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Ch. 4 Survival

"Where are we?" Kelsey asked going to help Dana.

"Olympius is here, but I don't know where we are exactly." She looked around

"Hey do you know what they want to do with us?"

"I heard them when we were first brought here that they were going to use me for something and they needed some kind a ceremonial ritual." Both girls talked as normally as they would be if the subject had been the weather. They knew that they had to figure out a way to get out of there and panicking wasn't going to do anyone any good.

"Is there anyway that we can get a message some way to let the others know where we are?"

"Last time I was here I saw an old radio and some other things in a corner but I doubt they work and I can't remember exactly where they are." Dana was racing through her memory trying to find some detail that might help them.

"Dana if you were to get to the radio, do you think you could send out some kind of signal to them?"

"Yeah but… hey where's your phone?"

"Phone?" Kelsey was confused. If she had her phone things would be a lot easier but she knew that they most likely took it. She searched her pockets, nothing.

"I don't have it they probably took it." Kelsey said disappointed.

"But it still gives off a signal…" Dana reminded her.

"If they could track it…"

"We would need to give them a clue…"

"Something to let them know…"

"They need to look for it…" Kelsey knew where she was going. Both girls were the best at what they did and they weren't going to go down easily.

"Ok we need to find that radio." The ex-yellow ranger went over to the cell's bars and tried looking outside.

"There's five battlings and this thing seems like it won't budge."

"Kels their going to come for me…..I'll distract them and you run and find the raido."

"What are you going to do?" Kelsey asked looking at Dana who seemed lost in thought.

"I'll do whatever I can but you have to send out the signal ok?" She looked towards her friend.

"Ok I will." They went over to a corner getting ready for when one of them would be taken away.

"Anything?" Ryan asked impatiently

"Nothing" Chad radioed in "The oceans empty." They weren't going to search the water since demons didn't go near it, but now they were desperate.

"The skies are clear." Joel reported.

"This can't be possible! How could they just have disappeared into thin air?!" Carter said slamming his fist into the monitor.

Ryan saw that the screen was failing, it got fuzzy and then there was a voice.

"Carter?"

Carter looked up "Turn up the sound!"

"(buzz) Help ….the (buzz)…Dana….

(Buzz)…..Carter…My…(buzz)….phone." Then the line went dead and the screen showed the lightspeed logo.

"Was it just me or did you guys hear that?" Joel said wondering if what he heard was right.

"It sounded like…" Ryan interrupted Chad before he could finish

"Kelsey"

"She said something about her phone. Try getting her signal again!"

"Their somewhere in….caves?" Angela reported after checking the coordinates.

"Rangers get your morphers and head out!" Captain Mitchell called in to the four remaining rangers.

They ran out to the rescue rover and each got into their seats. Justin was close behind, it had been decided that he would be going with the rangers, much to dislike of Carter.

"Ugh!" Kelsey was pushed down hard to the ground.

"What were you doing?!" Vypra grabbed her hair and brought her closer to her face.

"Bite me!" Kelsey said

"You're going to pay yellow ranger!" Vypra dragged her to the cell. Kelsey didn't enjoy that since the floor had lots of sharp stones that kept cutting her.

When she was thrown into the cell Dana was already there. She crawled over to her and then Vypra left.

"I thought only Olympius was here." Kelsey asked.

"I guess she came back from where ever she had gone."

"Dana we have to get out of here, knowing them they aren't just going to make you hold a cup. Their going to kill you and me since I'm not of any use. We need to get out of here." Kelsey knew that they didn't have much time left.

"Yeah I know I kinda figured but nothing has come to mind, besides it's not like I can really move this stupid leg is useless." She said slapping her broken leg gently.

(2 hours later)

"Vypra don't mess with them! You'll have you're time but for know they're mine!" The two ex-rangers heard Olympius telling Vypra sharply.

"Fine but I don't understand why you need them in one piece." Vypra took something from his hand something that most likely was the keys to the cells.

"Dana!" Kelsey whispered.

They saw Vypra coming near; she went over and started opening the door, behind her were 10 battlings ready for action.

"Get them and make sure they don't escape!" Kelsey helped Dana get to her feet and then 5 of them took Dana and the others took Kelsey.

Dana had trouble keeping up with then and they had to constantly push her to get her to move faster. Kelsey tried getting away from them, but knew it was useless since there were 10 more battlings watching their every move.

When they finally came to a stop, they saw that it was a dark circular room with pillars surrounding it. It was empty for the most part except for a small table and a knife. There was also a big hole in the middle that seem to giving off a black sort of light.

"You rangers have troubled us for the last time, now you're going to help us bring back the person you destroyed!" Vypra went through two of the pillars and was off.

"Come on guys" Ryan said

"We're almost there." announced Chad.

They were all in their uniforms, and Justin was sitting behind Ryan who had taken shotgun.

