A/N: Chapter seven of OO, At All Costs. I hope you like it. Sorry it took a while to upload. I'm working on this, the Jungle Fury story with Kaylee (later story in this series) and a Kaylee dictionary, and that's just for the Kaylee series alone. But no worries. I don't plan on dropping the series.
Tierra: I know Will got the hovertech cycle, but I decided to leave it out. It was barely used during the season, and I didn't find much use for it. And anyways, it's kinda not fair that only he gets a bike, even if it is Ranger tradition. I usually have a reason for leaving things out.
Anyways, tell me what you think! I hope you enjoy this chapter!
The Rangers were out jogging, early in the morning. While the six of them ran, Spencer was beside them in a golf cart.
"Keep up the pace! Only another mile to go!" he called out, making all the Rangers, minus Ronny, Mack and Kaylee groan.
"Want to get out of the cart and jog along with us?" Will asked, breathless as he tried to keep up with the others.
"I do many things around the Hartford estate," Spencer smirked. "Jogging is not one of them."
"Come one guys! This is nothing!" Kaylee smiled, stepping ahead of the group. "When I was with Ninja Storm, Sensei would make us run ten miles, then spare, the yoga, which is surprisingly tiring with him, and then we would run again! Don't tell me you guys are tired after five miles!"
Mac ran ahead so he was beside Kaylee. "I'm going to pick it up coming in," he announced, smirking as he looked down at Kaylee to show her he was nowhere near tired. "Anyone want to join?"
Kaylee wanted to run ahead with him, but decided it was better to hang back with the rest of the team.
Dax, who was already slowing drastically, tried to raise his hand. "I.. uh… I…. no…"
"Do I look like I enjoy going at this speed?" Rose asked. Mack turned to Will, and didn't need to hear anything from him to know that the black Ranger was saying no.
"Alright," Mack smiled before taking off.
"Are you guys gonna let him go?" Ronny asked, running ahead, and then turning around so she was facing her team.
"Kinda," Rose answered.
"Well I'm not!" Ronny smiled as she darted off after Mack.
From behind Kaylee could hear two people groan. She turned around and saw Dax rolling his eyes. She looked at him suspiciously, but he caught it and pointed to Black and Pink.
"They seem to be wearing your color, Kaylee," he laughed. "Mack and Ronny, running off together, along on his land…"
"We know what you mean, Dax," Will frowned, tossing his towel at the blue Ranger.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
When Ronny caught up with Mack, she slowed down so she was right beside him.
"Didn't want you to get lonely," she laughed, patting her friend on the shoulder. Suddenly, she took off, leaving Mack behind. Within a few seconds, the Red Ranger was back beside her.
"Sorry, I had to, uh… sop and tie my shoe," he laughed, knowing it was a pathetic excuse. "Besides, I thought you'd be further ahead. After all, you're the one with the enhanced super speed."
"I don't need that to beat you," Ronny smirked, looking at Mack from the corner of her eye. She could tell he was tired, but he wasn't going to le up as long as she was around.
"Please, I could beat regular you with my eye closed!" Mack grinned as she started sprinting to the mansion. Ronny joined him, running as fast as she could, without her powers. As soon as she caught up with Mack, she had passed him. Mack watched as she continued to speed up, still without using her powers, and realized he had lost.
"Holy shit…" he breathed as she collapsed to the ground. "The hell is up with bionic woman?"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Maybe, she's an android who never tires out! I mean, when was the last time you guys saw her sleeping?" Kaylee suggested as she and the four Rangers walked into the game room.
"But, you see her sleeping all the time," Rose laughed, pointing upstairs to the bedrooms.
"No… she goes to bed after me, and wakes up hours before me! I've never seen her asleep!"
"Well, after that run, I wouldn't be surprised if she's passed out on the couch," Will laughed. Suddenly, the sound of race cars filled the room. All five Rangers turned around and saw Ronny, clutching the steering wheel as she played a racing video-game.
"Hey, what kept you guys?" she frowned, looking over her shoulder for a second. "I'm on my second game already!"
Will glared at her, then took his towel off from aroud his neck and tossed it at her. Ronny paused her game, gently pincing the towel with two fingers as she lifted it off her shoulder. "Eww, you're all sweaty!"
