TJ Johnson was chatting freely with a group of power rangers that included Leo, Cole, and Shane, it was fun talking to the younger red rangers, although Leo and Cole got into an argument on whose zord was cooler. Just then the door slid open, causing them to stop talking, Billy and Justin had claimed that they had put an electronic lock on the door to the private lounge room that only allowed the power rangers key card to open the door, but there might have been a mishap. What if someone grabbed one of their keycards, what if someone saw a secret identity ranger enter the room.
"If you get called in on a car chase, a certain red ranger went joyriding," Tommy announced.
"Why did you even let Rocky behind the wheel?" Adam asked, setting down a champagne glass full of sparkling water. The hotel and amusement park had wanted to provide them with an open bar, champagne, and wine for dinner every night. Apparently being a power ranger theme park that is power ranger approved would compensate the money that the open bar would cost them. They were willing to change their plans when Carlos gave a rather graphic detailed description of what happens to a power ranger when they consume alcohol. Apparently, they needed an amusement park to make money not a crater.
"Because Zack wouldn't give the keys to Aisha," Trent said, "but the police should stop him, right?"
"Absolutely," Billy said, entering the room, strangely soaking wet, but nobody asked about it as he was also, for some odd reason, carrying a rubber duck and had a little bit of a dazed look, if he had somehow been fighting a bath monster, then they didn't want to know, because then they would be upset that they missed a battle, "Unless of course Rocky goes into Emergency Mode."
Kim suddenly felt lightheaded, "I need to sit down," she announced before sinking down in a plush armchair next to Kendrix. Once she was sitting down she yelled at Billy, "Why in Zordon's name would you give ZACK the Emergency Mode Upgrade!"
Justin tried to dodge behind Cassie as he used to during his time as Turbo's blue ranger, however, that was some time ago, and like most twelve-year-olds, he had grown and was now taller than Cassie.
"Justin?" Kim asked, in a sugary sweet voice that any ranger that served with her knew all too well as the danger zone, "Did you give Zack the Emergency Mode Upgrade?"
"Possibly, Billy and I upgraded as many cars as came in, there were several, and I didn't check the registrations on them."
Ethan had been sitting, with a plate full of finger food, listening to the conversation so far and deciding that he did not have enough information to follow along with the conversation, "Uh, what's Emergency Mode?"
"It basically turns your vehicle into a zord," Tommy said, "It's not as strong or durable as your actual zord but it should get you to your zord."
"Why didn't you use it when that Goldenrod guy attacked us?" Trent asked.
"Simple, it can, or I should say, it should only be used in Emergencies, and we still had to contend with the keep our identity secret rule, and you won't a power ranger yet," Tommy said with a shrug, "I didn't need it."
"Did you use it to fight the t-rex that tried to eat you?" Kira called out from across the room, apparently all conversations had ceased in the hope of some possible action.
"What T-rex," Kim asked, shooting her husband a dirty look, apparently he had refrained from telling her of the close calls he had while she was away.
Rocky glanced down at his gas gauge, "Dude, we're almost out of gas."
Zack, who was sitting in the back seat with Connor, turned around to look behind him, "I count five cops behind us," he announced, "Take this exit and abandon the car in the woods, I can self destruct it from a distance."
"Why does your car have a self destruct button?" Connor demanded.
"Because I have to keep my secret identity," Zack said.
"There's a police barricade up ahead," Aisha announced, pointing to a line of police cars parked in the road, with a bunch of police officers behind them with guns drawn.
Rocky looked at the police barricade, right before the exit, before looking over and down at the road going under the overpass they were on, "Ever tried the Emergency Mode on this thing?" he asked, his hand itching towards the gear shift, which had the usual P, D, R, and N, but also an E which Connor hadn't noticed before.
"No," Zack said, eyes gleaming in excitement, "Let's do it!"
"That's for Emergencies only," Aisha stated, but it was too late, Rocky moved the shift down to E.
The car lurched, jumped over the guard rail, did a u-turn and drove down the road at a speed that would put any roller coaster to shame.
"Wow," Connor said if he hadn't seen the jump, and the fall, he wouldn't have known that they had crashed down to a lane below.
"We're basically flying right now," Rocky explained, putting his hand on a manual gear shift that wasn't there a second ago, "the wheels haven't touched the ground since we jumped the rail."
The ringing of the phone caused the room to go silent, everyone glancing at their phones, before falling on TJ, who was answering his.
"This is Johnson," he said, nervously into the phone, he had a feeling that he knew what it was about, "Do I know anything about a flying car running stoplights and speeding through town?" he repeated after a pause, more to give the other rangers a chance to know what was going on than anything else.
Tommy and Kim gave each other a look, "Look we already told them we weren't going to bail them out if they get arrested," they said in unison.
"No sir," TJ said, "I don't, but it does sound like someone stole power ranger technology and I'm sure that our tech specialists can neutralize it," he covered his mike and turned to Billy and Justin, "We might need to stop them before the police catch up to them, or a bunch of identities could be out of the bag."