Special: Party Monsters

Special: Party Monsters
Centuries ago in Japan, Nighlok monsters invaded Japan, but samurai warriors defeated them with power symbols passed down from parent to child. Today the evil Nighlok have risen once again and plan to flood the Earth. Luckily a new generation of heroes stand in their way they are the Power Rangers Samurai.

On a dark and storming night where the fool moon shines bright down upon the lonely manor atop the thunder clouds a mysterious blue hand reaches for the knocker and knocks twice.

A window in the door opens as glowing white eyes peer out at the visitor and speaks, “What's the password?”

“Happy Halloween!”

“Dead on,” the doorman responds as the spiked door slides open and the monstrous visitor and his friend enter the lonely manor.

“Come on in, welcome to the Spook Easy Club.”

As the duo enter the door slams shut behind as the two Nighlok follow the large fisted Rofer into the main room where other, thought to be destroyed, Nighlok milled about, “It's our first annual Nighlok Halloween Party. Nighlok were literally dying to get invited. You buddy Madimot is here-”

“Hi ya Tooya!”

“And so are Splitface and Negatron...”

“To bad we were all destroyed by those color coded freaks the Power Rangers!” Robtish, the sword wielding master combatant grumbles as he steps away from his guild to the party Tooya.

“Some party,” Tooya says a bit disappointed before perking up as he approaches Negatron, “Hey Negatron, happy Halloween buddy.”

“Happy? How can you be happy skirt face, we're all ghosts.”

The grumbles of a figure in the shadows of a corner of the room drawing Negatron's attention, “Ah the music of misery, so anyone know who the cute little wall flower is?”

Vulpes was next to step up wit ha wide grin on his face as he pulled Vixen sulking from the shadows, “This would be my better half Vixen.”

There were a number of whistles and cat calls as Nicole was pulled into the light as Vulpes went on, “It may have cost me my life but we finally turned a Ranger to our side!”

“Get your paws off me you stupid little coward,” she growled as she pulled herself free of Vulpes grip.

Vulpes leaning into Tooya with a smirk and a whisper, “She's just bitter that the Samurai Rangers beat her so quickly!”

“I heard that!” Vixen glowered as she flexed her ears, “These things ain't just for show!” before making a wide sweep of the room, “besides it not like ANY of you did any better against the Rangers, In fact didn't I personally destroy half of you when I was human!”

“Ohhh she's feisty,” Negatron preens, a woman who was just as poisonous and barbed as him with her words was like a match made in heaven...or you know that OTHER place. “I like her.”

“Now, now!” the Western accented Dreadhead spoke next as he made his way to the main group, “we were all defeated by the Rangers, that why we are here after all, but we sure gave um a run for their fancy suits.”

“I'm sure my plan battling the Rangers was better then all of yours,” Madimot opens, “My plan was genius. That Blue Pirate was such a nuisance back then not even letting me gloat about my victory in capturing the Red Rangers Tiger Zord But I got her back when I fired my mind control attack at the Red Ranger:”

Madimot fired a blast, forcing Spoiler on the defensive as she shoved Jayden out of the way taking the full brunt.

'No!'
'Nicole!'

“Those Rangers were so concerned for their friend being hurt when they should have been more concerned about themselves!”

Spoiler Blue suddenly dropping to her knees as Jayden moves cautiously over to her, 'Nicole?'

To which she answers with Gokai Gun fire at point blank sending Jayden stumbling back as she gets back to her feet.

“She was completely under my control, my loyal puppet.”

Vixen growls.

“Then I made blue attack!”

Spoiler Blue readies her Gokai Saber and charges Samurais Green and Pink.

Quickly dodging her slashes Green meet blade with blade, trying to force Nicole to drop hers, 'Come on Nicole, snap out of it!'

She answers his pleas with Gokai gunfire at point blank in her free hand, forcing Mike to roll back and hold his side.


“I was Blue's master, and I wasn't messing around.”

Blue and Red charge each other, with Red trying to block with a symbol only for Blue to counter.

