Victor Cruise
Chapter 5: Cold Hard Truth.
Joel and his group ran down the hall of the third floor, determined to get all the way down to the bottom of the ship. They ran towards the stairs where Joel stop at the edge. Everyone grew silent, wondering what was going on. They all spotted a shadow against the wall.
"I don't think we should go that way." Conner whispered.
Kira rolled her eyes, "Gee, ya think?"
Dustin turned and looked around the hallway, "Is there another way around Joel?"
He nodded, "Actually. There is, but we have to go through the aquarium."
"The what? Since when do you have one of those things? I never saw that in a brochure." Hunter was astounded.
"That's cause it's not open to the public. It wasn't ready. There's stairs on the other side of the aquarium them. We just got to get through that room."
"Then what are we waiting for. Let's go." Eric barked everyone to follow.
The rangers walked through the third floor and towards a locked double door. Eric pulled out a bunch of keys from his pocket and unlocked the door. Joel walked in first, keeping his gun up. The room was practically dark, the only light was coming from all the aquarium tanks. And there sure were a lot of them. The pathways went all around the aquarium like a big maze.
"Wow. This place is big." Merrick stared into a tank.
"Don't you have fishes and stuff?" Kira asked.
Eric nodded, "Now that you mention it. Where are all the animals?"
The rangers all walked into the middle of the room when they heard clanking sounds. Eric and Conner pulled out their guns and swiftly looked around. The clanking grew louder.
"Where is it coming from?" Hunter shouted,
Dustin looked up and noticed another one of those fury beast.
"Look out!" He shouted.
The creature jumped down upon the rangers, but everyone manage to jump out of the way. Suddenly 2 more creatures came down from the ceiling., surrounding the rangers.
"Ah shit." Merrick looked around at them.
The creatures growled and hissed as it circled the rangers and then started to charge at them. Conner, Eric and Joel all shot like crazy knocking them back. One of the creature quick recovered and dashed back forward. Conner tried to shoot it down but it manage to dodge and leaped in the air. Eric swiftly turned around and forced Conner to duck, firing right over his head right at the creatures skull. The creature fell to the ground, the blood began to form a pool.
"Never stop shooting." Eric tipped him off before turning to fire at another creature.
"Guys. Get to the door!" Joel shouted.
The unarmed rangers ran as fast as they could to the other side of the door, while Joel, Conner and Eric kept the last two creatures at bay. One of the creatures dashed forward, leaping at Eric. He fired a shot, and hit him, but the creature still flew forward at him, knocking him down. Eric's gun and keys went flying into the air and onto the ground. Conner was a few feet away, he turned and saw the creature on top of Eric, trying to get to his face, but the quantum ranger held it by the neck, preventing it from getting any closer. He ignored the pain of the creature trying to claw through his clothes. Blood was pouring out, but he used every ounce of strength to hold it away from his face. Conner was about to help him when he was tackled by the second creature from out of nowhere. His gun went flying also.
Joel spun around, "Hey freak! Get off him! Don't make me cap your ass!"
Joel ran over and kicked the creature right off Conner, sending it in the air. He then took his shotgun and blasted a bullet right into its skull.
The other rangers finally found the door and ran to it. Kira grabbed the knob and jiggled it but it was locked. Merrick slammed his hand against the door.
"Goddamn it. Eric has the keys."
They turned around and gasped, seeing the last creature on top of Eric. They looked at each other, all they could do was watch. Hopefully Conner and Joel could help him.
Joel ran over to Eric as fast as he can but the creature jumped off him and up onto the ceiling, clinging onto it with its sharp claws. Conner kept his gun pointing at the creature as it swiftly moved around above. Joel bent down to check if he was all right? Eric's chest and legs were bleeding pretty badly as Joel help him sit up.
"Man, are you all right?" Joel asked.
Eric gave him a bewildered look, wincing in pain, "Do I look all right?"
The creature crawled along the ceiling that fell back to the ground and started inching towards them.
"Give me your shotgun." Eric demanded.
Joel blinked for a few seconds, hesitant but handed it to him anyways.
"Now go. Get the hell of here." Eric shouted.
Conner turned to him for a sec before looking back at the creature, "What? Were not leaving you here."
"Go!" He shouted again.
Conner sighed and he and Joel ran towards the other rangers. Kira dashed forward shaking her head.
"Wait Conner! Get the keys! Conner!"
Conner stopped and turned around to see the creature jump onto Eric. The quantum ranger held the shotgun close to his body, pointing it right into the creatures stomach and fired a blast. The bullet when right through the creature and towards the aquarium. Shattering the glass. The creature clawed into Eric's face before it was sent flying into another aquarium.
