Vanhoover: Harbor District, an hour before the previous chapter...

Vapor sighed as she fingered her purple double eighth note pendent and looked out over the bay. The sun was setting, casting orange and red glows across the horizon. While the view in her opinion still didn't compare to that of looking at the sunset from her home town of Stratusburg, it still was exquisite to look out at. Vapor shivered at the cold evening winds blowing off the waters and remembered the last time she was here.

"Lightning, please get over here quick. Please... Wait, what's that?"

At about that moment she heard a very eerie noise, it sounded like a flute being played. It was very haunting, and yet in some ways rather calming as well. Vapor didn't honestly know which of the feelings she was feeling at that very moment. Torn between the two, she decided to be on the safe side.

"Legendary Wild Access!" Vapor shouted and was transformed, with a purple flash of energy, into a ranger, wearing a costume much like Sunset's, but with a few differences. For one thing, the most obvious difference was that it was a purple color, and instead of a phoenix's head, the helmet was styled after a sperm whale, and instead of a setting sun on her right breast, there was Vapor Trail's Cutie Mark of a shooting star.

"Come out, show yourself!" Vapor shouted, feeling much more confident now that she was morphed. And then the being finally decided to show itself. Seemingly leaping from the moon itself was a dark figure with a wolfish face, two glowing yellow eyes that seemed to pierce right through your very soul and had one pure black horn. The figure landed almost silently directly in front of Vapor, who was frozen in fear. She knew what the one horn meant. Here, directly in front of her was a Duke Org, the ones who led the Orgs into battle and only one rank below the Org Generals.

"A young mare such as yourself shouldn't be out here alone at this time of night, who knows what you might run into." The Duke Org said in a surprisingly friendly way. Nervously, Vapor reached for her Crystal Saber and pointed it at the Duke Org.

"I'm not afraid of you!" Vapor yelled, though her voice betrayed her feelings.

"Now now, is that any way to treat a friend?" The Duke Org questioned even as he rested a black crescent moon like blade on his left shoulder. "You and I... We're both actually on the same side, believe it or not."

Vapor was stunned beyond words. An Org, a Duke Org at that, saying that they were both on the exact same side? It didn't make sense!

"...Of course, knowing how you ponies treat anything that's different than you... Well, I wouldn't be surprised to find out you don't believe a word I'm saying. Hell, 3,000 years ago, I wouldn't have believed a word I was saying. Well, not before HIM anyways..." The Duke Org trailed off, seemingly lost in his own memories.

"Who, and what are you Zen-Aku? You look like a Org, and yet you're perfectly willing to kill your own kind... And who was that HE you mentioned?" Vapor pondered to herself as she once again flash-backed to her encounter with the wolf like Duke Org and him defending her.

"Oh goody, a Ranger and a traitor to our kind in one blow! Today must be my lucky day!" Turbine Org laughed even as the Duke Org growled and picked himself up off the concrete with Vapor doing the same.

"You don't seem to know who you're dealing with. Then again, you low level scum were always stupid." The Duke Org mused before picking his blade up off the ground and its two tips extended with clicking sounds before he shouted "CRESCENT WAVE!"

The Duke Org fired off several glowing yellow crescents of energy at Turbine Org smashing him into the containers denting the sides of them...

Then, just as the sun set fully over the horizon and day changed to night, a head peeked out of the peaceful black waters as they lapped against the docksides. It was mostly silver on top of it's forehead, but had green eyes and from the lower half of the head down all the way to the back tail fin, it was purple. Streamlined and sleek, you could almost mistake it for a sperm whale, if not for the colors and it being tremendously oversized. This was the Legendary Leviathan Zord. It let out a low, mournful hum as it's eyes narrowed in on Vapor's pendant.

"You miss him, don't you? I miss him too." Vapor said softly, with a tear dripping from her eye as she pressed down on her pendent, and snippet of it's original owner's and the Leviathan Zord's favorite song began to play. Wind-chimes and acoustic guitars began to play, and a violin joined in soon after.

