Chapter One: Siblings?
"Carter!" I said into my phone.
"What is it, El?"
"Guess what?"
"What, Elizabeth?" I could tell my brother was getting impatient.
"I'm coming to see you!"
"When?"
"What's with the one word replies, Carter?"
"Sorry. I'm just busy."
"I'm coming in three days."
"I can't believe you are finally coming to visit me? I haven't seen you in forever."
"I know, I'm sorry. I've just been busy with work, little brother."
"You are ten months older."
"I know." I grinned. "I need to go. I have to pack."
"Bye, sis." I hung up on Carter.
Three days later I was packed and headed to Mariner Bay. Carter was going to meet me at the beach for some odd reason.
"Ellie!" I heard behind me. I stood up to hug my younger brother. There was a girl standing behind him.
"This is my friend, Dana."
"Friend?" I asked.
"Shut up, Elizabeth. Dana, this is my older sister, Elizabeth."
"Nice to meet you."
"Likewise." Carter gestured for Dana and I to follow him to a yellow car. I hopped in back and he drove to a tunnel. The tunnel went underwater. What the hell?
"Damn it, Carter. How could you not tell me?"
"Tell you what?" He asked.
"That you are a freaking ranger!"
"How does she know?" Dana whispered, but I heard her anyway.
"I'm observant. I notice everything. I also have a photographic memory and can put things together really well. I'm guessing you are pink and he's red."
"That is correct, Ms. Grayson." We had entered a room while I was yelling at my brother and an official-looking man was talking to me. "Welcome to the Aquabase, home of Lightspeed. I am Captain Mitchell."
"Elizabeth Grayson."
"Come on, El. Let's meet the rest of the team." He introduced me to Kelsey, Chad, and Joel, along with Ms. Fairweather. Then, alarms started going off.
"Ms. Grayson, report to the Captain's office." Captain Mitchell and Ms. Fairweather were in the office.
"Ms. Grayson, have a seat." I did as asked. " We would like to know if you would want a job here."
"A job?"
"You could be around your brother."
"What would I do?"
"Well, during the day, you would be my assistant, doing anything I need you to do. When needed, you would be the sixth ranger."
"You want me to be a ranger."
"Yes, but I would prefer if you didn't tell anybody. Not even Carter."
"Alright, I'm in."
"Your first assignment is to follow the others and stop them. They can't kill the Titanium Ranger."
"Why not, sir?"
"No time. Just go. But make sure you are back before them." I grabbed the morpher and activated it before going to find my brother and his friends. I didn't even take care to look at what color I was.
"Stop!" I yelled once I was at the scene.
"Who are you?" my brother asked.
"I'm on your side. The captain sent me. He said to stop fighting the Titanium Ranger. Not to kill him."
"But…"
"Carter!" I heard the captain scream in his helmet. "You can trust her."
"Alright." My brother said as he called off the attack. "But this isn't over."
"That's one thing we agree on." The Titanium Ranger said. He looked at me with an odd look on his face before running off. The other rangers offered to drive me back to the base, but I declined.
"Captain!" I said into my helmet. "I'm going to go try to talk to him."
"Don't, Elizabeth. It's too dangerous."
"Why did you make us stop?"
"He's my son, Ryan."
"If he's your son, then he can't be evil. I'll be back in a few hours. Make up an excuse for why I'm not there."
"Be careful." I ran after Ryan. It wasn't long before I caught up with him.
"Who are you?"
"I'm the new ranger. I don't even know what color I am yet."
"Gold." I was surprised at this.
"Why are you here?"
"I know who you are, Ryan. Your father told me when he ordered me to tell the Rangers not to kill you."
"I have no father!"
"Ryan!" Dana ran in at that point. They fought and at one point she powered down. He held her by the neck, looking into her face.
"Mom?"
"Put her down!" Carter yelled as they ran into the area. Ryan dropped Dana and ran out. I followed and could hear them following behind me. We got to the cliff in time to see the Captain and Ryan tumble over the edge.
"Dad!" Dana whispered as he let go of the root.
"Don't. They can handle it." I grabbed her arm. I watched as Ryan also let go and morphed grabbing his father and taking the impact of the blow.
"Ryan." The captain said as his son walked away. I made to follow him, but Carter held up a hand.
"Let him go. He should come back eventually." I nodded and walked off. I got on my Rescue Racer and headed back to base. There, I powered down and changed my now-dirty clothes. I ended up in a black fitted t-shirt and skinny jeans with my black Converse.
