[FangRX]

LAST TIME ON POWER RANGERS UNLEASHED:

Dhamphin laughed as she and Furyblaze forced the Rangers out of their morphs, and she picked Demi up by the neck. “You might think you’re so tough, but you’re really not, little girl,” Dhamphin smirked, growing fangs out of her mouth.

“Don’t you dare,” April growled, trying to get up. She screamed when a wall of fire erupted around them, sucking the oxygen out of the area. “Demi…”

“No!” Demi growled, trying to get away from Dhamphin. She screamed when she felt Dhamphin plunge the fangs into her neck, feeling something enter the wound as she felt her own blood being sucked out. “AH!!”

“Demi…” Alec groaned with his last bit of strength, the fire around them dying down.

Dhamphin let go of Demi’s neck, the Yellow Ranger’s morph falling as her Key and Caller clattered to the ground. She slung Demi’s body over her shoulder, licking her lips a little more sensually then was probably needed. “Mmm…so yummy,” she said, a devilish look in her eyes. “Don’t worry, little Rangers. You’ll see her again. In a whole new light.”

As she started laughing, a black light surrounded Dhamphin and Furyblaze, taking the two higher ups in the Empire and Demi away, leaving four Rangers in the middle of the street unconscious.
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EPISODE 16: BLACK AND WHITE

April was the first to stir after the dust and smoke settled from the fire. “Demi!” she yelled, getting up and looking around. “Damn it!” She ran over to Alec and Richmond, shaking them awake. “Get up, guys! We’ve got a freaking problem!”

“Yeah, no shit,” Drake sighed, wincing as he stood up and held his ribs. “We’ve got no goddamn Red Ranger, our Yellow Ranger just got screwed up and got her blood sucked and taken away, and we’ve got our butts handed to us.”

“Well, when you put it like that,” April sighed. “We are in a bit of a suck moment, ain’t we?”

“Yeah, you can say that again,” Richmond mumbled, holding his arm and trying to stem the bleeding on his hand at the same time. He noticed April‘s look, and he shook his head weakly. “Don’t say it again.”

“Sorry,” April said, tearing a bit of her shirt and wrapping it around Richmond’s hand. “Just until we can get you back to the ship.”

“Speaking of, we need to go,” Alec said, sighing. “And then we need to find a way to get Demi back.”
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The Yellow Ranger in question was tied down while Dhamphin’s toxins took hold of her. As she screamed, tears fell hot and fast down her cheeks until her throat burned. Dhamphin stood over Demi’s thrashing body, hearing her venom taking hold.

“Excellent work, Dhamphin,” Furyblaze said, stepping into the room beside Dhamphin. “We’ve killed three of them, one of them now works for us. It is almost time to finish this war and bring the Empire’s conquest of the Inhabited Planets to an end.”

“Then what becomes of the Empire?” Dhamphin asked, her arms crossed over her chest. “What good is trying to conquer a planet if we’re using the Keys to blow it up? Like we did with the girl on Bertrasis Seven?”

“Because destruction is the way that a race cannot rise above us again,” Furyblaze admitted, looking down at Demi who had stopped thrashing. “Let her up. Help her adjust.”

“Yes, sir,” Dhamphin said, nodding her head lightly as she undid the restraints and helped Demi to sit up. “I have not yet attempted my conversion on a human before today. I will be interested to see how it worked.” Slowly but surely, Demi’s eyes opened. Instead of the usual loving brown, they were a dark and deadly red, her irises black as night. “How do you feel, young one?”

“Thirsty,” Demi growled, her voice raspy. “Thirsty for blood.”

“I will teach you,” Dhamphin said, smiling like a new mother. “Come. We will get you changed into something more our style.”

“Yes, my queen,” Demi said, getting up and shaking on her feet lightly. She steadied herself and followed Dhamphin out, the smell of blood in Furyblaze’s neck making her salivate. She turned to the fire element general, fangs drawing from her canine teeth. She went to lunge at Furyblaze, but was blocked.

“No, my love,” Dhamphin said, taking Demi’s arm in her hand lightly. “This way. I will get you something to drink very soon.”

“It burns,” the Yellow Ranger growled, her hand on her throat. “Why do you resist me from quenching this?”

“Because you need new attire first, sweet. Then you can feed,” Dhamphin said, her tone soft and motherly. “Come with me and then you may feed.”

Demi simply nodded, turning and following Dhamphin. Furyblaze scoffed, shaking his head. “Pathetic,” he mumbled, turning on his own heel and starting out of the room.

