Chapter Seven: Attack

"You're here. You're here!" Tensou called out as the Rangers walked into the base.

"Have you talked to Orion yet?" Gia asked him.

"No. I've been waiting for you Rangers." Then he moved over to the console. He pressed around a bit and then static filled the room.

"Is it working?" Troy asked confused. He was sure that they should have heard Orion's voice by now.

Noah walked up next to Tensou. "Let me see if I can help."

Together they worked on it for a couple of minutes and then an indistinguishable voice could be heard.

"Orion?" Tensou asked. Noah continued to move some things around when the voice finally came through clear.

"Set a course for Earth. We invade their planet today."

"Invasion?" Gia asked, turning to look up at Gosei. "That's impossible. They're supposed to be gone."

"Not if they still had ships scattered across the universe."

"How many ships, Gosei?" Noah asked.

"Possibly hundreds of thousands." He replied.

"We'll take them out," Troy told them.

Noah wanted to believe him. But the truth was hearing that number made him feel uneasy. He had thought the ranger life would be over. He had wanted so badly to believe everything could go back to normal. "Troy, it's thousands of them."

"We can take them. We have to." He said. "We have to for the sake of the planet. For the sake of our home."

Gia looked at him and nodded. "I'll let the others know…" She didn't get a chance to finish her sentence before the ground began to shake.

"What is that?" Noah yelled. He watched as Tensou ran over to the console and managed to pull up a live feed.

"Oh no." Noah heard Tensou say.

"Tensou?" Gia asked. The Rangers were all trying to keep their balance, holding onto the first thing they saw.

"It's begun." He said. He motioned for the others to look. The sky was filled with Armada ships until it seemed like there was no space for another one. Then they saw as the ships started to fire down on the city.

Emma sat at the table, looking over Matt's shoulder, making sure he was adding correctly. Every time Matt would get an answer correct, he would smile up at Emma brightly and Emma would unconsciously return the smile.

"After I'm done with math, can I watch a movie?" He asked her.

"First you have to eat something." She replied. Matt put his pencil down and handed the worksheet to Emma. She looked it over making sure everything looked right, gave a thumbs up and got up to start preparing him something. Matt ran up to his room to put his stuff away.

"Don't forget to wash your hands!" She called up to him.

Then she felt her head spin. She blinked a couple of times to clear her head but when she opened her eyes the room was still spinning. As the motion grew faster, she realized that the room was literally shaking. She dropped the knife in her hand, grabbed her phone off the counter and ran after Matt.

She called his name out. In the kitchen, dishes and glasses started to break, falling on the floor. She yelled louder, climbing up the stairs. The frames on the wall had begun to rock back and forth violently.

"Emma!" He cried out.

"I'm coming!" She yelled back. She had reached to the top of the stairs when she heard the windows shatter. She walked into his bedroom to find him hiding under his bed.

"Matt, come out." She leaned down, stretching her hand to grab his. She held onto his hand tightly and pulled him out, engulfing him in her arms. She ran down the stairs, Matt in arms. Before she could make it out the door, she felt a sharp pain in the back of the head and the world turned dark.

Taylor sat in her office, looking over some paperwork when Eric walked in.

"Hey." He said, lightly closing the door behind him. He walked up to her, giving her a quick kiss on the lips. "Ready to get lunch?"

She looked at him confused and then at the clock. "It's lunchtime already?" She noticed it was half an hour past the time they were supposed to go get lunch.

"Unless you don't want to eat," Eric told her. "I can eat your food too." Taylor frowned at him. He raised his hands up defensively. "I'm just saying."

"Very funny." She grabbed her bag and together they headed to the elevator. Once they were inside, she pulled out her phone to call Emma. No one answered. She looked at Eric. "Emma's not picking up."

"She probably has it on silent."

"I just want to check in on him." She called again and still, there was no answer.

Eric grabbed her hands. "Stop worrying. I'm sure everything's fine." Then the elevator stopped moving. The screen that indicated the floor number was blank. "What in the world?" They felt the building shake and then the lights went out.

Taylor turned in his direction. Eric couldn't really see her, but he was positive her arms were crossed. "What was that you were saying about everything being fine?"

Eric didn't respond instead he reached down to his side and grabbed his walkie-talkie. "This is Eric Myers. Come in, can anyone hear me?" There was no response.

Taylor looked down at her phone and decided to call Emma again. This time the call went straight to voicemail.

"The call isn't going through." She told Eric.

He turned on the flashlight from his phone. Taylor had to shield her eyes, he quickly moved it to face another direction. "That's because there's no signal."

"We have to get out of here," Taylor told him. "I have a bad feeling about this."

Eric didn't argue, nor did he tell her to stay calm. He also had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. He tried to radio in once more. This time someone answered.

"We're being attacked."