Kaylee walked over beside her and touched her back, where the towel didn't hit her. "You're dry… did you shower already?"
"Yep, showered, washed my clothes, put them back on and ran to the corner store to buy more soap. We ran out Kayl."
"We… I just filled the bottle this morning!" Kaylee frowned.
"It slipped," Ronny laughed as her virtual car crossed the finish line, first. "YES!"
"When did it slip? No wait… how did it slip? You're supposed to put the soap on your little yellow cloth thingy, not green, then you put it down! How does it slip?"
"Kitty hit it," Ronny laughed, turning off the TV.
"Kitty? I don't own a cat?" Mack asked, before catching Dax, who came close to passing out.
"Well, there was some weird cat that knocked it over just before I got in the shower," Ronny explained.
"Hehe… I umm… kinda have some explaining to do, don't I?" Kaylee asked. Mack crossed his arms and glared at the smaller girl. "Tori took me to the allergy doctor for my cat allergies before going back to Blue Bay, and I found out I wasn't allergic anymore, so Spencer took me out and bought me a cat yesterday!"
"There's been a cat in our room for a day, and I didn't notice?" Ronny frowned.
"She likes to hide in your socks," Kaylee laughed. "And seeing as you only wear them when you race, you don't notice when there's a small little furball inside. There's just one thing… I don't think my cat has a sense of smell."
"Why's that?" Dax asked.
"Because! Have you not smelt her socks! Holy shit, it's a miracle I'm still alive!"
The others stared at her, still too tired to say anything. Suddenly, just as Mack let go of Dax so he could sand on his own, the blue Ranger fell over on the floor.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Five, one, two, three, four, five," Dax counted, moving a little player around a game board as he, Rose, Will, Kaylee and Ronny sat around the table. He picked up a card and read it. "A car!yes! I win a convertible Amonnageeja! Uh… amonna… amonna… Amonnageeza…"
"Ameranarmageny," Rose laughed, helping her speech impaired friend. "If you can't prounounce it, how do you expect to drive it?"
"He can't drive it," Will said, holding up his cards as he looked over at the pink Ranger. "It's plastic, and an inch long."
"Yes and it's mine! All mine!" Dax smiled, cuddling with his car.
"Matchmaker time!" Kaylee called out, causing Dax and Rose to look over at Will and Ronny. "Dax… I think you and the car are ready to take the next step."
"There's… there are steps?" Dax asked, reading his card again.
"Do you, Dax Lo, take the Amera… amerarn… take the car with the really had name. Do you promise to love it, cherish it, and care for it, and not forget it in your pockets before washing your pants?"
Dax nodded enthusiastically, holding his little toy car close to his chest.
"Then I now pronounce you man and car, you may… umm… you may let Ronny play her turn," Kaylee frowned, knowing kissing probably wasn't going to be best when she had just married a man to his car. But Dax didn't seem to mind. He planted one right on the small hood of the car and smiled as he watched Ronny play.
"Seven!" Ronny called after rolling the die. "One, two three, four, five, six, seven! Destiny card!"
"Ohh," Kaylee smirked, hugging the little toy duck she had received from her last destiny card.
Ronny reached for the pile and picked the card on top. She quickly read it as a smile appeared on her face. "Take one possession from any player."
"Ducky!" Kaylee frowned, hiding her duck from the yellow Ranger. But Ronny wasn't eyeing the duck. A racer wasn't complete without a car.
Dax, who was pretending to drive his car, looked up for a second and saw Ronny was staring at his "wife".
"NO!" he yelled, clutching his car in his hand and running off.
"Good," Will smirked, tossing his cards on the table. "Game's over."
"Not quite," Kaylee smirked, reaching for the real Ducky and slamming him down on Dax's seat. "Ducky'll fill in for blue boy."
Knowing a plastic duck couldn't play, Ronny grinned as she put her card away, and then started counting her money.
"Is winning that important to you?" Rose asked.
"Um, yeah," Ronny said, matter-of-factly. "Winning is what winners do. Where's your competitive spirit?"
"I usually check it at the door when I'm with my friends," Rose answered.
"Poor little sister," Kaylee laughed. "Losing to Ronny all the time… I remember when Tori would beat me at everything… surfing, sports, games, video games… Ninja school… school in general… it sucked."
