Lightspeed Rescue: The Phoenix Prophecy Chapter 10: From Deep Within the Shadows, a power rangers fanfic

The Phoenix Series

Lightspeed Rescue: The Phoenix Prophecy

By xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx

Author's Note: Sorry for the late update.

DISCLIMAER: I do not own Power Rangers. Such a shame. I do however, own Sabrina. The Phoenix. And any other OCs that make an appearance.

From Deep Within The Shadows

"...Where's Joel?" Hunter asked as he stood behind Sabrina in the main lab, as they watched Carter get wired up behind the glass. The red ranger was testing the new morpher that Angela had created - the Titanium Morpher. Originally she was supposed to be the tester but after a trial run yesterday and an almost Phoenix freak-out it had been noted that Sabrina wasnt the right test dummy to use; as Hunter had clearly stated the last thing they needed in the middle of the Aqua base was a Phoenix freak out.

Glancing over her shoulder Sabrina shrugged "I don't know," she answered "Its Joel, what do you expect?"

"Reminds me of Dustin,"

The red head smiled and lay back into her boyfriend as she watched her friend and leader ready himself for the new morpher. Around her stood Chad, Kelsey and Dana, and as per usual, and the reason behind her's and Hunter's small talk; Joel was late. Scientists stood in the room with the red ranger and strapped the morpher to his wrist, its bright blue 'V' standing out against the silver band. Everything was ready, Carter clenched his hands as Angela and Captain Mitchell exchanged looks as the Rangers stood on edge waiting to see what would happen, this time round with Carter as the test dummy.

"Here we go," Ms. Fairweather said into the microphone and Carter nodded to show he was ready

Seconds before the morpher was activated Joel skidded into the room and stood at the doorframe as Carter's voice sounded loudly, shouting the morphing roll call of the Titanium Power Ranger. He pressed the button on the morpher as the 'V' slid upwards "Titanium Power!" he commanded, and strands of electrical impulses rippled all over the red ranger just like they had Sabrina. The electrical impulses rendered Carter to his knees as the silver suit appeared and disappeared from his body a number of times before disappearing completely and left a civilian form Carter, breathing heavily.

The rangers panicked and quickly entered the room as Joel and Chad helped Carter up and the girls each adopted worried expressions "Carter! Are you okay?" Angela asked through the microphone, as Sabrina chewed her lower lip and backed away from the red ranger with a slight fearful expression. She remembered yesterday and how she hadnt gotten as far as actually morphing in the morpher. She remembered they wired her up, strapped the morpher onto her wrist and just as the sequence was about to work the Phoenix reacted fiercely; she collapsed to her knees before the roll call had even been commanded. All she could remember was Hunter shouting for the test to end and the next thing she knew the morpher was taken from her wrist and he was cradling her.

"Yeah," Carter nodded, his breathing laboured "Im okay!"

The second time round, this time with Carter; the test was once again a failure.

-Scene-

That night came with the usual dreams, but this time Sabrina couldnt help but feel that darkness was closing in on her. She tossed and turned for the majority of the night; she threw off her blankest then pulled them back over her. She mumbled nonsense as she tried to get comfortable, but no matter what she did, she couldnt shake the immense feeling of fear and darkness her dreams brought. The room in which she stood was dark and enclosed, there was only one opening and that was at the end of the tunnel like area in which she stood. Following the tunnel, she came out into a vast opening and everything clicked. She wasnt in a room at all, but inside a small volcano; and there right in front of her, burning in the flames of the magma was a Phoenix - Her Phoenix!

"Phoenix," she breathed, almost in fear, but stepped closer nonetheless. Unlike the past, her Phoenix didnt look like anything she had ever seen in the past. Its feathers were ratted and broken, like it had been in a fight with an enemy and barely made it out alive. Its colour wasnt its usual brilliant scarlet and gold, but instead a murky yellow and dim orange. And what was worse, as she drew nearer it seemed to flinch away from it, its blue gaze rested on her and cooed as if telling her to stay away. This was right; her Phoenix was supposed to attack her when she was vulnerable, like she was when she was asleep. Instead, this Phoenix was weaker than she was; it was afraid of her and not the other way around "What's happening to you?" she frowned.