“My pet even helped me capture the Red Samurai Ranger. Things were looking up and Master Xandred praised me as he emerged from the Netherworld so I could have Red break the seal. It was a glorious day for us Nighlok.”

The rest of the Samurai, followed close by the Gokaigers, arrived at the construction yard together as Master Xandred appeared.

'Enough with the small fries,' Xandred growls, 'Madimot order the Red Ranger to break the seal. Set me free!'

“The rangers were just quaking with fear!”

'What!'
'No!'
'Impossible!'

'But of course Master Xandred,' Madimot crack his whip, 'Red, do us all a favor and break Xandred Seal.'

'Oh ah oh! And hurry, the Master is already starting to dry.' Memory! Octoroo urges.

Red draws his sword, slipping on a secret disc.

'No!'
'Jayden!'
'You can't!'

“It was the dawn of our greatest victory!” Madimot gloats, “I dare any of you to beat that story!”

“Ah ha Sansu River Punch now that's a party!” Robtish cheers as a Mooger pores him a glass, “now give me some of that.”

“And yet here to stand, dead, doesn't look like your vaunted plan payed off now does it,” Vixen chides.

“Yes, well,” Madimot coughs, “that's a given, but I got closer then anyone else here.”

“Gotta love that red water,” Negatron mad his way back from the punch bowl as he handed a glass to Vixen, “Such a barbed tongue, you're quite the girl.”

She bat it away to shatter on the ground, “What do I look like to you, some sweet little girl you can sweep off her feet with a little punch and some veiled compliments! What you think I'll just fall head over heels with you just because you brought me drink?”

Hearts floated over Negatron's head as he watched her, 'I think I'm in love.'

“Halloween!” Xandred boiled as he hulled his medicine bow to shatter against the walls as Furry warts taunted him, “This is the worst Holloween EVER!”

“Ever! Ever!”

“Shut up!”

“Master why so testes?” Octoroo wondered.

“My Nighlok monsters should be scaring humans left and right tonight but the Power Rangers have destroyed so many of them the Sansu River hasn't risen an inch!”

“They're worthless!” Xandred howls ans he slams his sword into the hull, the ship shaking from the force.

“Careful or I'll loose my candy all over the floor,” Dayu urges as she tries to find her balance.

“Oh ah oh that's just not true Master. The Sansu has already started to seep into the human world, that's definite progress.”

“It's not fast enough!”

“Oooooooh!” Dreadhead croons as he waves a jack o' lantern emblazoned with the red Ranger's symbol on it. “Come on ya all get into the Halloween spirit! Is this pumpkin I carved scarey or what! This is our night to Partaaaay!”

While Dreadhead was having fun the Mooger and Nighlok who saw the pumpkin all jumped in fright as he stalked toward Robtish, “Robtish he's going to get ya!”

“Huh?” the Nighlok swords any said obliviously as he drank his punch only to jump with a start as the pumpkin leaped into his field of vision, “Oh no, it's the Red Ranger's face!”

“Lousy Red Ranger I showed those cowpokes who was boss,” Dreadhead begins, “we had an old fashioned showdown. But as usual those goodie goodies was more interested in protecting humans than having a fight:”

Dreadhead's blast staggered Samurai Red as Blue, Green, Pink, and Yellow quickly arrived to evacuate the civilians with Blue and Green acting as a guard against Dreadhead's next attack.

“I told them to come get me.”

Samurai Red charging in first but his attacks seem to pass right through the Nighlok to no avail.

“Green came a flying and I got to swattin'”

And with his counter attack Dreadhead sends Green flying back to the others, leaving him crumpled up in pain on the ground and Pink and Yellow bend over him to see if he's alright.

'Mike!'

'Pretty colors,' Memory! Dreadhead taunts, 'ya'all come down here to give me a warm welcome?'

Pink, Yellow, and Blue charge in with their Spin Swords but much like Green before them their attacks seem to pass right through him.

'Huh?'
'This isn't good.'

“They leapt like toads and they scratched like pole cats but their swords didn't have any effect on me.”