Ronny looked from Rose to Kaylee, at little offended at what they were hinting at. She was about to defend herself when Hartford walked in, followed by Mack. The younger Hartford was holding a large, rounded metal case.
"Game time's over. Anyone interested in testing out the new blaster, besides Mack?" Andrew asked, looking at each one of the Rangers.
"New toy?" Dax asked, walking back into the room and looking at the case in Mack's hands. Mack opened the case, revealing the new blaster.
"Wow," was all anyone could say. It was a beautiful new toy and they were all excited to test it out, but…
"Count me out," Rose sighed. "I've got a play-date with Spencer, testing zord motherboards!" the excitement in her voice returned as she hopped away.
"Nap-time," Will smirked. "I need my beauty rest."
Five sets of eyes turned to Will.
"What, look at me! It works!" he smirked, walking to his room.
Dax let out a deep breath, holding his toy car close. "Sorry, I'm taking a little me time to get over the loss of my car."
Kissing the car gently, he gave it to Ronny and pat her on the back before walking out, his head hanging low.
"Kaylee, how about you?" Hartford asked, looking over at the blonde, Kaylee nodded, but one more look at Dax, and her nod stopped and switched into a shake.
"I gotta go find the divorce papers. Apparently Arma didn't come out of the closet until after she married Dax. Ronny… when did you come out?" Kaylee teased, taking the car from Ronny and pressing it against the taller girl's lips. "We can talk about this later."
Hartford watched Kaylee closely as she left, and then looked over at Ronny, silently asking for an explanation.
"It's Kaylee, what more can I say?" Ronny asked, her fingers playing with the car before she set it down on the table. "And as for this baby…"
Ronny's eyes lit up as her fingers traced the beautiful new weapon. "This baby will so be mine!"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Mack was in his Ranger uniform half an hour later, holding the new blaster as he stood in the shooting range. Ronny was on the other side of a glass wall, waiting impatiently for her turn.
"Are you sure you don't want me to fire the blaster first?" she asked, looking down at a monitor where Hartford was watching her from. "I can handle a blaster better than anyone."
"I'm sure, Ronny. But I can appreciate the confidence and enthusiasm. Mack will use the blaster first."
"Here kitty!" Kaylee called as she walked into the observation room, croched over as she searched for her cat. "Here kitty kitty kitty."
"Did you lose it?" Ronny asked.
Kaylee looked up bashfully. "Umm… no… she's just… she ate my divorce papers and ran off. Now Dax is still married to Arma, and you and her can't start a relationship until I find kitty and she hands those papers back."
"Whatever," Ronny groaned. After being told she had to wait until Mack was done testing the blaster, she was not in a good mood.
"Anytime you're ready, son!" Hartford said over the monitor.
"Okay," Mack smiled, raising the blaster and aiming for a bull-eye on the target ahead of him.
"But Mr. Hartford!" Ronny cried out. "I have come first in every single-"
A flash of light interrupted the yellow Rangers as Mack was thrown backwards, crashing into the glass wall protecting the two girls.
As Mack got back to his feet and rubbed his head, he noticed a small kitty glaring at him and hissing.
"KITTY!" Kaylee smiled, running into the other room and picking up her cat. "Mack! You don't fire blasters until everyone, and every cat is out of the room! You scared poor Karly!"
Mack reached out to pet the cat, but Karly hissed again at him, before jumping away from Kaylee and running to the elevator.
"You're gonna get stuck!" Kaylee called after the cat. "You know I don't like elevators and you can't push the button!"
The doors started to close. Karly seemed to have no idea what was going on. She watched the doors slowly close her in and tried dashing out. Sadly, the doors were faster than her, and the three Rangers heard as thump as she crashed into the wall.
Kaylee looked up and saw the elevator was headed for the first floor. "Great, now Kitty's going to be claustrophobic!"
Ronny just watched in awe, before remembering it was her turn. She walked into the other room and picked up the blaster. Mack went into the observation room and stood beside Kaylee.
"Careful, Ronny, it's got quite a kick!" he warned her, but it was useless. The yellow Range fired the blaster, and just like with Mack, she was sent flying into the glass wall.
"Good thing this is sold glass," Kaylee laughed nervously, tapping the glass with her knuckles.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
After his "me time" Dax felt ready to test out the blaster. He pushed the button for the elevator and waited patiently for the doors to open. When they did, he saw a small white and black cat dart out of the small room and hide under the couch. He stood in shock for a minute until he heard a loud…
ZWOP!