Demi, having heard what he said, felt her blood boil. She broke out of Dhamphin’s light grip, lunging at Furyblaze before sinking her fangs into his neck, his screams music to her ears. She felt the rush of blood in her throat, Furyblaze’s struggles and yells of anguish dying off as she drained him of his blood. She dropped the corpse, licking her lips sensually.

“Damn,” Dhamphin said, her eyes wide as she watched the scene unfold. “Come, my dear. Now.”

Demi simply nodded again, licking the rest of the blood from her lips before she went to Dhamphin’s side once more before being led out.
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April sighed as she patched up Richmond’s arm, Drake sitting with his shirt off and an icepack on his ribs. “I wish we knew what was going with Destiny and if Demi was ok,” she mused.

“We’ll figure it out, April,” Alec said, sighing as he threw back the last bit of his coffee. “I just hope that Demi’s ok.”

“So do I,” Drake said, putting the icepack on the table. “Though that bite she took the neck might be problematic.”

“Yeah, think so,” Richmond said. “And judging by Dhamphin’s uglier face, I’m more then willing to bet she’s a real Vampyyri, one of the most dangerous races in the Galaxy.”

“Vampyyri?” April asked. “Vampire, right?”

“Yeah. It’s where the term Vampire first came from,” Richmond said. “Legend has it that thousands of years ago, several races came from the various inhabited planets, Vampyyri being one of them. They inspired some of Earth’s greatest tales, Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Wolfman, All sorts of alien races that were the basis for a lot of fairy tales and a lot of ways to scare kids at their bedtimes. Even on my planet, my grandmother used to tell me tales of the Vamprin and Howler dup that would eat little children if they didn’t obey their elders and go to sleep on time. Scared me straight.”

“Well, Vampires here got nerfed quite a while ago,” April sighed, pulling up footage of a movie series that basically screwed the Vampire genre for years.

“Ugh, Demi made me watch those,” Alec said, covering his eyes. “Take it away!” As April canceled out the screen, the alarms rang out. “What now?”

“Looks like Dhamphin and Demi,” April said, tapping some keys. “Yep, signatures the same.” She nodded to the boys, turning the main steering wheel on the wall and setting the ship for the middle of the city. “Demi…you have to come back…”

Downtown, where apparently all monster attacks seem to occur, Dhamphin laughed as she watched Demi devour the blood of all that neared her path. “Very good, my love!” she said, clapping her hands like a mother who just taught her daughter to walk. “Now…when the Rangers get here…we end this for good.”

“You won’t be ending anything!” a voice yelled, four morphed Rangers appearing on the roof of a nearby fast food spot.

“Demi, what the hell are you wearing?” Alec asked, his eyebrow cocked under his helmet. Clad in a short skirt, fishnet leggings, a high collared/low cut top, with sleeves that were detached from the shoulders, the Rangers couldn’t believe what Demi had on.

“I will never get this image out of my head,” Drake said, blinking rapidly.

“Oh, dear God. That’s enough, boys,” April said, shaking her head--though she was also intrigued and slightly enchanted by Demi’s sexier style of dress as a Vampire.

“About time,” Dhamphin growled. “Demi, my dear, let’s show them what we can do now.”

“Yes, my Queen,” Demi said, reaching into her sleeve. She pulled out an all black Caller, similar to what she had as the Yellow Ranger, but in her other hand was a White Unleashed Key.

Dhamphin reached into her own cloak and grabbed a second all black Caller, as well as a Black Unleashed Key. “Why don’t we level the playing field?” she asked, smirking as she flipped open the Caller.

“I agree,” Demi growled.

“Darkness Change!” the two women snapped, their Ranger suits, looking strikingly similar to the main Rangers suits, but with more sharp edges as well as a blacker key and cross swords on the chest.

“Empire Black!” Demi growled.

“Empire White!” Dhamphin snarled.

“Oh, this just gets better and freaking better!” April groaned. “Now what?”

“Fight,” Drake said, his Tri-Staff in hand. “You think?”

“I think,” April said, her hand clenched around her Saber. “I’ll take Demi. You three deal with skinny, blonde, and ugly.”

“No problem,” Richmond said, nodding as he and the other men rushed forward.

Dhamphin snarled, rushing forward to meet the boys head on. “Too bad I’m not a big fan of blue, green, or silver,” she said, her black Saber in hand as she clashed with the boy’s weapons. “And by the way…I hope you don’t want my little prize back.”

“Let her go,” Alec growled, kicking Dhamphin hard in the chest.

“Don’t think so,” she growled, leaping out at the Blue Ranger.

