As Lexie got into the city, she was sad about having to drive a little more like a normal person. She doubted that being a Power Ranger would get her out of a speeding ticket. What would she say anyway? 'Sorry officer, but this is a matter of grave an galactic danger'? Yeah right.

Lexie pulled up last, making sure her Audi didn't block in any of the other SSVs in case they needed to pull out quickly. When she got out, she noticed that Geoff and some of the others had already engaged the suspects in a conversation. Lexie eyed them carefully, not even trying to hide it. Both the girl and the boy looked just as average as she did. Alright, well maybe the boy didn't. Maybe he was the only bad guy, and she was just a innocent bystander? Lexie was not someone just jump to conclusions about a person, so making snap judgements wasn't really her thing. Good thing they had a leader to do that.

Realizing she had let her mind wander, Lexie took a few steps so she was up with Geoff, Frank and Ryo. "I'm surprised it's Frank drooling over our new friend, and not you." she joked to Ryo. Her tone was light and playful, her whisper soft so the supposed "villains" couldn't hear.

Geoff rolled his eyes at Ryo, "What do you think I'm doing? I already had to hold off Keiko from going Kamikaze." He looked over at Frank noting the drool was still strong on his lips... he would definitely get punished for that later. The team was all here, and Lexie's comment helped to lighten the mood a little bit, but it was still very tense. It would all come down to who was quicker on the draw... who would be the first one to make a mistake. So far he wasn't sure if some of his teammates were capable of holding off the fisticuffs.

"Everyone make sure your Spectrum-Tooths are in place," he said in a low tone. "If they start something, we need to be ready to transform pretty quickly." His gaze turned back to the woman standing in front of him. What did she have in mind for them? What did her friend want to do to them? Hopefully these questions would get answered soon...

((Yes, that's right, I just named the devices Spectrum-Tooths. Kinda like Blue Tooths, but cooler ))

"okay!" Keiko replied as she revealed it and placed it on her ear. She sees Lexie and Ryo appear and moves closer to them after she placed the device in her ear. "Guys, even though I am stating the obvious here.... just listen to Geoff!" she informed making her sounding more stupid than people think she is. She She gazed at the man with the woman, he looked like a wrestler and less like her father... that was a good thing...

(the Spectrum-Tooths look like a polished smoother tooth on it's side right?)

TJ smirked as the woman approaching them was hot, but he didn't say anything for he noticed the guy behind her and he looked plain disturbed. Tamya was defensive from the start, she was ready to whip this chicks butt and get everything over with but she smiled as Lexie came up and lightened the mood once again.

TJ made sure his spectrum-tooth was ready to go should he need it as did Tamya. He kept his eye on the guy but never truly took his eye off the girl.

Keiko noticed a sudden difference of TJ's smile she knew people's emotions through her various live performances. That smile was a smirk she was sure of it she looked at the woman approaching them and figured there was a connection between TJ and the woman. She has definately been there before. She sighed and jumps to wards Tamya. She looked at Tamya's eyes they were confident and defensive in a way.

Keiko hummed a few melodies to let the time fly by.

In an attempt to continue to convince the Ranger, though it would appear as if they already knew otherwise, that her and Delen were just innocent bystanders, Staritix offered a hand out to Geoff, the leader. Her warm smile remained plastered on her lips, her mouth starting to open as she was about to speak. But before any noise could escape Delen, for whatever reason, decided to jump ship and started up the hoverboard, zipping away from the city and leaving Staritix stranded.

A frown briefly appeared on her face. Figures, she thought to herself, Delen ditches me at his earliest convience... probably to try and get rid of me. Before she could lose herself in her thoughts, she put a light expression on her face and in her eyes and offered a wave to the departing Delen. "I'll see you later, Ryan!" She shouted to him, even though she was sure he would be out of hearing range.

The NegaBot looked back to Geoff, a sheepish grin on her lips now. "Friends can be so fickle sometimes," she told him with a smirk. Staritix didn't pay much attention to the others in the group, she knew that if she could gain the trust, or at least acceptance of the leader, the rest would fall in line.

