Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN! Never have, never will. I only own Kaylee Hanson.
A/N: Okay, I know a lot of you Kaylee fans have missed this series, so I decided to just upload the Operation Overdrive story while we all wait for Faith to get back on track. I'm trying to get her to write but so far I've failed. Don't worry, I'm going to try to keep the refenrences to DT to what you guys already know, and if you want DT to be finished, review! If there's soemthing you're lost on, then don't be afraid to ask, especially if it involves DT.
Hope you enjoy the story.
A young man was lying in a hammock, with a book opened and resting on his chest as he slept. He seemed to be kicking around slightly as he dreamed, most likely about another adventure. Suddenly, he fell out of the hammock and landed face first on the green grass, with the book resting under his body.
In a thick English accent, the butler to the mansion in the background walked up to the young man and laughed, picking up the book from under his boss's son's body. "The Baron's Betrayal. A classic up there with the Dickens himself, no doubt," he said. He extended the hand holding a tray with a glass of lemonade.
"You lowered the hammock again, didn't you?" Mack frowned, taking the glass of lemonade.
"Well, I thought it best, sir. It's your third fall this month. Reading adventure books seems to be a dangerous endeavour for you," the butler smiled. Mack smiled slightly before taking a sip of the yellow drink, spitting it out while making a sour face. "You'd prefer it sweetened?"
Still coughing from the sour taste, Mack looked up at the older man. "I would." He put the glass back on the tray. "Spencer, any word from Dad? Why can't I ever go with him on any of his archaeological adventures?"
"Perhaps when you've mastered the hammock, sir," Spencer teased, though a smile never appeared on his face.
"Very funny," Mack laughed, making a face at the man. He then turned to the sky as he imagined what it would be like to leave the city, or at least his house. "I'd give anything to be with him on his adventures right now. Digging through ruins looking for the crown of the gods! Corona Aurora..."
"Ah yes," Spencer laughed, as if mocking Mack. "The Corona Aurora. Your father's spent ten years and twice the net worth of New Mexico looking for something that quite frankly – doesn't exist."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Six months later, Kaylee was on the soccer field, practicing her water training after an intense game of soccer against Reefside. She had been lucky enough to play against Conner. Fortunately, Conner had been playing forward in the game, and Kaylee's favourite position was defence, so the two played head on for most of the game. And like usual, after such a hard game, Kaylee found training a great way to relax.
After kicking the last ball into the net, Kaylee walked up to the bench and pulled up her towel to wipe away the sweat. As she did, a gold box fell out from the towel.
Frowning, she reached down the pick it up. She opened it and jumped back slightly, dropping the box, as a hologram picture of a man popped up.
"Hello Kaylee, I've seen you practicing martial Arts after soccer."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Anyone have a clue why we're here?" a small girl, around twenty years old, asked as she walked around the large room Kaylee and four others found themselves in. They had been waiting for a man named Andrew Hartford to show up for about an hour. In that time, everyone had gotten to learn the other's names. The girl who had just spoken was named Rose.
"Nope. Got an invitation, so I showed up," another girl, maybe the same age as Kaylee, smiled. She was the only one everyone in the room kind of knew. She was a professional stock car driver by the name of Ronny Robinson, but after getting to know a little more about her, Kaylee and the others learned that her real name was Veronica Chilman. Why the blonde had changed her last name was lost on everyone.
"This Hartford guy must be some wacky zillionaire. He had me break into his own bank in Brazil!" and African American man smiled. He was Will, and his ego was about the size of twenty elephants.
Suddenly, Mack walked into the room and smiled. In his hands was the same book he had been reading months ago. "Hey guys, what's going on here?"
"Join the party," Ronny smiled. "We got a message from that Hartford guy, just like you!"
"Message? What message?" Mack frowned, suddenly, Andrew Hartford and Spencer walked into the room. Hartford spotted his son and gently, but forcefully pushed him out of the room.
Kaylee turned to Dax, the other man in the room, and laughed slightly. He was the only one who was older than she was. Other than that, the other adults who had been waiting for her were her age – Will and Ronny- or younger – Rose.
"I'm Andrew Hartford," Hartford smiled, catching everyone's attention once Mack was out of the room.
"We kinda got that from the scary mini pop up you," Kaylee smiled.
Andrew smiled. "I'm glad you've all decided to accept my invitation, but before we get started, can I interest anyone in some lemonade? Spencer?"
"Oh thank you, sir," Spencer smiled. "But I'm quite fine."