"Hi, Carter." I said to my brother as he came into my room.
"Where did you go today?"
"Just out. I wanted to think about the Captain's offer." Carter raised an eyebrow. "He wants me to be his assistant."
"Oh. Are you going to accept?"
"Yeah. I missed my baby brother." He looked ready to reply, when the intruder alert went off.
"What the hell?" Carter said.
"I think its Ryan."
"How do you know about him?"
"Captain told me."
"Ah. Well, let's go." We walked to the Captain's office just in time to see Ryan walk out. He handed Ryan a silver box and told him to open it once he knew he was good. Then, I looked at him questioningly. He nodded and I followed Ryan.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Elizabeth Grayson. Sister of the Red Ranger."
"Ryan Mitchell."
"I know."
"Why are you following me?"
"Your dad asked me to keep an eye on you. Where are you going?"
"I don't know yet."
"Well, do you want me to drive you there?"
"Might as well." Grabbing the keys out of my pocket, I went to my car and hopped in.
"Can you take me to the park first?" I nodded and drove there. We saw a little boy, looking sad. Ryan walked over there. He talked to the boy and handed him a feather. There was a big grin on both their faces.
"Bus station?" I nodded again and started driving. On the way, my morpher beeped.
"Elizabeth, can you hear me?" Ryan looked at me quizzically as I replied.
"Yes, Captain."
"There's a demon. The others aren't doing good, but that's not what I need you for."
"I'm listening, sir."
"One of them released these feathers. Once the sun goes down, they will explode and kill anyone in the vicinity." My eyes widened. Ryan gave a feather to that boy. His did too, as the realization hit him.
"On it, sir."
"Let's go."
"You are her, aren't you?"
"If by her, you mean the gold ranger, then yes." We raced to find the boy, making it minutes before nightfall. Ryan ran out there immediately and seized the feather, throwing it. It exploded almost as soon as it hit the air. The family thanked him and he headed back to his bag. The silver box had fallen out of it. He gently opened the box and put on his Titanium morpher. I hopped out of the car.
"We need to find them." I ran to the warehouse they were being held. The captain told us their location.
Ryan morphed and so did I as we ran inside. He single-handedly made them leave, but didn't kill them.
"Ryan!" Dana said as he powered down.
"I'm fine, Dana." She hugged her brother.
"Who are you?" Joel asked.
"You'll find out someday." I grinned.
"Hey, Ry, ready to go back to the base?" he nodded and we walked back to my car, before driving to the base.
"Don't tell them who I am. Captain's orders." He nodded again.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Elizabeth." It was silent the remainder of the drive. I powered down when I got back to the base.
"Let's go report in." We walked back to the Captain's office.
"Nice work, Rangers. Go rest now. Elizabeth, could you take Ryan to a spare room? The one next to yours will work." I nodded and lead the Titanium Ranger to the room requested.
"Here we are."
"Thanks, Elizabeth." I nodded and headed into my room. I quickly fell asleep, but soon heard Ryan moaning in the next room. It sounds like he's having a nightmare. I think and get up to go check on him. I opened his door and sat down next to him.
"Ryan?" I whispered. After four times, he finally shot awake.
"Elizabeth?"
"Are you okay, Ryan?"
"Fine." He whispered as he got up and checked his back.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing!"
"Ryan Mitchell, you will tell me what is wrong or I will tell your father."
"Fine, but you can't tell anyone."
"Deal."
"I had a dream. I was talking to Diabolico and he said I was a traitor. Then, he burned this into my back." He turned around and lifted his shirt. I gasped. "He said it would move up every time I morphed and when it reaches my neck…"
"Oh my god." I reached out and wrapped my arms around him. He was tense at first, but soon relaxed.
"You can't morph."
"I have to. What if they need me?"
"That's my point, Ryan. They all need you. You can't leave them. You can't leave us."
"Alright. I'll only do it in emergencies."
"That's all I ask. For now."
"Elizabeth?"
"Yes?"
"Will you stay? The nightmares might come back." I nodded and walked to my new friend's bed. As we laid down, he wrapped his arms around me. I snuggled into Ryan's embrace.
"Thanks, Ellie." We slowly drifted off to sleep and Ryan didn't have more nightmares.
"Elizabeth?" I woke to someone calling my name. I sat up, disoriented. Then, I remembered and hugged Ryan.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm good, Ellie."
"Why do you call me that?"
"Elizabeth is kind of long." I grinned and headed back to my room.
"Could Elizabeth Grayson and Ryan Mitchell come to the Captains office?"