"I'm Star, by the way."

Ryo flinched at Delen's sudden departure. He turned to Geoff and gave him a light nudge to get his attention. "I can still go after him," he whispered. He would hate for one of their targets to escape. After all, this was only their second mission... unless the last one counted as training or a test. "We can't just let him get away, right?"

Geoff seemed a bit distracted when the second guy flew off. If not for Ryo's nudge, he would have totally missed it, seeing as though the girl, apparently named Star, was making a very strong attempt to pass off as normal. He hadn't known Cranston for very long, but he had to put faith into the man's technology. In this case, the technology said this woman was a danger to the city, and he couldn't fall for any tricks.

"Sorry," he said as he rose his hand to refuse her greeting. "I'm afraid I can't believe you. I've got too many people telling me otherwise." He turned to Ryo. "We'll let him go for now. No telling what this one has in store for us."

Meanwhile Frank was sobering up from his day dream and becoming much more serious in the matter. "Wonder what she's got hiding up her sleeve." He could see a glint of something in Star's eyes and it wasn't a good thing. He had to be ready to fight her and protect their leader at all costs...

Star arched her brow at Geoff as he rejected her faux attempt to befriend him. She placed a hurt expression briefly on her face before she pulled her arm away and let it rest back at her side. The machine disguised as a human gave a small shrug of her shoulders and started to back away from the group. She hadn't been built for real combat and they definitley out numbered her, she needed to get away and think of a new stratedgy.

"Well then... It was nice to meet you all but I've got some shopping to get to," she told them. A lie, of course but she couldn't take them all on by herself. She silently cursed Delen for abandoning her and turned to head off, hoping to get out of the area as quickly as her two legs would carry her.

"She was strange..." Keiko said "No way would a woman would walk away like that after a hurtful comment." she crossed her arms and tapped her right foot "Something is not right here..." she walked over to Geoff and grabbed his arm "So what are gonna do now Geoff-kun'" she asked in a cheery tone "Those two were a lil' scary to be honest..." she said softly "I'm worried for all of us... and it's our first day... am I meant to be worried?"

Geoff's head was spinning at all the recent events... but what seemed to get to him the most was the unwillingness of this woman to fight them, despite there being an alert to take them out. He had to question Cranston's credibility.

"Doc," said Geoff into his Spectrum-Tooth. "What's the idea? This girl looks and acts like any regular human being. She's not even putting up any sort of fight."

"Geoff," replied Cranston. "You cannot allow her to get away. I was analyzing her from here, she's using a disguise to put you off. If she gets any information back to Askel about the planet, there's not telling what he'll end up doing. You have to stop her now!"

Geoff didn't like the sound of that, then again the disguise was very convincing to let down their guards. Perhaps that's why Geoff ran up and grabbed Star's arm. Cold and hard metallic? He quickly let go,

"Sorry, we can't let you go so easily."

"Not today," said Frank as he stepped in front of her. He had his hand down at his side loose and ready to press his Spectrum-Tooth at a split second. This finally attempt at a confrontation would probably end in some sort of fight.

After watching the rather strange exchange, Lexie was definitely leaning towards this girl being one of the bad guys. It was strange though, the girl, Star, looked innocent enough. If she was some creature sent to destroy the world, her disguise was flawless to the naked eye.

"Geoff, what exactly are you planning to do?" Lexie whispered, rushing to her leader's side. She looked from Geoff to Frank, then turned her gray eyes to Star before finally placing her hand on Geoff's lower arm. "I get that she is probably a bad guy... but what can we do about that here? We are in the middle of a very busy area. What are we gunna do? Fight her here? Try explaining to the police why we are attacking a seemingly innocent young girl. I'm not entirely sure being a power ranger gets us a get out of jail free card."

They were in a tough situation, and Lexie knew it. Neither of their options were very appealing. They could let the girl walk, and hope whatever damage she did was manageable. Or, they could fight her, and hope no one saw.

