Chapter 11: Face to face part 1.

Chelbell2016:

I am going to try and finish this before going back to Jungle fury and SPD.

*Kick into overdrive*

Courtney's POV:

Mack has asked me to speak to his dad about his constant working and not taking a break.

"Mr. Hartford you need to rest," I tell him as Mack and I are down in the command center. "You've been working on the new zord 24/7. This cannot be healthy. You've got to take a break."

"Your pleas fall on deaf ears," Spencer tells me. "I've been telling him that for the last two days."

"The sonic streaker isn't just any zord Courtney," he tells me as he walks over to one of his devices. "The speed and agility of the SHARC. But with the most advanced weaponry I ever made."

"Great," Mack says to him nodding as Mr. Hartford places a component onto the transporter. "Now how about I get you a sandwich?"

Spencer jumps at this and turns angrily to Mack.

"I'll get the sandwiches around here, if you don't mind," he says and I smirk at his tone. "Lets keep our duties clear. After all you don't see me traipsing around in one of those fancy uniforms do you?"

"Ah come on Spence," I say to him making both him and Mack turn to me. "You're in pretty good shape. You'd look great in ranger red."

"True," Spencer agrees. "For my age I'm still quite ripped."

I smirk as he walks off leaving the three of us alone. Not long after Mack also leaves. He is clearly hoping that I will have better luck than him.

"Want a sneak preview?" He asks me and I nod.

"Sure," I agree with him a little excited at the new zord.

We walk up to the computers and he teleports the device into the new zord.

As we turn back to the computer we see a red, orange and white zord appear. I love it.

"Incredible," I say to him smiling.

"I haven't told you the best part," he says to me and I turn to him. "You're gonna be the pilot. If after all those ground zords apart from the phoenix your up for it."

"Are you kidding?!" I ask him excited to finally have my own zord from this team. "After years of having animals for zords and most of them on the ground... I finally get to fly a real jet. Wait till I tell the others!"

I take one of the sandwiches that Spencer had brought down. Then I head out of the room and into the parlor to tell the others about the sonic streaker.

I've been with the others for five minutes.

"And did I tell you it can reach Mach 2 in less than 30 seconds?" I tell the guys excited for a zord that I knew would make Blake and Hunter jealous.

"Only about 30 times," Will points out to me laughing at my enthusiasm.

"And the superthrusters boost the speed to Mach 3," Ronnie repeats another fact I told them. "In less than a minute."

"That's amazing Courtney," Mack says clearly tired of me talking about it. "But we've heard all about it."

"They're just jealous Courtney," Dax explains to me. "I think the sonic streaker sounds slamming."

"Thank you," I say mock glaring at my friends. "At least one of my friends appreciate a good zord."

We high five and I laugh.

"Good news team," Rose says coming into the room having been the only one absent. "I think I made some progress in figuring out how to read this parchment."

She is referring to the parchment the hou ou bird got for us.

"You looked it up in the alien-to-english dictionary?" Ronnie asks.

"Or you spoke to an alien genius named Cam?" I laugh and the others shake there head.

I had told them of all my past team members.

"No," Rose says in reply. "But I called a colleague at the university, professor Ryan. He's a total genius when it comes to languages and codes. I'm going to take him the parchement to see if he can figure any of it out."

I like the idea.

"Sweet," Dax says jumping to his feet in excitement. "Hey, can I come along? I've never been to jolly old England."

"Sure," Rose says clearly happy for some company.

"Hey," Will says patting me on the shoulder and I glance around at him. "Why don't you take Courtney along with you? Then she can tell you all about the sonic streaker."

I nod and get to my feet. As we head for the S.H.A.R.C I tell her all the facts just like I did the others.

*Kick into overdrive*

We are sat with Rose's colleague. He is reading through the parchment and we sit nervously hoping he can decipher it.

"Fascinating," the professor says as he looks it over.

"But can you understand any of the symbols professor?" Rose asks.

