Chapter 9: At all costs.

Sorry it has took me so long to update but I will update a few of these chapters now.

*Kick into overdrive*

Courtney's POV:

We are all running around the mansion. The only one able to do it without moaning is Ronny and I. because I have trained since I was little it never bothered me running around like this.

"Only another mile and a half to go," Spencer who is in a golf cart says.

"Want to get out of the cart and jog along with us?" Will suggests to Spencer.

"I do many things around the Hartford estate," Spencer says and I glance at him. "Jogging is not one of them."

I decide to speed things up a bit to make them more interesting.

I turn to speak to my team. "Anyone care to join me."

"No," Dax says.

"Does it look like I even enjoy going at this speed?" Rose asks.

Mack nods and we both go on ahead. After a few seconds Ronnie joins us clearly wanting to take the lead.

"Didn't want you to get lonely," she tells us.

"Thanks," Mack says.

Ronny goes on ahead and I am not far behind her. Then Mack suddenly appears besides us again.

"Sorry I had to uh stop and tie my shoe," he informs us and I roll my eyes. "Besides I thought you two would be further ahead. With your super speed and your ninja streaking."

Ronny scoffs. "I don't need that to beat you."

She goes racing on ahead. I follow after her and we both make it back to the Hartford mansion quite quickly.

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When the others arrive I am sat reading a book after a nice shower. Ronny is playing a game on one of the game consoles. The others look exhausted when they walk towards us.

"What took you guys?" Ronny asks. "I'm on my second game already."

Will loosing his patience with Ronny throws his used towel at her. It lands on her shoulder.

"Ew," Ronny says as she picks the towel off of her. "Your all sweaty."

Dax falls to the ground and the other two just groan.

I continue to read my book as I contemplate Ronny.

I do not get why she has to be so competitive. Were a team and there is no I n team.

I just hope that she can learn the true meaning of friendship. I love to compete. But when I am with my friends I think it is more important to have fun.

A little while later and I am sat trying to finish my book. I hear the others game and once more Ronny's competitive attitude quickly ends the game.

Then Mr. Hartford and Mack enter they are wheeling a case of some kind towards us.

"Anyone interested in testing out the new blaster besides Mack?" Mr. Hartford asks as we all get to our feet curious.

Mack opens the case to show an amazing weapon. My mouth drops open in shock.

The others all speak there approval.

Then they remember other plans.

"Count me out!" Rose says and I look at her. "I've got a play date with Spencer, testing zord motherboards."

After Will and Dax also say no I sigh.

"I would love to," I say but then I spot Azantys. "I want to spend some time with my mystic animals. By the way. No one freak out if you see a unicorn on dragon around."

I walk off leaving the other three standing there worried.

*Kick into overdrive*

I head outside and a white unicorn comes towards me. Luckily this place no one has ever come to.

"Hey girl, whats up?"

"Everything is fine. I just thought it would be a nice time for us to meet up. Cotastros and Fireheart are deep in the woods. Hold on and I'll take you there."

I nod and jump on her back. She rides me into the woods with Azantys running by our side. Then I spot Cotastros and Fireheart.

After some conversation I am called back.

Apparently there s a lot of lava lizards around.

The team and I go to fight them.

When we arrive we see that instead of attacking they are fighting each other.

"Look at that!" Will says. "There fighting each other."

"Wanna bet on which one is gonna win?" Ronny asks and I roll my eyes underneath my helmet. "I'll take the ugly one."

"And that one is?" Rose asks sarcastically.

Moltor spots us from where he is standing. "Meddling rangers!"

He blasts lightning at us but I raise a shield and block it. The force knocks us over but we are not injured at all.

"That guy is getting on my last nerve!" I shout out.

I look at the lava lizards and see that there is one left.

"Excellent my champion!" Moltor says as he walks to the one left standing. "Now your reward."

I worry what he is going to do. He presses a button on his sword and sends a blast of lightning at the lava lizard that is still there. The lava lizard begins to grow red.

"That looks uncomfortable!" I say as we all get to our feet.

"Its just an experiment!" Moltor informs me. "You may not make it, but if you do, you will be the most powerful wizard of them all!"

The lightning stops and there is a sudden flash as the lava lizard turns into some sort of monster. He looks sort of like a dragon.

"IT WORKED!" Moltor cheers. "I shall call you Volkan!"

The dragon roars.

"This is trouble!" I yell before running to fight the monster. "Come on!"

We run at them but Moltor fires a blast that shatters my shield and we all hit the ground. I cough as grey smoke surrounds us.

I see them preparing to leave.

"No you don't!" I yell demorphing.

"TRIASSIC ARMOUR ACTIVATE!" I say and as my armour appears I click my fingers. "RED DRAGON TRIASSIC WARRIOR!"

I feel fireheart behind me and then we combine.

I run at the monster and he turns to blast me. I use the wings of Fireheart to block it. I continue to run but as I get closer this time he fires again and it hits me. I fall but Firehearts armour protects me.

They both soon disappear.

*Kick into overdrive*

I am down in the command center.

"It was the weirdest thing," Mack says as he looks at one of the computers. "When we arrived the lava lizards were fighting each other until there was just one left."

