Chapter 3: The Attack
A week later Carter Grayson laid on his bed thinking about what had happened to his friend Aaron.
"If I had been there it wouldn't have happened" He said out loud.
"It could have been worse if you were there" Came the voice of Joel Rawlings the Green Lightspeed Ranger.
"What do you mean by that?" Carter asked defensively.
"I mean if we hadn't stopped the monster it could have been worse. More people could have been hurt" He said. Joel for once was right but Carter still felt as if he had been there Aaron wouldn't have been hurt. Just then the alarms went off through out the Aqua Base.
"Rangers to Rescue Opps." Captains Mitchell's Voice rang through the base. Both men were out the door at full speed running towards the main operation room. Carter barely stopped before running into Dana Mitchell the Pink Lightspeed Ranger, but Kelsey Winslow the Yellow Lightspeed Ranger knocked Carter into Ryan Mitchell the Titanium Ranger.
"Sorry" muttered Kelsey as Chad Lee the Blue Lightspeed Ranger dodged everyone and made it next to Captain Mitchell.
"What's up sir?" Chad asked as the other Rangers lined up and joined him
"Queen Bansheera has sent down another monster. It has started fires all over the city, the fire department has sent fire fighters to the locations. They'll be fine but at one location a monster has appeared and the Fire Fighters are in great danger." Captain Mitchell reported to the Rangers who got the location. They ran down to the Transport Bay, grabbing they're Lightspeed Jackets they jumped into the Rescue Rover a Humvee equipped with things to aide in rescuing people. Carter sat in the driver's seat, Dana sat in the front passenger seat, the middle seats were occupied by Kelsey and Chad, and then in the back was Joel and Ryan. Carter drove gripping the wheel very tightly to the point his knuckles were white he was mad, very mad.
Chris climbed the latter to the fourth story of the building and jumped into the flames. After landing she started to search for any life still in the building.
'This monster better run into the Lightspeed Rangers before it runs into me. I'm going to tear it to pieces.' Chris thought as she searched.
"Is there anybody in hear?" she cried kicking open another door.
"Help me!!" a child cried.
"Keep talking and stay low." Chris screamed as an uneasy feeling came over her. She sensed something evil in this place. She began to move towards the child's voice, hoping to find them quickly.
Carter pulled up to the scene he just wanted to throw on a suite and join his colleagues his friends, but he had a new way to help. He ran into the Captain of the Company, his old company.
"What's the status?" Carter asked.
"We've got everyone out but a fire fighter, our newbie." Captain Caron said give Carter a once over. The kid was ready to go in, like always ready to jump in and save everyone, though he looked a little pale as though something bad went through his head. Just then a monster and the said fire fighter came crashing out of the first story window. Carter couldn't believe it, the newbie was crazier than Kelsey or Joel.
Chris rolled on to her knees and threw off her mask, tank and helmet. The "Child" she had heard was just the monster doing some impressions, however, she had been ready for it. They had fallen through one floor, rolled down two flights of stairs and thrown each other out the ground floor window. The monster and her stood in a face off as Carter and the other Rangers ran to their location.
"Well, well aren't you a tough one." The monster said.
"You're going to find out how tough, ugly." She snapped back as she dropped into a defensive stance. The monster threw a punch Chris easily blocked then punched it in the gut which sent it reeling. As the monster righted itself Carter and the Rangers got between them. Carter spared Chris a quick glance she gave him an 'I'm okay' wink.
"Are you okay?" Dana asked Chris.
"I'm fine" Chris said to the blue-eyed blonde ranger she had seen on TV. Chris moved away as Dana joined the others. Carter face was full of anger, the monster was going after more of his friends. This was not going to be tolerated.
'Be careful Carter' Chris thought as she looked back at her friend. Chris could feel a heavy pain in the air, something was going to go bad, real bad this time.
"Ready guys?" Carter asked holding up his morpher he was ready for business.
"Ready" they said and raised their morphers.
"Lightspeed…Rescue!/ Titanium Power!" With those words the six Lightspeed Rangers stood before Chris. Carter the Red Ranger; Chad the Blue Ranger; Joel the Green Ranger; Kelsey the Yellow Ranger; Dana the Pink Ranger; and Ryan the Titanium Ranger. They were the newest Rangers on the planet and they had no idea of the Legacy they had stepped up too. Chris wished she could tell them, but not now, not yet.
"I was wondering when you'd show up." the monster said, "I am Firegra and your worst nightmare."
"Get these people outta here." Carter said to Chris who had shunned her uniform. Chris nodded and began to help evacuate people. She wanted to join them, fight with them, but she knew she couldn't. Suddenly the Battling she had seen on TV and read about showed up everywhere. Chris began to fight them off, to defend the injured and her fellow emergency personal. To Chris the Battlings were not even on par with Tengas and Cogs. The batwings had expressionless faces with eyes and not really a mouth, but they made some kind of screeching sound some how. To many people they were scary but to Chris they were just annoying. Eventually the rangers, the monster, and the Battlings left the area the fire fighters returned to fighting the flame.
Carter was furious this monster was trying to hurt more fire fighters, more of his friends, his family. Carter was attacking the monster with great fury, and being a small bit sloppy. Still Firegra was able to knock the rangers away and too the ground except Dana. Battlings grabbed Dana and held her in place as Firegra began to charge a powerful attack. Carter quickly got to his feet and took off at a full sprint. Firegra released the attack at Dana the Battlings jumped aside as it came closer and Carter managed to push Dana out of harms way but wasn't able to clear it his self. Carter flew a good distance and landed painfully then de-morphed. Ryan, Kelsey, Chad, and Joel attacked the monster in one strike, Ryan with his ax the other three with their V-lancers. Then they converted their weapons to blaster mode and fired at the monster. Firegra concluded that even with one ranger down this wasn't his battle and retreated.
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