"For them, Spencer," Andrew frowned. Spencer scoffed and left the room to get the pitcher of lemonade.
Andrew turned back to the young adults before him. "I'm sure you have many questions, and I promise you I will answer every one. But first- I need your help. Without you- without your talents, without your intelligence – our world, our universe – is going to be destroyed."
"Okay..." Dax frowned.
"Why don't you just call the Power Rangers or something?" Kaylee frowned. "This is their job after all."
"I thought all the Rangers were retired. There's not one active Ranger on the planet!" Hartford reminded the blonde.
"Please," Kaylee laughed. "Rangers get their powers back all the time. And with all the money you seem to have, I'm sure you'll have no problem bringing it back."
Hartford frowned, pulling out a tape and putting it into his VCR. Will leaned over and whispered in Rose's ear. "A little low tech for Bill Gates 2.0, isn't it?"
A ball of flames blasted from the sky and fell to a city street. The flames turned into Moltor, a red monster, and several lizards like creatures.
"Lava lizards! Attack!" Moltor called out to his minions before they started attacking the city.
"That was three days ago," Andrew informed the young adults. "Evil has arrived on earth."
"Definitely not the first time," Kaylee frowned.
"And all of this, supposedly because you found some crown?" Ronny asked, remembering Hartford mentioning a crown in his message to her.
"Not just a crown, the Corona Aurora, which according the legend has power not just over this planet, but the universe!" Hartford explained.
"Yeah, and Ducky's real," Kaylee frowned. "Weirder things have happened to me Mr. Hartford, but this is... I dunno, it's like... something Disney!"
"A fairy tale?" Rose asked. Kaylee laughed and nodded.
"Yeah! A fairy tale! Y'know, like sleeping Beauty, or snow white."
Hartford frowned. He just had to pick imaginative teenagers. "Millennia ago, in a galaxy on the other side of the universe, there were two brothers. Moltor-"
"Not helping your case Mr. H," Kaylee frowned.
"No, wait... I think I know this story!" Rose, the genius of the group – literally – smiled. "It's Moltor and Flurious! They tried to steal the Corona Aurora! But the crown was so powerful; it cursed them- changed their appearance and sent them off to distant planets, imprisoning them in their own elements."
Rose smiled to herself, but it fell when she caught the other's looks.
"What? I took a year in ancient universal legends at Harvard!" she explained. "But anyways, the story is just a myth!"
"See!" Kaylee smiled, pointing to the slightly smaller girl. "She knows everything, and even she agrees it's a myth!"
"But there's more!" Andrew smiled. At least he had the attention of everyone in the room. "In order to stop anyone from getting the power again, a guardian took the five jewels from the crown, and scattered them on a distant uninhibited planet."
"This is way better than Sleeping Beauty," Kaylee smiled. "But like I said, it's as real as Ducky, and I know Ducky's not real."
"That planet was earth," Hartford finished.
"Now you've really lost us," Will frowned. "We live on earth."
"Not a millennia ago," Rose reminded the older man.
"Now this," Dax smiled, bouncing slightly, "This would make a great movie! I know this guy, who knows the sister of a cousin of Spielberg's limo driver's aunt! I bet I could play you!" Dax smiled, pointing to Hartford.
Hartford rolled his eyes before bending down and yelling into the vent. "Spencer!"
Spencer, Spencer... his voice echoed. Kaylee's eyes widened and she started hopping like a two year old.
"Lemme try! Lemme try!" she smiled.
Ignoring the former green Ranger's childish acts, Andrew turned back to the others. "I accidentally freed Moltor and Flurious from their imprisonment. Now, thanks to me, they and who knows how many other power-crazed beasts are here or soon will be – looking for the crown."
Kaylee, Rose, Dax, Will and Ronny exchanged unbelieving glances. Andrew knew he had to convince them now before it was too late. He dashed to the wall and moved a picture out of the way. He opened a safe and pulled out a crown.
Spencer walked into the room, with enough lemonade for everyone, just in time to see Ronny turn around to leave.
"Gee, it's getting late," she said. "I'm sure there's an engine overhaul waiting for me, and if not I have a sister to make dinner for. I gotta go."
"Wait!" Andrew called. He ran forward and grabbed Ronny's arm, keeping her from leaving. He knew her background, and her little sister had been gone for years at some unknown boarding school. She, and no doubt the others as well, were probably scarred of him.
"Everything I told you is true!" he said, looking into her soft brown eyes. "I need your help! We need to protect this from falling into the wrong hands."
