Abby Holloway series
Operation Overdrive: Back to Action
By xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Author's Note - Where has all my lovely reviewers gone? Please come back. I updated chapter 13 and was disappointed when I didn't hear from most of you. Did I do something wrong? If I did please tell me so I can fix it. =(
Dedications: To the following who did review: DJScales, Miyu101, Dean Winchesters Baby Girl and Kaigirl16.
After collecting the last of Tyzonn's mercury form, the Rangers returned to the SHARC prepared to return home and find some way to help the Mercurian.
"So, if the Fearcats found something in Portugal that led them to Brazil, where's the jewel and what's the connection?" Mack asked from the back of the plane.
"I was picking up very small jewel readings in that jungle," said Dax "hardly anything at all."
"Well, the Portuguese colonized Brazil in the 1500s," Abby explained. "A jewel could have come across then and left a signature."
Rose nodded. "A lot can happen in five hundred years, that jewel could be long gone."
"Even so, there should be some sort of clue or trace or something, right?" asked Mack.
Abby glanced back at the red ranger. "We'll find it." she promised. "But first - let's help Tyzonn." she nodded at a glass jar at the front of the jet.
"What about the Fearcats?" Will asked, turning to his leader. "They're still on the loose."
"Guys, I'm gonna drop you in the city in case they come back," announced Ronny.
"Yeah, good idea." Mack nodded.
Abby shook her head. "Mack, you take the others into the city and search for the Fearcats," she said. "Ronny, I'm coming back to the base with you; I need to talk to Cam."
"Okay." Ronny nodded.
~*Abby*~
Once Ronny had landed the SHARC in the garage of the mansion, Abby grabbed the jar of Mercury and hurried into the Overdrive base. Andrew and Cam were waiting for her.
"Mr Hartford, do something!" Ronny yelled, as Abby handed over the jar after she had run at her mentor.
"When I heard about Tyzonn, I had Spencer bring the stabilizing unit from the plant," explained Andrew, as he put the jar inside the machine and started fiddling with the controls.
"What's it supposed to stabilize?" Ronny yelled over the noise of the machine.
Andrew glanced over Abby's shoulder at her. "We use it to stabilize metals and fabricating Zord parts. I hope it might help stabilize Tyzonn's metallic DNA!" he explained.
Ducking around her mentor and friend, Abby approached Cam and Nick. "Cam, what happened out there?" Abby asked. "When Benglo attacked me, I felt a large surge of power, and then some animal burst from me."
"I know, I saw," Cam nodded. "I think you unleashed your animal spirit. Remember when Takara wanted you to go to the Pai Zhuq?"
Abby nodded numbly. "The Order of the Claw," she murmured. "So, you're telling me that I unleashed my animal spirit without training?"
"It would seem like it," Cam nodded. "You could always ask Takara what it means - what?"
At the mention of her mother's name, Abby diverted her gaze to the polished floor beneath her feet, Cam didn't know what had happened to Tarkara at the end of Abby's last Ranger team in fact no one knew what had happened to her. The Mystics knew that she had been blasted apart by Sculpin before he had taken Abby prisoner during the final battle against the master, but as for the rest of Abby's friends, family and her past ranger teams, no one knew what had happened to the Legendary Snow Ninja.
"Tarkara isn't here anymore, Cam," said Nick. "She got blasted by Sculpin when we went up against him, Black lance and the Master. She tried to protect Abby but Sculpin attacked her before taking Abby to the Underworld."
"Oh," said Cam looking at his cousin. "Why didn't you say anything?"
"Because I thought she was safe in the Spirit world," Abby answered. "I thought she would come back after she had regained enough energy, but I am starting to question my own theories on that, because it has been several months now. How long does it take to regain energy in the Spirit world?"
The former samurai shrugged. "No one knows, Abs, but don't lose faith Takara is strong, just like her daughter. She'll find her way back, you'll see." he smiled.
Abby smiled back at her cousin, before turning to the monitor as it flashed to life showing Mig and Benglo in the city.