She reached into the flames and the Phoenix shuffled away from her, its eyes trained on hers and a small cooing was heard once more from its beak. Something was definitely wrong. Phoenix never flinched away from her; it was usually trying to take over her. The red head withdrew and stepped away from the blazing inferno. A normal person would have been glad that this demon wasnt attacking them or trying to take control of her, but Sabrina wasnt normal. Yes, she hated it when the Phoenix tried to take control, but the Phoenix was still apart of her, and seeing her Phoenix so worn, torn and weak; was something far more scarier than Sabrina cared to admit.

-Scene-

Next morning Sabrina woke with a start as the alarm in the Aqua base blared loudly, throwing herself out of bed she quickly dressed and flew out of her room and down the hallway into the transport deck. She jumped into the Rescue Humvee beside Dana and they were off towards the abandoned warehouse where the attack was coming from. "Next target," came an all too familiar voice as the rangers entered to find Vypra and her usual band of Batlings searching for a fight. Carter fired several laser shots from his weapon causing the Batlings and Vypra to raise their arms in protection before the brunette glared at the unwanted presence.

"There isn't gonna be a next target, this time Vypra!" Carter snapped "Get out of here!"

"It's only a matter of time before Mariner Bay falls to Diabolico!" Vypra snarled back at them

Joel smirked "Oh, I know when that will be" he nodded "Never!"

"Attack!" Vypra ordered

Sabrina clenched her hands tightly into fists "she's mine!" she hissed, running through the Batlings and straight at Vypra, Carter hot on her heels. The red head got there first and the fight between the two women began. Sabrina blocking each attack that Vypra sent her way before retaliating with attacks of her own. Carter soon joins them as Sabrina rolled aside to avoid an attack, she quickly got back to her feet and flipped over the red ranger to help fight Vypra from behind, but the brunette managed to evade both Rangers.

"Have any nice dreams later, Phoenix?" Vypra sneered mockingly at the red head, who aimed a high kick at her head.

Sabrina growled and spun around as she aimed a high-kick at Vypra's head. The brunette ducked under the attack and Sabrina moved forward from another blow but was held back by Carter as he nailed Vypra with a blow to the stomach, as the others regrouped around him and Sabrina. "Im not gonna tell you again," Carter stated "get out of Mariner Bay!"

"Yeah!" Kelsey nodded "Forever!"

"Wild horses' couldnt keep me away!" Vypra responded "This is the moment I have been waiting for! The moment you meet your match!"

As if her words were a trigger; a magical portal opened over head and a shining figure descended from it into the warehouse. The ripple of gasps, flowed through the rangers as a shockwave of energy shot through them, knocking them off their feet with a huge force. The new ranger before them flexed his arms before fire a few moves into the air. Glancing up through her morpher Sabrina frowned "No!" she gasped "it can't be!"

There standing in front of the Rangers was none other than the - Titanium Ranger.

Scrambling to her feet Sabrina raced forward, most of her energy returning as the Phoenix absorbed the heat from the flames around her; she jumped into the air and landed inches away from the silver ranger as she aimed a spin kick for his shoulder. He blocked, grabbed her ankle and spun her around into a few boxes as they fell off one another. The Phoenix ranger groaned as she landed on top of the boxes and more towered down on top of her. With Sabrina down, Kelsey, Joel and Chad followed seconds later as Dana intercepted the new ranger, only to be thrown to the floor and kicked in the stomach.

"That's enough!" Carter yelled, running forward to help her.

The Silver ranger spun around, blocked Carter's attack and punched him multiple times in the stomach

"Come on!" Sabrina stated, getting to her feet and helping Dana up "We have to get out of here!"

Scrambling to their feet the rest of the team followed both Carter and Sabrina out of the building "Hurry guys!" Carter told the others as Sabrina passed him once they were outside, her arm wrapped around Dana's waist "We're just not equipped to fight him like this!"

