Chapter 2

Red Ranger, Part 1

„Welcome to Space…", Zoe said to her teammates as they had left the earth behind.

Cam, Nicole and Matt looked through the windows and they all were impressed.

"Beautiful...the earth is beautiful...", Cam whispered and Nicole nodded. She wasn't able to say something cause she was overwhelmed by the view of her Home.

"Serenity activation sequence initalized", Zoe said, as she pushed some buttons on her "Steering wheel" what looked more loke some kind of joystick than the steering wheel of spaceship.

"Code accepted. Serenity initialized and online", a female Computervoice said.

"Welcome. I'm Serenity, the main computer of this spaceship.", the Voice said.

"Serenity is a new system developed for this mission. She reacts very fast and helps us survive in this mission", Zoe explained.

"Wow...", Matt commented and opened his seatbelt what made him fly through the air.

"no Gravitation...", Zoe sighed. "Serenity, synthetic Gravitation, please..."

"Sure Agent Hawkins. Gravitation System online. Sequence initialized. Synthetic Gravitation in 5,4,3,2,1. Action!"

And all of sudden Matt landed on the floor.

"Ouch...wouldn't it have been possible to catch me?", he asked as he rubbed his back.

The others only laughed and Matt got back to his seat.

"Now we start the real trip...", the captain told and everybody looked at her. "The crystals aren't here. We have to travel to another glaxy that is similar to our one. Serenity will open a gate for us and we jump to the other galaxy.", Zoe explained and the others nodded.

They didn't understand how this whole thing worked but they had to trust their captain.

"Serenity...Open the gate...we jump!", Zoe gave another command and serenity obeyed.

The Computer started the gate generator and the ship accelerated.

"Fasten your seatbelts! We have to have 200 mph to make it!", Zoe shouted, as the ship got faster and faster.

"Whohooo", Zoe laughed as the gate opened in front of them and they left the galaxy through the shining portal.

"Welcome to a new galaxy...", Zoe smiled as she slowed down and the ship stopped inbetween new stars no one of them had ever seen.

"This was...amazing...", Matt breathed and the others just were able to agree to him.

"Okay...Everybody check the ship and then come here again. I'll search for the first crystal", Zoe commanded and the others set off, all except from Matt who was going to help Zoe.

They searched some time, but nothing was found by the intergalactical scanner the scientists had integrated in the spaceship. Although the seperate Scanners of serenity weren't able to find something.

"Damn...", Zoe cursed, but she couldn't do anything. She leant back in her seat and sighed. She had thought it would be easy to find them but she was wrong and this was something she really hated. Being wrong.

"automatic pilot", she gave a command to serenity and the stood up.

The others came back and reported that nothing was wrong with the ship. All systems were ready and online.

"okay. This are communicators", Zoe explained as she gave the little headphone-like subjects to the others.

"If there are problems just call the others. We're all linked with this. And now you can go to your rooms. They are down the hall. Just look at the signs."

The others nodded and left the bridge to look in their rooms. This was a part of the ship they hadn't seen yet.
They all just had been to the special places where they were thought to work. The medical centre, the machinehall, the reactor where the weapons were set.

"You can leave, too, if you want", she said to Matt, but he shook his head.

"No...I wanna find out how serenity works...", he said and then started tipping on his pad again. Zoe smiled and left the bridge.

She walked through the halls until she arrived at her room.
"Open", she said and the door slided away to give view to a small but comfortable room. She stepped inside and the door closed behind her. She set down on her desk and took a book she used as her diary.

She had written lots of lines into it. And now she would use it as a logbook.

She turned some of the pages and then started writing down all information she got about her crew.

After she had ended she closed the book and out it back into her desk, before she locked it and took the key into her pocket.

Then she stood up and walked to her bed, where she lay down and closed her eyes. She was sleeping bad since some weeks. And not very much, cause every five hours another general ahd called her to rescue an island, save some people from a big wave.

Zoe took a deep breath and got ready to sleep, when her communicator rang.

She moaned and took it from her pocket.

"Yes? What is it?", she asked and heard Jordan speaking on the other end. He explained that they spotted something and she should come to the bridge.
She sighed and set off for the bridge.