'Ya all ain't so hot 'cause your swords ain’t got no mojo,' Memory! Dredhead taunted as once more all four Rangers attacks just passed right through him.

“They weren’t so lucky when it came to my weapon.”

Rolling away Memory! Dreadhead quickly comes up and fires his own weapon causing the Rangers to all loose grip of their Spin Swords and leaving them open to a second attack that dropped all 4 Rangers.

“I left um flat on the ground...like cow patties, he he he.”

Vixen huffs, still unimpressed, “And yet here you are, a ghost, another failure. Like everyone here.”

Dreadhead dances over to Vixen with a laugh, “They got lucky, they won't be so lucky next time!”

“Next time? Next time? Are you daft? Your a ghost! Dead! D-E-A-D DEAD their wont be a next time!”

“Now missy that's where yer wrong.”

She huffs as all the Nighlok watch the exchange.

“Ya see I've always been a ghost, but I got a trick none of you ever had, ya see I can go back to Earth when the mood suits me and the stars align just right. Heck I built the Spook Easy Club hundreds of years ago when the Samurai Rangers first defeated me. And now look, all these here Nighlok can come here instead of rotting in that dark pit like the rest of those darn fool monsters that came before.”

Vixen rose a brow.

“That my friends is how you handle the Samurai Rangers! I got um good!”

Vixen huffed, “So your a two time looser instead of a one timer like the rest of us, biiiig deal.”

Negatron continued to remain silent, hearts filling his vision as he dreamed of himself and Vixen at the unholy alter, exchanging venomous cuts as he slipped a ring on her finger.

“Ah ha ha, I love it,” Splitface laughed at the entire exchange as Antberry spoke up next.

“Ha, that's nothing! Slime is the way to make it to prime time!”

'Sansu Slime!'

Covering Nicole head to toe in the sludge and forcing her unsteadily to her feet as her clothes clinging wet and sticky to her.

“gROss!” she hisses as she swings out only to slide along Antberry slippery form.

“Sucker punch!” Antberry taunts as he brings the ax down across Nicole's chest, tearing in her clothes as sparks fly.

“I remember that,” Vulpes smirks as he drops down beside Vixen, “Thanks to Octoroo's seals and your attack Vixen's human body was cracking under the pressure letting parts of me slip out. It's because of that and Xandred's power that we were finally able to convert one of those goodie good Rangers to our side.”

Vixen huffs, “For all the good it did, my human side was able to resist long long for the Samurai Rangers to take me down.” she scowls, “I almost had um too!”

Memory! Vixen then takes out her Gokai Touch, and Red Spoiler Key, 'And this game is over...Nighlok Change!'

'Niiiiiiiilokger!'

Even her form had change, elements of the fox mixed into Red Spoiler as Nicole Immediately summoned up the Gokai Galleon Buster and loaded several keys, 'Reeeeeed Charge!'

“Their morphing didn't even save them from my next attack, I was relentless!”

Leveling the Gokai Galleon Bazoka at the Rangers Memory! Vixen fired.

'Rising Striiiiiike!'

“So you see my slime is king,” Antberry gloats.

“Yeeees I'm sure your slick but I've got the halitosis with the mostest, hehehe,” Yamiror chuckles pridefully.

Yamiror dances around Gokai Blue's twin sabers.

“My breath of a thousand onions was too much for them.”

'But in insist,' before giving Blue a face full of his toxic breath making Blue roll and demorph.

“Not even their fancy helmets could keep out the stink. I almost felt sorry for the Blue Ranger, ha. But then his friends came running in to protect him.”

Leaving Yamiror open to a series of gunfire from Gokai Green, Pink, and Rose as Joe holds his chest in pain.

“If I hadn't dried out then I would have had them all falling for me, but I gave them all a tase of my toxic stench later.”

Memory! Yamiror's attention soon drawn to a woman cradling a scared child, 'Ooooh! Wanna try my broccoli breath?' before inhaling to release his noxious fumes.

Only for Gokai Pink to intercept it, Ahim stumbling around a bit before collapsing to her knees and demorphing.