But the silver ranger followed them.

Re-grouping, Sabrina maintained a firm hold on Dana, seeing as the Pink ranger had taken a beating back inside the warehouse. Carter meanwhile, was one step ahead of the others and already calling in back-up "Rescue Bird!" he commanded into his morpher. The Rescue Bird appeared and transformed into the Unilaser as the rangers fell into formation and held it out towards the new ranger; who produced his own weapon and prepared it for attack. "I warned you!"

And an energy blast sparked from the Unilaser as it flew at the Silver ranger, who blocked it.

"What?" Sabrina cried

The energy was sent back at the rangers and they were thrown several feet into the air before crashing back to Earth.

"Why?" Carter asked

But the Silver Ranger merely laughed darkly in return

Pushing themselves to their feet Carter and Sabrina stood protectively in front of the rest of the team, before Captain Mitchell's voice appeared over the coms link "Rangers, break off the attack" he ordered

"What was that?" Carter asked

"I said get out of there!" Captain Mitchell responded "NOW!"

"Get him!" Joel exclaimed, racing forward. Sabrina stopped him as Carter spoke.

"Joel, wait. Captain says we have to pull out" the Red ranger stated "But this isn't over!" he added to the Silver ranger

The Titanium Ranger smirked "On that much we agree!" he responded, and the next second a flame wrapped around the six Lightspeed rangers as Sabrina returned them all back to the Rescue Humvee. Once inside the vehicle Carter returned them to the Aqua base.

-Scene-

Once back at the Aqua base, things were just spiralling out of control as Ms. Fairweather addressed the Rangers on what had happened to the Titanium Morpher "Stolen?" Chad questioned "from the Captain's quarters?"

"If that's the case," Kelsey butted in "then it had to be someone had Lightspeed"

"Yeah, but nobody would do that?" Joel asked, he was sitting near the fish tank, as Sabrina, Carter and Dana were sitting at the table in the briefing room.

"Well who else?" Kelsey asked, turning to him

At that moment Captain Mitchell entered the room and the three other Rangers took their usual seats at the table "Alright," he sighed "no matter who it was. The fact remains Diabolico still has the morpher and the Titanium Power. We have got to get it back, and fast" he looked towards Ms. Fairweather.

"That won't be easy," she shook her head.

Sabrina sighed "So what do we do?" she asked "We can't just sit here while he is loose, who knows what kind of damage he could do. Not to mention the hundred innocent civilians that could get caught in the cross-fire."

"Hit the streets," Captain Mitchell told her "Keep your eyes open for anything unusual,"

The red head frowned "We're Rangers," she responded "Which part of our world is never unusual?"

"Just be careful," Angela spoke, giving Sabrina a look that clearly read 'You're-mother-would-not-be-happy-if-you-got-hurt'

Sabrina sighed and jumped up from her seat as she followed the rangers out, they split into three teams of two's and took to the city on foot. Dana and Carter, Kelsey and Chad, and Sabrina and Joel. As they patrolled in silence, Joel looking around for any unwanted activity, Sabrina's mind reversed back to her dream last night. Could it be possible that whatever was happening to her Phoenix was what Vypra and the other demons wanted? Vypra had made many remarks about how the time was coming closer and earlier this morning she had remarked if she had any pleasant dreams lately, was it possible that she knew she was having nightmares about the Phoenix? Well...they werent really nightmares, they were more along the lines of...well, she didnt know exactly. She didnt wake up in a sweat like she did most nightmares, this dream was more of a warning or something; like the Phoenix was trying to tell her something was wrong and after seeing the bird so battered and distressed last night, the red head knew that something was definitely wrong!

"Its quiet," Joel sighed, turning to Sabrina and frowning as he realized she wasnt paying attention "Hey!" he nudged her

"Huh!" she jumped and looked around at him

"Are you okay?" he frowned

She nodded "Yeah. Yeah. Im fine..." she stammered "Did you say something?"

"I said it's quiet"

The red head focused on the sounds around her and frowned "Its took quiet," she added. Suddenly her morpher beeped and Chad's voice sounded.