"...Go black water, keep on rollin', Mississippi moon won't you keep shining on me, go black water, keep on rollin', Mississippi moon won't you keep shining on me..." Vapor sung and the Leviathan's hums began to change as it sung along in tune before the song's snippet ended due to Vapor shutting it off, unable to listen to it anymore due to the painful memories it brought back to her.

"I wasn't destined for this, you and I both know it." Vapor said sadly as she shook her head. "When should I tell them? That I wasn't destined for this burden? They all think I was the one you chose, but I wasn't, was I?"

Vapor then turned her head upwards to the sky and asked "I've... I've never been much one for praying but you know the answer to this don't you? So... So, please, I'm begging you, give me a sign of some sort." softly in a prayer and waited for a few minutes to receive an answer, but got none. Vapor chuckled sadly to herself.

"Figures, I should know by now that I'll never get the answer to what I want will I?"

Then her Growl Phone rang and Vapor answered it to the sound of Princess Shayla's voice.

"Vapor, there's a new Org on the loose at the Ponyville Hydroelectric Dam. You must stop it!" Shayla's worried tone said before a yellow orb descended from the sky and landed in Vapor's palm, revealing it to be a yellow Animal Crystal with an eagle inside it.

"Take this, you'll need it. The Eagle has chosen you, use it's powers wisely." Shayla's voice said before she "Hung up" and Vapor smiled sadly as she turned back to her Zord.

"We'll finish this conversation tomorrow night, like I promise we will every night." Vapor told her Zord as it dived beneath the waves leaving no trace that it was ever there in the first place as Vapor raised her Growl Phone to her ear and called out her morphing call.

"Legendary Wild Access!"

In Robert's Head

Robert walked around in a daze, finding himself in the long red gate covered pathways leading up to the Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine on Mt. Inari in his home country of Japan. He'd been here many times when he was off-duty from SPD, searching for answers when he needed them, so he knew the path well. Question was, what was he doing here?

"Okay, even by Ranger experiences this is strange. And that's saying quite a lot." Robert mused to himself, he remembered all the strange experiences various ranger teams had gone through over the years, from being trapped in different dimensions of all sorts, to crossing through the Devil's Triangle on a Flying Dutchman like ghost ship to reach the island of Muranthias to even dying and coming back to life. But this, as Robert would soon learn might just top them all.

"Become a Ranger, defeat monsters and confine evil alien criminals. Well, they didn't tell you about this part of the job did they? I give a big bloody Arigatō, Lord." Robert stated sarcastically. "What a wundervolle experience. Yes, Genki desu. Arigatō."

He was still being sarcastic at that point, if you hadn't guessed. During this point, he'd also noticed something else. His wounds, they were completely healed. No blood or anything, and his vision was completely fine. He should be dead. Hell, for all he knew he WAS dead and this was him traveling up the pathway to Heaven. And so he continued walking, thinking on the life he'd lead so far.

"Not exactly much of one. Didn't do a whole lot of good aside from confining a few criminals and blowing up a few robots with Megazords, which was, admittedly, pretty cool. But at the same time, constantly getting into fights, I was. Ignoring orders, going off on my own. Ha, I may have the spirit of the Fox, but I think the Wolf suits me better. Hai, that sounds about right." Robert mused as he continued walking up the path and then the scene changed. He was now at the Pai Zhua School in its training courtyard, and instead of his ripped SPD shirt, he was wearing his old training garb, a medium blue training gi with a claw symbol on it. In front of him was his old Master, Theo, AKA the Jungle Fury Blue Ranger.

"T-Theo, what the bloody fuck are you doing here?" Robert stuttered out.

"You've forgotten your training. It's time to re-learn it." Theo said simply before morphing with a flash of blue light and taking a fighting stance, with Robert taking one of his own. They traded blows just as they shouted in unison "Call to the Beast inside, Free the Fox!" and "Call to the Beast inside, Free the Jaguar!" and their respective animals spirits traded blows just as their owners fought each other. Robert threw a punch, but Theo caught it and kicked him in the stomach causing Robert to fly back but he rebounded off a pillar and kicked Theo in the head with a roundhouse kick. Theo spun like a top and slashed at him with the in-built claws on his suit before hitting him with a judo kick making Robert stumble backwards before he hit Theo with a side kick and then a punch to the face but was then knocked to the floor with a pounce like maneuver from Theo. Unbeknownst to the two fighters, a dark blue furred figure watched.