"You're rich, buy an army," Rose suggested. She saw Kaylee was tense, and seemed ready to attack, ever since Hartford grabbed Ronny, keeping her from leaving. It was most likely in case he tried to pull something funny. When Kaylee had introduced herself, she mentioned that she was invited here for her martial arts skills.
"An army can't stop them!" Hartford frowned. "You can! The five of you have the physical and mental qualities needed, and I have the technology and the money to fight this evil. I can turn you into Power Rangers!"
"Power Rangers? YES!" Dax smiled, pumping his fists in the air.
"Personally, I don't work well with teammates. No offense, guys," Will frowned. "Good luck with your... um... well, just good luck."
Everyone turned to walk out, except Kaylee, and Ronny, but that was because the latter's hand arm was still being held by Hartford. She pulled out of his grip and joined the other three in walking away.
"Spencer! Do something!" Hartford called, desperate.
"I will show them to the door," Spencer said.
"No, no! Stop them!"
"Sir, even you cannot make people do what they do not want to do," Spencer reminded the millionaire.
Just then, a blinding light filled the room as a ghost showed up. He was the guardian of the Corona Aurora.
"He spoke the truth. The fate of your planet, your universe, rests in your hands. I am too weak to go after it myself," the Sentinel Knight said, before fading away.
"This has to be a hoax," Will frowned. "He's got billions! He probably set this all up!"
"No... The danger... it's real," Kaylee whispered, holding up her wrist, which still had her old Dino bracelet/morpher. It turned into her actual morpher, and the other's jaws dropped, including Hartford's.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Far below ground level, the five Ranger recruits were wearing their new black uniforms, each trimmed in their Ranger color. While Rose, Dax, Ronny and Will were getting their genes resequenced to give them all their individual abilities, Kaylee stood to the side, showing Hartford she could already teleport, and control water.
"I told you!" Kaylee smiled. "I can even ZWOP my water!"
Kaylee lifted her finger, pulling out water from a glass on the table. There was a loud pop, that sounded a lot like the word Kaylee had just said, and the water disappeared, only to land on Spencer's head.
"I'm actually still kinda learning the control part," she laughed.
"So what's happening to us?" Will asked.
"Your bodies' physical and mental capabilities are being enhanced by a DNA resequencer, a Hartford Industries design. As your body adapts, you will soon be able to do things, and know things, that only moments ago you thought impossible." Hartford smiled.
"Are we going to turn into a weird fly or something?" Dax asked.
"Not a chance," Hartford chuckled. "That only happened to the first ten people we tested this on."
The four in the resequencer had worried looks. Hartford smiled, "I'm just kidding, this is totally harmless, but you are now stronger and smarter than when you first arrived."
"Why can't I get smarter?" Kaylee asked. "Or stronger?"
"I don't think you need it Kayl, after all, you were the Dino Ranger," Andrew smiled.
"And Ninja!" Kaylee reminded. "And did a little time with Mystic Force!"
Hartford raised his eyebrows, proving his point to the small blonde. Kaylee laughed nervously and moved back into her little corner.
Finally, when the glowing stopped, the Rangers stepped forward and looked around the base they stood in.
"One thing you should know about me," Hartford smiled. "I would never ask you to do anything that I wouldn't do myself."
"Then why the hell can't you get your own damn lemonade?" Kaylee frowned, pointing to the butler, once again holding a tray with lemonade. Spencer smiled at the blonde, only a few hours with her, and she was already his favourite.
"And I didn't see you getting your genes scrambled," Ronny pointed out.
"I'm about to join you right now," Hartford smiled. "I will be the sixth member. The Red Power Ranger! Spencer."
"Sir," Spencer smiled, walking to the side of the machine.
"See, push your own damn button!" Kaylee frowned.
Before Spencer could push the button though, an elevator door slides open and Mack stepped out, smiling as he looked around in awe.
"Dad?" he frowned, seeing his father, the butler and the five others.
"Mack, you need to go home," Hartford ordered.
"Go to your own damn home..." Kaylee whispered, watching as father and son bickered while heading upstairs to speak privately.
"Why don't you all go get some air," Spencer smiled, showing the five to the door.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Outside, Dax hopped up on the base of the fountain as he and the others took a walk around the property. If they were going to stay there, they might as well know where the hell they were going, instead of getting lost when they wanted to leave the house.
"Do you guys feel resequenced yet?" Dax asked. "I feel kinda itchy. Maybe I got resequenced with a flea or something!"
"Maybe you've seen too many movies," Ronny laughed.