"Did you see Karly?" Kaylee asked, looking around the room and spotting a tail coming out from under the couch.
"Did you get the papers?" Dax asked. He then spotted his toy car on the table and grabbed it. "ARMA!"
"Do you want to stay married even though you both seem to like women?" Kaylee asked, laughing as she gently pulled Karly out from the couch and cradled her.
Dax looked down at the car and shrugged. "Why not!"
The two Rangers laughed together, causing Karly to look up at her master oddly. Suddenly, the alarm blared through the room, scaring the poor kitten once again.
"Man… she'll have to get used to that," Kaylee giggled, running out with Dax and the others.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Fully morphed, the Rangers hid behind a rock to make a plan before jumping into their battle against Moltor and the lava lizards.
"Alright…"
"Hey, they finally realized we kick ass, so they just decided to do the hard part for us!" Kaylee smiled, looking over the rock and pointing to the lava lizards, who were fighting amongst themselves while Moltor watched.
"Want to bet on which one you think is going to win?" Ronny asked. "I'll take the ugly one!"
Kaylee looked around, ready to join the bet. She just needed a lizard to bet on. "I'll take… wait a minute! You just took them all! None of them are not ugly!"
Moltor looked up at the rock after hearing little voices and fowned when he spotted all six Ranges. "Meddling Rangers!"
He shot an energy blast at them, sending them flying and crashing to the ground.
Before anyone could attack, there was a wave of energy that came from the group of lizards. As it disappeared, so did all the lizards, except one.
"Excellent, my champion!" Moltor laughed. "Now – your reward!"
Moltor raised his sword and pressed a button on the hilt. He aimed it at the winning lizard and zapped him.
"Now I know why I'm on the good team… me no likey buzzing!" Kaylee winced, watching the lizard as it cried out.
Moltor laughed at the green Ranger's comment. "It's just an experiment. He may not make it, but if he does, he'll he the most powerful lizard of them all!"
"Will he fight better than the punching bag in the gym?" Kaylee asked. "Because so far I have more bruises from that thing then I do those guys!"
The lizard lit up with energy, and then shed his skin - the outer layer of his body seeminglyflew off and a new body, looking like a spiky dragon, was revealed.
"It worked!" Moltor laughed with exciment. "I shall call you–"
"Please don't say Ducky…" Kaylee begged, crossing her fingers.
"Volcon!"
The Ranger took this as their cue, and ran for their attack. Moltor charged at them, slashing each Ranger with his sword before jumping to his monster's side. In a flash of light, both were gone.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"It was the weirdest thing!" Mack started. He stood in the overdrive base with the others, explaining what happened to his father and Spencer. "When we arrived, the lizards were fighting each other until there was just one left!"
"Sounds similar to some early tribal customs," Hartford stated as the Rangers watched him walk around the base. "Warriors of the same tribe would battle amongst themselves for riches or power."
"Thank goodness we've evolved from there," Ronny sighed in relief, only to earn herself odd stares from her mentor and teammates. "What?"
"I think I may have solved the Drill Blaster energy problem," Hartford announced to the team. "First, I needed to find a dragon scale."
"What?" Will asked in disbelief.
"You know…in Gaelic writings, it is stated that a scale from a dragon holds enough energy to light the world," Rose smirked.
"Dragons don't exist," Will smiled. He turned and looked at Rose. "And neither do their scales."
"I beg to differ," Hartford laughed. "There were reports of a magical dragon outside of a city called…"
"Briarwood?" Kaylee asked. "Fire Heart!"
"Exactly," Hartford smiled.
"How do you know this?" Dax frowned.
"The Mystic Force team… we were in Briarwood until the others replaced us. I got to meet a few of the people and creatures from the magical world."
"I purchased the scale from him, and when the time comes, I'd like Mack to be the first to try it."
"Mack?" Ronny asked in disbelief. "Look, I can do anything he can do, and chances are I can do it better! I've proven myself over and over again! On the range, I have the highest scores!"
"I love the confidence Ronny, but…"
"You're encouraging that?" Kaylee frowned. "Tsk, tsk, Hartford."