Joel's eyes widen as the water began furiously moving towards them.
"Run!" Joel shouted.
Dustin and the others put their backs against the wall, ready to take the water by full force.
"Holy crap!" Hunter shouted.
Conner turned and looked down, spotting the keys. He picked it up, along with the other hand gun and ran as fast as he could, using his dino speed. He grabbed Kira and brought her back towards the door before fiddling with all the keys. Joel finally made it.
"Which one is it! WHICH ONE!" He began to panic
"Hurry up man!" Merrick shouted.
Joel snatched the keys out Conner's hand and chose the right one, unlocking the door. Everyone quickly ran out and into the hall way. Joel turned and closed the door before running after everyone. The water slammed against the door, knocking it down and kept chasing the rangers as if it were alive. The rangers dashed around the corner and spotted the stairs, running down onto the second floor. They went down the steps and towards an open room. They all dashed into it and closed the door. The water all flooded by, leaking into the room also. Joel waved his hand around till he turned on the light and looked around. They were in a storage room. Conner handed Hunter his extra gun.
"I can't believe we lost Eric." Merrick sighed, leaning against the wall.
"He was a good ranger." Joel told him looking around.
He found an axe laying in the corner. It was nice and sharp. There was also a fire extinguisher hanging from the wall. Kira walked over and picked it up. Everyone gave her a weird look.
"What? I bet this will come in hand." She informed them.
Kendrix and the others didn't have to walk very far to get to the bridge of the ship. They made to the door where Kendrix opened and they all went in. She turned and locked the door and looked around. A few bodies were mutilated on the floor, blood was on some of the consoles and some screens were smashed in. There was power to the computers which was a good thing. Kendrix grabbed an empty chair and rolled to one of the control consoles and inspected all the buttons and system monitors. The other rangers explored the bridge, trying to find some clues. Jason walked over to one of the navigational computers and looked at the monitors. On the screen had in large green words. 'Destination: Earth.'
"Kendrix. Check this out." He got her attention.
She rolled her chair over and looked at the screen, "Earth? So this is moving."
She then starred down at another monitor, which had a blue print of the ship and condition of each section. It showed that one engine was running, and that they were moving very slowly.
Kim crossed her arms and leaned against one of the computers, "Wait. If this ship is heading to earth, then isn't that a good thing?"
Tori shook hear head, "This ship can't land. It will crash and explode. With all of us on it. And even if we do get off this ship, wont this huge hunk of object hurt something? I mean I bet this thing can take out a small town."
"She's right. Is there a way to steer this ship away?" Adam asked.
Kat decided to go exploring and opened the door to the cockpit. She avoided the dead pilot and looked out the window. She could see the back end of the unknown ship. Apparently it was still docked with the cruise ship. She looked down and noticed a blinking light.
"Hey Kendrix. Something is blinking in here." She pointed down at the red light.
All the rangers dashed to the cockpit. Kendrix pressed the button and a monitor flickered. Tommy Oliver showed on the screen.
"Oh my god. It's Tommy." Kim gasped.
"Greetings rangers, as I expect you may be the only survivors on the ship. I have sent this message to reveal what is going on. The Victor Space Airline had lost contacted with this ship about 24 hours ago. Lately, I have been monitoring strange activities from an unknown object and had expected the worst. What you have ran into, is a new and dangerous species, looking to colonize a planet. Though information about these new species are unknown, you are well aware that they are dangerous and vicious. The president refuses to send any recuse team up to save any remaining survivors, to keep the earth safe. It is up to you to get yourself off that ship and to safely come back to earth, but you first must do one thing. You must destroy that unknown ship and the victor cruise. If that ship gets to earth, we could have a far worst fate then the people that died on the ship. As crazy as this may sound, you must go onto that unknown ship and set the explosives. I wish I can come up there and help you guys, but all ships leading to space have been cut off. I have tried to contact the space and galaxy rangers but they are no where to be found. It is up to you guys. I wish you luck. Tommy Oliver Out."
Kim groaned, "Why can't we just go home.."
"We have to do this." Jason looked at everyone, "We or we were rangers. We have to protect the earth."
Kendrix nodded, "Yes. I agree. This has just gotten more complicated."
"So now what?" Adam asked.
Tori sighed, "Someone still needs to be here, so they can turn on the engine power when Joel and his team make it the engine room."
"Then I will look for some explosive. And possibly a space suite." Jason volunteered.
"Im coming with you." Kat nervously spoke up.
"Same." Adam and Kim chorus..
"Then come on. Time to enter hell again." Jason walked towards the door.
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End Chapter. Tell me what you think! Everyones dying...lol