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CHAPTER 10

Red Alert

"Since when do we have two red rangers?" Cassie asked Ashley.

"Not really sure," Ashley replied. All eyes, good and evil, were on the new Red Ranger to the scene. Lina went through a series of hand motions.

"Turbo Rangers, I suggest you duck! INFERNO BLAZE!" Lina cried, pushing her hands out and a shower of fire balls descended upon the piranatrons.

"Guys, check out Elgar," Justin said while laughing. The others say that the menace was jumping around, trying to avoid the fireballs but it seemed that everywhere he stepped was hot.

"Oops, ouch, hot, hot, hot!" he cried. The Turbo Rangers broke down laughing, not noticing that Lina had slipped away as her fireballs would be enough to add to the fight for now. Carlos was the first to notice that the mysterious ranger had disappeared, along with all the piranatrons and Elgar. The fire seemed to have died down when it wasn't needed anymore.

"Hey, where did that new ranger go?" he asked of the others, hoping they had seen her leave. They too started looking around for the ranger who they could only assume was on their side.

"Not sure, maybe Alpha picked something up at the Command Center," T.J. said.

"Let's go then," Ashley said before all five rangers teleported away. While the rangers went to find any clues to the new ranger, Divatox was demanding answers.

"How can they just suddenly have another red ranger! It goes against everything of the good vs. evil code!" Divatox ranted, throwing around and hitting anything she could get a hold of to let out her frustration.

"Maybe they were just saving him for a rainy day," Elgar suggested in his usual dumb manner. Divatox whipped around and glared at him as she approached.

"Rainy day? Yea, they saved him for a rainy day…SO HE COULD RAIN FIRE ALL OVER YOU AND THE PIRANATRONS!" she cried before hitting him several times. Elgar stumbled backwards before Divatox stopped.

"Find out who that ranger is…AND DESTROY HIM!" she cried to everyone on her ship. Everyone ran in fear from her screaming. Meanwhile, the rangers were reviewing the fight for what seemed like the hundredth time.

"This is getting boring," Justin said as he, Cassie, and Ashley stared blankly at the screen. Carlos and T.J. were the only two who still seemed remotely interested as they ran the scan with Alpha 6.

"All we've been able to tell is that the ranger is human," Cassie said.

"And a girl," Alpha 6 interjected, which caught all of the ranger's attention.

"There's a girl red ranger?" T.J. asked, a little surprised. Alpha 6 just nodded.

"And not only that but she has the same energy reading as the girls Carlos kissed outside of the Youth Center," Alpha 6, giggling a little. Carlos' face fell into shocked embarrassment as the other's mouths dropped into shock.

"Who did you kiss outside of the Youth Center?" Cassie asked. Carlos stumbled with his words before he finally just settled his attention on Alpha 6.

"How do you know I kissed a girl outside of the Youth Center?" Carlos asked, still a little too surprised to get angry.

"That was my doing, Carlos. I asked Alpha to keep a close eye on the Youth Center in case any surprise attacks were centered around there," Dimitria explained. Alpha pressed a few buttons and brought up the saved file where Carlos kissed Lina. The look on Carlos' face was clear that he wanted to crawl up into a deep hole and not come out. The others could not believe what they were seeing.

"Carlos, do you even know who that is?" Ashley asked. Carlos managed to summon up enough courage to shake his head no. The other rangers did their best not to laugh at the expense of their friend, but they found it very difficult. Alpha 6 changed it to a split screen with footage of the Inferno ranger from the fight and scanned both of them. "Match Found" came up when the scan was finished.

"So Carlos' Cinderella and the mysterious Red ranger are one in the same. That doesn't put us any closer to knowing who she is," Justin said.

"Well aren't you just a little impatient today. I've thought of that already. Here," Alpha 6 said as he handed something to T.J. He looked it over, unsure of what it was.

"And this is what and does what?" T.J. asked.

"It's a scanner/alarm. You can scan any area you want to see if you can get a match of the energy reading from the Red Ranger. Or if she ends up near you, it will go off. Silently, mind you," Alpha 6 explained. The rangers all sighed and glanced at each other, exhausted and satisfied that they were walking away with something.

"It's getting late, why don't we go home and get some sleep. Start fresh tomorrow," Cassie suggested. All of the rangers agreed and left to rest up.

"I just hope this ranger really IS on our side," Alpha 6 said after they had left.

"Me too Alpha. Me too," Dimitria said. The next day, all of the rangers had put in a full day at school and were busy working on their homework.

"Man, I hate Calculus," Carlos commented as he fiddled with his calculator.

"Your parents will hate even more if you don't pass, so keep going," Ashley said a little playfully, trying to cheer up the dull atmosphere. They didn't notice Lina walking in. She was sporting workout clothes, a small gym bag, and a boom box. T.J. glanced over and frowned.

"Does she look familiar to any of you?" T.J. asked. The other rangers turned to see that he was pointing to Lina.

"Yea she does, but I don't know where from," Cassie said. Lina put in a CD on her boombox and the music started to blast through the Youth Center. She had felt bored all day and had decided to come workout in a dancing kind of way. Her expert dance and gymnastic style moves caught everyone's attention but she was concentrating too hard to notice.

'I wonder if Zack would like this routine,' she silently thought, a smile gracing her face at the thought of her old friend. She kept going, awing everyone with her moves. The rangers seemed to be the most blown away.

"Wow, she's really good," Carlos commented. Justin grabbed his smoothie and took a sip, only to have his eyes almost bug out of his head.

"T.J.," he said. The red ranger glanced at Justin then followed his eyes to what he was looking at. The alarm that Alpha had given them was slowly blinking red. All the rangers noticed this when T.J. picked it up. He glanced at all of them before hold it up directly at Lina. The lights flickered like crazy when he did that.

"Looks like we've found the new red ranger," T.J. said. Before they could do anything, Piranatrons appeared from thin air. Everyone scattered and screamed as the rangers got into defensive stances.

"And we're not the only ones," Ashley said. Lina too was in a defensive stance, ready to move on to the next part of her Turbo adventure.