Chapter Thirteen : Mysteries

Vypra Appeared in the collectors room at the local museum and went right to the case that held the card as Vypra prepared to smash the case something slammed into her. She stood up angrily ready to kill the foolish human. Yet as she looked around there was no one.

"Show yourself." She commanded to the darkness. Suddenly something slammed into her again. Vypra began to swing wildly around her and heard more so than felt the connection of her sword to some other weapon. Swing wildly she had a few connections not really hits but she was connecting with something. However the alarm had been triggered but Vypra didn't care as she tried to hit and kill what was attacking her. It was some kind of unseen force there. It left a cut on her arm and kicked her in the side; Vypra didn't bother with shooting she didn't want to waste time or NRG. Suddenly something was pressed against Vypra's skin but disappeared as soon as the room filled with humans armed with guns. The security had arrived Vypra was a bit disoriented and confused so she teleported out she would have to try later.

Meanwhile the Alarms at the Aqua Base began to sound, Captain Mitchell ordered the Rangers to Rescue Opps. As they had located the disturbance it disappeared. He didn't like this.

"What's up sir?" Chad asked.

"There was a demon in the city but they're gone now. The demon had appeared at the Museum. I want you four to go check it out. We'll keep looking for Kelsey." He said and with nods the four were on their way out. He thought about contacting Chris but decided that if she was on the right trail then he should leave her be. A short time later the Rangers were on the road

Chris stooped low to the ground and began to crawl trying not to make a sound slowly moved towards a clearing and sure enough there were Batlings standing guard outside of a cave. A large creature emerged from the Cave and gave orders to the Batlings Chris recognized the creature from the pictures she had been seen it was Loki. Moving slowly and quietly she moved close to the wall hoping some how she could get into the cave without getting caught. That was the trick of it all was actually getting in the cave. Putting her hand down Chris felt a stone under her hand picking it up she tossed it as far as she could and hid as well as she could. Fortunately she had decided to ditch the red shirt and didn't bother with her jacket. Keeping low she watched as the Batlings and Loki went into the bushes. Chris sprang as quickly as she could and ducked into the cave. Keeping low she quickly found her self in a cave filled with fog on the floor using it to hide in she found the cave for the most part was rather empty. Crawling she found her way through the darkness there was little light ahead and the moonlight was fading. Movement behind her caused her to drop she watched as Loki and Batlings walked right passed her. Continuing to crawl she finally came to where the small bid of light a circle of torches. Chris looked around and spotted Kelsey chained in the corner and the damnedest thing was that there was a skeleton right beside her.

'Fog, Skeletons, and chains in a cave in the middle of the woods can it get any more cliché, probably' she thought as she moved to get a good view of the cave. Kelsey was sitting on one side and her morpher was on the other. Loki was laughing as he stood there he was talking to the Batlings about his "Great Plan" waving his hands this way and that. Finally Loki turned to Kelsey and laughed as he began to divulge his plan to her.

"Ha, ha, ha since you and your fellow rangers have so much trouble with the new Red Ranger either they'll be overly willing to come get you or they will not come at all either way we win." Loki said smiling. Kelsey just gave him a glare. As a Batlings approached Loki Chris had a bad feeling. There was something in that conversation, not that she understood what they were saying but, she didn't like and it was probably pertaining to her that would just be her luck. "So the Red Ranger has been spotted out and alone huh well I'll go look." Loki said as he walked away. Sighing Chris crawled across the center of the cave wondering when the "trap" would be sprung. She carefully removed a finger bone for the skeleton and finally revealed her presence.

Kelsey would have screamed if the first thing she saw of Chris hadn't been her hand clamping over her mouth. Chris seemed to simply melt out of the fog and darkness. It was kind of scary in a way that she could just appear. Chris used some weird thing to break the shackles locks open before she looked around and nodded that Kelsey should get the morpher. Chris kept low but she was wound tighter than a coil ready to spring. Kelsey grabbed her morpher as she heard there were quiet footsteps approaching them. Chris motioned to Kelsey to prepare to fight. Some people would try to hid the escape attempt but Chris knew that Loki had know she was probably in the vicinity and had left just for such a reason to lure her out but Chris moved swiftly getting Kelsey free. Not many would have even touched the skeleton nor know to use a finger bone. Kelsey shifted as she heard the approach of Loki and Batlings. This was making her extremely uneasy but Chris seemed as this was old news. Kelsey couldn't see how she stayed calm and not seem to worry about the approaching monster.

*Flashback*

She heard it as she worked the locks giving up she pulled out her dagger and snapped the mechanism. She turned as pointed off to the side hopping they could hide from them. After a few minutes Goldar realized that he couldn't see them suddenly there were clanging sounds. Chris felt a hand on her leg and began to crawl out of the cave she wondered how far they could get before having to fight. Behind her another loud clang one of these days she was going to break that damn sword.

*End of Flashback*

'Once into fire and again into the Breach.' Chris thought as she stood ready for the fight. Kelsey was extremely tense beside her Chris could tell that Kelsey had never been in a fight like this before. Chris sighed as she stood there such situations had lost their sting long ago.

Olympus huffed as he eavesdropped on Vypra and Jinxer's conversation.

"So you have found the card?" Olympius said as he barged in. Vypra sneered at Olympius as soon as his back was to her.

"Yes, Olympius I have." Jinxer said, "but it's in a humans possession and protected by a formidable foe."

"I will get it." Olympius said and stalked away before Jinxer could warn him that the Rangers were on their way Vypra stopped him. She glared at Jinxer an unspoken threat in the air. While Olympius dealt with the rangers she would grab the card.

Ryan was considerably unhappy as he drove to the museum . First there had be no communication with or from Kelsey since she had ran out of the base. This compounded by Chris's last communiqué of her informing them that she had found Kelsey's headphones and a sign of a struggle. There had been no communication since she had said she was going to follow a trail. She was probably in over her head along side Kelsey. When they pulled up to the people were running in and out of the building there was sense of panic to it all as the Rangers ran to the nearest person they were ushered into the building and into a room. As the ran they morphed and once in the room Ryan went strait for Olympius. The two went at it and finally Olympius picked up Ryan and threw him across the room unfortunately Vypra had chosen to Transport into the room at the same time. Ryan crashed on top of her as Olympius shattered the casing and took the Card. He left Vypra dazed and confused with no Batlings to help Ryan getting over his shock turned to Vypra.

"Why did he take the card? Where is Kelsey?" He demanded forgetting that he shouldn't have gotten so close to her. She charged an attack and sent Ryan flying.

"As far as the card it is your destruction and as for the Yellow Ranger I have no idea." She said as she disappeared. Growling Ryan got up back to his feet and stalked from the room. Dana followed along with Joel and Chad who demorphed as they walked Ryan climbed back in the Rover and punched the dash. Dana exchanged a few words with people as Joel and Chad walked to the Rover. Once Dana climbed into the front seat and Ryan pulled out.

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