"Sounds similar to some early tribe customs," Mr. Hartford says. "Where warriors of the same tribe would battle amongst themselves for riches or for power."

I nod. "That's what it looked like to me."

"Thank goodness we've evolved from there," Ronny says and we all send her a look. "What?"

"I think I may have solved the drill blaster energy problem," Mr. Hartford says and I turn to him as the others appear. "First, I need to find a dragon scale."

I look at him wondering why he would need one.

"What?" Will says.

"You know in Gaelic writings it is stated that a scale from a dragon holds enough energy to light the world," Rose says and I smile as I think about my dragon.

"Exactly," Mr. Hartford says nodding at her.

Dragons don't exist!" Will states. "And neither do there scales."

"Excuse me," I say folding my arms and the others turn to me. "Did you not see the gigantic dragon I combined with earlier?"

"Well thats different," Will says defensively.

"Well there are reports of a magical dragon outside of a city called Briarwood," Mr. H continues and I smirk at Will. "At the time I did not know it was your dragon. I purchased one of his scales from a record store owner who says its from Fireheart."

"When I get my hands on Toby Slambrook," I say. "How dare he sell parts of Fireheart."

"When the time comes I'd like Mack to be the first to try it," Mr. Hartford says.

"Mack?" Ronny questions and I groan silently. "Look I can do anything he can do and chances are I can do it better. I've proved myself over and over again. On the range I have the highest scores."

"I know all of that Ronny," Mr. Hartford says and I can hear the slight annoyance in his voice. "And-"

"Its all right dad," Mack cuts his father off. "Ronny can go first."

"Yes!" Ronny cheers.

*Kick into overdrive*

Later on we have been told that we need to go and collect the dragon scale from the warehouse. When we get there Moltor has his hands on the dragon scale.

I send a blast of fire at him and he groans.

"LETS GO!" We all yell as we jump and land in front of Moltor.

"Not so fast flame boy!" Rose says.

"If anyone that dragon scale belongs to me!" I snap. "As it came from my dragon! So hand it over right now!"

"We'll see about that!" Moltor says. "VOLKAN!"

The dragon monster jumps into the air and attacks us. He strikes me across the chest and I fall down. I quickly get back up and prepare to fight.

We all gather around Dax as he goes rolling across the ground.

"I'll take it from here!" Will says calling for his weapon. "DRIVE SLAMMER!"

He strikes Volkan with his weapon but it seems to have no effect on the monster. Volkan then grabs the weapon and strikes him three times. Sparks fly.

"DRIVE CLAW!" Ronny yells and she attacks Volkan with her own weapon but again it does not work. "Oh man!"

Volkan then throws her into the air and blasts us. Ronny cries out.

She lands in front of us.

"Ronny are you all right?" Mack asks before looking at the scale in Moltor's hand. "Why does he want the scale anyway?"

"I don't know," I growl out. "But I know that there is no way he is getting Fireheart's scale!"

I pull out my drive bow and begin to fire at Volkan.

As Mack grabs the monster and turns him we fire at his neck. He screams.

"Hey we hurt him!" Ronny says.

"That must be his weak spot!" I point out.

Mack goes to attack again but Moltor jumps in the way. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!"

He then blasts at all of us. When the smoke has cleared he is gone.

"They've gone!" Will points out the obvious.

"But why?" Rose asks.

"To heal and make that dragon stronger," Mack says and I sigh.

"But not strong enough!" Will says and I turn to look at him.

"If he uses Fireheart's scale then it might be strong enough," I tell him.

*Kick into overdrive*

We go back to the base to try and find that dragon and Moltor.

"There's no sign of Moltor Mr. Hartford," Dax informs Mr. Hartford.

"Dax, can you please call me Andrew?" Mr. Hartford says. "Every time you say Mr. Hartford I look around for my father."

"Got it," Dax says. "You want us to think of you as someone young."

I bite my lip to stop myself from laughing.

"Ow!" Mr. Hartford says sounding insulted.

"No sign of him here either," Rose says as she stands by one of the computers. "The northern quadrant is clear."

"Keep looking," Mr. Hartford says. "He'll show."

I decide to try something else. I walk over to one of the computers and pull out my wand. Casting a spell I watch as the screens begin to glow red.

"What are you doing?" Rose asks as she approaches with the others.

"Fireheart's scale is magical," I explain as I continue what I am doing. "Anything magical leaves a magical trace. If I concentrate I should be able to track it. But it will drain me for a while."

I close my eyes and after a few seconds the computer beeps. I stumble back and Mack helps me to stand straight.

"He's in a warehouse," I explain to them.

They nod and we prepare to leave.

*Kick into overdrive*

We arrive outside the warehouse.

"There's no sign of him," Will says giving me a questioning look.

Moltor appears and I look at Will. "Fashion tip for you Will. Your mouth looks better closed."

"Look harder rangers!" Moltor says.

He blasts us and we hit the ground.

"God tracing that scale has really drained me!" I say as I cannot raise a shield right now.

We quickly get up and I reach for my tracker.

"Ready?" I say looking around at the others.

"READY!" The others reply.

