Sitting behind the desk of her father's study, Charlie ran her hands through her hair in frustration. She had spent the best part of the morning trying to access her father's laptop in an attempt to ascertain information about the family's accounts. Several hours of swearing, keyboard smacking and screen slapping followed before she swallowed her pride and dialled someone who could help, "Alright it's starting up", she said into her cell, "now it's asking if I want to enter safe mode".
"Say yes", Boom replied through the handset, "this will bypass any security on the device but it won't show us the real juicy data".
"Then what's the point?" Charlie snorted, "do you know how long I've spent sat here?"
"Since it took you four attempts to log into your work laptop before calling IT to reset your password, I would three and a half hours".
Charlie groaned under her breath, "Don't get smart with me".
"Perhaps I can be of assistance", a voice called out from the doorway. Charlie looked up and noticed Spencer standing there with an envelope in his hand, "This just came by courier, its from your father".
"Gotta go Boom", Charlie quickly terminated the call and slowly stood up, "Any idea where they're staying?"
"There's no post mark", Spencer remarked, "and the courier wouldn't say where this was picked up from".
Curiously, Charlie took the envelope from Spencer's hand and ripped it open. She quickly scanned the letter, barely taking in the contents, the green ranger suddenly froze when she read the final paragraph, "He's signed over control of the Estate to me", she said numbly before gently lowering herself back into the chair.
To say Charlie was shocked would be an understatement. She turned the letter over and written on the back were a list of her father's log ons and passwords, "He must really trust you Miss Charlotte", Spencer commented.
"Or he knows that he won't be coming back", Charlie sighed, "thanks again Spencer", she continued, "for everything you've done for my family".
"This sounds like the start of a dismissal Miss Charlotte", the old man frowned.
"More a sabbatical", Charlie replied, "my parents are gone and I'm not giving up my job". She looked up to the crumbling ceiling, "Hell, if I turn a stereo up too loud the house might not be here". The man sighed and nodded numbly, "Once I've determined the cost of repairs and whether I can afford them, I'll think about what to do with the property but until then", she allowed her voice to trail off.
"I understand", Spencer nodded, "I shall gather what I've been able to salvage and be on my way". He nodded stiffly, "A pleasure to serve you Miss Charlotte", the former ranger frowned at her full name, "my apologies, Charlie", with a final grin Spencer dismissed himself and left the study.
With the log in details, Charlie soon loaded up her father's laptop and began the lengthy process of searching through the file. The list seemed to go on and on, names of rangers and locations various bank accounts and finally Hexagon. For a few minutes Charlie merely stared at the screen, failing to comprehend that her parents were apart of Hexgaon. Once it had sunk in, her hands began to shake, "What the hell am I going to do?" She leaned back in her chair, a few thoughts drifting through her head. A small smile formed as she picked up her cell phone and hit dial, "Hey, can you and the others come up to the estate tomorrow? I've got some news that will affect everyone".
The following morning a couple of cars pulled up outside the main entrance. Charlie was there to greet them dressed in a pair of battered old jeans and a baggy t shirt. Her hair was tied back and held in place with a green bandana, "Good of you to join me", she smiled and grabbed a couple of brooms off the ground, "I could do with some help cleaning this place up". Suddenly the rangers are teleported aboard Sledge's ship. Then Charlie suddenly collapsed.
"What the?." Cliff says running down the hallway and into a room where three Vivax are playing poker. Rachel slides under the table much to the surprise of the Vivax and slams two into the wall before punching the third.
"Dang vicious." Ivar says looking at the area I slammed the Vivax into.
"It's been one of those days." Charlie jokes truthfully.
"Not to rush but Lets get off this ship." Morgana says as Vivax start flooding the hallway.
"Shit." Charlie says standing ready for a fight. Beevor shoulder blocks a Vivax making it fly to the side. Morgana jumps over a Vivax and sweeps the legs of three unsuspecting Vivax. Charlie punches the Vivax Morgana jumped over while Ivar tackles the other one. Leaving only one Viavax left Charlie curb stomps its head into the ground.
"Did you really think you would get away?" Fury says turning around looking straight at the rangers.
"Dont make us pummel you into next century!" Charlie threatens clenching her Morpher just in case.
"What are you going to do? You cant beat me ." Fury says a crooked smile forming on his face.
Suddenly Charlie delivers a super kick to Fury making him fall over.
"Thats our window! It's Morphin time!" Morgana exclaims whipping out her Morpher.
"We can't take any chances!" Rachel yells shooting Fury as he's getting up.
"Now you're going down." Charlie threatens slamming Fury into the wall. "Talk."
"Your all idiots." Fury says.
"Now where are we and how do we get out of here?" Rachel asks trying to look threatening which is kind of hard in a Pink Suit.
"Down the hallway you idiots!" Fury exclaims.
"Thanks." Charlie says punching Fury into unconsciousness.
"Down this hallway I presume." Beevor says walking down the hall
"Quick indeed! Hahahaha!" Poisandra exclaims appearing at one end of the hall and Sledge at the other end.
"Thought you could get away Rangers!" Sledge exclaims laughing horrifically as they slowly walk towards us.
"This isn't the time to fight guys let's go!" Morgana says leading us straight through Sledge pushing past him as we run back to the place where Fury said the escape pods were.
"Cowards!" Sledge exclaims shooting us all into some weird pod. He runs up and starts rapidly pushing buttons. The rangers are then teleported to some weird area with mountains surrounding them on all sides. We're trapped.
"Thought I'd given up?" Fury gloats as Sledge, Poisandra , Curio and Wrench beside him as well as a few hundred Vivax!
"Guys I think it's time to fight!" Morgana says grimly.
"We can't give up!" Charlie says.
"This is going to be bad!" Rachel says starting a circle.
"This circle represents us if it breaks we break!" Ivar says joining the circle.
"Lets do this guys." Beevor says.
"ATTACK!" Sledge orders with everything running at the rangers to attack. Fury reaches Jack first but he slices Fury just as he's about to run into him. Faith begins blasting away at the Vivax that are swarming them in the masses. Wrench begins to swing his axe along with Fury swinging his sword when Spock suddenly. "Energem slash," Sledge said as a blinding green light exploded.
Morgana watched as in disbelief as Beevor's body fell to the to the sand in what seemed like slow motion as his morph faded. Charlie felt a wave of intense numbing pain burst over her entire body. "No," she said barely over a whisper as she broke into a run powering down her morph The other rangers following a few feet behind him.
Sledge's crew laughed evilly. All four rangers and Charlie shed tears of sorrow. And Rachel buried her face into Ivar's shoulder.