"Where are you Power Rangers? Don't you care about this meaningless city?"
"The team will be there soon!" Ronny assured Hartford.
"And you need to go as well!" Andrew yelled at the two girls.
Abby appeared behind him. "No! Just one more second!"
The occupants within the Overdrive base gasped as the machine started to steam and the mercury streamed out of the spout in the bottom, just as it reached the chair, it took the shape of a human.
"Tyzonn!" Abby smiled, as she helped the alien sit up.
"Thank you, Ronny and Abby. You saved me." Tyzonn smiled.
Ronny smiled. "Now we got to go," she said, pulling Abby out by the arm.
"Welcome back." Abby shouted as she disappeared from the base with the Yellow ranger.
~*Abby*~
Cam placed his hand on Tyzonn's shoulder to steady him as he got off the chair. "It would see you have really bonded with the group," he said.
"Well, they are my friends," said Tyzonn.
"Would you reconsider joining us? From what I've heard, and seen, we could use a guy like you." Andrew offered. "I made this...just in case you returned."
Nick handed over the object from the console to his left; it was larger than the Trackers and oblong with an attachment on one side.
"You've got a great team to support you." Andrew added.
Tyzonn turned away from the morpher, his eyes slid out of focus for a moment, before returning. He shook his head. "No, I'm - I'm sorry. I can't join the team."
He then passed the morpher back to Andrew, who looked slightly disappointed with the action.
~*Abby*~
Nick and Cam watched with fear and anticipation as Ronny and Abby finally arrived on scene downtown. The others had taken a minor beating from the Fearcats before they had turned up, and now it was their turn.
Cam winced as Ronny was thrown into the side of a building, and Abby was thrown into a car causing her to roll over the roof and land on the hard ground the other side.
"They can't beat them!" said Nick "They're too strong!"
Tyzonn watched as Abby staggered back to her feet and rushed at Mig once more, only to be slashed across the chest with the staff the Fearcat had used on him back at the beach.
The Mercurian hissed at the collision, and then, without a word, he took off out of the door.
Abby yelled out as sparks exploded from her suit and knocking her down.
"They need help!" Cam exclaimed, looking around and failing to see Tyzonn, however, he did notice the morpher that had been left on the console. He sighed and picked it up. "Tyzonn."
~*Abby*~
Mig hissed as he raised the staff into the air. "Goodbye, Rangers!" he said.
However, before he could attack, Tyzonn somersaulted out of nowhere and landed in front of his friends.
"What? We destroyed you!" Mig yelled in anger.
"That's what you thought." said Tyzonn.
He swung his own staff again and exchanged a series of blows with Mig, while Benglo ignited into flames as he attacked Mack twice in the chest, sending him rolling backwards across the ground.
"Mack!" the others yelled.
Benglo raised his fists and blasted them all with another fiery explosion, knocking them all off their feet in the heat of the explosion.
Nearby, Mig and Tyzonn continued to fight.
"Get up...can't stop." said Mack, as he struggled to get to his feet.
Painfully, the rangers managed to pull themselves up and face Benglo.
"You have courage, that's for sure." Benglo complimented them.
"Defender Vest!" Mack called, and as swift as a cheetah his vest appears on his body, he then summoned the Drill Blaster and reversed it into mixer mode.
"Drill Blaster! Tri-laser!"
"Go ahead!" Benglo taunted.
Abby frowned. "Did he just ask for it?" she questioned her team.
Her answer came in the form of Mack firing the blaster and hitting Benglo, turning him grey as the cement-freezes him.
"Yay, for power to freeze!" Abby cheered.
But her celebration was short lived as flames burned from beneath the cement that was covering Benglo, and with a burst of fire, the Fearcat was freed from his cement prison.
"No way!" Abby and Mack exclaimed.
He cast a sparkling silver blast at the rangers. "Try this!"
With a yell of surprise and pain, the rangers hit the ground simultaneously in front of the Fearcat.
"We're getting our butts handed to us," Abby groaned, pushing herself up and clutching her stomach in pain. "We need a plan!"