"Dana no matter how much it hurts you have to fight them off." said Kelsey.

Dana nodded and the battlings tighten their grip on both girls as Olympius and Vypra approached.

"Bring me the pink one." Olympius said, Kelsey turned to look at her friend whose face showed no emotion. It was the professional face that every ranger wore at one point.

The battling dragged her to their new master.

"What do you want?!" Dana asked furious that she couldn't do anything to stop them.

"You my dear are going to help me bring my mother back, and then we're going to destroy your precious city!" He took her arm and pulled her towards him, then picked up the knife and stretched out her arm. Dana felt the pain of his sharp hands but refused to show him her pain, knowing it would only please him more.

He cut her arm right above her veins; she only let out a small yell at the cut she received. Blood started gushing out and Olympius brought her hand above the hole and let the blood fall in, making the smoke turn red.

"Stop it!" Kelsey yelled, and then there was a big bang and the battlings started coming in from every directions.

The rangers ran in while Joel went over and tried to help Kelsey out with Vypra. Carter Ryan and Chad pulled out their guns. Dana quickly hit Olympius with her free arm ignoring the cracking that her fingers made. Since the rangers had to deal with more pain than normal they went through many training sessions to get over the pain so this didn't really bother Dana as much as it would to someone without the training.

Olympius grabbed by her hair as she tried to leave and pulled her closer to him. Just as the rangers shot at him Olympius pulled her even more and put her in between him and the rangers.

"Dana NO!" Ryan yelled as his shot hit her square in the chest. Vypra ran to the hole holding Kelsey tightly. And before any one of them had time to react the demons threw both girls in. They herd one of them scream as they were thrown in.

"Kelsey!" Joel yelled

"No!" yelled Justin who was busy trying to fight of one battling.

Dana and Kelsey were holding onto the edge of a rock close to the top of the hole. The bottom was filled with some sort of lava.

"I'm slipping!" Kelsey screamed

"Don't let…..Ahh ugh…!" Kelsey let go and Dana grabbed her before she fell. Dana screamed in pain as Kelsey pulled on her shattered wrist. She knew she couldn't let go.

"Cover!" Carter yelled and ran over to them along with Ryan and Jason. Joel and Chad had each taken on a demon.

Carter stretched out his hand for Dana to take.

"Kels climb up."

"But…"

"Just do it! Ugh Ahh!" Kelsey quickly reached her back when Ryan and Justin brought her up. Carter pulled Dana up once Kelsey was safe. As he was about to bring her up Olympius pulled him up and threw him. Then turned towards Dana and picked her up and threw her against a pillar.

"Carter!" yelled Joel and Chad when they saw him hit the floor.

Olympius went over to were she had hit the floor and took out a sword from out of his back, he pulled her up from her hair and thrusted the sword into her stomach.

She let out a little cry and fell to her knees.

"NO!" Carter when he saw what had happened

Ryan was helping Kelsey fight Vypra.

"Take care of him!" Carter turned to Olympius

All three of them fought him off until they were able to get him close enough to the hole. They threw him in and Vypra disappeared quicker than anyone could see. Justin went over to Dana once the battlings vanished. She had blood dripping from the side of her lip.

The stabbing pain was all she could feel she didn't know where she was or what had happened. The pain drowned her into darkness, she tried to remember something that would help her get out of the choking pain.

"Carter?" she asked as Justin leaned over to her.

"No." he didn't want to touch her, he didn't want to hurt her more than she was already. Carter and the others came near; he knelt down next to her and demorphed.

Justin stood up and moved away from them. Carter ripped a piece of his shirt and tied it around her bleeding arm. He lifted her up to him and applied pressure to the wound she had just received.

"Carter." She whispered looking into his blue eyes. How she loved looking into those eyes they always made her feel safe.

"Shhh…..its ok I'm here." He whispered to her as he brought her face close to his and picked her up. She seemed so fragile to him, she had always been small compared to the rest of them but now she seemed extremely small. He pulled out her necklace from under his shirt. She was going to be alright she had always trusted him. She was finally able to let go the pain washed over her, but she couldn't move or make a sound. She hear him say

"Hold onto this." He put it on her. "It'll keep you safe from now on." The lightspeed rescue officer couldn't understand the rest, not that she really wanted to she only wanted to hear his voice.

"Call for an ambulance we need to get her and Kelsey to a hospital." He turned around to the others.

"Hey! I'm fine." Kelsey chimed in.

"Me too!" she whispered and then gave a soft cough. He chuckled nervously feeling the panic go over him as the blood continued to flow on his hands. He picked her up to take her outside. She could tell even know that he seemed worried and she couldn't understand why. It made her very sad that he was worried and she didn't know why.