"It's all right dad, Ronny can go first," Mack smiled.
Hartford turned to look at his son, who nodded. He then turned to Ronny who was smiling like a child in a candy shop.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Ronny walked into the living room once Hartford has dismissed the team and found Mack on the couch, reading a book.
"Hey, Mack, you up for a game of foosball?" Ronny asked, leaning over the couch.
Mack looked up at her and frowned slightly. "Uh, not today… I'm trying to finish this book."
"Well, you sure it's not that you're afraid?" Ronny grinned, playfully punching Mack's arm. Mack didn't react to it at all; he just kept looking up at her, bored.
"No, I'm not afraid," he said.
"Well, then you'll play with me!" Ronny begged, getting down on her knees so she could look Mack in the eye. "Come on! It'll be fun!"
Mack sighed, closing to book. "To be honest, Ronny… you kind of take the fun out of playing any game."
Ronny stood up straight, her face telling Mack he had deeply hurt her feelings. He was about to explain again, but Rose walked in with something tucked under her arm.
"Mack, want to play chess with me again?" she asked, pointing to the chess board. Mack nodded, getting up from the couch and patting Ronny's shoulder.
"Sorry, Ron," he said. Ronny watched as he ran out of the room, playfully tickling Rose's sides as he raced her to the other room.
Meow!
Karly ran into the game room, chasing her ball and bell. The ball stopped at Ronny's feet, so the yellow Ranger picked it up and knelt down so she could play with the cat.
"You'll still play with me, right kitty?" she asked, waving the ball. Karly looked up at Ronny with a strange look before running out of the room, forgetting about her ball.
Ronny flopped down, over the back of the couch and landed face down in the cushions.
Spencer walked in and saw the yellow Ranger looked bored. He held the cat in his hands and gently put Karly down on Ronny's back. Ronny turned over, putting the cat on her stomach as she looked up at Spencer.
"Mr. Hartford has requested you to join the other Rangers in escorting the dragon's scale from the warehouse. He's can't take the chance of it falling into the wrong hands," Spencer told her.
Ronny sat up, forcing Karly to jump off her stomach and run to it's little bed. Just as Ronny was about to stand up, she looked at Spencer.
"Am I fun to play with?" she asked, suddenly and out of the blue. When she saw Spencer's strange look, she quickly corrected herself. "Play video games and board games and stuff."
"Like a moldy bag of rocks, Miss," Spencer said truthfully. He saw Ronny's face fall completely as she walked out to join the others and felt bad. "Perhaps I should have lied…"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Moltor had just successfully stolen the dragon's scale from the delivery men when he was attacked by a blast from the Rangers.
"Not so fast, Flame Boy!" Rose yelled.
"That's right, that scale belongs to us!" Will added as all six Rangers pulled out their drive defenders.
"We'll see about that!" Moltor smirked, snapping his fingers as his monster appeared at his side. "Valcon!"
With a roar, Valcon leapt at the Rangers and knocked them all down.
"Drive Slammer!" Will called as he got to his feet, pulling out the oversized Hammer and hitting Valcon with it.
After a few shots, Valcon knew what was coming. As Will once again swung the hammer, he grabbed onto it and ripped it away from the black Rangers and getting his revenge. He slammed the hammer down on Will, knocking the spy to his knees. He was about to slam Will again, but Ronny jumped it.
"Drive Claws!" she called, slashing at the monster with her claws. They had no affect on Valcon's tough skin. "Uh-oh!" Ronny frowned, taking a quick look at her weapon. Valcon saw her hesitate and reached out to grab her.
"It's Zwoppin' time!" Kaylee called before disappearing in a flash of green and reappearing beside Valcon. "How about a little shower for the monster?" she asked, jumping onto his back and smiling under her helmet. Suddenly, the ground beneath Valcon turned into water, and both the green Ranger and the monster fell in.
Though fire was supposed to be weak against water, Kaylee's attack had no affect against the mutant lizard. He jumped out of the water, with Kaylee on his back. In the air, he positioned himself so he would land on his back. Kaylee noticed this as they started going down and sighed.
ZWOP!
"That's not nice!" she frowned, appearing on the ground and watching as Valcon continued to fall. The beast didn't have enough time to flip over to land on his stomach, giving the Rangers a clue to his only weakness.