When she arrived she knew what they meant. There was something on the radar screen.

"Looks like ome asteroids...we just need to cruise around them", Zoe thought aloud as she had view to the stonelike things coming to them.

She sat down on her seat and took her joystick.
"Serenity, automatic pilot offline. I take the steering wheel...", she gave a command and serenity obeyed the same moment.

"Everybody sit down...", she said to the others and then began to fly around the stones. Some od them hit the ship very lightly, but no harm was to be repaired.

After they had left the field of asteroids behind Zoe breathed out and leant beack in her seat. The others did so too, before the most of them stood up.

"I'll check the medicine room", Cam said and headed for the central. Also Nicole and Carter left the bridge.
Kenneth stayed to check if they left their direction and Jordan also stayed at his seat.

"I'll go back to my room. If there are Problems call me. Jordan...take the joystick, I think you are able to fly this ship.", Zoe said to the young man who came to the captains seat and sat sown after Zoe had explained the technic to him.

After having come to her room she was happy to be able to lie down and relax a bit. She really was sure that Jordan was able to fly the shuttle. He knew how to use the mechanic and his expierience as a motocycle driver helped him.

Soon Zoe had fallen asleep.

suddenly the ship was hit by something and Zoe was awake immidiately. Another hit mad her fall out of her bad and she got really angry.
She hated beeing disturbed in sleeping.

"Jordan...What are you doing?", she shouted in her communicator, but nobody answered.

"Well...it was a mistake to trust him...", she thought.

She took her veste, that was a part of her uniform and got out of her room. Everything was silent. She suddenly slowed down, cause something was strange.
Nobody met her.
No one of her teammates also set off to the bridge.

She walked down the hall and then heard some voices coming from the commando central.

"Hey...who do you think you are...", Jordan asked, before he got silent.

Zoe looked reound the corner and saw the other in the middle of the room. They were tied together and a man stood in front of them, using a blaster to make them be silent.

"Why do I always have to rescue somebody?", Zoe thought as she went on. She was very silent, because she knew what to do. She was a special agent and because of that she had done such things from time to time.

Cam suddenly looked at her and nearly called her, but Zoe showed her to be quiet.

Then she put up her hands and everybody stood still.

"Nice...", she thought.

Dr. Ortiz had told her that she will get some powers from the stone and as is seemed it was the control over time that she got.

She stepped into the room and took the blaster from the man, before she unleashed them from beeing frozen.

"Don't move", she told the man as she put the blaster against his head.

He was confused and didn't dare doing a single move.

The others looked at her and she went to them, cutting the robe with a lase.

"I can't leave you alone a single minute...", she told them without looking at them.
Her eyes were fixed at the stranger standing next to her.

He also looked at her and watched all of her movements. He then tried to step back, but Zoe fastened her grip and shouted at him: "I said NO MOVE! I promise you I'll shoot!"

The man stopped and looked again at her.
"How come you were so fast?", he asked and Zoe grinned.

"I wasn't fast. I just held time", she told him and raised from her former position.
"Who are you?", she asked him and came nearer. The gun always directed on his head.

"I'm nobody...", he told with a smile.

Zoe got angry.
"Don't dare making fun of me...", she told him. "Tell me who you are, or you'll be dead."

"Okay, okay...relax. My name is Jaycen.", he told her and put down his arms he had raised the moment he had felt the gun on his head.

"Ah...Jaycen...", Zoe said and commanded Jordan to tie the man up with the rope he himself had used a minute before.

After they had bound him to one of the seats they got to a corner.

"What happened?", Zoe asked the others and Jordan explained that their ship had been hit by some laserblasts, before the man had come on board. He had kidnapped Camryn and forced the others to stay where they are.

"we had to or Camryn would have been killed...", Jordan told her and Zoe nodded. It had been right to do what he had said.

"What do we do with him...?", Nicole asked.

"If you ask me we should throw him out of the ship...", Kenneth answered what made the others laugh.

"No...we don't throw him out...that's not our style. We keep him here until we know what he wanted.", Zoe decided and the others nodded.

"Let's take him to the medical centre. It's the only room to ask him some questions...", she then said and the others nodded again.

"Okay...stand up!", she told the man who immideately did what he was told, cause Zoe underlined her words with his own blaster.

