranger was suddenly replaced with a petit girl of South Asian descent.
“Hello, Power Rangers, my name is Sara Manandhar, and I am the Silver Ranger.”