“Even the girls fell for me too, ha ha ha ha.”

“ah who are you kidding,” Antberry counters, “It's your story that stinks, slime rules.”

“Hey who want's to play a good old fashioned game of bobby for Furrywarts?” The flame themed Nighlok Hotfoot called out as he held up a Furrywart in one hand for emphasis.

“Well I'd play but I don't want to get my hair wet,” Dredhead explains, “but hey I've got another game...scream like a human, heh heh!”

“I love it!” Robtish laughs.

“I'll go first,” Dreadhead laughs as he draws in a deep breath and lets out a girly scream waving his hands dramatically for effect as the other Nighlok laugh, all save Vixen.

“Awe come on,” Vulpes pats his counterparts back, “It's Halloween get into the spirit of things.”

“Yeah you should be a pro at this, you use to be human after all.”

Vixen growls as she stands up, “Fine if it will get you all off my back.”

Before letting out an ear splitting shriek.

“Trick or treat,” A group of kids were greeted at the door of the Shiba House by the Green Samurai Ranger and gave a gasp of joy.

“Cook costume mister.”

“Thanks,” he said mechanically as he handed out candy and waves the kids off before demorphing and slinking back to the main room where the others were gathered around.

“I thought you'd be more into things Mike,” Emily says worried.

“She did what she thought was right, you know that right Mike,” Ji offered softly. “Jayden did what he had to do.”

“I know,” Mike sighs as he takes the broken Gokai Touch from the center of the table, and way from Antonio who was poking at it with some tools, “and it's not that I'm angry at you Jayden...I-I just wish there was another way.”

With another sigh Mike puts the Gokai Touch back and wanders off the others watching him with concern, Jayden's gaze shifting to Nicole's old room.

“I need some fresh air,” Mike says sadly as he slips out the front door, past a trio of kids dressed as the Green Ranger, Red Spoiler, and Gokai Silver, which only makes his heart sink more.

“Ohhhhhh,” the Nighlok Desperaino spoke as he held a light to his face, “now for a really scary story. Scary if your a Power Ranger that is. With my powers of misery I was spreading sorrow and despair though the air.”

A dark cloud begins to pour down on several civilians in the area, 'Where'd this rain come from?' only for it to end just as quickly as it appeared.

'Oh what does it matter anyway?' a business man storms off depressed as another man slumps against a sign and a woman starts to cry.
'Great the one day I don't bring an umbrella it rains. I'm dumb, dumb, dumb.'
'My hair, my day is ruined!'

Arriving on the scene is not just the five Samurai Rangers but also Marvelous and Violet, all morphed.

'Hey what is all this,' Memory! Green wonders, looking around confused, 'Everyone's so glum, it's like they have become Kevin.'

'What?!'

'Look!' Yellow says gesturing to the hovering Desperaino.

'I'll cut right to the pain,' Desperaino taunts as he lands and turns his staff on the Rangers and blasts them with an energy beam which sends them all flying and raises a cloud of smoke.

“They tried to break out their fancy discs to fight me but I wasn't about to let that happen.”

'Mia we have to use the new Discs!' Blue calls out as he takes out the Swordfish disc and gets back to his feet as Marvelous and Desperaino exchange attacks.

'Right!' Pink adds as she takes out the Beetle disc.

'No!' Memory! Desperaino howls and he fires on the rangers making Pink loose her grip of the Beetle Disc making it fly into the air. 'Wrong as rain!'

Green was on his game as he quickly leaps into the air and catches the beetle disc, Pink running over quickly to recollect it, hand out expectantly.

'Wow, good catch.'

'I got this!' Mike says slipping the beetle disc into his forest spear confidently.

'What are you doing?' Pink asks curiously.

'You idiot, I thought I taught you better!' Silver growls as she and blue run over to Green's side.

'This is no fun, I'll come back to fight when your not fighting yourselves,' Memory! Desperaino taunts as he starts to fly off.

“I didn't need mind control, I'm that scary. BOO!”

