Chapter 11

Frozen Solid Part 3

The remaining three Energy Rangers- Callum, Olivia and Jason raced into where their last battle had taken place. To Olivia's relief, the ice sculpture of Alex was still there.

"Alright, so where's Frostbiter?"

Callum gave her a look. "I'd slow down if I were you, Olivia. That guy was pretty clever in our last battle. We ough to be careful."

"Is it okay to say that I agree with Callum?" said Jason.

The Pink Energy Ranger groaned but nodded in agreement. "Yeah . . . I guess you're right." She looked around her. "So where is he anyway?"

"I don't know," said Callum. "We need to be smart here though. There's only three of us left."

"Tell that to me when there's NONE of you left!" Frostbiter's voice made Callum, Olivia and Jason jump and whip around to see him standing in front of them. The Energy Rangers stood their guard, ready to fight.

Frostbiter was holding a silver ball in his hand and threw it into the air. Callum, Olivia and Jason looked up as the ball opened and an army of FlunkBots appeared out of it.

"ATTACK!" Frostbiter ordered the the FlunkBots immediately charged at the Rangers who began to fight.

The Red Energy Ranger flipped his way through the FlunkBots even when they tried to knock him over from underneath. He pulled out his Lightning Saber and slashed two FlunkBots with it before planning his next attack method. There were several of them in front of him, grouped together . . .

"Red Energy Laser Boost!"

Callum tore through the FlunkBots with his energy power, knocking them over like bowling pins. They landed hard on the ground and disappeared.

"Strike!" he grinned.

The Green Energy Ranger leapt into a position in which he was standing on the shoulders of two Flunk Bots. He backflipped out of the way and kicked them both in the back. He then ran up to a third FlunkBots, jumped up and bounced off it's shoulders so he was several feet in the air.

"Racket Blaster!"

Jason blasted a group of FlunkBots with bullets, knocking them over. He flipped over and landed neatly on two feet as the FlunkBots exploded behind him.

"Now that's what I call 'having a BLAST!"'

The Pink Energy Ranger leapt into the middle of a group of FlunkBots. One of them charged at her but she grabbed it's arm and kicked it, sending it tumbling into two of the creatures. Two Flunk Bots tried to attack her from the sight which she avoided by doing the splits, causing the FlunkBots to crash into each other.

Two more FlunkBots grabbed her from behind and another two grabbed her by the legs. Olivia reacted by twisting out of their grip, landing neatly on her hands and feet and then performing a spinning kick, knocking them over.

Looking up, she could see that there were no more FlunkBots around her and turned her attention to Frostbiter who was slowly backing away . . .

"This is for you, Alex!" Olivia yelled. "POLE JUMPER!"

The Pink Energy Ranger charged at Frostbiter and used her weapon to catapult into the air. She spun her weapon around, ready to strike but failing to notice Frostbiter's evil grin.

As soon as her pole came into contact with Frostbiter, he grabbed it and yanked it down and before Olivia could react, he had shot a beam into her chest. The Pink Energy Ranger screamed and dropped her pole, getting the attention of the boys.

"NO!" Callum yelled as he and Jason ran up to her. But they were too late. In a matter of seconds, Olivia had turned into an ice sculpture, just like her brother.

"That's three down! Now all we have left is the terrible two!" laughed Frostbiter. "What's wrong?" he sneered when the Red and Green Energy Rangers didn't respond. "You frozen in fear?"

Callum and Jason exchanged worried glances.

"Okay we seriously need to get back to the lair and come up with a new plan," said Callum.

"I hear that," Jason agreed.

The Red and Green Energy Rangers ran off. Frostbiter watched them and chuckled evily to himself.

"Not if I can get there first," he grinned.

And with that he disappeared.

"Oh come ON!" Zoe groaned in frustration. She had been banging at Callum's door with her good arm for a while now and it still hadn't broken down.

"Seriously Callum?" she muttered. "If he gets the scrap beaten out of him, it'll be his fault. After all, HE'S the one who locked my morpher in his room." She sighed to herself. "Where's Dr. Sparks when you need him?"

All of a sudden, a mischievous grin came to her face. "I should ask Dr. Sparks to make some sort of liquid or medicine to make my wrist somewhat better, more capable to fight with. That way, I can get some proper piece of the action."

Zoe turned away from Callum's door and started looking around the lair for any signs of her mentor.

"Dr. Sparks?" she called out.

No reply.