"He's losing, and yet he still fights on. This human... The one with the Fox Spirit will not give up." Luna mused to herself and felt her heart beat just a bit faster as Robert was grabbed by the leg and then thrown to the ground below him. Robert snarled and got back up but was then hit by a powerful axe kick causing him to stagger.

"You've lost." Theo chuckled. "Give in, and I'll stop this beatdown."

"No... I never give up. I never give in. You're not Theo, the real one knows me far too well to just ask me to give in." Robert smirked before he turned into an orange flash and then was in front of Theo knocking him backwards with a powerful misty orange energy laced punch just as his Fox Spirit took down Theo's Jaguar. At once, the scene (And Robert's attire) changed again and Robert found himself inside the SPD Headquarter's briefing room. In front of him was... Well, him, clad in his Green Ranger suit.

"Okay, now this is getting ridiculous." Robert mused before he stepped forwards (Now wearing his SPD jacket) with a cheery grin on his face and said "Sorry I'm late to the party, got caught up in some Kung-Fu fighting. Those kicks of mine, fast as lightning."

"You lost my powers, now you shall lose your life as punishment." Robert's double told him in a twisted, distorted version of his own voice. It was quite creepy if Robert was to be honest with himself. They traded blows all around the room, with the Green SPD Ranger punching him into Cruger's chair and Robert quickly leapt out of it before he could get punched again and the chair toppled over. In the doorway, unseen, Luna still observed.

"He's dying, and he doesn't know it, and yet he still fights on. I wonder, if he knew he was dying would he fight as hard as he is now?" Luna wondered to herself as Robert dodged a few laser blasts from his double's Delta Blaster. Robert rebounded off a computer terminal and leaped over his double's head with a flip and landed behind him with his double whirling around to face him and reaching for his Delta Blaster only to find it not in his holster.

"WHAT!?!"

"Didn't you ever hear, foxes are quite the tricksters?" Robert asked in a sarcastic tone before revealing HE had the Delta Blaster and he let loose a few blasts knocking his double into a computer terminal. Luna chuckled.

"I have to admit, that was pretty good." Luna mused as her heartbeat raced. She noticed. "What's... What's this strange feeling? No... That can't be it. I can't be falling for him... Can I?" Luna asked herself as the scene changed once more and again Robert found himself in on the pathway leading up to the Inari Shrine, this time with the Blue Jungle Fury Ranger and the Green SPD Ranger in front of him. Robert took a fighting stance, but relaxed when he realized they meant him no harm.

"You've proven you have the courage to fight even when powerless. But that's not all." Theo said before Robert's double spoke.

"You weren't just fighting us. You were fighting for your life." He said, and a glowing golden key with the head of a fox appeared in front of Robert.

"What... What do I do with this?" Robert asked in a stunned tone of voice. Theo put a hand on his shoulder.

"You'll know when the time comes. And Robert, I've never been more proud." Theo said before everything faded to white...

(To Be Continued...)

Author's Notes:

Okay, so yes, I know this is an adaption of the Dino Thunder episode Fighting Spirit, but honesty, I couldn't think much else to do with this chapter. Anyways, here we learn more, if not much of Vapor's guilt on the mysterious circumstances surronding her and her being the second Leviathan Ranger and her pondering more on the mystery that is Zen-Aku. Plus, we finally get to see her Zord. Also, in this chapter we learn Robert's full nationality, Japanese/UK English/German. Have you guessed who he's an expy of yet? If you have, keep it to yourself until I unveil the full joke. Anyways, Robert conquers, well, himself, and gets a mysterious key. Also, he doesn't know it yet, although he will sooner or later, that Luna's in love with him. Oh boy...

(Kuso, you have no idea the lengths I had to go through just to find the Japanese phrases and their translations. To say nothing of the fighting moves used for Robert and Theo's fight. What a pain in the ass that was.)