"But we could escape you know... they don't know who we are and we have secret identities don't we?" said Keiko as she looked at the odd girl Star walking away "She scares me a little." Keiko said "Want us to investigate on her or somehting?" She asked while looking at Geoff in the eyes "Something about her is very abnormal... she could either be one who helps us or destroys us."

She loosens her grip of Geoff's arm and walks a few steps towards Star's direction but still being very distant from Star "Say, who wants to do some shopping?" she asked giving a wink to the group "We can see what she's doing." She reports her suggestion to go spying on Star to Cranston and waits for his answer.


((ooc: Say, are there any like henchmen here like random henchmen like the Putties/Golems?))

Geoff let out a heavy breath as his head hung with the reminder of their location. Even though they knew she was the enemy, what self-respecting cop would think a group of kids beating up on an innocent looking girl was ok? He had to figure out a way to get her to reveal herself, detain her and return her to the Command Center, or at least get her to move to a less populated area. The thoughts were rolling through his head, then he had to stop at Keiko's suggestion...

"Shopping?" he asked with a smirk. "I don't think picking out cute tops is going to get her to confide in us. We've already shown hostility as well as claimed to know her true identity. We have to do something though." He thought for a moment, perhaps a direct approach would work?

"Ok," he said to Star. "We have a good idea about your real identity, but we'd rather not do this in the middle of the city. If you come with us, we won't harm you. We just want to ask some questions. Dr. Cranston would probably like to talk to you as well." He had to give it a shot, if for nothing else than to change up their approach to this whole thing.

Ryo definitely was not in a shopping mood. He doubted any of the other male members of their little group were any more inclined to the idea, too. Remaining at Geoff's side, he scanned the area, looking for a solution. Lexie was right; fighting this Star chick in the middle of the street wouldn't be a good idea.

But he spotted something that might work. Gesturing as slightly as he could Ryo brought Geoff's attention to the entrance of a small underground garage. There were few cars driving into it at this particular hour. The inside would be sparse and relatively empty. They could force their opponent down into there, if it came down to a battle. Ryo suspected it would. He had a feeling Cranston would not approve of bringing this girl into their base.

"This is unbelievable," said Askel as the messenger finished with his announcement. He would have to see to Delen receiving a heavy punishment when he returned. For now, it was vital that he protect Staritix from any potential danger.

"General," he said through the connective wires and tissue in his head. "Deploy the GaragBots to aid Staritix. And send Delen back here immediately." His plans were hitting a slight glitch and Askel was becoming more frustrated by the moment. It was so hard to find good help these days...


"Right" replied Geoff to Ryo's suggestion. Perhaps taking her back to base wasn't the best of ideas, but now the question would be how to get her down to the parking garage. Unfortunately he would have to wait to figure that out as a space warp appeared a couple feet away from them. When it finally disappeared, about twenty creatures stood before them. They looked like smaller copies of that robot king they had seen a picture of before. Although, much more slimy and hopefully with less intelligence than the original.

"Change of plans," he said to the rest of the team. "Pair up and take them down!" He quickly charged forward into the middle of the drones, throwing punches and elbows at one after another. This was definitely not what he was expecting...

TJ and Tamya looked at each other and charge after Geoff. Tamya landed several round kicks while TJ did some flip kicks of his own. Blow after blow was exchanged, TJ and Tamya seemingly on top of the situation.

Tamya flipped away from one of the Garagbots, her foot hitting it square in the chin. She continued flipped until she was a suitable distance away, making a pose after landing on her feet. A Garagbot charged at her and she dodged it's attack hitting it in the back of the leg, causing it to drop to it's knees, she then unleashed a hard round house kick that planted flat in the Garagbot's face, knocking it a couple feet.

TJ blocked an attack from two Garagbots but they got the upperhand and hit him in the stomach. He reeled backwards but regained his footing in time to counter the kick of one of the Garagbots, delivering a solid knee to the chin of the Garagbot, knocking it back. The other one rushed up and was knocked back by a strong fist. TJ took a stance ready for more.

