Power Rangers Lightspeed
It's a Beautiful Day
Chapter 8- Galaxy Rangers to the Rescue
Summary- The lightspeed Rescue team calls some old friends for help.
Other Stuff- If any of this stuff seems out of context or anything as in with the show just ignore it. I'm just dragging in any character I feel like using, so it might seem a bit mucked up. Also I have no idea if Kendrix or Karone is the pink ranger at the end of lost galaxy, so I made up one. Kendrix is now the purple ranger. And Mike is still the Magna Defender.
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The next day the lightspeed team met together in the briefing room. Dana and Ryan were there despite looking a bit worse for wear. The Galaxy Rangers were due to arrive the next day.
Dana had just finished telling her story of what had happened to her and Carter. She had omitted the part where Carter had said he loved her, she wasn't ready to tell anyone that yet.
The group had sunk into silence after hearing what had happened to Carter, all of them were imagining possible things that could be happening now. None seemed particularly pleasant.
Captain Mitchell was the first to speak.
"Well, now we know the full situation all we can do is to wait for reinforcement to arrive before we launch another attack."
This statement was followed by a few nods of defeated approval. As much as the rangers wanted to be outside, attacking Disparon and Diabolico and saving Carter all they would end up doing would be getting themselves captured or killed.
They would have to wait until tomorrow. Then Diabolico would be in trouble.
Dana sat, subdued in the corner barely hearing anything else that was said. Now that she had re-lived the whole Daibolico experience she was seriously doubting her decision.
Should she have tried to carry him out? Should she have waited until he was able to move? Should she have tried to get Carter to escape while she was a distraction?
The possibilities were endless, and Dana couldn't help but think she should have picked something other than what she did.
A tap on the shoulder roused her form her thoughts. She looked up and saw to her surprise that the room was empty, except for Ryan who was standing next to her.
"I know what your thinking" he said before she could speak, "and it isn't your fault."
Dana stared at him. Try as she may she still had trouble understanding Ryan. He always seemed to surprise her. How had he known what she was thinking?
"I heard you talking in your sleep last night. It isn't your fault that Carter is in Diabolico's hands. You did the only thing you could do."
Dana stared at her hands.
"But how do you know that? What if I put him in danger by escaping?"
"Carter was in danger if you were there or not. Now that you've escaped we have one less person to worry about. You can be more help here, than sitting in Diabolico's dungeon. Trust me."
Dana smiled wanly. She knew Ryan was right, but it didn't make her feel any less worried for Carter.
"Now come on, if you aren't back in bed soon dad's going to kill you."
Ryan helped her out of her seat and walked her back to the hospital wing.
Lying down Dana fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
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Diabolico was fuming as he marched from the cell where his prisoner was. That stupid girl had escaped; she was probably back at the aquabase by now! Spilling secrets! Grrrrrrrr.
He had hoped to find out what information the girl had when she escaped but his attempts had failed miserably. When they had entered the cell to find the girl missing the red ranger had been unconscious, so they hadn't been able to find out anything about the escape at that time.
Then when they had tried again this afternoon to interrogate the remaining prisoner he had stubbornly refused to say anything. Diabolico had lost his temper and the foolish young man was unconscious again, they would probably have to wait until tomorrow to do another interrogation.
Diabolico growled dangerously, humans were so annoying! Especially power rangers! There seemed to be no way to defeat them! He was pretty sure that Lightspeed would never pay the ransom if he only had one ranger hostage. But he couldn't take another hostage because they were stubbornly refusing to leave their precious aqua base.
It was so aggravating! Once, just once he wished he could just conquer Mariner Bay without any trouble at all. No power rangers, no annoying side kicks just simple walk in, destroy everything and leave again.
Diabolico frowned; maybe he was underestimating how close humans were to each other. Maybe he should try to ransom idea, and then if that failed think of another plan.
The idea did have some merit. Both ways he ended up with at least one less power ranger.
Diabolico laughed out loud, he was so stupid why hadn't he seen it before. If they paid the ransom of lightspeed rescue for the red rangers life he could easily defeat all the rangers and if they didn't he could still kill the red ranger. Then without a leader and filled with guilt the power rangers could be crushed with almost no effort at all.
Excellent! Smiling and with as much spring in his step as a demon can manage Diabolico went to explain the plan to the rest of the mutants and to arrange a ransom note to be sent to lightspeed rescue.
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It was early the next morning when the Galaxy Rangers arrived on earth from Mirinoi. Leo, Kendrix, Maya, Karone, Mike, Kai and Damon entered the aquabase at about 8am. Ready to fight the demons.
When the team were comfortable in the briefing room and had been told of the current situation, Leo the red galaxy ranger was the first to speak.
"So Disparon can teleport with you if he gets close enough?" Dana nodded in confirmation. Leo smiled and continued, "well that's one problem solved. We attack Disparon with our long range weapons, don't get close enough for him to grab you."
"Good idea" agreed Ryan, "but what do we do about Carter and Diabolico?"
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it" Miss Fairweather said, "Now we should aim to get Disparon before he can hurt the city anymore."
