[Sentai]

The Coming of Black
Three

The acrid smell of smoke filled the square, rising with the sounds of the people screaming while they ran for their lives. Buildings around them shook. Debris cracking open the instant it struck the ground. And she stepped through the running masses as though they hadn’t even existed. Her gloved hand wrapped tight around the handle of her sword, while the other slid the heavy disc around the blade. Snapping them together with an inaudible click only she felt.
One foot landed before the next during her slow walk forward. Every movement timed like an intricate dance she had done countless times before. They come from the right. Her body shifts towards the left, sidestepping the first round of Moogers with ease. Allowing her to slice through them each with a single blow. And return to her slow march forward without second thought. More leap from the right and are just as easily dispatched by the streaking black fury of her beloved Zord. The furious screech the only thing announcing her coming.
Her momentum halted at the mouth of the ruined square. Open-air restaurant’s tables and chairs overturned and ruined. Glass along an office building behind her cracked and shattered, sending particles of glass falling like snowflakes behind her. It would all be beautiful if there wasn’t a broken woman hidden in an alley. Stuck within a coma. And put there by this woman holding the sword so tight her knuckles began to glow white.
“Who are you?! I don’t remember Zandredd saying anything about a black one!” The Nighlok was another ludicrous amalgam. Imagine one of those magic eight balls you played with as a kid, only with arms and legs, made from rock, and with large bat wings. Deep down she wondered if Zandredd sent this Nighlok here as a way of weeding out the idiocy of his armies. “Hey! Are you ignoring me?!” The voice forced her from her thought and brought her firmly again into reality.
A swift upturn of her blade sent her feet rushing towards the Nighlok. One foot falling before the next, carefully shifting her weight to dodge through the gathering army of rank-and-file Moogers attempting to stop her. The purple trail of light, and sound of Moogers being destroyed, told her she didn’t need to worry. Her Zord would handle anyone trying to blindside her. Giving her a clear path towards the surprised, flailing, Nighlok trying to move from the path of her blade.
A nearby railing was all she needed. Leaping towards the steel she placed one foot on the top rung of the rail, allowing her to send herself hurtling skyward. Both hands wrapped around the handle of her sword. And had sealed her mistake.
From above her glowing blue arrows rained down just inches from her, forcing her to roll right and miss her mark. Only to watch helpless from over her shoulder while the Nighlok detonated thanks to the slash from Fire Red’s Fire Smasher weapon. Meaning above her.. Following the line of the shots, and sure enough, she saw Water Blue landing beside his leader. To the Left Sky Pink emerged from the nearby rubble, from the right Earth Yellow, leaving only Forest Green and Light Gold appearing before her.
How sweet. She wondered how long before.. “You aren’t escaping this time!” There it was. Another demand from Fire Red, such a good leader he was, so forceful. Such an idiot. Her beloved Folding Batzord began as she planned. Swirling around her, beginning at her ankles, and rising along her body. Covering her in a black haze emitted from within his wings. “Hey, that’s cheating!” That would be Gold whining. But he wasn’t her first target, that honor belonged to Wind Pink. Stepping from the clouds she kept her body low and aimed her blade towards her spinsword. Smiling beneath her helmet when she heard the crack of the power disc knowing she had damaged the already weakened weapon. A quick fist to her stomach would send her toppling to her knees, and out of the fight. For now.
Pressing her feet firm she leapt herself backward narrowly avoiding an assault from Earth Yellow. Distracting her from seeing the Batzord slicing through her disc using his razor sharp wingtips. She to was out. The others began coming from every direction at once. But she was prepared. The call of lion above them distracted them nicely when all their Zords descended from on high and began striking their former friends. Allowing her to take them one by one. Gold and Green fell with swift strikes from her blade, while Blue fell soon as his dragon snapped through his disc. Leaving her standing face to face with the one she knew would be trouble. Fire Red.
“We can fix our discs, all you did was buy yourself time…” Beneath her helmet she gave a cold laugh, and shook her head towards the younger man. “If I wanted your powers destroyed I would’ve done it. But you’ll be out of my way for the next few days while you repair your discs.. That’s enough for me, Boy.”
Jayden continued keeping his cool. While they slowly rounded each other, him shouldering his Smasher against his right side, while she held her sword low. Both hands grasping tight around the handle. “We found the woman you hurt..” A small cant of her head before answering. “And? Sooner they learn not to deal with Nighlok, sooner I stop punishing them… that simple.” “.. Nothing is ever that simple…” She gave him another emotionless laugh. “You’ll learn about the world soon enough, Boy.”

And the Final Fight began.

To Be Concluded.