Demi and April, meanwhile, were locked hard in their fight. Not letting up, Demi slammed her palm into April’s stomach, knocking her friend backwards. “What’s the matter, little girl?” she taunted. “Can’t stand up to the big time now that you have to fight your friend?”

“Demi, this isn’t you,” April said, getting up and tightening her grip on her weapon. “Please, look at me and come back. You’re stronger then a little bit of poison!”

“I don’t think so,” Demi growled, hitting her belt. A Key popped off into her hand, the legs flipping up. “Darkness Change.” She twisted the Key in the Caller, a black flash taking over.

ZOKATO rang out from the Caller, a black energy emitting from Demi before she changed into the leader of the Overlords, Grizzaka. Leaping towards April, Demi slashed out with the bear claws on her arms, slashing the Pink Ranger’s chest.

“Ah!” April screamed, landing on her back before popping up. As she hit her belt for a key, she looked over Demi’s changed form. “Enemy Keys? That’s really new. But, I guess it’s time to go Jungle to Jungle. Unleashed Engage!”

JUNGLE BEAST SPIRIT UNLEASHED rang out, April leapt up as the Violet Jungle Fury Ranger, the suit complete with a skirt, throwing charged blasts from the Wolf Morpher on her wrist. “Wolf Beam strike!” she snapped, the blasts slamming hard into Demi. She lunged forward again, firing several more beams to try and stop her friend. “Demi, damn it! Listen to me!”

“Go to hell,” Demi growled, taking another Key in her hand. “Darkness Change!” She twisted the Key in her Caller again, her body changing into an enemy of the Lost Galaxy Rangers, Deviot. Taking the sword from her hip, the former Yellow Ranger roared as she slashed out at April, trying to cleave her head from her shoulders. “Stand still and let my sword make friends!”

“Don’t think so, Dems!” April yelled, back flipping and taking a Key from her own belt. “Unleashed Engage!” Taking the Wolf decorated Quasar Saber from her own hip, she met her best friend again in locked combat, neither woman giving any quarter. “Demi, please! Stop this!”

From the other end of the field, Dhamphin was laughing. “You think that you can get through to her that way?!” she laughed, slashing the boys backwards and throwing Richmond to the side. “She’s too far gone. All the blood she’s ingested? Good luck trying to get her back.”

Alec stood up weakly, growling as he charged at Dhamphin with all of his strength, ramming his sword into her stomach. “Turn her back or I tear you in half,” he snarled, twisting the blade slowly, making Dhamphin scream.

“I can’t!” she yelled, managing to throw Alec off of her, wrenching his sword from her stomach. “I’m surprised, Blue Ranger. None have ever been able to stab me in the stomach before.” She threw the sword down, silver blood seeping from the wound. “Demi, my dear. Let’s retreat for now.”

Demi nodded, running over to Dhamphin. “My queen, you’re hurt,” she said, worry in her voice.

“A minor setback, my dear. An easy fix,” Dhamphin said, the two vanishing in a burst of black fire.

“Damn,” Drake coughed, unclipping his helmet. “Honestly, I think I would have rather fought Furyblaze again instead of her and Demi.”

“I think we can safely assume that Furyblaze is dead,” Richmond said, shaking his head. “You heard what she said about Demi. All the blood she’d ingested. Usually it’s Furyblaze leading the charge out of the gate, but this time, it was just Dhamphin and Demi. Not even any Golbaks or Eternaks. You notice?”

“Yeah, I did. Let’s get back to the ship and see what we can figure out,” April said, letting her morph fall before she turned away, running towards the ship to avoid letting the boys see her cry for her best friend. ”I’ve got to keep this together. I can’t let Demi go and stay with Dhamphin…it wont’ happen…”
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Across town, Destiny was still sitting in the same spot on her bench, the Red Key still in hand. “Damn it,” she mumbled, running her hand in her hair. “God, what do I do? I start fighting, I’ll get someone killed. I don’t fight, I’ll get someone killed. Ah, I wish this was easier to figure out!”

Her mind started to wander back to when they were first found and approached by Megas to be Rangers, and she couldn’t help but smile a bit.

”Are you sure we’re the right ones?” Kinu had asked, her voice barely carrying over the sounds of the computers beeping.

“Yes, Kinu Yamagura. I am sure,” Megas said, a smile in his voice. “You six are the ones that have the greatest potential in the World, and I am certain that a day may come when you all rise to your destinies.”

Adira smiled, giving her sister’s hand a squeeze. “What do you say, Des? I say we do it,” she said, looking at Destiny. “I mean, yeah, we’re all women here, but that’s going to make it more fun. No mangy boys getting in the way and causing trouble.”