At his outburst several Nighlok jumped and Doubletone even fell over, only to quickly get back to his feet and call a Mooger a scardy cat.

“Desperaino thinks he's special but all I heard in that story is a Nighlok afraid to get his hands dirty,” Rofer chides. “Wrap your arms around my story.”

'You're about to develop a bad case of Fist-o-phobia, Ranger,' gloated Memory! Ropher as he hammered his fists into Samurai Green.

Green is sent flying and Ropher tracks him down to where he lands, standing smugly as Green struggles to stand, 'Did you have a nice flight?'

'Bring it on long arms!'

'You? Asking for it? Arms Streeeach!'

Green spin around dropping into a runners sprint as Ropher raises his arms high before plunging them into the ground. Green takes off running as Ropher's fists erupt from the ground behind him.

“I had him running for his life. He was running as fast as his little green booties could take him.”

'You should never play in traffic,' Memory! Ropher taunts as Green is forced to leap over a car coming his way, a car Ropher's fists smash into and destroy, 'but go ahead and run, you can't hide from my long distance fists.'

Green continues to run as Ropher's fists smash columns and as they chase after him, 'It's just a matter of time before I clock ya.'

Leaping from the raised platform to some boxes in a construction area Green keeps moving into an underpass, all while Ropher's fist follow after. Green tries to loose them by darting between support columns but Ropher's fist will not be stopped.

“Then he got cocky!”

'Did you miss me?' Green taunts as he comes up behind Ropher.

'Maybe. But I won't miss you this time!'

Erupting from the ground Ropher's fist surges toward Green out of his blind spot.

'Whoa!'

Luckily Red was there to intercept it, 'I got it!'

'Jayden!'

'So he stopped one punch, but I've got 2 arms!'

Breaking the stalemate Ropher pins Red to a column with one fist and knocks Green over with the force of the blow.

“Two Rangers served two knuckle sandwhiches.”

“Ha ha hilarious,” Robtish laughs as he places his hand on Antberry in joy.

Only to immediately regret it as he pulls his hand back covered in slime, “Awe gross, Antberry you slimmed me!”

Wiping it off on a passing Mooger servant Antberry laughs, “Another trick for me!”

“Gross,” the Mooger groans as he looks back to what was wiped off on him.

“So would a vile and snake tongued witch like you like to haunt up some old manner with me in the future,” Negatron purrs at Vixen as a Mooger comes over with a tray of candid worms in glasses.

“I'd rather let feral dog chew on my entrails for a thousand years then spend one evening with you, you foul mouthed, ill tempered waste of human pain and suffering,” Vixen hissed as she reached for one of the glasses.

Negatron bat it out of her hand, “Gross, what are you trying to do make yourself sick those are Candied worms!”

“Look I know you were once human but things change when your a Nighlok,” Vulpes explains as Vixen pushes to her feet just as another Mooger comes over with a tray full of live worm shot glasses.

“Mmmmm,” Negatron purrs as he takes a couple, handing one to Vixen, “Try these!”

“Trick or treat!”

Before Vixen can accept or refuse though some new guests arrived.

“Ohh more party people!”

“Mooger trick or treaters,” Doubletone muses as he looks over the quartet, “What great costumes.”

The new guests consisted of a ghost, some kind of vampire/insect, a witch with green hair and...

“What is that big guy guys suppose to be,” Doubletone paused as he looked at the tallest of the Moogers trying to suss out what the design of his cardboard box costume was supposed to be.

“Hey that's the Shiba symbol,” Ropher muses as he spies a familiar crest at the lit of the aluminum sword, “Hey I got it, he's the Samurai Megazord!”

A sheik of terror filled the room as Vixen growled and pushed to her feet.

“I'm getting some air.” Before pushing past the new guests and out the door.

“Wait for me!” Negatron shouted after.

Vulpes just rolled his shoulders with a huff, “Half humans, such weak constitutions.”

“I'm so weak,” Mike growls as he punches a tree out in the park, “I should have seen it coming, should have done something, she was our friend, our teammate!”