"Let's meet down town"

Joel and Sabrina looked at one another "It's just around the corner," the green ranger noted

"On our way Chad!" Sabrina said into her morpher and she and Joel sprinted off in the direction of the downtown square. Re-grouping with the others who arrive around them. The Titanium ranger laughed darkly, as he stood with his back to the other rangers as innocent civilians scattered in different directions "Who are you?" the red head asked, alerting him to their presence.

"It doest matter anymore," the ranger responded

Carter and Sabrina exchanged looks

"Man, we don't want to have to hurt you" Joel spoke up, before either of the red rangers had a chance

The Silver ranger scoffed "Hurt me?" he asked "You're pathetic powers are no match for my Titanium powers"

"Oh he so did not call my powers pathetic?" Sabrina questioned; glaring at the ranger before her. She took pride in her powers, even though they were a danger to her and everything around her.

"Let's go guys," Carter ordered, and the rangers fell into formation

"Lightspeed Rescue!"

They morphed.

"Don't make us do something," Carter spoke once morphed "that we don't wanna do,"

The Titanium ranger clenched his fist out in front of them "Give it your best shot!" he mocked them. And the fight was on. Within seconds of racing forward, Carter, Kelsey, Dana, Joel and Chad hit the ground as Sabrina caught the silver ranger's ankle, like he had done with her earlier that day, she threw up her hands to flip him, but he caught her shoulders and flipped her over himself before she had the chance to attack him. The red head groaned as she slammed into the pavement behind Carter and Chad. The fight continued as each of the rangers hit the ground and the others flew to their feet seconds later to try again. But they were no match for the silver ranger. Then again he was evil, so they weren't gonna stand a chance. At least that's what past first had experiences had told Sabrina.

"Titanium Laser!" the Silver ranger yelled as he flipped forwards off the top of a car, and fired his laser at Joel and Kelsey who were on top of the same car; the two rangers flipped off the side and the laser blasts hit the ground at their feet seconds later propelling the six rangers into the air and back to Earth with an all might crash.

"Carter," Ms. Fairweather's voice came over the coms

Carter lifted his morpher to his lips "I read you," he responded

"Activate V-Lancers"

Carter nodded as he responded "You got it!"

And pushing themselves to their feet the Rangers fell into their usual formations "V-Lancers!" Carter commanded as a 'V' appeared in his hands, followed closely by the others.

"Defence!" the six shouted together and seconds later, highly equipped weapons lay in their arms, they readied the weapons before inspecting them. Sabrina's eyes widened as she admired the new weapon in her hands, reliving the idea that her past two ranger teams never had anything so high-tech. Well, she did...her morpher and weapon array, from lasers to bikes was high tech and mostly because her weapons had to correspond well with her Phoenix Powers, there was no point in her firing a blaster if it wasnt in sync with the Phoenix, it would do more harm that good and not to the monsters.

"Wow, these things rock!" Kelsey grinned

Joel nodded "Yeah. Good one Ms. F!" he commented

"Let's try these baby's out," Sabrina smirked, looking up at Carter who nodded in agreement

The Titanium Ranger growled and run forward as the Six Lightspeed rangers twirled the V-Lancers through the air "Power Rangers! Lightspeed!" they commanded, before running forward and meeting him head on. With their new weapons at their side, the Rangers effectively turned the tables on the silver ranger attacking him from left, right and centre, before landing a blow and knocking his laser from his hand leaving him defenceless. With Six rangers surrounding him, the Silver ranger put up a fight as he avoided, dodged and attacked on his own, before he was left open for the final strike. Sabrina flipped over Carter as she landed the final strike and slashed upwards with her V-Lancer sending the Titanium Ranger flying backwards.

He flipped over mid-flight and landed on his feet, before falling to his knees in pain and glaring at them through his visor. Glancing up the Silver ranger spotted his laser a few feet away, so did the other rangers.

