A/N: the final part of this story. Enjoy.


Dana watches as Joel marched up to her father. Since he is not a threat, Captain Mitchell simply remains calm and watches the Skycowboy stop right in front of him.

"I don't know who you are, but this is illegal." Joel puts his hands on his hips for dramatic effect. "This is kidnapping!"

The Captain takes a deep breath. He turns his head to the others in the room. "I'm Captain William Mitchell. None of you will be held against your will, you are free to go-"

"See ya!"

Joel makes his way to the exit before the Captain can finish. The leader if the Aquabase sighs and waits. A security officer stops Joel at the entrance. Feeling the threat that the guard wordlessly gave, he turns back to the captain.

"That is, after you hear me out." Captain Mitchell motions towards chairs and tables. "Please, have a seat."

Dana and her father share a look before he begins the story he used to tell her at bedtime; of course at her behest. Dana leans back against the wall and listens.

"5000 years ago, this part of the earth was inhabited by evil spirits. Demons if you will. Their only purpose was to destroy and conquer. Luckily there was a warlock who was strong enough to conquer them. Finally the demons were captured and entombed. But we always feared that one day they would escape and would return to Mariner Bay. Now the tomb has been compromised and the demons have been released back into our world. Lightspeed has developed technology and highly sophisticated weapons that can stop them."

The Captain motions to Dana. She goes to the table and places each person's file in front of them. They all look down in shock.

"Because of your skills," the Captain continues, "you have been chosen to protect the city. You've been chosen to become Lightspeed Power Rangers."

Kelsey is the first to speak, barely a second later. "You built this whole Aqua Base so that the four of us could fight off a bunch of angry demons?"

The Captain couldn't help but smile. "That's putting it simply, but yes."

Dana notices that Joel is still not convinced. He looks up from his hands. "I heard you out. I think you're nuts. I'm outta here!"

"Miss Mitchell, please escort Mr Rawling off of the Base." The Captain said plainly.

"Yes sir."

She walks over to Joel, disappointment evident in her facial features.

"Wait!" the two of them turn back to look at Carter who has gotten up from his seat. "That explains it. When I was saving the girl, I saw someone in the flames. It was one of them! One of the demons."

"Father -" Dana calls to him, but the com-line interrupts.

Dana gets the headset for him.

"Sir, you need to see this!" a distressed worker says.

"Bring it up on the monitor." He orders.

The screen shows the spirits from the crypt terrorizing the civilians. They blow up buildings and chase them down.

"I'm in sir!" Carter declares.

"Me too!" Kelsey says.

"I wanna help!" Chad says.

Dana gives a small smile and turns to Joel. He looks at the other three, who are looking at him.

"What do we do first?"

Dana's smile grows. Her father opens the briefcase that is lying on the table. He turns it towards the four.

"These are your Rescue Morphers." They each take one. "They are worn on your wrist."

There are five morphers in the case. Dana had overheard one of the developers saying that a member of the Lightspeed personnel was going to be the fifth member of the team. She looks out into the hall, thinking that the person may be running late.

"Dana." Her father's voice brings her out of her thoughts. He has a morpher in his hand. She looks at him in confusion. "For 18 years, I've been training you for this. This is why you were used as the test pilot for all of the Mark One suits. We needed someone with experience on the team, someone who the others could lean on in uncertain situations. It's yours… if you want it."

He smiles at her and she nods. All that time thinking her father didn't trust her to do things on her own, yet he was prepared to give her a mission as dangerous as this. She puts the morpher on and joins the others.

"Alright Rangers. It's time to get to work!"

Dana leads the team through the halls of the Aqua Base. For today she would have to be the leader of the team. The first thing she has to do is pass by the locker room.

"These are your jackets. Grab one."

Once they all have their correct jackets (Chad and Joel accidentally grab the wrong ones) she takes them down to the launching bay, where their car waits. The boys voice their admiration for the Lightspeed Rescue Rover. Dana gets the keys from one of the personnel and throws them to Carter.