Anisha laughed lightly, shaking her head. “Leave it to the open lesbian to make that point,” she said, crossing her arms. “Destiny, I say we go for it. We really don’t have much else to lose, do we?”

Destiny was still skeptical, but seeing the determination in her friends faces, she nodded. “Alright. We’re in,” she said, smirking lightly and taking the Red Morpher that Alpha handed her, strapping it to her wrist. “Now to fight the Occupation and take back our home.”

“Yeah!” the five other women cheered, nodding their heads.

“Let’s kick some ass!” Nyota smirked.

From that day on, for a year and a half, the six women Rangers fought until their dying breaths…

“Alright, I’ll think about it, Adira. You made your point,” Destiny said, snapping out of her daydream and rubbing her arms. “It’s getting cold.”

“It is almost Halloween, my dear,” a passing shop owner said. “Just a couple of days to go.”

“Oh. I didn’t realize that,” Destiny said, smiling softly.
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On the Blizkon, Dhamphin growled as she let Demi stitch her stomach, the stab wound slightly deep. “It is unfortunate that my brother Mumman is not here yet. His skills in healing would be much appreciated,” she muttered, hearing the thread being cut, soft hands being replaced by a warm wash rag. “I’ll kill that Blue Ranger for this…”

Demi’s hands stopped moving, the words Blue Ranger awakening something in the back of her mind. She shook her head, growling lightly. “Leave the Pink one for me, my Queen. I’ll bring her to see that we are the way she needs to live her immortal life.”

“Hmm…one of Furyblaze’s creations,” Dhamphin said, biting her lip in thought. She narrowed her eyes, pulling her black cloak back around her shoulders and zipping it up. “It is an option, yes. But…considering she is one of Furyblaze’s creations, I don’t know how well my venom would work on her oil.”

Demi nodded lightly, thinking. “Perhaps we attack them directly,” she mused. “The Galleon is not well protected inside.”

“And with Drancon’s newest invention in my hands, things will explode for the Rangers once and for all,” Dhamphin smirked, leading Demi towards the bridge of the Blizkon. “Drancon! We need to speak at once.”

“Of course, Dhamphin. What is it?” Drancon asked, turning from his monitor where Frakis and Faerin’s images could be seen. “We will conclude this when you arrive.” He shut off the monitor and gave his full focus to Dhamphin. “What do you want?”

“The Rapparatta.”
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Drake sighed as he sat back against the couch, rubbing his head. “This shit’s gone too far. We need three things. Help, a Red Ranger, and a freaking ten ton nuke to put the Empire out of our misery.”

“While a nuclear device would be beneficial, I don’t think the Governments of the world would let us have one,” April said, pulling a shirt down as she walked back into the room, several spots on her chest and stomach bandaged up. “Honestly, I need to isolate Demi and get her to see things the right way, breaking her out of this fucked up spell that Dhamphin’s got her in.”

“How?” Alec asked. “April, unless you didn’t see it, she’s not in her right mind at all. I don’t think that trying to talk is going to be enough to get her to see sense.”

“Then what do I do!?” April snapped, throwing her Caller at the Blue Ranger. “She’s my best friend, and then this shit keeps getting in my way and making it hard to keep my best friend right where she freaking belongs!”

Drake and Alec felt their hearts break for April, neither man knowing what to say. Richmond, having been in the storage levels under the Zords, came back up with a box in his arms. The Green Ranger noticed the tension, and he blinked slightly. “Did I miss something here?” he asked, setting the box on the table.

“Just a bit of discussion, Richmond,” Alec said, shaking his head. “What’s the box for?”

“Ah. Well, Thomas told me once that there was a weapon stored in the underbelly of the ship. I went looking for it. It’ll augment our Ranger Key powers a thousand fold, letting us tear through just about anything,” Richmond said, opening the box. “I present the Unleashed Destroyer. Five Keys go in the five slots, aim and pull the trigger.”

“Perhaps you’ll get a chance to use it,” a voice said, Dhamphin and Demi reappearing in the middle of the ship. She held her Caller and Key in hand, a trumpet like device in her other. “My dear, be a doll and let the fun begin.”

“Yes, my queen,” Demi said, taking the Rapparatta and flipping five Keys up, putting them into the five slots on the top of the weapon, bringing the smaller end to her lips. She played several long notes, the five Keys twisting on their own and being absorbed into the slots, five balls of light coming from the larger end before turning into the five Psycho Rangers. “Psychos. Destroy them.”

