Hello everyone. The good news is, it did not take me three weeks to write a new chapter. This chapter will include a fight scene, but again, I want to emphasize that this particular type of action will not be taking center stage in this story. Next chapter will mark a shift where the rangers learn there is more to the job than fighting. Without further ado, here is chapter three.
The five main rangers took out their keys. Once inserted into their Super Mega morphers, the team began sounding off.
"Legendary Ranger Mode: Lightspeed Rescue!" The rangers collectively said as their pirate-esque uniforms were replaced by a "civil service" kind of theme. Deciding that the hand-to-hand combat approach was wasting too much time, the rangers elected to use their weapons.
"Wait! What if using our weapons causes a forest fire!?" Emma shouted, concerned.
"Don't worry about it; if that happens you can count on me" Noah assured.
Emma did not quite understand what Noah was referring to; but he was always up to date on the ranger database, so he must have known something that she did not. "Ok, I trust you" she relented. The rangers drew various weapons from the Lightspeed arsenal and attacked.
"Rescue blaster!" Troy drew his weapon and fired at the two X-borgs before him; with each shot he alternated between the one that was to his left and the one two his right. Eventually, they fell down and exploded.
"V-Lancer!" Gia shouted. On the first X-borg, she slashed twice across its chest, sparks flying everywhere. With a third strike, she finished it off, and directed her attention to the second one. She took her rescue blaster and combined it with the V-lancer, with it changing shape as she did so. "Blaster mode!" she screamed as she fired upon the X-borg. It stood no chance as it was flown back by the force of the blast and impacted against a tree.
"Battle booster!" Noah screamed as he held up his wrist and looked at the keypad on the device. "4-7-8!" He called out as he entered the code. His arms filled with power as he charged at the two X-borgs and delived two simultaneous, powerful punches. They were flown back by the force and exploded when they hit the ground.
Jake then held up his wrist, but entered a different combination into his battle booster.
"8-6-1! Mega Battle Armor!" Once entered, a giant buzzsaw suddenly manifested and Jake went on the offensive. Charging at the X-borgs, Jake lifted the buzzsaw-like weapon, and in one massive slash, cut straight through both X-borgs, destroying them in a matter of seconds. "Man! This thing is awesome!" He said to himself.
"Thermo blaster!" Emma called out. Pulling out a blaster that was much bigger than the recue blaster, Emma took aim and fired at the two X-borgs. The intense heat blasts fired from the weapon packed quite the punch, and it proved rather easy to take them down. Then there was trouble. Emma noticed that in a few small patches, little fires had started; her worst fear realized.
"Oh no! What do we do?!" She screamed.
"I got this!" Noah said as he went back to his battelizer.
"8-6-1! Mega Battle Armor!" and just like that, Noah was wielding an unusual looking cannon. Running to the burning patches of grass, he fired an icy blast at them, putting out the fires before they had a chance to spread.
"That was too close! If the fire was allowed to spread, imagine how much damage to the forest there would have been" Emma said.
"Don't worry about it; we've stopped the X-borgs and that is what's important" Noah explained.
"Yep, wouldn't you agree, Orion? Orion?" Jake said; to everyone's surprise, Orion was not there.
"Where is he?" Gia asked, confused. Then they heard grunting in the distance.
It turns out this whole time, Orion was having problems with the X-borgs. Not because they were more powerful, but because he had to fight, and figure out what was wrong with his morpher.
"I don't get it; the Lightspeed Rangers had a sixth ranger! I saw it in the database videos Noah showed me" he said to himself. He could not figure out why, but there seemed to be something special about Lightspeed Rescue's sixth ranger, the Titanium Ranger. But when he looked at the keypad, he could not find a button for the Titanium Ranger.
"Maybe I just need to do the morphing call" he reasoned. So he held up the morpher. "Titanium power!" He screamed; nothing happened. "Uh… legendary ranger mode: Titanium Ranger!" he said out loud. Nothing. "What is going on!?" he said, now panicked. Just then, the X-Borgs fired their weapons at Orion, sending him flying in an explosion.
"Oh no! Orion!" Noah called out. They team ran for him. And when they saw the two standing X-borgs, you can bet they were furious. "This…ends…now!" Jake fumed.
All five of the rangers drew their rescue blasters, and fired nonstop at the two machines. It did not take much to bring down the generic goons. Once the rangers went back into Super Mega mode, they ran to Orion.
"Orion, are you ok?" Emma asked.
"Yea, I'm fine. But something is odd- I couldn't go legendary" Orion said in confusion.
"Wait a minute" Noah thought back… he visualized the walls of ranger keys that were in Gosei's chamber of the command center. Every team was represented, as far as he could tell, but now that he thought back; something was off.
"The Titanium Ranger… it did not have a key" Noah realized. "But why?" he thought to himself.
As the six rangers stood there in contemplation, suddenly the two rescue workers from before came up to them.
"So, you are the latest team of power rangers?" The man said to the six.
"You did pretty good holding back those monsters; don't worry though, the people in the car are fine, we rescued them" the woman followed up with.
"That is a relief" Emma said.
"We tried to rescue them ourselves; but no matter what we tried, we would have made the problem worse" Troy explained.
"Then if I may say, you have a lot to learn." The woman explained.
"Wait I minute; I know who you are!" Noah said, upon seeing them. "You are…"
"Carter Grayson and Dana Mitchell; Lightspeed Rescue" Carter replied.