They started walking to the entrance and they could hear the ambulance coming, Captain Mitchell had probably sent it just in case. She quickly thought of some way to make him feel better.

"Don't leave me." Dana whispered so softly that Carter doubted he had even heard that. She tried to search for his hand, and wrapped two fingers around his hand.

"Huh?" he said softly not wanting everyone else behind him to hear.

"I do lov…" Her voice trailed off and her eyes closed as her hands dropped to her side.

"Dana? Dana?!" He shook her "Dana please!" He was so scarred. He put her down and searched for a pulse. Nothing.

The rest of them went over to see what had happened. Kelsey made Ryan put her down from his back.

"Come on!" He started giving her CPR "Don't do this! Don't you do this!"

"Carter?" Chad asked going over to check her plus "Her pulse is very weak we need to get her to the hospital quickly."

Carter quickly picked her up and they rushed over to the ambulance and put her on the stretcher.

"Who's going with her?" asked the paramedic seeing that both men were staying pretty close to her.

The two of them looked at each other; the paramedic saw that this was going to be hard.

"Fine you both can get in."

"We'll follow you two in the rover." Chad said to Ryan who would be riding with Kelsey. ("I'm fine let go!" Kelsey was fighting with the paramedics "Don't touch it hurts!")

"Ok good."

"Dana's a tough girl." Joel said seeing the worry look in his friends face.

"Yeah she'll be fine." Chad put in.

They each got in their rides and went drove off. Each of the cars had there sirens going off.

"….Promise…. (Cough) you'll…never (Cough)…." Dana was breathing heavily trying to get the words out. Carter and Justin were surprised when she half opened her eyes and spoke. Then again they both knew she always did things without asking anyone.

"..Leave….me….you'll be….." She started breathing heavily but was determine to get everything out.

"One (Cough)…way or the….other." She slightly tightened her grip on Carter. They both answered at the same time. "I won't" And then looked up at each other. They both gave each other deadly looks and then returned to look at each Dana. She seemed like a child, Carter wanted to pick her up and never let anyone touch her. He loved her so much he could never let anyone hurt her. He would give his life for her not to be in her place. Justin was in complete shock to all this; this was all so new to him and the hardest part of all was having to see the love of his life go through it all.

"….Promise… (Cough)" she moved Carter's hand again though it wasn't with much force.

He leaned over and kissed her forehead and then whispered in her ear "I promise."

"Never ever?" she whispered softer than ever.

"Never ever." He kissed the back of her hand softly.

"So what is she to you guys?" the paramedic asked regretting doing it as soon as the words left his lips.

"She's my fiancé." Justin replied instantly.

"And…. my …. best friend." Carter wasn't sure if he saw a small smirk on Dana's face.

"Code blue…" Carter heard the driver call in through the radio. He started rubbing his finger against the back of her hand. She was going to be fine he told himself over and over again. He closed his eyes and thought about her smile, her kiss …..

"Are you alright?" The paramedic asked staring at him.

"She's going to be fine." He answered not as a question but as a reassuring statement.

"Uh…Yeah." The paramedic answered not expecting to hear that answer.

Suddenly there was a scream, Dana clutched at her stomach with her hand, finally letting go of Carter's hand. The pain was overwhelming; had the pain always been there she wondered? The blood started gushing out even more now that she was squirming in pain. The paramedic tried to calm her but it was useless, Carter took her face in his hands.

"Look at me Dana! Listen you have to stop moving ok?! Remember everything you were taught. Stop moving please. I'm right here I won't let anyone hurt you." She was breathing very heavily and let go off her stomach.

"Apply pressure right here." He told Jason pointing above her leg which had started to bleed again. Jason did as he was told and the paramedic gave Dana a shot. Jason looked up at he two ex-rangers. Carter was leaning by her ear whispering something unintelligible and holding her hand gently.

After a few minutes of heavy breathing and pain filled sounds coming from Dana she relaxed and her eyes slowly closed.

Once the ambulance got to a stop the paramedic and driver got off and brought the stretcher down. There was a group of doctors waiting at the entrance that sprang to life one they were all done getting her down. Carter was surprised at how tightly Dana had his hand; she wouldn't let go, even when she seemed to be asleep. If her face and hair hadn't been covered in blood she would have looked perfectly peaceful. He was in a daze; the doctors rushed her in and then stopped him at the doors labeled 'Emergency'.

"I have to go in with her!" he protested not letting her go.

"Sir you have to wait here, we're not going to be able to help her if you don't let her go." The nurse said strictly trying uselessly to push him back; Carter was very strong and wasn't moved easily.

Her last words made him finally let go and he saw how her hand gently slipped away from his, the doors swung back and forth limply as they rushed her off.

"Let's go to the waiting room." Carter was startled when Jason spoke he had forgotten that there was someone with him. He turned around slowly, sighed, and reluctantly trailed after Jason.

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