“Unleashed Engage!”

“Silver Shift!”

With the four Rangers morphed, they rushed headlong into the battle, meeting the five Psychos head on. Drake clashed with Red, throwing him into the bookshelves beside the dining table, slamming him backwards before driving the end of the Tri-Staff into his chest, trying to gain the upper hands again. The Red Psycho Ranger kicked Drake backwards, sending him across the galley of the ship, driving him into the wall beside the computer.

April and Psycho Pink met in the middle of the room, neither giving up an inch. April drew her Blaster and pointed it just under Psycho Pink’s chest plate, firing several rapid blasts that sent her falling backwards. As Psycho Pink popped up again, she let loose a blast of pink lightning from her eyes, hitting April hard in the chest. “Stay down, Pinky,” Psycho Pink growled, dropping her elbow into April’s stomach, a slight red spot making itself known on the pink spandex.

Psycho Black and Richmond found themselves in the kitchen, the Green Ranger using whatever he could in the small area for a weapon. Finally grabbed the dish drainer, Richmond slammed it down on Psycho Black’s head, kicking him back out of the kitchen and following up with a few well placed blasts to the chest, driving him backward again. Psycho Black ripped the remains of the wire dish drainer off of his head, launching himself forward at Richmond before tackling the Green Ranger in the stomach, driving him towards the lower levels.

“We need to get this outside!” Alec yelled, blocking a slash from Psycho Blue and Yellow. He drove his foot into Blue’s chest, throwing him into Yellow before he dove for the ground, rolling to a stop and blasting at Yellow’s knee. “Geeps! Get the teleported now!”

“No!” Demi yelled, lunging after the bird. “Get back here, you damn mech bird!” She swiped at the air, Geeps being just a bit faster as he landed hard on the transporter button, sending the Rangers and Psycho Rangers, as well as Dhamphin and Demi off of the ship and into the city. “Oh, I’m going to kill that damn parrot!”

“Get in line,” Dhamphin growled, holding her side. “End them!”

The Psycho Rangers nodded, rushing towards their counterparts. April and the boys flipped backwards, narrowly avoiding any contact at all. “Let’s change it up!” she said, hitting her belt.

“Unleashed Engage!”

“Silver Shift!”

As the four Rangers transformed again, the symbol of the Dino Thunder Rangers flashed over them, each Ranger taking one of the signature weapons of the Dino Rangers. Alec, Richmond, and April quickly combined their weapons, Drake slamming the Brachio Staff on top of the three. “Z-Rex Blaster!” they yelled.

“Ready!” Alec called, standing at the trigger. “Fire!” Launching the attack forward, the blast shaped itself like a dinosaur, slamming into the five Psycho Rangers and throwing them backwards, causing them to explode at Demi and Dhamphin’s feet. “Dhamphin, one last warning. Give her back to us now.”

“When are you going to learn that I can’t?” Dhamphin asked, laughing as she shifted into her vampire form. “Demi, destroy them!”

“Yes, my queen,” Demi growled, rushing forward and barreling through the boys, lunging at April as her fangs appeared. “April, you know you want to join me, baby. You know how much fun this is? Not ever wanting food, not sleeping, basically doing whatever you want. We can rule together.”

“I don’t do ruling, Demi!” April yelled, feeling herself get pinned down and watching as Demi straddled her waist, pinning her hands over her head and making it where she couldn’t struggle. “Please, Demi…”

“Don’t beg. It takes the fun out of it,” Demi whispered, opening her mouth and placing her fangs over the throbbing vein in Demi’s throat. Before she got a chance to plunge them in, several red tinted blasts hit her in the back, flipping her over April and making her hit her back on the cold ground. “The hell!?”

Stepping into view with a smoking blaster, Destiny came over sidewalk, a cold determination on her face. “Boys, April, you can’t do this layin’ down,” she said, taking her Key and Caller in hand.

“Destiny!” April yelled, standing up and grabbing her blaster, running over to the young woman. “You sure you can do this?”

“Positive,” Destiny said, flipping the Caller open. “Unleashed Engage!” As the morph took place, Destiny was clad in the red suit of the Unleashed Red Ranger. “Let’s turn this up. We need to stop Dhamphin. Can we restrain Demi somehow?”

With a quick change into the Green Mystic Ranger, Richmond strung Demi up to the side of a building with the power over the earth he had in that suit, changing back to his regular suit. “That should hold for a bit.”

“Good. Dhamphin! Time’s up for you,” Destiny said, holding her Saber and Blaster out, firing two shots…