"I'm out of ideas," said Mack, as he too painfully pushed himself up to face the Fearcat.
Ronny growled under her breath and pushed herself shakily to her feet. "We can't give up!" she told her too leaders.
"RONNY!" Tyzonn yelled, spotting the Yellow ranger from where he was fighting with Mig. He pulled away from the cat and threw her his staff.
"Got it!" Ronny said, spinning the staff around and aiming it at Benglo. "How about a taste of your own medicine?"
She swung the staff and sent a blast of energy from the blade at Benglo and Mig - who had regrouped - the blast collided with them and they were thrown backwards through the air.
"That got 'em!" Ronny grinned.
"All right!" Rose cheered.
"We did it!" Tyzonn nodded.
Ronny nodded once. "Yeah,"
The celebrations ended when the two Fearcats erupted in flames and grew to supersize.
"Damn it!" Abby yelled. "We should have realized that by now Power Rangers have the worst luck when it comes to supersizing monsters!" she snatched at her Tracker. "Cam, send the Zords!"
~*Abby*~
The battle was over. The Fearcats had been destroyed, and the rangers had returned to the mansion where they were met by Andrew, Spencer, Cam and Nick in the grounds.
Abby giggled as she bounced towards her boyfriend and cousin, jumped into Nick's arms and wrapped both her arms and legs around him.
"Nice job team!" Andrew congratulated.
"It was exciting to watch," Spencer smiled.
Dax grinned. "They set 'em up..."
"...and we knock 'em down!" Abby finished, high fiving the Blue ranger, over Nick's shoulder.
"Oh, yeah!" Will agreed.
"Hey, but we couldn't have done it without Tyzonn," said Ronny, nudging the alien in front of her. "Welcome to the team, buddy."
Tyzonn stepped forward into the middle of the ground, still looking less excited than the rest of his friends.
"I - I thought I'd feel better, somehow relieved, that the Fearcats are gone, but - but I don't." Tyzonn said, sadly.
"You are part of the team, right?" asked Abby.
"No, I'm sorry, my friends." Tyzonn shook his head. "My mission is complete. The Fearcats are gone. Now - I must go, too."
Abby deflated, the happy, hyper look slipped from her face, and the excitement faded from her eyes.
~*Abby*~
A little while after the Fearcats destruction, the Rangers, Cam, Nick, Andrew, Spencer and Tyzonn settled themselves down in the game room.
"Tyzonn's made his decision. He doesn't want to join us," Andrew sighed.
"I want to join the team," said Tyzonn. "I just - I can't."
Abby frowned. "Why not?"
Tyzonn lowered his gaze to the crystal on his wristband, run his fingers slightly over the smooth surface, sighed and looked back up at his friends. "It's a long story," he answered.
"We have time," Ronny pressed, wanting him to continue. If he told them the reason behind his hesitation, maybe they could help him.
Abby scooted closer to the alien and held out her hand. "May I?" she asked.
Having already gone through Abby's out-of-body visions once before, the alien slipped his hand over hers and watched as her eyes snapped shut giving the appearance that she had fallen asleep while sitting up.
The others watched in confusion, as even Cam and Nick exchanged looks.
"Many years ago, I was part of an elite team. We were intergalactic emergency responders - best in the galaxy. But then, one day, something terrible happened."
Wandering through Tyzonn's memory, Abby could still hear him narrate what had happened back to the other rangers at the Hartford mansion, the one advantage she had over the rest of her team as she got to see it all played out, helping her understand Tyzonn a little more better than the others.
A cave loomed into view as Abby wandered around the dig site, all over the place people lay wounded and scared as smoke issued out of the side of the cave they had been in. The White ranger spotted Tyzonn a few feet away carrying a woman out of the cave's mouth.
"We were called to a cave-in. Innocent people were caught in the rubble. I sent my team into the cave on a search-and-rescue mission."
Tyzonn pointed towards the cave. "Go! Go! Go!" he ordered.