"OVERDRIVE ACCELERATE!" We all yell morphing into our ranger modes.

We all run at Moltor and we begin to fight. He knocks Dax away so us female rangers quickly jump in to help.

Mack and I grab him.

"I'm going after the scale!" I say and I go running into the warehouse as the others help Mack with Moltor.

Lucky because I am a fire ninja and the fact that I am a mystic fire warrior the heat does not affect me. But I cannot stay in there for too long.

As I go further in the heat does begin to affect me. I see the dragon there.

I sneakily get the dragons scale and then I see that the others are in the zord. I decide to join them.

"UTHE MEJOR AZANTYZ!" I yell and Azantyz appears in titan form through a spell seal.

"GALWIT MYSTO PRIFIOR!" I yell pulling out my wand and going into titan mode. "UTHE MEJOR ULTIMAS!"

I join the others side by side.

"Guys it was too hot in that warehouse!" I say turning to look at them. "I had to get out of there."

"What should we do?" Rose asks.

"Smash the building!" I suggest.

"No that won't stop the heat from rising!" Ronny says and I sigh. "Think of something!"

"What if we can control the damage!" Mack suggests. "How about a new zord?! Number eight cement driver go!"

The new zord that mixes cement appears. I smile glad that we have a new weapon to help us defeat Volkan.

The others add gravel to mix the cement.

"DRIVEMAX MEGAZORD MIXER FORMATION!" Mack yells and the zord combines with there megazord just as the place begins to blow. "MIXER SHOOT!"

He shoots cement out that forms a cocoon around the building.

It is shattered but it stopped the blast from destroying anything or hurting anyone.

"Where is my super-lizard?" Moltor asks.

We all jump down and I smirk.

"He's not coming," I say to the evil being. "Hope you don't mind but I took my scale before I left. As its mine anyway I think I have a right."

"What are you doing?" Moltor demands.

I perform a pose and the roll call begins.

"KICK INTO OVERDRIVE! WHITE RANGER!"

"KICK INTO OVERDRIVE! RED RANGER!"

"KICK INTO OVERDRIVE! BLACK RANGER!"

"KICK INTO OVERDRIVE! BLUE RANGER!"

"KICK INTO OVERDRIVE! YELLOW RANGER!"

"KICK INTO OVERDRIVE! PINK RANGER!"

"CALL TO ADVENTURE!" We all yell. "POWER RANGERS: OPERATION OVERDRIVE!"

"Are you through?!" Moltor asks from the rooftop.

"Were just getting started!" Mack informs him.

Mack and I begin to run forwards. Explosions stop the others following us. We both kick Volkan and he stumbles backwards.

We continue to fight him. I punch him and then move to the side as Mack aims a kick to his stomach. Jumping high I kick him again and he goes spinning into the air.

"Impossible!" Moltor says.

I walk over to Ronny. "Here you go!"

I pass the dragon scale to her as she has the first go on the shield.

"Thanks!" Ronny says before pulling out her morpher to call the base. "We have the scale. Send the shield."

"Its on its way!" Mr. Hartford tells us all.

The shield suddenly appears in Ronny's hand.

"Got it!" She says before running over to Mack. "Mack, go on, take it!"

"I think you deserve it Ronny!" Mack replies.

"Yeah well I've been kind of a bonehead about a lot of things," Ronny says looking down.

"I love all this nice stuff," Will says. "But will somebody please blast that thing!"

"Okay," Mack says taking the shield off of Ronny. "Here it goes!"

He turns the shield over and places Firehearts scale into the shield. He then places it onto his chest where straps appear to keep it in place.

"Defender vest ready!" Mack says and the drill blaster appears in his hand. "Can't stand the heat?! Stay out of the furnace!"

He blasts Volkan and he is turned to stone and cannot move.

"DRILL MODE!" Mack yells turning the blaster so the drill end is facing the monster we all stand around him. "DRILL BLASTER! READY! FIRE!"

Mack fires the blaster and Volkan is destroyed.

"Nice one Mack!" Ronny says.

"Thanks for playing Moltor!" Mack says.

*Kick into overdrive*

The next day after visiting Leanne in Rootcore I return to the mansion. I meet up with the others and we all head in.

When I left, Mack and Ronny were playing a game of Foosball. And now it looks like there playing another game of it. The four of s approach them.

"You are still playing?" I question surprised that they are not tired of playing yet. "I went to Briarwood. These guys went to a movie and grabbed some burgers."

"What are you up to like 90 games or something?" Rose asks.

"Same game," Ronny says and I go wide eyed.

"Tie score," Mack says.

"Its just a matter of time before you're going down," Ronny informs Mack. "I've never lost!"

"Yeah neither have I," Mack replies. "Granted I've only played Spencer and thats nothing to brag about."

"I heard that," Spencer's voice echos from the vent.

We all watch as the game continues until Mack cheers.

"YES!" He calls as he won.

We all look to Ronny as this is the first time she lost.

"I lost?" She says looking completely shocked but then she suddenly laughs. "You know its not so bad. Anyone want to play another?"

"NO!" We all yell at her.

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Chelbell2016:

Oh my god I cannot belive how long it took me. Sorry.