PokéRangers: New World

Arise, Senkaku Zords!

"It's fine", Macho said as he struggled to get himself free from the hulking monster's grasp. "This is probably just parallel-universal karma for beating up your doppelganger earlier."

"Doppelganger...?", the creature uttered.

"Uh oh", Macho realized he said something he shouldn't have. "Did Macho say doppelganger?", he quickly tried to retract. "Macho meant to say.... uhhh....", he thought for a moment. "Say, you wouldn't happen to know a word that rhymes with doppelganger would you?", he jested before the huge beast slammed Macho into the mountainside repeatedly. "Guess not"

"Tell me what you know and the pain stops", the beast taunted as Macho struggled to free himself

"Betraying others just to save oneself. Sorry...", Macho paused for a moment to look the beast in the eyes, "...but we can't all be as pathetic as you."

"Aww, the babysitter finally found his fight" The beast mocked as he raised Macho into the air. "Too little, too late", he uttered as he picked up his axe for one final blow.

"Hey ugly... put him down!", the Rangers commanded, but they didn't wait for a response. 

Before the beast knew what happened, he felt a sharp pain in his arm as the Greninja Ranger struck him with his saber. As the beast flailed his arm in pain, Macho fell from his grip and was scooped up by the Houndoom Ranger in the blink of an eye.

"I THINK I softened him up for you five..." Macho said in a dazed and confused voice.

"You did great" the Houndoom Ranger assured as he rested Macho just inside the entrance to the cave system. "We'll take it from here"

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The beast slowly approached the rest of the group. Those voices... they sounded... familiar. "Doppelgangers huh... so this is what he meant", the creature realized. "Well originals or not, I'll still take pleasure in....", just then he stopped as his eyes focused on the Greninja Ranger who was stepping forward to meet him as well. "It's.... me..." the beast uttered in a confused voice as he lowered his shoulders and the two shared a brief moment of silence and introspection.

Just then, the beast spit on the Greninja Ranger. "It kills me that I ever looked so puny", he growled in disgust.

The Greninja Ranger wiped his helmet off "And it kills me that I thought 'overgrown dust bunny' was a good look; but here we are..."

"Funny." The beast offered. "Let's see if your bones crack as easily as your jokes"

The Greninja Ranger tilted his head in shock "...Well that went 0 to dark REAL fast."

"Allow me to introduce myself", he began. "I am Xammoth and I am everything you could have been; but no... It seems you're content with being the joke of the group. The one no one takes seriously."

The Greninja Ranger paused after hearing what his doppelganger said. He wasn't sure if these accusations upset him or made him feel sorry for his counterpart.

It was at this point that the Houndoom Ranger returned to the group. "Look here you big...", he began before the Greninja Ranger put a hand on his shoulder and simply shook his head before stepping forward to reply.

"I don't have time to worry about what others think of me." the Greninja Ranger addressed his doppelganger. "The only thing you're showing me right now, is that bitterness is a real ugly color on me."

Xammoth began to get enraged at the Greninja Ranger's dismissal of him. "You dare belittle me or my power?", he threatened as he slowly began to grow in size. "I AM POWER! And I will crush you all beneath my might."