"I stayed outside and searched for other injured people. They came out carrying the cavers with them. One was very upset."
Abby watched as two of Tyzonn's team-mates carried out a woman who was visibly shaken by the whole experience. They set her down near their leader, and she instantly latched onto his arm.
"Help! Save us from the Fearcats! They're blasting the cave from the inside!"
"Now, I'd heard of these evil Fearcats, and they're vicious. They were looking for an energy source to release their army. That's why they were blasting the cave from the inside. But my job was to rescue everybody, not just the innocent, so...so I sent my team back in, assuming that the Fearcats were trapped inside."
"Go! Now!" Tyzonn ordered, as he placed his arm around the terrified woman. He was pointing at the entrance to the cave, and watching as his team hurried back into the darkness.
"That's when I saw them."
A flash of black caught Abby's attention and she turned to stare up at Mig and Cheetar who had appeared on the ridge behind her.
"The Fearcats weren't in the cave anymore. They'd escaped somehow."
With his cold, evil laugh, Mig lifted his bazooka-weapon to his shoulder and blasted the cave with a beam of green energy. Abby whipped around as she heard Tyzonn scream and watched painfully as he run towards the entrance of the cave where his team-mates were attempting to get out, the cave exploded and Tyzonn was forced backwards into the dig team by the sheer force - his team wasn't so fortunate.
"NOOO!"
"I shouldn't have sent my team back in. It's my fault that they are lost. Rescuing...It was my life. But I will never jeopardize another team."
Abby sighed heavily as she closed her eyes, and focused her energy back on her body in the present day. She faded out from the memory and back into her body, her eyes opened and she surveyed Tyzonn sympathetically.
"I'm sorry," she told him.
"Why are you sorry?" Tyzonn asked in confusion.
"Because you lost your team," said Abby "Your friends. I can't imagine what that must be like because I have never lost a team, but it is in the past. You can't blame yourself for what happened; you were just doing your job."
"My orders cost several people their lives," said Tyzonn, tugging his hand away from Abby.
Abby shook her head. "Ty, this guilt is going to eat away at you, if you let it. You have to accept what has happened in the past, and put it behind you, we can't change the past..." she paused "but we can change the future."
Tyzonn opened his mouth to argue.
"You made a mistake!" Abby cut across him "We all make mistakes; it is what makes us who we are. If we never made mistakes, then we would never learn and we would never grow. You need to put your past behind you; you realized you made a mistake now is the time to fix it."
"How?" the alien asked, his voice quivered and he looked close to tears.
Abby stared up at him sadly, she knew that this was hard for him and she hated herself for putting him through it, but he needed to know; he needed to know that in life there were going to be mistakes, but they couldnt let their mistakes hold them back from doing the right thing.
"Thank you, Abby, for your kind words. You have a calm and soothing manner. You'll make a great rescuer." Tyzonn told her.
"You're a great rescuer," Abby protested.
"Not after that fateful day."
"No, you're wrong. It's in your blood. It's who you are. I saw that at the camp, at the beach and now in your memory. It's what makes you so special. Nobody can take that away." Abby told him, her voice soft and gentle, as if she was a mother talking to her child. "What we do is dangerous, but the world needs us, it needs you, now more than ever. What happened in those caves wasn't your fault."
Tyzonn didn't look convinced.
Abby sighed. "Look, we don't always win. Sometimes the bad guys do, but we can't let that stop us. That is what makes us heroes."
Those behind Abby exchanged looks, leave it to Abby to get all motherly, but then again she had done this before and therefore she understood the concept of what could happen if they weren't who they were, and what would have happened if they let their mistakes control their lives.
Suddenly the alarms blared like sirens throughout the whole mansion, jumping from their seats the rest of the team hurried to the poles and took them to the Overdrive base beneath the house, and seconds later Abby's tracker beeped as Mack told her what was going on.
"Abby, we have an emergency situation."
Abby looked up at Tyzonn one last time before getting to her feet and heading for the door.
