Chapter 4: A Blue Streak

It was a week after my encounter with Ransik. I was still conflicting about whether I should fell sorry for him or not. I was driving in my new black BMW over to the clock tower. I pulled and beeped my horn to get the others attention. They were fixing the front places up by raking the leaves and making a brand new sign for the front. I would have joined them but I was too busy doing stuff with my dad. Meetings that I had no way of getting out of. I yelled, "Hey." I looked around. "This is looking great."

Katie said, "Thanks."

I walked up to Jen and asked, "Any sign of Ransik?"

She responded, "No. Everything is quiet." I don't know if that makes me relieved or worried. I had no time to think about as Trip tapped my shoulder and I saw Lucas looking at my car. He looked so curious. I guess in the future they had hovercrafts or something. I walked up to him and saw him the front seat feeling the wheel.

"Pretty cool huh?" I asked. "It's the latest model. How would you like to take it for a spin?"

He gave me a look like he was a kid on Christmas morning, "Really?"

"Sure." I hopped into the passenger seat and took out the key. I began to explain to him what it was. "So this, this is called a key."

Lucas said, "Oh." He said like a little kid understanding something.

I continued, "Here take it." He took the key and began to put it in the ignition. "You put the key in here and turn it like this." Lucas activated the car as the engine purred.

Lucas said, "Whoa this is cool!"

I started to explain the pedals to him. I explained, "This pedal is the accelerator, it makes you go forward and that other one is the brake. Makes you stop."

Lucas looked intrigued, "Go. Stop. Go. Stop. Hmm I think I got it."

I smiled, "See got nothing to be afraid of. Now you are going to ease it into gear. When you're going pull…" I stopped when I saw Lucas put on gloves. "What are those for?"

He answered, "Race car driver."

"What!" But before I can comprehend what just happened Lucas blasted off in to the road at like 90. He was going so fast even for me. He almost about to hit a yellow garbage can. "Look out!" He turned very sharply and made my body collide with the door and I began to hold on to the top of the car. I knew we were in more trouble when were heading towards a red light. "Lucas stop!" Lucas didn't stop and turned sharply on a one way street and nearly collided with a brown truck. So maybe I won't die by Ransik and his mutants, I'll die by Lucas insane driving! Wonderful! To make matters worse I heard a police siren and saw he wanted us to pull over. "Great, now you done it."

Lucas actually stopped and pulled over. The cop came over to us. He asked, "Driver license please." Lucas then took out what looked liked to be his driver's license.

A holographic image of Lucas appeared and it said, "I'm Lucas Kendal I'm a certified race car driver."

The cop then laughed, "Very funny." He threw the card back at Lucas. "Let's see now, speeding, reckless driving, illegal lane change, and driving without a driver's license."

I tried to make Lucas feel a little better when I said, "Hey at least he didn't see you run that red light." This was a stupid move because I whispered that a bit too loudly.

He said, "And running a red light." He gave Lucas the ticket. "You need to get yourself a driver's license young man." I was so relieved that he actually let us off the hook that easily. I thought we were going downtown for sure.

Later that day I decided to help Lucas get his driver's license. We were going over the street signs. I had a wooden board with the signs on them. I would point to them and Lucas had to identify which was the one I was pointing too. I pointed to yield.

Lucas answered, "Yield."

I said, "Good." Then I pointed to railroad crossing.

Lucas looked like he had trouble with this one and then said, "Railroad crossing."

"Very good." I then decided to give him a brain break and pointed to stop. "Easy one."

Lucas answered, "Oh, stop."

I then pointed to school ahead. He looked like he was having trouble. "We did this one before."

He seemed clueless. He signed in frustration and got up. He started yelling at me, "This is lame! I'm a world champion race car driver!"

I then corrected him, "In a thousand years! But until then no license, no driving." We went over some more stuff and then headed to the driver test area. I think this experience has taught me that Lucas will probably the hardest one in the group to get along with. But if were going to save the world together were going to have to get along.

Lucas was giving one lat review to himself in the manual. "So you think you're ready?" I asked.

Lucas responded, "Yeah I think so." I then took the book from him and started looking at it while we waited on line. Lucas then said, "The speed limit on a highway is 65, 25 in a residential and railroad crossing is… 15 miles per hour."

I nodded in agreement, "You got it nailed." It was then his turn to take the test. Lucas went into the passenger seat. "Good luck." I waited for Lucas for a good ten minutes until he finally came out. I asked, "Hey how did you do?"

Lucas answered, "No time for that! We got trouble we need to head back to the clock tower."

I nodded and we ran back to the clock tower. It was actually only a block away from the driver test area. While we ran Lucas told me he saw Nadria robbing a bank with a mutant driving a car. He tried catching her but his car wasn't fast enough. I'm going to assume this probably made Lucas fail his test. We got to the clock tower. I yelled, "We got trouble!"

Jen asked, "What is it?"

I answered, "Nadria's got wheels!"

Lucas continued, "Fast wheels! With fire power!"

"Yeah she'll be impossible to catch now."

Trip then walked over to me with a big smile on his face. "Maybe not." He started running upstairs. We all had confused looks on our faces. We followed him upstairs. He lifted up another on of those yellow cases. "I got it!" He opened it and revealed they carried little motorcycles. "Ok now stand back and watch this." I realized that he was going to do the same thing he did with the time jet and make them bigger. I wanted to say that upstairs wasn't the best place to do this but Jen gave me a look telling me to let him be. Trip used his morpher to make them grow into full size. "These are the vector cycles."

I said, "Check them out."

Katie said, "Wow I can't believe it!" She then hugged Trip. You could tell those two had a special bond with each other. I walked over to my bike that was white with red trimmings on it.

Trip asked, "So what do you think?"