They were beginning to plan their strategy, when one of the Aquabase technicians came running in looking scared out of his wits.
"Sir" he cried snapping off a quick salute, "Vypra is outside the Aquabase! She says she has a message for you! What do we do?"
This wasn't the news Captain Mitchell had been expecting.
"Turn on the gate phone so we can see what she wants."
On a small screen before them they could see Vypra standing outside the gate. She was alone which was surprising. Captain Mitchell turned to face the screen.
"What do you want Vypra? It had better be important."
"Not to me it isn't" shot back Vypra in an acid tone, "but the life of your red ranger seems to be important to you."
Dana gasped in the background. What had happened to Carter? If he was dead she could never forgive herself!
"What have you done to Carter?" demanded Captain Mitchell. Everyone in the room tensed visibly. Carter was a good friend and no one wanted him to be seriously hurt.
"He's alive for now. I was sent here by Diabolico to give you this" Vypra paused to hold up a video tape, "I suggest you look at it."
Dropping the tape outside the gate Vypra disappeared.
"I'll go get it," called Ryan as he disappeared out the door.
A stunned silence filled the room until Ryan returned. Dana's relief at Carter being alive was slowly being replaced by terror at what the tape could be about.
Ryan shoved the tape into the vcr and pressed play. All the eyes in the room turned to face the television as Diabolicos face appeared.
"Hello Captain, long time no see." He spoke in an icy tone. "This is a ransom note for your precious Red Ranger. We want you and your rangers at the forest tonight, and in return for his life we want you to hand over lightspeed rescue." Diabolico paused to laugh evilly. "Your ranger is still alive" Diabolico's face disappeared and instead on the screen appeared Carter lying unconscious on the floor of his cell, covered in bruises and blood.
"Carter!" Dana's horrified cry pierced the room and it was followed by a number of heart wrenching sobs. Kendrix began to comfort Dana as she sobbed into her arms.
Meanwhile Diabolico had reappeared on the screen.
"If you aren't at the forest by 9pm tonight we will kill the Red Ranger, slowly and painfully." He began to laugh evilly in the background as Ryan shut off the tape.
"So now what do we do?" Ryan asked turning to face everyone in the room.
No one had an answer, they knew they couldn't give up lightspeed. It would mean the destruction of Mariner Bay, but no one wanted to leave Carter for a "slow and painful death".
Dana was still sobbing quietly in the background as the others pondered what to do. Finally Chad sat up excitedly.
"I think I have an idea! But it's going to take all of us to pull off!" Waving his arms excitedly Chad began to explain the plan.
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Well? What do you think? Reviews please! -Capt.Cow
Summary- The lightspeed Rescue team calls some old friends for help.
Other Stuff- If any of this stuff seems out of context or anything as in with the show just ignore it. I'm just dragging in any character I feel like using, so it might seem a bit mucked up. Also I have no idea if Kendrix or Karone is the pink ranger at the end of lost galaxy, so I made up one. Kendrix is now the purple ranger. And Mike is still the Magna Defender.
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The next day the lightspeed team met together in the briefing room. Dana and Ryan were there despite looking a bit worse for wear. The Galaxy Rangers were due to arrive the next day.
Dana had just finished telling her story of what had happened to her and Carter. She had omitted the part where Carter had said he loved her, she wasn't ready to tell anyone that yet.
The group had sunk into silence after hearing what had happened to Carter, all of them were imagining possible things that could be happening now. None seemed particularly pleasant.
Captain Mitchell was the first to speak.
"Well, now we know the full situation all we can do is to wait for reinforcement to arrive before we launch another attack."
This statement was followed by a few nods of defeated approval. As much as the rangers wanted to be outside, attacking Disparon and Diabolico and saving Carter all they would end up doing would be getting themselves captured or killed.
They would have to wait until tomorrow. Then Diabolico would be in trouble.
Dana sat, subdued in the corner barely hearing anything else that was said. Now that she had re-lived the whole Daibolico experience she was seriously doubting her decision.
Should she have tried to carry him out? Should she have waited until he was able to move? Should she have tried to get Carter to escape while she was a distraction?
The possibilities were endless, and Dana couldn't help but think she should have picked something other than what she did.
A tap on the shoulder roused her form her thoughts. She looked up and saw to her surprise that the room was empty, except for Ryan who was standing next to her.
"I know what your thinking" he said before she could speak, "and it isn't your fault."
Dana stared at him. Try as she may she still had trouble understanding Ryan. He always seemed to surprise her. How had he known what she was thinking?
"I heard you talking in your sleep last night. It isn't your fault that Carter is in Diabolico's hands. You did the only thing you could do."
Dana stared at her hands.
"But how do you know that? What if I put him in danger by escaping?"
"Carter was in danger if you were there or not. Now that you've escaped we have one less person to worry about. You can be more help here, than sitting in Diabolico's dungeon. Trust me."
Dana smiled wanly. She knew Ryan was right, but it didn't make her feel any less worried for Carter.
"Now come on, if you aren't back in bed soon dad's going to kill you."
Ryan helped her out of her seat and walked her back to the hospital wing.