~*Abby*~
"Come on, Rangers!" Mack said, leading the team down a flight of steps leading into a courtyard.
"I can't see anything," said Ronny as she turned in a full circle.
There was a hiss and Abby spun around in the direction it had come from, her eyes widened at the sight before her. "No...way!" she breathed.
Benglo and Mig were stalking towards them slowly.
"I can't believe it they're back!" Mack exclaimed.
"This nine lives thing is ridiculous!" Dax complained.
Abby nodded. "This is why I have a dog," she told her team-mates. "That and I am allergic to cats, anyway."
"We have more power now than ever!" Mig told them, as he and Benglo raised their paws, brought them down and threw out a burst of energy at the Rangers.
"Flurious made us stronger!" Benglo stated. "Prepare to be destroyed!"
Growling under her breath and balling her hands tightly into fists, Abby slammed her fists into the ground and pushed herself back up onto her feet; Tyzonn's memory repeating itself in her mind. "All right, you want a fight? Let's fight!" she turned to her team-mates. "Do it for Tyzonn, it's their fault that he is so broken up! Their fault that he has lost friends! If he doesn't want to join us because of them, let's at least put them out of their misery for him!"
"Yeah!" Ronny agreed pulling herself up alongside Abby. "For Tyzonn!"
"For Tyzonn!" the rest of the team agreed, getting to their feet alongside the girls.
Abby grinned and turned back to the Fearcats. "For Tyzonn! Go!"
Running forward, the team of six split into two groups of three and each took on one of the cats. Will, Ronny and Abby took Mig, while Mack, Rose and Dax took Benglo.
Mig blocked a couple of punches and kicks from Will, Abby and Ronny, then grabbed Ronny's wrist. She pulled herself free and Abby moves in, but Mig claws at her visor-covered face and knocks her backwards off her feet.
Benglo ducks under a kick from Dax and takes a swing at Rose. Mack exchanged a couple of kicks with him, before Benglo takes a flying leap, hitting both Mack and Dax, and then blocking a punch from Rose. Mack jumps to his feet and attacks once more but Benglo flips both of them to the ground.
Abby and Mig exchange a flurry of kicks and punches while he knocks her into a backflip, the White ranger landed on her knees and Mig planted a kick to her chest, sending her skidding backwards.
"Abby!" Will and Ronny yelled.
Pulling Abby up, the three rangers turned to face Mig only to find him towering over them. After a couple more minutes of bashing and clawing, the cat lifted Ronny and Will into the air, kicked Abby backwards again, before smashing the Black and Yellow rangers together repeatedly and then tossing them across the ground towards Abby.
"Come on!" Abby said to Ronny, helping her friend back to her feet.
They both charge Mig and grab his arms. He manages to shake them off and they both punched at him until he kicks Ronny down, pins Abby's arm, and slams his foot down onto Will as he attempted to help his friends.
"Got you!" Will said as he made it back to his feet.
Mig whips up a green energy blast from his fist, after he had released both Abby and Ronny, he then slammed his fist into the ground and a huge fiery explosion sent Ronny, Will and Abby flying backwards through the air.
"See? They're worthless and weak." Mig stated, leaping into the air with Benglo.
"Watch out!" Mack yelled.
"Fire!" both Fearcats yelled, blasting several times at the rangers from the air. The force of the second explosion caused Abby and Dax to crash onto the roof of a car, and the others to come back into impact with the floor.
"The jewels are ours for the taking." Mig grinned, as he and Benglo landed once more.
Reaching for his Tracker, Mack called for the Transtek Armour. "Go!"
"HoverTeck Cycle! Hyah!" Will commanded, following his Red ranger's lead.
However, both Rangers were rendered unusable as the Fearcats leapt into the air again and blasted them back across the floor towards their friends.
"Mack!" Abby yelled.
"Will!" Ronny echoed.
Pushing themselves up the last four rangers reached their team-mates and helped them to their feet, as the Fearcats landed in front of them once more.
"And now you will meet your fate!" Benglo sneered.