"Dr. Spaaaaaaaarks?"

Still no reply.

"Is anybody home?" Zoe called, beginning to worry a little. Where could that scientist be?

The blue ranger opened the next door, expecting to see Dr. Sparks performing some sort of mad scientist experiment but her eyes widened in horror when she saw completely different.

Dr. Sparks stood there, pop-eyed, looking terrified and- HE WAS AN ICE SCULPTURE! Zoe ran up to him, wondering whether it was an experiment gone wrong or maybe he had turned up the air conditioning too high or-

"It's just so cool, isn't it?"

Zoe whipped around to see Frostbiter smiling smugly in front of her. "Who are you?" she demanded, not intimidated.

"Oh, I'm known by a lot of names . . . Frostbiter . . . Mr. Cool . . ." His smile grew wider. "Isaac."

Zoe's eyes widened even furthur. "So YOU'RE the one who sabotaged my skates to get rid of me!"

Frostbiter nodded. "Yes I am. And now I'm going to freeze you completely just like your last two teammates."

"Two? I thought you only froze Alex!"

"I'm the one for double trouble. I also like a full run! Now CHILL!" Frostbiter yelled, shooting his beam at Zoe. Zoe saw this coming and managed to avoid getting frozen by backflipping out of the way.

"I'm trying to solidify you here! Hold still!" ordered Frostbiter.

"Sorry Isaac but that ain't happening!" Zoe stood her ground but knew that she would not be able to fight well with her bad arm. 'Where's Callum when you need him?' she thought to herself. 'I could REALLY use my morpher right now!"

Frostbiter roared and charged at Zoe who swiftly but carefully dived through his legs into the next room. The monster spun around and made a grab for the blue ranger. Without thinking, Zoe held her BAD arm up to defend herself and Frostbiter grabbed it hard. Zoe winced, expecting his grip to agrovate the pain that was already in her wrist but was taken by surprise when his grip didn't hurt her arm any more. In fact . . . the cold feel of it seemed to be easing the pain. Zoe grinned to herself, now knowing how to cure her broken wrist. She just hoped that Frostbiter was still focusing on what she thought he was trying to do.

Zoe broke away from Frostbiter's grip and threw a punch at him with her good hand. Frostbiter grabbed her wrist and attemped to twist it but Zoe managed to break away by jumping up, pummelling her feet into his stomacha and backflipping out of his grip.

Frostbiter stumbled backwards and growled. "Fine. If you want to be cold like that then you can stay that way!"

He shot that familiar beam at the Zoe who grinned and held out her broken wrist. The beam struck her arm hard and Frostbiter roared with laughter as her cast began to freeze . . .

But his face dropped when Zoe wripped her cast off and wriggled her wrist around without any signs of pain.

"Wh- WHAT?! How did you-"

"Did you ever see what happens when somebody hurts themselves?" smirked Zoe. "They always put ice on the injured body part! And that's what you just did with me! Thanks for healing my wrist!" she added cockily.

Frostbiter gaped at her for a moment but then snapped out of it and charged at the blue ranger. Zoe reacted by leaping into the air and front-flipping out of his way. Frostbiter didn't see this coming and went crashing through Callum's bedroom door. He collapsed in a heap and Zoe approached him menacingly.

"You're a little bit too cool for me!" Frostbiter spluttered. "But I'll be back!"

Zoe charged at him but he disappeared right there. She shrugged and then something caught her attention- Frostbiter had not only healed her wrist but he had also broken down Callum's door. Her Blue Energy Morpher lay there but for some reason, it was glowing violently. Zoe bent down and picked it up. Next thing, her morpher started SPEAKING to her!

"Blue Energy Ranger, I congratulate you for staying behind. It mustn't have been easy. But it's a good thing you did. If you hadn't stayed in the lab, then Master Paine and Ernestine would have seeken the oppurtunity to destroy it and steal the Sports Energy Power. Now that your wrist has healed, you must head out and help your teammates. I am giving you a new energy power as a reward for your actions. Use it wisely."

Her Blue Energy Morpher stopped glowing and Zoe felt the new power surging within her and smiled to herself but not because she would be finally getting some of the action. She was smiling because she had finally realised the importance of taking a break.

"I won't let you down," she whispered to her morpher before standing up straight. "Hang on guys, I'm coming for ya!" Zoe held out her Blue Energy Morpher and chanted out the words she had been longing to chant out for ages.

"Sports Energy, Suit Up!"