As his back connected with the ground, he screamed in back, rolling over so he was on his stomach and slowly getting back to his feet, his back turned to the Rangers.
"Guys! His back is weak!" Mack yelled as he ran up beside Kaylee, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Fire at his back!"
The Rangers held out their weapons as Kaylee turned to the water. She called it forward and held it in her hands.
"FIRE!" she yelled, throwing her water at the monster as the Rangers forced their blasts at Valcon.
"We hurt him!" Ronny smiled. "Mack you were right!"
"Mack you were right," Rose muttered under her breath, hoping no one could hear. Unfortunately for her, Kaylee was standing just beside her and caught the jealousy in her voice.
"Be patient, matchmaking takes time," she giggled, patting the pink helmet head. Kaylee then turned to the team, smiling under her helmet. "Guys, his back is vulnerable. I don't care how you do it, but murder him!" she coached.
"Leave him alone!" Moltor yelled, jumping inside the Ranger circle and slashing at every one of the Rangers.
"Kill hot head while you're at it!" Kaylee yelled, zwopping around Moltor, in hopes of confusing him.
When Valcon was back on his feet, Moltor ran to his side and helped steady him.
"You'll have your revenge, Valcon," he said, before the two disappeared.
"They' re gone!" Will groaned, slamming his hammer down.
"But why?" Dax asked.
"To heal, and make that dragon stronger," Mack frowned.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Back at the mansion, Mack, Rose, Dax and Will were in the base with Hartford, searching on the computers for Moltor.
"There's no sign of Moltor, Mr. Hartford," Dax announced.
"Dax, can you please call me Andrew?" Hartford smiled. "Every time you say 'Mr. Hartford', I look around for my father!"
"Got it, you want us to think of you as someone young!" Dax smiled, going back to his work. Rose tried to hold back her laughter as she looked up at her mentor. Mack let out a small chuckle, but his it from his father by pretending to cough. Will just stood in the corner, a huge smile on his face, but he held back his laugh.
"Ow!" Hartford said to not only Dax, but the rest of his team.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Spencer and Kaylee were in the kitchen, with Spencer working on lunch as Kaylee sat by the condiments and squirted ketchup on the hotdogs.
Ronny walked in, still upset about the events form before. She sat down on the barstool beside Kaylee and look up at Spencer. "You got a minute, Spence?" she asked.
"So long as you don't want to whoop me at a game of anything, Miss," Spencer chuckled, but Ronny was no amused.
"Okay, I admit it. I am a little competitive."
"A marathon is a little competitive," Spencer frowned. "You are the entire Olympics."
"Well, I like to win," Ronny smiled.
"So did Tor," Kira muttered. She turned to Ronny, putting down the ketchup. "When Tori and I were growing up, she would kick my ass at everything! And I do mean everything! She was always top in the class, she would beat me out with at every sport… even soccer, and she won every time we played a game… even when there was no competition… she would win! I got so tired of it, that one day, I just stopped playing with her all together."
"It's not your winning that's the problem," Spencer smiled. "Rather a matter of having to win at all costs. It gets a bit old."
Ronny nodded, but still didn't seem to get it.
"Ron, when Tori was a kid, she was just like you. I can beat you at this, I bet you I can kick your ass at that! When I stopped playing with her, she realized she had to play fair… even if it meant losing. Finally, when I did beat her at something, I rubbed it in her face so much, she got mad again. We both learned not to be sore winners, and now that I'm the Ranger pro, you don't see me stuffing it in her face for revenge… even if I would like too."
Ronny moved away from Kaylee and turned to Spencer.
"I think she means to say was, the more you try to win, the more competitive you get. You've become a sore winner. No one likes that. Your sister, and possibly your friends, will grow to resent you for your winning streak. In my day, playing was fun. Winning was just what happened to one of the participants."
"Or Karly!" Kaylee giggled, holding up her cat.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
After hearing about Moltor coming back into the city, the six friends Rangered up and met up in an industrial area.
"There's no sign of him," Will frowned, looking around.
"Look harder, Rangers!" Moltor laughed, jumping from mid-air and landing in front of the Rangers.
"Thank Will, now we have to fight him!" Kaylee groaned.
The Rangers arrive in an industrial-looking area, outside a run-down building.