"Don't do it!" Carter yelled at him

But it went unnoticed and the Silver ranger just had to try his luck

"Rangers go to blaster mode," Ms. Fairweather spoke over the coms again

Carter nodded "You got it!"

Their weapons changed and six pointed into the air as the silver ranger aimed his laser at them "V-Lancers! Spectrum Blast!" the rangers commanded, firing their lasers into the air as it formed a large golden 'V' over the Titanium Ranger, who groaned as the ripples of energy surged through him, finally bringing him down.

"That did it," Carter spoke, sounding sure

But as the smoke cleared it showed the Silver ranger getting back to his feet, his back turned to them "I wouldnt me so sure," Sabrina murmured "They always come back for more"

"But nothing could have survived that!"

Sabrina shrugged "He's evil," she pointed out "Usually when you're evil, your running on so much adrenaline you can survive anything! Trust me! I've been there!"

The Titanium Ranger turned, and the six rangers became aware that his visor was open and his eyes are visible to them. Pools of greenish blue stared back at them, clearly stating that he wasnt finished.

"Stand down before this escalates!" Carter yelled "Don't force us to destroy you!"

Snapping his head forward, the visor closed and he staggered towards them with his laser pointed at them, despite being severely injured he still kept coming.

"Energy level 10!"

"Full Power!" Sabrina commanded, as the she and the other five levelled their V-Lancer with the Titanium Ranger "Lock on!"

The seconds ticked by; the silver ranger was now on his knees having little to no energy left to continue his pursuit.

"Target locked!" Carter stated

Static came over the coms followed closely by the breaking of Captain Mitchell's voice "Don't fire!" he commanded

"What?" Carter demanded "Please repeat sir!"

"Hold your fire!" Captain Mitchell repeated

"What is he talking about?" Chad asked

"But sir!" Kelsey protested "This is our chance to finish him!"

"Don't shoot" Captain Mitchell's voice had become distant now

Sabrina frowned but lowered her weapon "V-Lancers!" she stated "Power down!" she didnt know why, but there was something about Captain Mitchell's voice that struck a cord within her. He sounded broken; torn. Torn between destroying the Titanium Ranger and destroying him. But why? What did he know that they didnt? "Let's go"

Carter nodded and the six turned their backs on the Titanium Ranger, as they walked away

"We're not finished!" The Titanium ranger called after them "Come back!"

Carter stopped momentarily to glance over his shoulder, but it was short lived as Sabrina reappeared beside him "Come on," she told the red ranger "he's the least of our problems right now" and she looked down at the Titanium Ranger

-Scene-

"Retreat?" Carter all but exploded when he entered the de-briefing room after returning to the base, the others were behind him equally confused and positively peeved off on why the captain had pulled them back on what could have ended the Titanium Ranger before he had a chance to recover "We had him!"

"He would have destroyed us without thinking twice!" Joel added in

"Now he knows we have the V-Lancers!" Chad jumped in

"That was our chance!" Kelsey exclaimed, moving forward "Maybe our only chance!"

It seemed although they too were confused and angry, the only ones without pretty much anything to say was Dana and Sabrina; who stood behind the others watching the small argument take place, with a roll of her eyes Sabrina spoke "Ease up guys," she said in a soothing tone, "there's obviously gonna be a reasonable explanation as to why Captain Mitchell pulled us back," the others glanced back at her, but she ignored them and looked towards the Captain "Why sir?" she asked, remembering his tone of voice when he told them not to fire "Why did you stop us?"

"Because..." Mitchell started, but faltered slightly "...he's my son"

To Be Continued

A/N: Sorry for the late update. But it seems the universe has been against me the past couple of days. Firstly I honestly got too distracted with my Abby series. Secondly: my computer messed up and I lost the chapter I had been working on because I forgot to save. Thirdly: I misplaced my Memory stick and couldnt find it anywhere. And lastly College. Well, you get the picture. But I am back with another update from Sabrina; and hopefully the next one will be out faster and I will have more ideas for her, as my imagination is currently running on empty.

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~*Kara*~

Chapter updated on 13 Sep. 10 at 11:11pm