Chapter 5

"So far eight Energems have been found, yet three more remain to be discovered," Kendall said as she pushed her glasses up to the bridge of her nose.

"What are the other three?" Alix curiously asked as she wanted to know what colors the last three Energems were.

"The last three Energems are Purple, Aqua and Silver but since the Ankylozord is active we know that someone has the Aqua Energem. We haven't found the Purple or Silver Energems yet."

"Then our best bet is to keep looking for them," Tyler spoke up as everyone else(excluding Alix who looked a little confused but somewhat determined) agreed.

The brown wearing ravenette absent-mindedly fiddled with the shiny blue clip that held her hair in place as she looked at the floor, while mulling over everything that happened since her arrival at Amber Beach today. The girl was so shy that she literally hid her face in public, but started to open up little by little and even showed a spike of bravery courtesy of her grandmother, pet cat and some new friends. Even being a Power Ranger was surprising to her as well as Alix never thought about being one since it hadn't crossed her mind once.

Suddenly, Riley's voice somehow had snapped the Brown Ranger out of her thoughts making her look up at him, "Alix, you okay?"

"Huh? Sorry, Riley it's just that everything happened so fast ever since I came here," she said to him but muttered that last part. "Everything's so new to me..."

The Green Ranger gave the 17-year-old a pat on the back as a smile graced his lips, "Don't worry, we'll help you get settled in and acquainted with everything."

Alix let a smile fall on her own lips until her stomach decided to ruin the moment by growling so loudly, everyone in the base looked around and thought that a monster had infiltrated and was lurking nearby. Alix's face turned red as Tyler's shirt and Keeper's robe as she quickly put her arms around her stomach and frowned at it in embarrassment then protested with a slight groan. The tension soon dissipated and all of the other Rangers along with Keeper and Kendall looked over to the ravenette.

"Looks like someone's hungry," Chase said as he grinned at Alix's reddening face which caused her to hide it behind her pale hands, much to his and some of the others' amusement.

"Stummy growl loud as sabertooth tiger," Koda remarked as he somehow just compared the young woman's belly to a prehistoric animal that existed in his time which made the whole room erupt in a fit of laughs.

As if a light bulb went off above her head just like in the cartoons, the 17-year-old pulled out her bag of cookies that Beatrice made, and began eating one. That acted as a reminder somewhat as the other Rangers had some cookies that they probably didn't touch yet and began eating theirs. Koda then shared some of his with Phillip, Kendall and Keeper since they didn't get any from Alix's grandmother. Even the director of the museum and owner of the Dino Bite cafe fell in love as soon as she munched on one, so did the red robed alien along with the prince of Zandar.

"I say, Lady Alix this is delicious!" Ivan complimented as he swallowed a piece of his own baked treat. "Your grandmother has superior baking skills to rival some of the best bakers in Zandar. She should start her own bakery."

"Well, I wouldn't go that far to compliment Grandma's talent even though she's some kind of confectionist," Alix replied as she took another bite out of her snack, a bit of doubt laced in her voice.

"Mrs. Landerfield makes some of the best cakes, pies and cookies in town. They're so good that you can't stop eating them, that is if you have a major sweet tooth of course," the Green Ranger interjected, having complimented the redhead's baking skills since he did have more than a taste of her pies and cakes in the past. So much in fact that his family practically traded/exchanged food and sweets with Beatrice for other types of food if the redhead didn't sometimes go and restock her supplies from the grocery store.

Alix chewed on her lower lip out of nervousness since she wasn't used to being in a crowd and possibly stood off to the side away from everyone else, due to her shyness deciding to reveal itself once again. She messed with the hem of her sleeve and wished that the spike of bravery she just had would come back and bring her confidence up just as much before the fight with Prisma. Alix began to mentally curse and scold herself for being weak and letting herself get bullied and exploited all the way to high school all the while hoping that she would get stronger.

'I should've known that I was being used for other people's gain,' the Brown Ranger thought to herself. 'They didn't care about me but themselves and because of that I got picked on a lot, but no more will I allow myself to be taken advantage of and stepped all over again from this day on.'

Alix mentally shook her head and clenched a fist as if that sudden spark of confidence came back to her. No longer would she be the shy girl who would even hide from her own shadow if the 17-year-old wanted to, nor cower in fear of others who weren't related to her because of her paranoia of being bullied. She felt like a phoenix being reborn and rising from the ashes of its old life into the new one as a sense of determination surged through the core of the young woman's being.

"I wanna help," she spoke up, causing the other seven Rangers plus Kendall and Keeper to look at her. "I wanna help you guys look for the other Energems even though I'm kinda new to this whole Power Ranger thing."

A grin spread over Tyler's face as well as some of the others', "Welcome to the team, Alix."