Overdrive Rangers and charged forward. Moltor had his sword and swung it at Mack as he came in with a high kick. Ronny tried a kick as well but Moltor spun past her and Rose. He struck Dax, who grabbed the sword and was thrown off and to the ground. Ronny and Rose tried another round of kicks but Moltor blocked them and bashed them, continuing the motion to Will flying. Mack came back with a flying kick, a spin and elbow block, and pinned Moltor's sword arm under his own.
"He's mine! Find the scale!" Mack called, putting all his strength on holding the lava king back.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Are you through?" Moltor laughed, pushing Mack away from him as they continued their fight. "Valcon!"
Valcon flew down from the sky and threw a flame breath at Mack. Mack charged to the right, avoiding the fire and hitting Valcon with a flying kick. Valcon staggered back as Mack attacked him again with a punch, and backhand and a spinning kick.
"Impossible!" Moltor yelled.
ZWOP!
"Moltor, I thought you would know better," Kaylee giggled. She was holding the dragon scale in one hand, and the others hand their hands on her shoulders.
"Here you go, Ronny," Rose smiled, taking the scale from Kaylee and giving it to Ronny. "I know you want to use it first."
"Thanks," Ronny smiled, flipping open her tracker. "We have the scale, send the shield!"
"It's on it's way," Andrew's voice came over the tracker.
The shield appeared in Ronny's hand, bringing a smile to her lips. "Got it."
Without hesitating, Ronny ran to Mack, offering the shield and the scale. "Go on, take it."
"I think you deserve it, Ronny," Mack smiled, pushing away her hands.
"Yeah, well I've kind of been a bonehead about a lot of things. I kind of-"
"I love all this nice stuff," Will frowned, getting between the two and eyeing Mack carefully from under his helmet. "But will somebody please blast that thing so we can get out of here?"
"Okay," Mack smiled, taking the shield and scale. Will nodded, taking his position behind Mack with the others.
"... and so we can stop watching this love feast," Will muttered under his breath.
"Here goes!" Mack called. He obviously hadn't heard Will.
Mack took the shield and put the scale inside it. As it glowed, he pressed it against his chest. Instantly, shoulder pads and side panels appeared and snapped into place.
"Defender vest, ready!" Mack called. As he aimed the blaster, he smirked.
"Can't stand the heat, stay out of the furnace!" Mack said as he aimed the blaster. "Defender vest! Drill mode!"
Mack pulled a control on the Blaster and reversed it. While keeping his aim on the monster, he motioned for his friends to steady him. Each Ranger put their hands on either Mack's shoulders or waist.
"FIRE!" Kaylee called as Mack shot the Blaster.
A narrow beam hit Valcon, breaking him into pieces.
"Thanks for playing, Moltor, better luck next time!" Kaylee laughed.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Guys, look at this," Will laughed, walking into the game room only to see Ronny and Mack focused on a game of foosball.
"You guys are still playing? We went to a movie and grabbed some burgers!" Dax said in shock.
"What are you up to, like ninety games or something?" Rose asked.
"Same game," Ronny said.
"Tie score," Mack added.
Meow!
Karly jumped off the top of the foosball table and into Kaylee's arms.
"Ha, now that I can see your net, it's only a matter of time before you' re going down!" Ronny smiled. "I've never lost!"
"Yeah, nor have I!" Mack smirked. "Granted, I've only played Spencer, and that's not much to brag about."
"I heard that!" Spencer said through the vents, the voice echoing into the room. The four who weren't sucked into the game looked around, a little surprised Spencer could hear them. Suddenly, Mack jumped up, cheering.
"Oh, YES!"
Just as the cheering had started, it stopped suddenly as everyone turned to Ronny, waiting for her reaction. It was the first time she had ever lost at anything. All five Rangers backed away, afraid of what might happen, and Karly fled the room.
"I lost?" Ronny asked, her voice sounded like she was choking back tears. Just as the others were going to comfort her, she started laughing.
"You know, it's not so bad!" she said. "Anyone want to play another?"
Ronny looked up from the table, but saw everyone running off.
"I guess not," she laughed.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Spencer! I think I found something!" Andrew called.
"Hopefully it's the papers to set me free from this indentured servitude," Spencer joked.
"No such luck my friend. I think I've found where to start out hunt for the next jewel. The legendary Hou-ou bird."
