The rangers were behind the garage dressed in coveralls repairing an old
van that Dr. K had dubbed 'Go-Onger 3'. "Char!" Henry called. "Start
the engine." She turned the ignition and the engine started.
Jasper was squirted in the face with a jet of oil from the motor. "Stop
the engine!" he shouted. Charlotte cut the engine. "There's an oil leak"
Ziggy noted. "Yeah, I noticed!" Jasper snapped as he wiped the oil from
his face.
"Good thing you were wearing your safety glasses" Henry observed. "Yeah,
safety first" Charlotte added. "Why don't we take a break" Ziggy
suggested. "Yeah, we've been at this all morning" Charlotte added.
The four entered the garage and made themselves comfortable. Jasper
poured himself a glass of cold lemonade from the refrigerator and took
a seat. Henry turned on the TV.
Dr. K entered the garage. "What do you think you're doing?" she demanded.
"We're just taking a break" Charlotte answered defensively. "Is Go-Onger
3 in good working order yet?" she demanded. "Not exactly" Ziggy admitted.
"I didn't think so" Dr. K remarked. "You're working us to death!" Jasper
complained. "We've been working all morning and we need a break"
Charlotte pleaded.
Suddenly the program they were watching on the TV was interrupted by
breaking news. "A giant rubber duck fired on a ferry boat this morning.
All ferries are suspended until further notice. We will update you as the
situation develops."
Henry cut off the TV. "I guess our break is over" he lamented. "How are
we supposed to destroy a bot that is in the middle of the harbor?" Jasper
asked. "We could take Flo-Onger" Ziggy suggested.
"Flo-Onger?" Henry asked. "It stands for 'Floating Operational Network
General-Purpose Explorational Racer'" Dr. K explained. "Is it a boat?"
Jasper asked. "Yes, Jasper, it's a boat" Dr. K said condescendingly.
"You'll find it docked at the Fifth Avenue Pier."
"Let's go" Henry said eagerly. "This time try not to let anyone steal
it" Dr. K said with snark.
When the rangers arrived at the waterfront they found Flo-Onger to be a
rusty fishing trawler. "This is it?" Charlotte asked skeptically. "Dr.
K had plans for it, but I put all my time into fixing up Go-Onger 2"
Ziggy explained.
"Can you drive this thing, Ziggy?" Henry asked. "Of course, I can!" Ziggy
declared proudly. "I'm the captain of this ship! All aboard!" The rangers
boarded the boat and put on life vests. Ziggy also put on a captain's hat.
At the helm Ziggy began barking orders to his 'crew'. "Raise the
Gangplank! Weigh anchor! Makw way!" Jasper put on a sailor's hat he found
and saluted. Ziggy engaged the throttle and Flo-Onger was underway.
About ten minutes later they sighted the giant rubber duck. "Quack!" the
duck greeted them. "This doesn't seem much like a threat" Henry remarked.
"Can we harpoon it?" "We don't have any weapons" Ziggy confessed. "Like
I said, my first priority was Go-Onger 2."
As Ziggy steered closer to the duck it rotated to face them. "It's
moving!" Jasper alerted them. Rubber Duck Bot fired a torpedo at the
rangers. "Incoming!" Jasper hollered. "Battle stations!" Ziggy
shouted.
The boat shook violently as the torpedo hit. "Abandon ship!" Ziggy
ordered. The rangers boarded the lifeboat as the ship listed. They
paddled away from Flo-Onger as she quickly sank.
Rubber Duck Bot started shooting lasers at the rangers. "Excuse the pun,
but we're sitting ducks" Henry remarked. "Now would be a good time
to put our colorful wetsuits" Charlotte suggested. "Huh?" Jasper said
confused.
"Ranger-up" Henry ordered. "Excuse me, but I'm captain" Ziggy reminded
him. "Shouldn't you go down with the ship?" Henry retorted. "Never mind"
Ziggy said sheepishly and removed his hat.
Suddenly dozens of BGs rose out of the water, propelled by water jets
shooting out of nozzles behind their shoulders. "Have you guys ever
been in a water battle before?" Ziggy asked. "No" Henry, Charlotte, and
Jasper answered. "Just watch me and do what I do" he urged.
Ziggy jumped off the lifeboat as he shouted "RPM! Get in gear!" He
morphed in mid-air and then dropped beneath the water. "Ziggy!" Jasper
shouted. Ziggy rose above the water propelled by two jets of water from
a jetpack on his back.
"Come on in! The water's fine!" he urged the others. They jumped off
the lifeboat and morphed mid-air. They sank and then rose above the
water with jetpacks of their own.
"Let's kick some bot!" Henry shouted. The rangers punched and kicked the
BGs as they soared just above the waves like brightly colored seagulls.
They unleashed their firepower on the BGs that still remained.
Rubber Duck Bot shot at the rangers with its lasers but the rangers
were too fast. Henry focused his energy blast on the bot. It made one
final quack before exploding. Henry posed heroically. "Victory at sea!"
he cheered.
The rangers boarded the lifeboat and de-morphed. "Which way, Captain?"
Henry asked Ziggy. He put on his captain hat and pointed toward the
city skyline on the horizon. "Plot a course west by northwest" he
ordered. Jasper took the oars and started rowing.
Hours later the rangers arrived at the garage. "Where have you been?" Dr.
K demanded. "Defeating attack bots, that's where we've been" Henry
replied." I lost track of Flo-Onger while you were out in the harbor."
"Don't you mean, 'So-Unwar'?" Ziggy rebutted.
"What is 'So-Unwar?'" she asked. "Sunken Old Underwater Wreck Artificial
Reef" he answered nervously. Dr. K put her face in her hands. "You lost
Flo-Onger, didn't you?" "Don't worry" Jasper assured her. "We still have
Flo-Onger 2." Dr. K looked at Jasper puzzled. "The lifeboat" Charlotte
clarified.
"I need to be alone now" Dr. K sighed and retreated to her lab closing
the doors behind her. The rangers heard a loud primal scream from Dr. K's
lab that lasted about five seconds. "That went better than I expected"
Ziggy noted.
