<div class="floatleft">(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s17/Dadroid/Power%20Rangers/Gray%20Ranger.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Jacob "Jake" Woodson<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>The Gray Ranger<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>October 1st, 10:30 AM<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Fountain<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Bence<br/><strong>Mention:</strong>The Team<br/><br/>Short lived. That was exactly how it all panned out. The colossal monstrosity, and its ever present eye was still rumbling towards them, with what was now a swarming mass of students who he could no longer afford to see as people. If it wasn't for the fact that he's evaded death at least twice in the last half hour at their hands, he might have had a tougher time with it.<strong>'Yeah kid, you're a tough one...maybe it wasn't as much of a mistake getting you as I thought. We live though this, I may even apologize"</strong>[/b]<strong>'Yeah, well I won't hold my breath...'</strong>he thought back, his eyes still looking at the approaching mass.<strong>"Well...any bright ideas?"</strong>he asked, right before Kara went and exploded into a mass of pink light and emerged...what the fuck did she emerge as?<br/><br/><strong>"You can't be fucking serious..."</strong>He said, but when he looked behind him, Bence had already transformed himself as well<strong>"Okay...okay! Power armor...real, honest to god power armor!"</strong>he was too engrossed in the idea of it to notice that Bence was losing it, and until he got a mental slap from his psychic roommate.<strong>'Yes, this is all very good, but while you were looking at her, Bence went on and got into the mix, and you STILL HAVEN'T MORPHED!!!'</strong>[/b] When he looked back to where he last saw Bence, he was gone, and a red streak swinging a hammer was surrounded, then clear, then surrounded again. He was giving it to them good, but just like with Vivi and him earlier, it was only a matter of time before he would get overrun.<br/><br/><strong>"We...have to help him...we have to help him!"</strong>the second was more of a scream, but it helped to get himself moving<strong>"What...whaddoIdo?"</strong>he asked, looking for something, anything on him that looked like it a tattoo or bump. What was that one show where it came from under his skin?<strong>'Focus! your arm...'</strong>[/b] When he did look at his arm, of course picking the wrong one first, he noticed an arm band in gray, like a fancy life pod that he's always wanted. Biometric readings, music, access to social media...they called it a life pod, because that's what was on it when you wore it, and apparently the Mobicyte read his Christmas list.<strong>'It's more than that, though. That's your morpher. That's what you're going to use if you want to save your friend and your world'</strong>[/b]<strong>'He's not my...never mind. How does it work?'</strong>[/b]'Relax yourself...it's better to show you'[/b]<br/><br/>While it was still a little uncomfortable to allow her to hijack his body, his roommate seemed to take to it naturally enough. He was able to feel her a lot more when she was in control...like she couldn't maintain the body, and shield herself from him at the same time. She was confident, and pretended to be detached, but he could feel it...a burning anger that seemed to remain at a constant simmer. He could almost feel the why behind it, but the push he felt from her spoke volumes. He didn't ask, and she didn't mention it, but for that split second, there was a very big thing elephant in their room, and he didn't have time to worry about it<strong>'consider that your apology if we make it'</strong>he said pointedly, but the mobicyte  remained silent and began with a wide sweeping horizontal swing of his arms so that they met in the center, the arm band now a morpher in form, and then heard himself say "It's morphin time!" before a rush of steam seemed to push out from all around him, sliding over his body and materializing into form.<br/><br/>He felt it all cinch on, like it was vacuum sealed to him and taking it off would mean painful removal of skin. He felt exposed, yet protected, as the suit adhered to him, like he knew...just<strong>knew</strong>that the students would normally not be a problem as he was now. He didn't know when it happened, but his vision was replaced by a HUD, complete with aeronautical meters. His flight was incorporated into the suit!<strong>'Points to the big brain! Yes, your suit is tailored to your power. Because your strength in the suit has increased, so does your flight ability. Your suit can make the most minute changes in your flight pattern, based on your needs. I suggest for now you keep it simple...like so...</strong>[/b] His body slowly floated up to the height where he had a distinct view of the fight. Bence was very much in trouble. He could tell as soon as the HUD picked him up and magnified the image. As if thinking the same thing, Kara was there in a flash of pink and cutting away as many as she could, but while she was attempting to snap Bence out of it, more same in droves.<br/><br/><strong>'They need room!'</strong>he nearly shouted at his roomie<strong>'Then give it to them...'</strong>[/b] She replied simply, and release control of his body back to him suddenly. He lost his place in the sky for a moment, then moved back less confidently<strong>'How about a warning next time!? and How?'</strong><strong>'No, and on your back'</strong>[/b]. When he reached back, the oddly familiar, but alien gun (http://orig05.deviantart.net/8175/f/2012/184/2/7/shax___left_side_by_peterku-d55uq64.jpg) unclipped itself and seemed to fly right into his hand. The HUD changed to a targeting vector, with a rotating crosshair in whatever direction he was looking at.<strong>'Raise the weapon, n00b'</strong>/b] he heard in his head, and Jake could feel his teeth clench at biting back whatever words he wanted to say. When he raised it, the crosshairs were now on what he was aiming at.<strong>'Okay...That blaster has settings based on voice command. Just say "Bring the Pain" for now...I have a feeling we're going to need it. you get 5 shots, and it's an area affect . You'll see when you say it.</strong>[/b]<br/><br/><strong>'Bring the pain...really?'</strong>he thought with a slight shake of his head. She even programmed the damn thing to his own catch phrases while playing games on the net. Well, he'd worry about that part later. The blaster now moved in his hand, and the crosshair followed, when he finally said "Bring the pain...", the crosshair changed to a wide triangle. compared to the crosshair, it was massive!<strong>"Area affect...okay..."</strong>he said, still a little unsure of the whole thing, until he fired. The gun hummed and the blaster seemed to suddenly have more slits and holes in it than when he originally saw it, but what he couldn't see was the barrel of the weapon rotate wildly before releasing the "shot". A ball of light that somehow looked "heavy" landed in the spot where the triangle rested, which was in front of the two rangers. The light hit the ground, and then the ground just...flew. The sound was eerie. When it descended, it didn't sound like anything put electric sparks, but when it touched down, it sounded like a world war had just made its way to their quiet school.<br/><br/>A burnt ring was at all that remained if the area in front of them. the ground was a mess, and what hadn't gone up in the ball of light had been carried away by the explosion, had simply dropped. There was a pause. A hush as the students looked towards the hole, then towards him, before a blood-curdling scream was started, then echoed.<strong>'I suggest firing a few more times...</strong>[/b] his roomie added helpfully. Jake didn't dare respond. He just didn't trust himself to. But he did fire, and the same hum and crackle sounded before the explosions, and two more holes were opened up to the left and right of the rangers<strong>"Pull his ass out of there if you have to!"</strong>he screamed to Kara, forgetting for a moment that they were, in fact, linked, and that he wouldn't have been able to scream out of the helmet anyway and be heard over what he'd just done.<br/>