"I think we've all seen too many movies," Kaylee smiled. "He's just had an overload."
Will suddenly stopped walking, causing the others to bump into him. "Did you guys hear that?"
He winced as he held his ears with his hands. "It's so loud... and my eyesight! It's telescopular!"
"Telescopular? That's not a word," the Harvard graduate frowned, watching as Will started walking ahead, in the direction of the inaudible loud noise only he could hear.
"Maybe not, but that's what it is," Will said. "Like right now, I see something moving in those bushes."
Kaylee walked ahead of Will and put a hand on his chest, stopping him from getting any closer. They may have been her Ranger allies, but they had yet to receive their morphers. She didn't want them getting hurt before they got in the game.
ZWOP
A cloud of green smoke replaced the small blonde beside Will as Kaylee teleported into the bushes Will had pointed too. Suddenly, the blonde flew out and landed several feet in front of the others. A lava lizard jumped on top of her, pinning her down and taking her out of the fight, leaving the others on their own.
"Get off of me you freak!" Kaylee yelled, desperately trying to help the others. From the corner of her eye, she could see they were fighting the lizards off pretty well, but their butts were still being kicked all around the yard.
The lizard just laughed, which freaked the shit out of the green ranger."The Hell!" she yelled. "You're not supposed to..."
The lizard bit down on Kaylee's arm, causing her to scream. Suddenly she started flicking its nose. "Bad Fido! Let go! Let go!"
The lava lizard let go, and Kaylee brought her feet up, kicking it into the air. When it landed, she jumped on its back and created her own lake underneath, successfully drowning the lava monster.
Suddenly, a yellow blur passed by the blonde. After seeing a few lizards fly through the air, the blur stopped, revealing it was Ronny, running at super speed.
"Hyper speed!" Kaylee giggled, remembering Conner had the same power. "Nice!"
"I'm guessing my genes just resequenced!" Ronny smiled. She turned to Dax when she saw something red coming up behind him. "Dax look out!"
With a yell, Dax jumped up in the air. The others, and the lizards, watched as he went up, and up, and up, and up.
"Um, um, laws of gravity!" Kaylee yelled, holding the arm that had been bitten as it started to sting.
Finally, the man in blue came back to earth, with a smile from ear to ear. "Nice! My legs are like springs!"
"You know," Rose smiled, avoid some attacks from her own set of lizards. "This might be fun after all. What's my power?"
As two lizards closed in on her, the genius started to panic. "What's my power?"
She looked down at her hands, but couldn't see them. "Cool! I'm invisible!"
She back flipped and knocked the two lizards down.
Spencer walked out in the yard, once again holding a tray of lemonade, when he saw his guests were under attack. He dropped the tray and ran inside.
"I think we got them all," Kaylee smiled, regrouping with her friends.
"That was awesome!" Dax exclaimed, jumping up and down, without using his powers.
"You okay?" Rose asked, noticing the blonde holding her arm, as red liquid made its way between her fingers.
"I've had worse," Kaylee smiled. "I've been dead before."
"I'm not even going to ask," Rose frowned. "But still... you should have someone look at that."
Will reached for her arm, but Kaylee pulled it away. "It's my arm, no touchy!"
Slowly, she pulled her hand off and gagged at the sight. Not only was the bite bleeding heavily, but the holes were black. The lizard's teeth were no bigger than a regular's dog's teeth, but the hole's they made were now the size of Kaylee's thumb, and the inside was a dark red color.
To add to the already disgusting wound, Kaylee's arm, from her elbow to her wrist, was starting to swell and turn red.
"I think I'm going to go see... Spencer!" Kaylee smiled Spencer walked up to the group, with Mack right behind him.
"You need to leave right away!" Spencer told the Rangers. He turned to Ronny, Dax, Will and Kaylee. But upon seeing the red on Kaylee's arm and the blood dripping from her opposite hand, he looked away from Kaylee. "You three, you need to ride by yourselves. You'll find the vehicles in the garage. Rose and Kaylee, come with me."
Mack started to follow the three Rangers who were told to head to the garage, but Spencer grabbed his shirt and pulled him back. "You're coming with me too."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Ronny, Will and Dax were riding on their own ATV's with a jeep behind them. In the jeep were Mack, Rose, Kaylee Spencer and Hartford. Kaylee was wrapping a bandage around the bite, assuring the older men that she was fine, while Mack and Rose were talking.
"You guys were awesome!" Mack smiled. "You really gave it to them back there."