“There was nothing you could do.”

Mike spun around at the familiar voice in shock, “N-Nicole?”

And indeed there stood Nicole, looking as normal and healthy as ever.

Mike ran over with tears in his eyes as he wrapped his arms around her, “I-I thought we lost you for ever!” His mood quickly improving, “Though I should have know better then to think anything could keep you down, even death.”

Nicole pulled away, “It's not like that Mike.”

He paused, looking her over, curiously, “What do you mean?”

“Can't you figure it out Mike?” Nicole stood there looking lost and confused, “I was destroyed...”

It took Mike a minute but his express toned to confusion and trepidation, “You're a...”

She nodded.

And his heart sank again, “O-Oh...”

She smiled pulling him close, “You need to move on Mike, or I can't move on. I'm being called to a better place. Now I need you to let go so I can go there.”

“Y-You mean?” Tear welling in Mike's eyes.

Nicole nods, planting a soft kiss on his cheek.

“But I don't know if I can,” Mike holds his hand to his chest, “It hurts so much.”

Nicole looks thoughtful, “It pain eases in time,” a few tears falling of her own, “And you have friends to fill the void.”

“I-I guess you're right,” Mike says softly with growing confidence, “but it still hurts.”

“Give it time, a-and trust, in your friends.”

Mike smiles wiping a tear from Nicole's face, “T-Thanks Nicole...talking to you...it's just what I needed.”

“Good,” she smiled, “now head home, I'm sure the others are worried about you.”

Mike nods as he turns and walks off leaving Nicole watching with a smile, 'Thanks Nicole.'

Nicole takes a deep breath as she leans against the tree as Mike vanishes out of view, wiping the tears from her own eyes as she reverts to Jayden, the Rainbow Cloth around his neck, “I still miss you dad, but I'm trying to be a good leader like you told me.”

“Whoa!” Negatron struggled to stay up as the cloud around him shook and trembled, “A earthquake? Here?”

A series of explosions knocked him onto his back and collapsed the entry way to the Lonely Manor trapping all the other Nighlok inside as the place began to crash around them and the cloud began to fall apart, various Nighlok and Moogers falling through the growing holes in the cloud floor into the dark void below.

“Vixen?!” Negatron said confused as his skyward gaze zeroed in on the source of the chaos right before he himself fell through the dissipating cloud into the void, “What's going on?”

Vixen landed on the crumbling roof as the entire complex began to plummet, and slowly closed her eyes, “Once a Ranger, always a Ranger.”

With a long breath she vanished into the void with the cloud, the house, and everyone and thing inside, “I did say I would follow them to hell to get my vengeance, guess I kept my promise.”

A smile crept onto her features as Vixen's form fell away to reveal Nicole's, not her male counterpart but her female self, as she vanished into the void, “At least they can't hide from their fate any more in Dreadhead's limbo.”

“What!” Xandred howled as he shook the Junk by hammering his sword against the floorboards, “someone destroyed limbo! Who!?”

“Oh ah oh! We don't know!”

“So what does that mean?” Dayu asked confused.

“It means,” Camille purrs as she becomes visible, “if you ever want to see your old dead friends you better start appreciating us Rinshi more, we're your only means of bringing your Nighlok allies back from the void.”

“As Rinshi!” Xandred roars as Furrywarts taunted him, “Never!”

“Oh ah oh! I'll bet it was you who destroyed limbo!”

Xandred was boiling now, “You did what!”

“Don't be ridiculous, Rinshi are created from dead warriors, their soul pulled from the void. We can't effect limbo, never could.” Wisely Camille went invisible again, her voice fading as she slipped away, “If I had to guess though I'd say it was an inside job, or, perhaps, Dreadhead just couldn't keep up the spell forever and it failed on him when he tried to support too many Nighlok at once. If anything it just shows how fragile life is...even for ghost Nighlok...”

“Oh ah oh what do we do now? Without limbo any Nighlok we loose will be gone forever!”

“I have a headache,” Xandred growls as he takes a seat, “Dayu get me my medicine!”