Before the professor can answer there is a sudden grunt before our table is blasted. All four of us go flying backwards.

I look up as one of Moltor's lizards appears and snatches the parchment off of the table. I glare as I force myself to my feet.

"Professor Ryan," I hear Rose say as I stumble a little. "Are you okay?"

Dax, Rose and I go racing for the stairs where we see the monster running.

"STOP!" I yell.

He of course does not so I grab my tracker off of my shoulder.

"READY?!" I ask the other two.

"READY!" They both reply.

"OVERDRIVE ACCELERATE!" We yell and morph into our suits.

We manage to get in front of the monster by blasting and jumping over him. We point our blasters at him and I speak.

"ALL RIGHT!" I say. "HAND OVER THE PARCHMENT NOW!"

Another of Moltor's goons yells out as he appears in front of us.

"Don't worry Tyzonne!" He says stepping in front of the other monster who I now know is Tyzonne. "I'll take care of these colourful pests!"

"Great another one of Moltor's goons!" I say to the others quietly.

But even as I speak I sense something different about Tyzonne.

"Here's a message from him!" The goon says.

He sends a blast and I raise a shield. But the force of it sends me to the ground. The other two quickly pull me to my feet.

I look up and see Tyzonne doing a runner. I call out to him and run after him to try and get the parchment back.

I hope that the other two can handle the other monster.

I jump at him and we go rolling across the ground. He gets to his feet and runs off again.

"WAIT!" I yell after him.

The more I am around this guy the more I know he is not bad.

"Tyzonne!" The other monster says. "Get out of here!"

Tyzonne jumps onto a bridge and I follow him. I need to get the scroll back. I aim a kick at him which he blocks. Turning I dodge one of his kicks. He then grabs me and forces me backwards.

I grab him and his arm with the scroll in is over the edge.

"Oh no you don't!" I tell him.

I force him backwards and he growls at me. I grab his hand that is holding the parchment.

"Let me go!" Tyzonne orders me.

We fall of the bridge and yell as we hit the ground. I quickly roll back to my feet but so does he. We continue to fight for a few seconds. Blocking and dodging each others attacks. I can tell that he is a skilled fighter.

He blasts lightning at me which I jump over. Then I land a kick that sends him spinning into the air and he hits the ground.

I notice a pouch hit the ground and some sort of crystals hit the floor. Tyzonn is quick to reach for them. They clearly have a sentimental value to him. This is all leading me to one conclusion.

I run forwards and grab the parchment. He uses his claws so we both have one end each of the scroll.

"No you don't!" He challenges me.

We begin to try and tug it out of each others hands and fight at the same time. I duck under his swipes and try to kick him away from me.

"Give it to me!" He sounds like he is angry but pleading at the same time.

He swings out and catches me off guard with a kick to the chest. I groan as I go rolling across the ground.

"We're out of here!" The dragon says and I look up to see them disappearing.

I quickly get to my feet as Rose and Dax approach the area where they had disappeared.

"Oh man we lost them!" Dax says.

"Courtney!" Rose calls out when she spots me holding my ribs. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," I say.

"Hey whats that?" Rose says glancing at the piece of parchment that I got.

"All I could get of the parchment!" I tell her distraught.

"Hey, what's this?" Dax says and I see that he has a piece of that Tyzonn's crystal.

*Kick into overdrive*

We head back to the mansion with the professor to see if he can translate the piece I got of the parchment. I still wish I could have got more but if being a ranger has taught me anything its no regrets.

"I can't translate all of it," the professor tells us. "But I do recognize some of these symbols from extra terrestrial crop circles. This one represents Mountain. And I this one means Diamond."

I am hopeful that this is good news.

"This is it rangers," Mr. Hartford says taking off his glasses. "I have a feeling that this document can lead us right to the second jewel of the corona aurora."

We all smile at each other.

"Anything interesting from that broken crystal?" I ask Dax.

"Nope," Dax says as he finishes scanning the piece of crystal Tyzonn dropped. "No Jewel signature of any kind. Just like your average piece of space quartz."