Keiko engaged in a fighting stance "Ne?! Ikuyo! (Right! Let's go)" she spoke in confidence and determination. One of the Garagbots went up to her, with the experience in Karate she quickly dodged the attack and grabbed the Garagbots arms and did a Scissors Kick to him. She flipped over to the Garage and grabbed a metal pole. She liked the situation, it was finally the time she will heal from those mistakes she did in the last battle.

She sped up to the trio of Garagbots and smacked the Garagbots with the pole which broke one of the masks. This cause the Garagebot who was maskless to dissolve with an acidy sizzle "Now. Who wants to go next!" A Garagbot who wasn't from the trio dashed to her and kicked her back. Keiko fell forward losing the grip from her pole "Ugh!" she cried. She supported herself using one hand and flipped backwards kicking Garagebots one by one. She grabbed the staff and threw it like a Javelin Pole towards the trio of the Garagebots stabbing them in the chest.

Two more Garagbots ran up to Keiko and kicked her torso. She fell back in pain, this wasn't really her day today. "I guess this could be my last resort" Keiko's arm proceeded to the Spectrum Tooth "~wait... but this could risk the group's identity... i must keep on trying"

Staritix had obviously flinched when Geoff reached out and grabbed her arm. The Negabot turned around, a very predatory and inhuman expression flashing in her eyes, a completely one-eighty from how sweet and innocent she had been acting only a few moments before. She tugged her arm away from him and he let go. The leader asked for her to come with them but she rejected the offer by stepping back from him.

Before she could decide on what her next move would be, a warp opened and some Garagbots appeared. Her eyes widened a bit in surprise but she was glad that the calvary had arrived since she had been ditched by Delen and smiled knowing that something horrible would be in store for his abandonment. Staritix took a few more steps back letting the Garagbots stand between her and the humans that had been bothering her.

Staritix was feeling a little more cocky now, watching the Garagbots take on the Rangers. Her metallic tail slithered from her body and reached into her back to retrieve one of the vials that King Askel had given to her. The tail moved over her shoulder and dropped the vial into her hand, mostly unnoticed by the Rangers who were distracted with the Garagbots. Soft blue eyes glanced around her as her tail disappeared back into her human shell and she moved away from the scene to a small park that was right in the area and still within few of the fighting humans. She took one last look at the vial before she poured the contents onto a squirrel that had been passing by. It sizzled on the small animal's skin before it began to transform. It started to grow larger in size, it's fur becoming replaced by metal, looking more machine than animal within a few moments.

"Destroy them," she ordered and pointed over to the Rangers. The newly created Negabot gave a nod of it's head as it lumbered back over to the group, charging toward the first Ranger that it saw. Staritix didn't move from her spot, content with just watching and waiting to see how the fight would turn out... and planning on where she would escape to if it came down to that.

"Great, just great" Lexie called out as she jumped into the fray. The Garagbots where absolutely everywhere. She punched the first one she met in the stomach. As it doubled over, she grabbed it by an arm and forced it to the ground and out of her way. With that one dispatched, she moved forward, trying to get to Star. However, she was soon blocked by two move garagbots. She grabbed the first one of the two and used it as a shield as the other delivered a blow meant to kill Lexie. Instead, the first garage bot was the one who died as it's mask was shattered.

"That was convenient." Lexie mumbled to herself before punching the remaining garagbot in the mask. The punch stunned it long enough for Lexie to land a kick square in the mask, shattering it.

Her path cleared, Lexie took off at a run in the direction Star had gone. She knew that wasn't what Geoff had told her to do, but could they really just let her get away? Besides, she was heading towards a park. Who knew what damage she could do there.

As Lexie rounded a corner, she found exactly what damage Star had done. She was met by a giant metal... squirrel? Either way, it was huge, metal, and really intimidating to the unmorphed ranger. Even though it seemed silly to be intimidated by a squirrel, Lexie cursed her luck as the transformed rodent charged. Quickly, Lexie tucked her body and rolled away. When she rose she was covered in dirt, but still alive.

"We've got a problem!" Lexie called to the rest of the group.