But the rangers refused to go down without a fight, but before the Fearcats could attack another figure appeared, somersaulting in and landing in a crouch between the Rangers and the Fearcats.
"You!" Mig growled.
"Tyzonn!" Abby cried spotting the Overdrive uniform he wore.
Mack grinned. "Wow!"
"Whoa!" Dax nodded.
"Huh?"
"Ohh!"
"Yeah!"
"I won't allow you or anyone else to terrorize this planet," said Tyzonn. "I'm a rescuer...and a Power Ranger!"
He swung his staff around, sending an energy blast at the cats, knocking them down. Tyzonn then tossed the staff into the air and yelled "Overdrive accelerate!" once morphed "Mercury Ranger!" Tyzonn grinned, looking down at himself "Feels good."
Abby giggled covering the mouthpiece of her helmet with her hand, as she watched Tyzonn rush the Fearcats and deliver a severe beating.
"Ha! You missed!" Tyzonn laughed as the initial attack from the Fearcats missed him completely." Drive Detector!" he fired his weapon at the Fearcats, as they landed the three of them stood a few feet apart on the ground.
"Why must cat's always land on their feet?" Abby complained, as she watched Benglo and Mig stagger backwards away from Tyzonn.
"Come on!" Benglo said
"He's too strong." Mig agreed
"Let's split."
"You may have won this time, but we'll be back!" they warned, before disappearing in a whirl of orange and purple.
Tyzonn glared after them. "Ha. I'll be waiting."
"Yes!" Abby grinned punching the air in victory, before running forward with a cry of Tyzonn's name. The Mercury ranger turned and caught Abby as she jumped into a hug, and he finally understood what the others meant when they said that Abby may have been 22-years-old but she was as light as a toddler. "I'm proud of you!" she told him, as she pulled out of the hug and the others patted his shoulders and welcomed him to the team.
~*Abby*~
Several hours later, Abby giggled as she chased her loveable companion Buddy Holloway through the dense Brazilian Jungle.
"There must be a clue to the jewel somewhere in this jungle," said Rose, as she smiled at the team's leader, who was now hiding behind a tree as Buddy sniffed her out.
"And we'll find it," said Tyzonn. "We're heroes, remember?"
"Yeah, we're heroes, all right." Mack agreed laughing as Abby ducked behind another tree to avoid being seen by the dog that was following her. "Although I do worry about Abby."
"I heard that!" Abby called, as Buddy darted out in front of her and jumped up at her, knocking her over onto her butt. The White ranger laughed loudly as the Golden Retriever jumped at her and started to lick her face. "Alright! Alright! You found me..."
The rest of the team shook their heads at their team-leader, before looking up as Dr Medford approached him with the rest of his group of scientists. They had been packing away their equipment into a yellow jeep a few feet away.
"Thank you so much for helping us and scaring off those vile beasts," the good doctor said.
"No problem," smiled Mack. "That's what we do."
"We wanted to make sure you were all right," said Ronny.
Medford nodded. "We are, thanks to you."
"Are you leaving?" Abby questioned, as she appeared at Mack's shoulder, Buddy at her heels.
"Yes, our expedition has come to an end, but we wanted you to have a small token of our appreciation." said Medford, and he unwrapped a cloth and held it out to the rangers, revealing a little statue. "It's the Yanomami Statue. It's an ancient relic,"
With a smile Abby accepted the gift, but as soon as she touched there was a beep from all the Ranger's Trackers. Reaching for her own, Abby scanned the relic with the beam as the screen on her Tracker flashed.
"Hey, we've got a strong jewel signature!" Abby grinned happily.
The others laughed in delight.
"I told you we'd find it," Tyzonn laughed.
"You're going to fit in just fine," Ronny laughed, patting Tyzonn's shoulders.
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Here is part two of Man of Mercury...now I am off to bed.
PS. The bold/italic speech in this chapter is Tyzonn narrating the story, while Abby is in his memory. It's effective, since memories are usually italicsized.
Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Chapter updated Wednesday, 16 November 2011 at 1:08am