Chapter Six
Carter was seated in the driver's seat of the Rescue Rover. He was driving at a rather excessive, but necessary speed. As the yellow's jeep's sirens roared, his mind raced. Usually during such moments he would think of the emergency that he and his team were facing. However, his mind was stuck on what had happened earlier in his quarters. He had been oblivious to Dana's feelings. He always regarded her as a peer, never as a love interest. In addition, he viewed her too be a bit strict, like himself. Today was one of the rare occasions he saw her lighter side. He sighed as he gripped the wheel. He spun it sharply it to the left. Thank goodness that all the jeep's occupants were wearing seatbelts. As the jeep sped to the left, the Rangers were tossed to the right.
"Good Lord, Carter!" exclaimed Joel. "Drive slowly!"
"We are dealing with an emergency!" exclaimed Carter.
"We're doing more than sixty!" replied Joel.
Dana sat in the front seat next to Carter. She usually paid no mind to occasion personality clashes between Carter and Joel. She was thinking about her earlier encounter with Carter. She did not think that Carter could be so aloof. All she wanted to do was spend some down time with the Red Ranger. She did not think it would be so hard to make a simple request.
"Aquabase to Rover," said Miss Fairweather's voice over the radio.
Dana snapped out of her thoughts to reach for the receiver. "We read you, Miss Fairweather, go"
"Sensors are picking up high energy levels; I suggest that you act with the gravest caution."
Dana turned to her teammates. They had all heard the chief scientist's assessment. They nodded their heads to confirm this. "Miss Fairweather we will act with caution in assessing the situation."
"Good, over and out," Miss Fairweather said. The communications link was then cut. Dana placed the receiver back on its mount. When she looked up, she saw multiple flashes of bright yellow energy. The energy was than accompanied by the screams and shouts of fleeing civilians. Dana stumps forward as Carter slammed his foot on the break pedal. When the yellow light faded, the Pink Ranger saw the monster at hand. This monster did not appear to be traditionally solid like humans, or humanoid creatures. It was a fuzzy energy that made up the monster's body. Its head, torso, and legs were covered by metallic armor. Its eyes were two thick black beads. This is not going to be good, she thought.
The Lightspeed team proceeded to unbuckle their seatbelts and then stepped out of their jeep.
Carter quickly took control, "You, leave the city alone or we will force you!"
"Force me?" said the monster with a deep masculine voice, "No one tells Voltor to leave!" In a display of power, Voltor bent downward. He slammed his arms into the ground. His power began to glow as energy from his body was pumped into the ground. The ground beneath sunk violently shook. It was like a scene straight from a Japanese anime, pieces of cement exploded upward.
"Take over!" screamed Carter.
Before anyone could run, they were all thrown off their feet, nearly several feet back. The Rescue Rover was turned over to its side.
"Holy shat!" exclaimed Joel. He had seen many powerful monster, but never such display of strength. It was a sight to see the cement slabs hit the ground destroying it further.
"Carter, we going to have to bag this monster, quickly," said Kelsey as she crawled towards Carter.
Carter stood onto his feet. Chad, Dana, Joel, Kelsey, and Ryan joined their leader in the act of defiance.
"You're still living?" asked Voltor.
Carter in a traditional fashion asked, "Ready?"
"Ready," replied the other Rangers.
"Lightspeed Rescue!" shouted Carter, Chad, Dana, Joel and Kelsey in a uniform fashion. They made a uniform hand motion to activate the powers of their Rescue Rovers.
"Titanium Power!" shouted Ryan. He raised his two hands into the air.
Bright energy sequences covered all six of the young adults. The energy dead down to reveal all the spandex clad heroes.
The Lightspeed Rangers began to charge towards the day's villain. However, their advance was stopped by a horde of foot soldiers. These soldiers' were clad completely in black. They all possessed goggle eyes implanted on black mask. On their backs were short wings. The Batlings slashed the Rangers with their short sword. Yellow sparks ruptured from the Rangers' suit the moment they were stricken.