"Why did that alien get so upset over it?" I wonder out loud. "It obviously meant a lot to him."

"Yeah," Dax says but I can hear the sarcasm. "Out of all the monsters that have tried to pulverize us, he was definitely the most sensitive."

"Funny," I say not amused.

"Come on Courtney," he says seeing my look. "He was just like any other cold-blooded. lizard-faced freak."

"No, no," I say knowing that I am right. "There was something different about this one."

"Well if he works for Moltor," Ronny says who had joined us during the conversation. "I don't need to see his resume. He's going down."

I laugh a little at her enthusiasm.

Not long after we get the alert to trouble.

"What's going on?" Will asks as we all appear at the screen in Mr. Hartford's office.

We see Tyzonn and the dragon monster.

"Power rangers," the dragon says. "There will be more destruction if you don't bring us the parchment. I suggest you do before anyone gets hurt."

"He doesn't have to tell me twice," Ronny says to all of us. "Anyone mind if I take the trasdeck?"

"Go for it Ronny," Mr. Hartford says.

"Sweet!" She says as we all head out.

I don't leave without grabbing the parchment first.

*Kick into overdrive*

We arrive and see people running we guide them to safety. But before I can get to her a woman is about to be crushed by a large brick. She screams and Ronny grabs the object.

As I help two people I turn to watch as Tyzonn runs over to check on the woman before she runs off screaming. He looks upset.

Ronny blasts him and as he goes flying we all regroup.

"Now that we have your attention," he begins and I know what I must do. "Where's the parchment?"

"Right here," I say holding it out.

"Tyzonn get it from her," the dragon did what I was hoping he would.

"Be ready rangers," I say glancing back at my friends.

They all agree and I walk towards Tyzonn. But then I do something they was not expecting. I demorphed.

"Rose what's she doing?" I hear Ronny ask.

"Hand me the parchment," Tyzonn says.

"I saw you try to help that woman," I point out to Tyzonn. "You're not like the others are you?"

"I am one of them," he says but I hear the hesitation in his voice.

He goes to take the parchment but I move it away from him and shout to my friends. "NOW!"

They Mack, Ronny and Will take out there zip shooters and fire them so they wrap around the dragon.

Tyzonn calls out but I grab him to try and stop him. But he turns and aims to punch me which I am forced to block. He knocks me to the ground where I groan.

I get to my feet to see him running away.

"WAIT!" I call out running after him.

*Kick into overdrive*

I run into the woods following Tyzonn.

"WAIT!" I call out but he continues to run. "STOP!"

He finally stops and turns to me. "Get away from me!"

He shoots out lightning and blasts the ground around me. I am forced to raise a shield but with the distraction he ran away.

I jump into the air and grab a hold of him. He twists and aims to hit me with his staff. I dodge it and then jump over it as he tries to trip me.

I grab his staff and pull him towards me. But then he flips me and I go flying before landing on the ground.

"You wouldn't listen," Tyzonn says looking down at me.

I get to my feet and go for my tracker. But then I think better of it. I still get the feeling that Tyzonn does not want to hurt me.

"I don't know what your deal is but I'm not your enemy," I inform him.

He runs off again with me following him.

I find him again at the river where he is staring at his reflection. He seems appalled at his own reflection. Now that makes me wonder why?

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He screams.

"Take it easy," I say as he stands on the water where his reflection was.

"I said stay away from me," he says walking away again.

"Listen I'm not gonna hurt you," I promise him. "I don't think you want to hurt me either. Who are you?"

"I am no one," he says to me. "And when Moltor finds out I don't have the whole parchment it won't matter anyway. I will be eliminated."

I decide to try a different tactic.

"So we both need the whole parchment," I point out. "Yet neither of us are willing to budge. Looks like we both loose."

"What is this document?" Tyzonn asks and I am a little shocked. "Why does everyone seek it?"

