Friends Are Forever Part 4

Disclaimer : I do NOT own Power Rangers, and am in no way associated with Saban, Disney, or the company that does.

*This is the last Chapter...*sniffle.* Hope you guys like it!

During the night, Carter hit his head on a sharp rock and lay unconsious on the bank. Dana, who was not to far down from him on the bank, crawled back to him. She gently tried to arouse him, but it didn't work. After checking his pulse, she dragged him over to a shady spot under a tree, for the sun was shining brightly.

"Carter, wake up." Dana said gently shaking him.

She examined the deep gash on his forehead. She gathered the things that she thought might be of some use, and tried to properly treat Carter's wound. Even though his eyes were closed, she saw him wince. After she was finished, she relaxed against the tree.

~At the Aqua-base...~

"Alright, I propose we go and look for them." Kelsey said.

Joel, Chad and Kelsey decided to have a meeting concerning Carter and Dana.

"Remember Kels, Carter went to look for her. He's probably searching every corner." Chad put in.

"Probably looking under every rock, too." Joel added.

Everyone started to laugh when Ms. Fairweather came in.

"What's so funny?"

"Carter." Joel replied.

"What about him?"

"He's always so serious." Chad said.

"He's even too serious to notice that he's-" Joel started but Kelsey stomped on his foot. "Ouch! Hey, Why'd you do that?"

Kelsey only gave him a stern look of anger.

"Sheesh Kelsey...Sorry." Joel said looking under the table at his foot.

"What are you three up to?" Ms. Fairweather asked confused.

"Nothing!" Chad said innocently. "Nothing at all."

Ms. Fairweather gave a suspicious nod, and walked out of the room.

"Ouch! I think you murdered my foot Kelsey."

"Sorry Joel."

"Why can't we tell Ms. Fairweather?" Chad asked.

"What if she accidently tells Captain Mitchell? What do you think he would do to Dana?"

Chad grimaced. "He'd probably tell her that she was being foolish, and that she needed to grow up."

"Exactly. That's why we have to be extra careful of what we say." Kelsey said as she and Chad stared at Joel.

"Why are you staring at me?" Joel asked as if nothing had happened.

Kelsey gave a sigh of frustration as she got up from the table. Chad rolled his eyes at him, and followed Kelsey.

"What did I say?!" Joel asked chasing after them.

~In the forest...~

Dana was asleep when Carter woke up. The first thing he noticed was that he had a splitting headache. He tried to get up, but found that he was too tired. 'Now what am I gonna do?' He thought.

"Hey Carter." Dana said.

She was now awake, and crawling toward him.

"Hey Dana."

"How are ya feeling?" She asked with concern.

"I'm fine. Where have you been all this time? Back at the Aqua-base we've been worried sick about you." 'More like I've been worried sick about you.' Carter secretly thought.

"I've been out here."

"Why?"

Dana went into detail about her "adventure." About what the demon had told her, about her life, and about Ryan.

"Now I realize that I should not have been so easily convinced. I'm such an idiot."

"Dana, don't think that. You are anything but an idiot." Carter said sincerily.

"Thanks. We should be heading back to the Aqua-base. I really need to treat your wound properly."

"Anytime. First can we swing by and pick up my jacket?" Carter asked as they started to get up.

"Sure." Dana replied and they went to go get his jacket.

~Back at the Aqua-base...~

Joel, Chad, and Kelsey were just relaxing when the alarms started blaring.

"Let's do it." Chad said leading the way.

As they all gathered in the park, they saw the same demon they were fighting before.

"Not you all again." The demon said. "I thought I made you go away for good."

"Listen, this is no happy reunion for us either..." Joel said.

The demon pulled out his blaster again. Without warning he shot continual blasts at the rangers. They were able to dodge a few, but got hit with most. They went down like a ton of bricks.

"This is so easy!" The demon commented. "Three rangers are no problem for me!"

"Then how about five?" Carter shouted from the woods.

"Huh?!" The demon said turning towards the woods.

There he saw Carter and Dana in morphed form.

"So, there are five of you huh? I can still take you."

He shot blasts at Carter and Dana. They were about to get hit, when all of a sudden the demon that kidnapped Dana blocked them.

"You have to defeat them." The demon said.

"It's you!" Dana said. "You're the one who convinced me that my friends didn't care about me!"

"Well, I...uh...That is to say I.."

"Dana." Carter said. "You take care of him while we go get the other one."

"You've got it!" Dana said with a nod.

Carter rushed to Joel, Chad, and Kelsey with his V-Lancer in Blaster mode.

"Ready guys?"

"Ready!" They all said in unison and fired.

When they saw that the blasts didn't destroy the demon, they fired again. Meanwhile, Dana was pushing the demon backwards toward the water.

"You lied to me..." Dana said angerily.

"Now...Settle down..Can't we talk about this?" The demon said nervously.

"Too late for talk now." Dana said as she pushed the demon into a lake.

The demon struggled in the water, but after a few minutes...It was destroyed. After seeing that the demon was compleatly gone, Dana rushed to the side of her friends. She pulled out her V-Lancer, put it in blaster mode, and helped fire. One shot with all of them together, and the demon was destroyed.

"Let's get back to the Aqua-base." Dana said.

They all nodded in agreement, and went back. Captain Mitchell was very happy to see Dana, but was disappointed that she was so easily convinced by the demon. Later on in the evening, Carter, Joel, Chad, Kelsey, and Dana were all sitting in the dining quarters.

"So...we're glad your back Dana. Right Carter?" Joel asked elbowing Carter lightly in the ribs.

"What do you mean?" Carter asked confused.

"C'mon Carter. Don't play dumb." Joel said as Kelsey and Chad stared at him angerily. "Everyone knows...except Dana."

"Knows what?"

"That you-" Joel was about to finish when Kelsey stomped on the same foot that she had before. "OUCH!!! Not agan...Kelsey, that was the same foot!"

"I know." Kelsey replied.

Everyone started to laugh at Joel, with Kelsey and Chad laughing the hardest.

"Poor Joel...But I think he'll be alright in about two seconds." Chad said looking at Ms. Fairweather coming down the hallway.

"What?" Joel asked.

When he saw Ms. Fairweather at the door, he ran up to her.

"What is it Joel?" Ms. Fairweather asked with an aggravated sigh.

"You need any help of any kind?" Joel asked hopefully.

"You know what Joel? I have just the thing. Since you wanna help so much, I do have something for you to do..."

"Really?! What is it?"

"I need someone to clean the control room." Ms. Fairweather said as she handed him a feather duster.

"This isn't what I had in mind." Joel said as the others started to laugh even harder.

"You mean...You don't wanna help me?" Ms. Fairweather said in a pitiful voice.

"Sure I do!" Joel said happily.

Ms. Fairweather went to the control room with Joel trudging along behind. After a few, the other Rangers finally stopped laughing.

"Glad the big mouth is gone." Chad said.

"Yeah. He was about to spoil our secret." Kelsey said.

"What secret? What's going on with you three?" Carter asked.

"Nothing!" Kelsey said quickly.

"Nothing at all!" Chad added.

Kelsey and Chad got up from the table, and went to their quarters. Carter and Dana stayed behind. They talked about what the other three rangers were up to and how they could find out.

The End!!!