They set off for the medical centre. The man walking in front of Zoe who always held the gun at his back.

She watched all of his movements.

He was taller than her. His skin was bronzed and she had noticed his piercing eyes that were colored in a mixture of blue, grey and green what made them beautiful.

His hair was dark brown and cut short.

He wore something that looked like a kind of uniform but one arm was ripped away and all and all it looked like it had seen better days.

Zoe moved with him to the medical centre where she forced him to sit down on a chair.

"Okay...now let's play a game. I ask you a question and you give me an answer and if I don't like it you'll get hurt...", she told and positioned herself in front of him, the blaster ready in her hand.

"First question. Who are you?"

"You asked me that earlier...", he told her, but she held up the gun, " okay, okay...as I told you, my name is Jaycen, Special Agent Jaycen Corvatt"

"What kind of Special Agent are you, that you have to enter a foreign ship and kidnapp the crew?", she asked on.

"You're ship is an unknowen type and I thought it to belong to the armada of our villains"

"What...", Zoe began as the ship was hit again. She fell back and lost the blaster, that slided away to the other corner of the room.

She was about to head for it as it was directed at her forehead.

"How did you say earlier? No Move...". Jaycen said with a grin on his face. Somehow he had managed to get rid of the rope and now stood in front of her, with the blaster in his hand.

As her communicator turned on, she didn't dare moving, but Jaycen took it and listened to Jordan reporting him of an attack.

After that Jaycen turned the communicator off and looked at Zoe.

He graped her arm and pulled her to her feet.

"Now, let's play your game the other direction", Jaycen told her, but Zoe stayed silent. She wouldn't tell him a single word.

"Say something, or I'll shoot you", he told her with anger in his voice, but she disobeyed.

Suddenly there was another hit and the whole ship trembled. Zoe was able to get out of his grip and ran away from the stranger, because the sensors in her morpher told her there were some unexpected visitors in the machienehall.

She headed for the room and didn't believe what she saw, when she arrived.

A huge number of alliens looking like a mixture of lizards, fish and bats looked around the hall and then started attacking her as they notcied the woman.

"Oh shit...", she cursed as she was hit by the first, before she started protecting herself. She fought the beasts but they were too much for her.

As the ship was hit again, she trembled and was hit by one of the beasts. Now she was really angry and took out her morpher.
"Not your luckiest day friends,,.", she told the monsters that looked at her, before she shouted: "Life Change – Spirit Evolution" and morphed into the White Ranger.

The fight got interesting, as she destreoyed one enemy after the other.

Suddenly the morpher bieped alound and Camryn was calling for help.
"Sorry...I'm busy with some aliens in the machiene room...Call the others and morph", she told the girl who gave an okay.

Cam had the same problem as her Teamleader. The monsters were everywhere in the shuttle and all of them fought the enemys. They all morphed into their Ranger Form and were able to defeat the monsters one after the other.

Then the Ship was hit again. This time they were shot six times and all of them fell down to the ground.

Zoe in the machinehall, fell over some kind of balustrade and landed on her back.
"Ouch...", she moaned, as she was attacked again by several of the monsters.

"Can't you just go away", she asked them but she was sure to know the answer.

She fougt them again and soon had destroyed all of them.
As she was sure to have forgotten no monster she headed for the bridge as the ship suddenly accelerated and she was pulled down to the ground.

"Jordan, what the hell are you doing?", she yelled into her communicator, as she had found him in the medical centre. As she had expected their prisoner wasn't there anymore.

"I'm not Jordan...", the voice said, "Jordan is busy!"

Zoe noticed who had spoken.

"Shit...", she thought as she rose from the ground and headed again for the bridge, where she found Jaycen sitting on her seat.

"Go away...you're not allowed to fly this ship!", she told him, but he just looked at her with amusement in his face.

"If I get away, you all will be dead...because I know who is attacking your ship, so would you please calm down and shut up", he told and Zoe was speachless.

She looked at him and her eyes got really dark, but she was powerless, he had his blaster and sat on the joystick.

Zoe stood there as they suddenly slowed down and the others came back to the bridge again. They all demorphed and looked at the man steering their ship and then at Zoe who just shrugged.