"Why does he get to drive?" Joel asks, a little jealous.

"Just get in." Dana says.

Once they are all in, the floor underneath them starts to go down. The scientist gives Dana a thumbs up and she returns it. She activates a holographic screen in the car. Carter looks at it with curiosity.

"Follow the tunnel to the surface. I'll give you directions from there."

He nods and floors it as soon as the elevator stops.


On the surface, the spirits finally materialize into physical beings. A reddish demon with foot soldiers appears.

"Batlings! We've waited a long time for this! Destroy them all!"

The demon sends the foot soldiers out to cause damage. The Rangers arrive, Carter coming to a screeching halt, and watch the Batlings coming towards them.

"Don't just stare guys." Dana says getting out of the car.

"Right." Carter and the others get out too. "Let's go help those people!"

The Rangers scatter. They fight off the Batlings, allowing people to escape from them. Carter gets back in the car and races towards the demon. It blasts him with firebolts and he comes to a halt. It pulls him out of the car throwing him directly into a pole.

"Dana!" Captain Mitchell speaks through her morpher. "You have to morph now!"

"Got it!" Dana pushes the Batlings off of her and calls the others to join her. "Hey hothead!" the demon turns towards the assembling team. "You'll have to go through us to destroy Mariner Bay!"

"Gladly." The demon laughs and is joined by more Batlings.

"Just do what I do." Dana says to the team. "LIGHTSPEED RESCUE!"

The others follow suit. The suits materialize over the Rangers skin. Soon they are all standing in their respective colours. Dana in Pink, Kelsey in Yellow, Chad in Blue, Joel in Green and Carter in Red. They salute.

"Power Rangers Rescue Ready!"

They charge into the Batlings as the crowd of civilians watches on in amazement. Carter pulls out his gun and starts shooting at the foot soldiers. Dana jumps in and saves him from a Batling coming from the sky. Carter jumps up in the air and shoots the remaining Batlings down.

Joel is stuck fighting off two Batlings. Dana runs to him and pushes his gun out of its holster. Joel jumps up, grabs it and shoots the Batlings.

Chad uses his karate moves against the foot soldiers. Dana jumps in and joins him. They fight them together for a while until she moves on.

Kelsey also uses hand to hand combat against the demon soldiers. Dana kicks one off of her back. She gives her a thumbs up and moves on to another horde of Batlings approaching. She pulls out her gun, switches it to Baton Mode and jumps into the bad guys. She fights them off effortlessly.

"Hey! Over here!"

She hears Carter's voice and sees him challenging the monster. She taps Chad on the shoulder, points to Carter and he nods. They run towards him. Carter shoots at the monster and they jump over him doing the same when they land. The monster falls back. The rest of the team joins them.

"Ready?" they wait for the monster to get up. "Aim!" the monster yells at them. "Fire!"

They blast the monster simultaneously and it explodes. The Rangers turn their backs as the shock wave passes them. Once it's gone, Dana leads them to unmorph.

The four newbies almost fall to the ground as the suits vanish while Dana remains standing. She was obviously used to the sensation of the suits dematerializing around her body. She smiles at them, but can't appreciate them longer as the civilians come to surround them, thanking them all. The Rangers smile.


They receive the same reception at the Aquabase. Everyone cheers and claps. Captain Mitchell's seriousness forces them to calm down. Joel only notices the shift in atmosphere once everyone has been silenced.

"There is a time to celebrate," the Captain begins seriously, "But this is not it. Now Diabolicol knows you exist. You think this fight was tough? Just wait."

The new recruits look confused.

"But sir?" Kelsey begins, "We just destroyed him… didn't we?"

"No, that was just one of his monsters." He looks at everyone in the room. "We have a lot of work to do. We all do."

Dana salutes to him. The rest of the staff follows suit and finally the new recruits. Dana steps forward.

"We're ready!"


A/N: finally finished it. I hope that it was worth the time.