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Chapter 6

Summer '96

"So… you gonna ask Kim out?"

"Hey, I thought our love lives were off limits!"

"Not yours." I smirked, taking a sip of my soda.

Tommy and I met once every two months to discuss random things, mostly Ranger things. "I'm gonna be gone for a few weeks once summer starts, so don't get into trouble."

"We'll try not to."

I walked into the airport three days later only to find Adam standing there, waiting. "Why are you here?" I asked stopping, crossing my arms over my chest.

"Tommy said you were going on a trip. Mind if I come along?"

"He wants you to keep an eye on me, right?"

He didn't reply.

"Fine, come on." We got on the plane headed for Seattle.

"Come on." After we landed, we took a cab a few miles from the airport to a local park. "Okay. It's at 47° 38' 10" north and 122° 16' 35" west." I held up my GPS until a came up to a statue of a lightning bolt in a dense part of the park. I looked at the base until I found a symbol that looked like a clockwise spiral in between to counterclockwise spirals, a small one on top, and a large on the bottom. I moved my hand over the symbol and a box appeared at the base. "One down, four to go." I put the white ring box into my bag and we headed to the train station.

"So, we're going to Chicago next?"

"Yeah." We sat opposite of each other on the train.

"What's in the box?"

I looked around. No one else was in our car. "Can you keep a secret?"

"Yeah."

"Good." I pulled out the white box and my Morpher. "This will explain it better." I handed him my Morpher.

He looked at it, then at me. "You're…?"

"I was. Since this is going to be a long ride, I should probably tell you." I opened the box I'd gotten in Seattle. "This gem is one of six. Each is powerful. A single one is equal to the combined powers of the Zeo crystals. Tommy knew I was looking for the gems, which is why he asked you to come along, to make sure that nothing happens."

"So that's…?"

"This is the Thunder Opal. It's the power source for the White Lightning Ranger, one of the Elemental Squad Rangers."

"Elemental Squad?"

"That's what my team was called. I'm from the future, about ten years. Somehow, I got sent back in time from 2006 to 1994. Since '94, I've been working on a plan to make sure that the events that happened in my past, doesn't happen in your future."

"What're you trying to prevent?"

"A disaster that left the world defenseless and led to the formation of my team. Getting these stones is a part of my plan."

"Where're the other five?"

"The Gale Emerald is outside of Chicago. The Hurricane Sapphire is off the coast of Australia, in the Great Barrier Reef. The Quake Citrine is on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. The last one we're gonna get is the Dawn Diamond in the Arctic Circle."

"What about the sixth stone?"

I touched the Dusk Ruby. "This is the last one. This is the Dusk Ruby. With it, I can control fire." I deliberately left out the fact that I could control darkness with it.

"What're you gonna do once you get all six?"

"Keep them under lock-and-key until I find their owners. See, unlike your powers, these stones choose who gets the power—not the other way around."

We stopped talking and went to eat lunch. The train would take a few more hours to reach Chicago, which meant sleeping on the train.

It was easy to find the Gale Emerald, so after getting it we went to Africa to find the Citrine.

"Hey, didn't your watch just beep?" I asked, pointing to Adam's wrist.

"I'll be right back." He left. Shrugging my shoulders I turned around.

I walked back into the hotel and went to find food. After finishing eating, I left to find a place that I could find some hiking equipment. In order to get the stone, I'd have to climb almost to the summit, which meant that I'd have to be ready for snow. I removed my sneakers and replaced them with local black combat boots, which acted just like hiking boots. I also bought a coat good for -10° F; it would be useful once we got to the north.

Adam came back two hours later. "Good, you're back. Put those on. We're going up the mountain today." I waited outside the shop for him, putting my pack on. "Ready to go?"

"Yeah."

It took us a few hours to reach the mid-way point up the mountain. "How much further?"

"Maybe an hour to reach the shrine."

"Shrine?"

"In a cave near the summit is a shrine and inside is the stone." I capped my water and we continued up the mountain. We soon got to the snow and it became more difficult to move. We found the cave soon after a blizzard started to form on the summit.

"I like snow and all, but this may be overdoing it a bit." I undid my hood and lowered it.

"Why is this one harder to get to than the last two?"

"Each has its own protection against someone taking it. I'm going in order from the easiest to reach to the hardest, so trust me, this is easy compared to the last one we're gonna get."

The shrine was empty of anything living and on the back wall was a pedestal. In Chicago there was a riddle, so it was no surprise to see something like that here.

"Help me move that dais." I dropped my pack and lifted the stone. When it was in the center it lit up and a gold box appeared at the top. "That's it." I grabbed the box and we left.

"How about we head south next?" Adam suggested once we got to the bottom of the mountain.

We got on a plane three days later and headed to Sydney. Once there, we took a bus up the coast to Cairns. We rented a boat and then went out to the reef.

"It's only just beneath the water." I was in scuba gear.

I leaned back and dove into the water. The blue box was inside a courtyard of coral.

We spent a week in Australia. Kat had come home for a while so we visited her.

Once the week was up, we got back on a plane and went to Rome, where we caught our next flight to Station Nord, Greenland. From there we took a helicopter as far north as we could and continued on snowmobile after that.

Cape Columbia, the final place to go to find the last box, the black box.

We had to go by foot once we came to the ice ridge. Covered in climbing gear, we crossed the ice bridge. From there it was only half a mile until we reached the box. The ice and snow was dangerous, but I guess it was better that we were in an ice cavern instead of outside. At least in here there was no arctic wind.

"The last one's over there." I pointed to a dais with a pedestal in the center. I walked up to it, Adam on my heels. We had to cross a very thin bridge to get the dais. I grabbed the black box, and we headed back. We never made it to the other side, because the ice broke and we fell.

End Chapter 6