After her question about the monsters they all reported to have beaten them.

Zoe noddend and then watched the momentary pilot again.

"Okay...now we're save...", he told after he had stopped and stood up from the seat. "And if you would be so nice to let me explain, I'll tell you everything you want to know"

The Rangers looked at Zoe who slowly nodded.

"First of all the monsters you have fought are called Snarts. They are footsoldiers of Orgon, a powerful alien trying to take over the reign about this galaxy. I'm an agent from a secret organization on a far away planet and I was sent to fight them together with a team. But we were trapped and my team got lost. When I saw your ship I thought you to be allies of Orgon and because of that I roped you up. But now I'm sure you're not...", he told them.

"No we're not. We are from earth and we search for a Power source to save the planet from collapsing...", Zoe told Jaycen who nodded.
"The Power Crystals...", he whispered and all of the rangers looked at him.

He told them everything he knew about them.

"And as it seemed we are allies now, because Orgon searches them, too. If he get's them he'll be able to take over the control of the galaxy, the earth included."

"Okay...let's work together...", Jordan said and wanted to shake hands with Jaycen, but Zoe held him back.

"I don't trust him...", she said and watched Jaycen.

"Thanks for telling us all those information, but we don't need your help. As you have seen, we are able to protect us with our own powers.", she said to Jaycen whose face turned dark.

"If I hadn't been here the battle ship that attacked you would have destroyed your ship...", he said and his voice sounded very angry.

"Yeah...well...thanks, but as I told you we don't need any more help from you."

Jaycen looked at her as well as the others. They didn't understand why Zoe acted this way, but she was the commander.

"To show how thankful we are, we take you to your planet, but nothing more...", she told him,but he refused the offer and stepped out of the commandocentral.

Zoe stayed where she was, her arms crossed and watched him leave.

"Ken, follow him and make sure he leaves the ship. Then come back and find out where we are", she told him and Ken nodded before he followed Jaycen.

"Matt check the Systems, Jordan go and find out about the machienes, Cam you go and check the medical services...", she gave the commands and they all did what they were told.

No one dared telling her that she was acting wrong in the way she had treated Jaycen. He had saved them and even Zoe knew that, but that was her character. She trusted nobody she wasn't forced to.

She sat down on her seat and started scanning through the systems if they got any harm, but nothing was wrong.

Some of the laserblasts had harmed a few parts of the outer mantle, but Serenity was fixing them already.

Jaycen was angry. He was really angry. How could this woman dare telling him this things, how could she dare sending him away with those words.

"Hey...wait!", Ken shouted after he had finally reached him.

"What do you want? More nice words for me?", he asked but Kenneth denied and told him what his commands were.

"pah...", Jaycen said and headed for his shuttle.

"I know you saved us and that Zoe is wrong...but this is her...", Ken told him and shrugged, "She is complicated..."

"Oh yeah?", Jaycen asked with sarcasm in his voice.

He finally reached his ship and got in. He said good bye to Kenneth and wished them luck. They would need it with such a leader, he told him and then took off.

"I hope we don't regrett losing him...", Kenneth told himself as he left.

The ship had been repaired a few hours later and they had turned around to get back to their old direction.

Every member of the crew worked silent, but all of them had the same oppinion. Zoe had been wrong. Jaycen could have helped them a lot.
And all of them knew it even Zoe herself, but no one of the others dared telling her this.

Suddenly they were attacked again.

"Villain Battleship at ten...", Kenneth told Zoe from his place.

"Carter, set all the lasers online, let's see how good they work...", Zoe commanded and Carter obeyed.

"Weapons online. Lasers at Power level of 57 , time to get the full level, 3 minutes", he informed.

Then they began to shoot at the battleship but none of their hits did any harm to the ship.

"Target hit several times, but no effect", Nicole informed the Captain.

"Fire again...Carter how far is the laser loaded?", she asked.

"75", he answered as the battleship also began to shoot.

Then there was a light blue light and all system collapsed.

"Systems offline. Nothing can be done by us...", Matt said and Zoe cursed.
They were pulled into the other ship.

To be continued...

N/A: Okay...Part 1 of Red Ranger finished...anybody who knows who will become the red Ranger?? XD