"I'm not exactly sure who was giving what to whom, but thanks," Rose smiled, hiding her blush by looking down at Kaylee's arm. "Need help with that?"
Kaylee winced when the fabric once again passed over her bite. Rose took that as a yes and reached to the back of the jeep for the first add kit. She pulled out the hydrogen peroxide and handed the bottle to Kaylee.
"Try this," she offered. Kaylee took some and dabbed some of her bandage into the liquid. She tested it on her bite first, to see how much it would hurt.
"Is it supposed to bubble?" Mack asked, seeing small black bubbles forming on his friend's skin. Kaylee quickly wiped off the liquid and threw the bottle out of the jeep. Hartford turned to her and glared.
"What? I'm not using that stuff again!" she frowned.
"I'll check it out when we get back to the base," Spencer smiled.
"Funny, the retro Ranger is first to go," Mack laughed, but it stopped when Kaylee punched him in the chest. Suddenly, everyone in the car was jerked forward.
Kaylee, Rose and Mack saw more lizards in their path, but these ones were blue.
"The hell? Did they freeze or something?" Kaylee frowned, jumping out of the jeep, with Rose right behind her. Spencer tossed the two their morphers, along with the three others.
"The lizards were destroyed... who are these guys?" Will asked.
"Probably more foot soldiers," Kaylee answered, tossing the other's their morphers. These are your overdrive Trackers, do as I do, and you'll be Power Rangers before you can say awesome!"
"Wait for me guys!" Hartford smiled, jumping out of the jeep. Mack was right behind him.
"Dad, I want to help!" he called.
"I don't know about you guys," Will said, turning away from Mack and Andrew's fighting again. "But we can't wait for Hartford. Let's Ranger up!"
"Just like the good old days!" Kaylee laughed. She stepped in front of her friends, taking the leader role.
"OVERDRIVE ACCELERATE!"
"I've never been leader before!" Kaylee giggled, leading the Rangers into battle.
Back with Andrew and Mack, Hartford was fighting his own battle, with his son.
"Mack, I have to join my team!" Hartford yelled. "The answer's no! Do you hear me?"
"I'll keep an eye on him, sir," Spencer smiled.
Andrew nodded and took a step away from the jeep, only to be attacked by the frozen lizards. He dropped his trackers and Mack saw the opportunity.
"OVERDRIVE ACCELERATE!"
"Guys, its Mack!" Rose smiled, seeing the red ranger join the fight.
"I'm still leader! Called it!" Kaylee yelled playfully.
"Drive Lance!" Mack yelled, calling forth a red and silver lance.
"Drive Slammer!" Will called as a mallet appeared in his hands.
"Drive Vortex!"
"Drive Claws!"
"Driver Geyser!"
Dax, Ronny and Rose each called their weapons, bringing their weapons out on the battlefield and destroying their fair share of Chillers.
"Um... um..." Kaylee frowned, knowing she didn't have a weapon. "Aha!" she smiled.
A group of Chillers surrounded here, getting ready to jump. "Drive ZWOP!"
ZWOP!
Kaylee zwopped out of the way, causing the Chillers to run into each other, successfully destroying themselves with their own weapons. "Awesome!"
There was a flash of lightning as Moltor appeared next to Andrew, who was not only struggling with the Chillers, but a new bunch of Lava Lizards.
"Give me the crown!" Moltor yelled.
"Hey! No touchy the mentor!" Kaylee frowned, jumping in between Moltor and Hartford.
"Do you think you're going to stop me?" Moltor laughed.
"Kinda," Kaylee smiled. "I'm not exactly new at this... whoa, I sound a lot like my sister!"
Moltor smiled, blasting the girl. Kaylee was thrown in the air, over Hartford's head. When she landed, she was no longer morphed.
"Overgrown lava rock," Kaylee mumbled, getting up, exposing her injury to Moltor.
"I see you've been bitten by my pets," Moltor smiled as a Lava Lizard ran up to him, holding the crown.
"Yeah, so? It doesn't hurt... that much," Kaylee frowned.
"Their spit is poison, green Ranger," Moltor smiled to himself, proud he had already taken out one Ranger. "You'll be lucky if you only lose an arm!"
Moltor turned to walk away, but Hartford noticed her still had the crown in his possession. "Kaylee! Get the crown!"
"Get your own damn crown!" Kaylee yelled, jumping back into the fight and trying to steal back the crown, Moltor just turned back to the blonde, pulling out his sword and slashing her across her chest.
"Pathetic Rangers," he laughed, disappearing in a flash of light.
To be continued...