Lying down Dana fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
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Diabolico was fuming as he marched from the cell where his prisoner was. That stupid girl had escaped; she was probably back at the aquabase by now! Spilling secrets! Grrrrrrrr.
He had hoped to find out what information the girl had when she escaped but his attempts had failed miserably. When they had entered the cell to find the girl missing the red ranger had been unconscious, so they hadn't been able to find out anything about the escape at that time.
Then when they had tried again this afternoon to interrogate the remaining prisoner he had stubbornly refused to say anything. Diabolico had lost his temper and the foolish young man was unconscious again, they would probably have to wait until tomorrow to do another interrogation.
Diabolico growled dangerously, humans were so annoying! Especially power rangers! There seemed to be no way to defeat them! He was pretty sure that Lightspeed would never pay the ransom if he only had one ranger hostage. But he couldn't take another hostage because they were stubbornly refusing to leave their precious aqua base.
It was so aggravating! Once, just once he wished he could just conquer Mariner Bay without any trouble at all. No power rangers, no annoying side kicks just simple walk in, destroy everything and leave again.
Diabolico frowned; maybe he was underestimating how close humans were to each other. Maybe he should try to ransom idea, and then if that failed think of another plan.
The idea did have some merit. Both ways he ended up with at least one less power ranger.
Diabolico laughed out loud, he was so stupid why hadn't he seen it before. If they paid the ransom of lightspeed rescue for the red rangers life he could easily defeat all the rangers and if they didn't he could still kill the red ranger. Then without a leader and filled with guilt the power rangers could be crushed with almost no effort at all.
Excellent! Smiling and with as much spring in his step as a demon can manage Diabolico went to explain the plan to the rest of the mutants and to arrange a ransom note to be sent to lightspeed rescue.
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It was early the next morning when the Galaxy Rangers arrived on earth from Mirinoi. Leo, Kendrix, Maya, Karone, Mike, Kai and Damon entered the aquabase at about 8am. Ready to fight the demons.
When the team were comfortable in the briefing room and had been told of the current situation, Leo the red galaxy ranger was the first to speak.
"So Disparon can teleport with you if he gets close enough?" Dana nodded in confirmation. Leo smiled and continued, "well that's one problem solved. We attack Disparon with our long range weapons, don't get close enough for him to grab you."
"Good idea" agreed Ryan, "but what do we do about Carter and Diabolico?"
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it" Miss Fairweather said, "Now we should aim to get Disparon before he can hurt the city anymore."
They were beginning to plan their strategy, when one of the Aquabase technicians came running in looking scared out of his wits.
"Sir" he cried snapping off a quick salute, "Vypra is outside the Aquabase! She says she has a message for you! What do we do?"
This wasn't the news Captain Mitchell had been expecting.
"Turn on the gate phone so we can see what she wants."
On a small screen before them they could see Vypra standing outside the gate. She was alone which was surprising. Captain Mitchell turned to face the screen.
"What do you want Vypra? It had better be important."
"Not to me it isn't" shot back Vypra in an acid tone, "but the life of your red ranger seems to be important to you."
Dana gasped in the background. What had happened to Carter? If he was dead she could never forgive herself!
"What have you done to Carter?" demanded Captain Mitchell. Everyone in the room tensed visibly. Carter was a good friend and no one wanted him to be seriously hurt.
"He's alive for now. I was sent here by Diabolico to give you this" Vypra paused to hold up a video tape, "I suggest you look at it."
Dropping the tape outside the gate Vypra disappeared.
"I'll go get it," called Ryan as he disappeared out the door.
A stunned silence filled the room until Ryan returned. Dana's relief at Carter being alive was slowly being replaced by terror at what the tape could be about.
Ryan shoved the tape into the vcr and pressed play. All the eyes in the room turned to face the television as Diabolicos face appeared.
"Hello Captain, long time no see." He spoke in an icy tone. "This is a ransom note for your precious Red Ranger. We want you and your rangers at the forest tonight, and in return for his life we want you to hand over lightspeed rescue." Diabolico paused to laugh evilly. "Your ranger is still alive" Diabolico's face disappeared and instead on the screen appeared Carter lying unconscious on the floor of his cell, covered in bruises and blood.
"Carter!" Dana's horrified cry pierced the room and it was followed by a number of heart wrenching sobs. Kendrix began to comfort Dana as she sobbed into her arms.
Meanwhile Diabolico had reappeared on the screen.
"If you aren't at the forest by 9pm tonight we will kill the Red Ranger, slowly and painfully." He began to laugh evilly in the background as Ryan shut off the tape.
"So now what do we do?" Ryan asked turning to face everyone in the room.
No one had an answer, they knew they couldn't give up lightspeed. It would mean the destruction of Mariner Bay, but no one wanted to leave Carter for a "slow and painful death".
Dana was still sobbing quietly in the background as the others pondered what to do. Finally Chad sat up excitedly.
"I think I have an idea! But it's going to take all of us to pull off!" Waving his arms excitedly Chad began to explain the plan.
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Well? What do you think? Reviews please! -Capt.Cow