I was amazed. I exclaimed, "This is so cool." I hopped on the bike. "Oh yes." This made my motorcycle look like a tricycle. Everyone else was amazed by their bikes. Even Jen was until she snapped us out of our trace and told us we got work to do. We then morphed and teleported the bikes outside with us. We started riding them and followed Nadria's trail. We followed her as she was leaving another bank. We fired the blasters that were on the bikes at her car. We started heading towards her.

She got pissed, "Rangers!"

I yelled, "Time to give the money back you stole Nadria!"

She responded, "Fat chance." She signaled her driver which was a cyclobot to start driving away. There were two cars. One held Nadria and cyclobots and another held a mutant and more cyclobots. We decided to split up.

Jen ordered, "Wes, You and Lucas go after Nadria! Katie, Trip, and I we'll go after Matmoblie." I guess Matmoblie was the name of the mutant. We did as Jen ordered as Lucas and I headed after Nadria.

Lucas started getting pissed. He said, "I get her!" He started speeding up. This guy was nuts. He actually jumped off his bike and into the car. Can't blame him thou I would probably do the same thing. He kicked one cyclobot off. He tried getting Nadria but she overpowered him and pushed him off to the road. He was badly hurt. I figured he would just get bad if I stopped and checked on him instead of chasing her.

I just continued riding and asked Lucas as I sped off, "Hey are you okay?"

He yelled, "Yeah I'm fine!"

I figured the best thing to do was to cut her off. I sped up ahead and stopped in front of her and fired my chrono blaster at her. It made her stop and we had her cornered as the other rangers pulled up next to me.

Lucas said, "It's over Nadria!"

Nadria responded, "Not quite. Take them out!" She ordered Matmoblie to attack us. We charged towards him.

Matmoblie laughed, "I like to settle this with a few of my friends." He unleashed cyclobots. I called for my chrono sabers. Lucas called for his, but Jen actually called out for a v weapon instead. Katie and Trip used V weapons as usual.

I started slashing my way through the cyclobots. I charged my saber to full power. I touch the sabers with my fingers and slid my fingers on it as it glowed red. "Full power!" I then made a huge laser blasts that circled around the cyclobots and took them all out. I was suddenly in trouble when Matmoblie used his tentacles and grabbed me. I couldn't lose the grip and he swung me over him and I hit the ground hard. He then shot out bolts of electricity that traveled through the tentacles and hit my body. I screamed as the pain was excruciating. I was sent to the ground again.

Lucas came from out of nowhere and cut the tentacles with his sabers. I then threaten Matmoblie, "You're out numbered!"

He responded, "I'll take you both on!"

I told Lucas, "Tag team time!"

He answered, "You got it!" Lucas and I both jumped into the air and started circling around Matmoblie and stabbed him with our sabers. He couldn't recover because our attacks were relentless plus Lucas and I make a good team.

I yelled, "Time strike!" I hit him with a time strike and finished him off. Lucas and I high fived each other. "Good job!"

Matmoblie said, "Not so fast!" Damn these things are persistent.

Circuit contacted us, "Rangers, combine your weapons and form the vortex blaster. I'm sending you the information now."

I responded, "Downloading." I was downloaded info on how to use a v weapon and how to combine all our v weapons to make a huge cannon called the vortex blaster. It was cool for me and Lucas because this was our first time using V weapons. "Ready Lucas?"

He responded, "Let's do it." We put our v weapons together and formed the vortex blaster. It was so heavy that it took all of us to hold it up.

I commanded, "Lock on target." My visor then gave me my own radar and eventually I was able to lock on to Matmoblie. "All right fire!" The cannon shot out a huge blast and made a big impact that we almost lost our footing. After all that the cannon did nothing and he just exposed his mutant DNA. What a rip! (A/N: Personally since this was their first time using the blaster it should have taken the monster out.)

I ordered, "Jen call circuit!" Wow I just gave Jen an order. Weird.

Jen contacted Circuit, "Circuit we need back up!" Circuit called the time flyers and they came through the time portal. I called for the Time jet and we jumped on the jet and headed to our time flyers. We went to mode blue. Personally I don't know why don't just go straight to mode red it usually take out the mutant. Oh well.

I yelled, "Time jet blast!" The megazord fired at Matmoblie and then we gave him a spinning drill kick and nearly knocked him off his feet. He then did that same attack he did to me before. The one where he wraps his tentacles at me and shoots out electricity. At least this time it was the megazord taking damage and not me. Jen decided to go to mode red for more power and to get out of his grip. Still questioning why we didn't go mode red in the first place. Anyway we formed mode red. "Were sending you back to the factory!" I took out the saber and used time strike.

Lucas then used the line that I noticed we always use whenever we defeat a mutant, "Your time is up!" Matmoblie shrunk back to action figure size. The time flyers then split up and we were launched out automatically.

The time flyers then went back to the year 3000. Katie asked, "I don't understand. Why do they have to go back everytime?" That was actually good question. Why do they keep going back?

Trip answered, "Unfortunately, we don't have the technology for them to refuel here. Not yet anyway."

I said, "At least not for a thousand more years. Well let's get him out of here."

Jen responded, "Yeah. That was great work everyone." She put Matmoblie back into containment and said, "As for you, you are under arrest!"

Later that day I went back with Lucas to the Driver test area so he can retake the test. It took an half hour this time because they had to find another instructor to go with Lucas since the last one was too afraid to get in the car with him. Eventually thou he passed and got his license. This was good day because I helped someone out, got new gear and made a friend in Lucas.

(Next Chapter. A Parting of Ways. Nadria kidnaps a bunch of kids and holds them for ransom. Wes thinks the only way to get the money is from his father but that will not be an easy task.)