"You mean you don't know?" I ask him. "It leads to one of the jewels of the Corona."

He turns to me shocked. "The Corona Aurora has been found?"

"Yeah here on Earth," I inform him. "And now Moltor and every other evil thug in the Galaxy are coming after it."

"But if Moltor gets the jewels," Tyzonn begins clearly worried. "He'll use them to crush everything that's good on all planets."

"Not if we can stop him," I point out gently. "If you're really not like them, then give me the rest of the parchment. Please."

He growls before saying. "I must go!"

I shake my head as he walks off but decide to follow him.

*Kick into overdrive*

I get there to see both Tyzonn and Moltor fighting each other. Tyzonn gets kicked down and Bullox stops the others from interfering.

"You must pay for your betrayal!" Moltor says firing at Tyzonn.

I quickly jump at Tyzonn and knock him to the ground. The lightning just misses us.

I roll across the ground and glance back at Tyzonn who is injured. I get to my feet and face Moltor.

"Back off Moltor!" I order him.

"If I have to go through you to get to him," Moltor says raising his sword. "Then so be it."

I pull my morpher off of my shoulder as he runs at me. I grab his sword and hold my morpher against it.

"OVERDRIVE ACCELERATE!" I say as I scrape my morpher down the sword and morph.

We begin to fight. I aim to punch him but he pushes me away. I immediately run back and he grabs my wrist as I go to punch him again. He spins me around and as I manage to make him let go I kick him back.

"DRIVE DEFENDER!" I say pulling out my sword and we begin to have a sword fight.

I clash swords with him before shoving him back. He goes to strike me from behind but I twist my sword and block his strike.

I then turn and strike him across the stomach. But he retaliates with a strike across my chest. I stumble back as sparks appear around my suit.

He comes at me again so I quickly block his sword with my defender.

"Bullox take care of Tyzonn!" Moltor calls out to Bullox who is fighting the others.

"Yes my lord!" He agrees.

I turn to watch as Tyzonn gets to his feet and Bullox turns to him.

"NOW!" Moltor orders.

I gasp as Bullox throws a fireball at Tyzonn. I quickly kick Moltor away from me and go running towards Tyzonn.

"Look out!" I yell getting in front of Tyzonn but I do not have enough time to raise a shield when we are hit.

We both go flying into the air and an explosion appears behind us.

I get to my feet and move towards Tyzonn. "Come on. We gotta get out of here."

I grip him and flame us away from this fight.

*Kick into overdrive*

Unmorphed I lead Tyzonn through the woods. I gently sit him down and because I do not know how my healing abilities will work on an alien I tie a piece of cloth around the wound on his arm.

"It seems even with these hideous scales I'm vulnerable to injury," Tyzonn points out watching as I wrap his arm up. "Moltor would have finished me off if you hadn't saved me. I owe you my thanks."

I finish his arm and sit down besides him. Then I hold my hand out for him to take.

"Courtney," I say when he takes my hand.

"I was once called Tyzonn," he informs me. "And I've brought shame to my planet by bowing to Moltor's will."

"Hey, we all make mistakes," I say to him gently. "Trust me I've made lots of them."

He pulls out his part of the parchment.

"If you trust me I'd like to make amends for the harm I've done," he says and I smile at him. "Moltor must be stopped."

I pull out the little corner of the parchment I have. We put them near each other and with a flash they rejoin as one. I chuckle.

"All right," I say happy. "We'd better go."

"Yes," Tyzonn agrees.

We both get to our feet and begin to walk with me supporting Tyzonn.

"Can you read these symbols?" I ask Tyzonn who is a little bit better and looking at the parchment.

"No," he says and I feel a pang of disappointment. "This language is unfamiliar to me."

"Better get it back to base right away," I say thinking I should flame us there.

I spoke too soon though as a bunch of Lava lizards appear. I shake my head. "Or not."

*Kick into overdrive*

Chelbell2016:

Okay Ive got to say Ive found my Courtney muse and shes here to stay.