A/N: Thanks again to everyone who reviewed
Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers, and the creators own the OC Rangers.
"Done!" Nathalie announced, slamming the blue bucket of soapy water on the ground. Water splashed out the sides and onto the marble flooring. Her clothes were dripping wet and starting to stick to her body.
"Still haven't got the hang of it yet?" Kennedi asked, handing the dripping Red Ranger a new towel. Nathalie accepted it, and wrapped it tightly around her shivering body. Her teeth chatter, and her skin was turning purple in areas.
"It's not my fault that the Deer Zord hates water," Nathalie said, teeth chattering. "I can't feel my fingers. Someone needs to turn the heat up higher in the Zord bay."
"High heat is bad for the Zords. Their circuitry will start to malfunction," Lew advised, still busily working with Phoebe on the new upgrade for their Irenic Blaster. A metal tool clattered to the ground as Lew reached across the grab the scanner, only succeeding in dropping another tool to the ground. He groaned, and pushed his chair back to grab the fallen tools.
"We're all done with the Vulture and Raven Zords, along with the West hallways," Jet announced, carefully setting his bucket of water on the table and Bryce followed suit. "I hate cleaning day," He mumbled.
"I heard that," Phoebe assured, without looking up from her work space.
"Damn titan ears," Jet mumbled again, sitting down next to the exhausted Bryce on the Command Center table. Nathalie sat on his other side.
"And that!" Phoebe added. "No swearing in here either!" Jet mumbled something incoherent before turning to Nathalie. He laughed at the wet and cold leader.
"You're all wet again!" He laughed, poking her in the sides. He turned to Bryce. "Pay up green boy." Jet held his hand out to Bryce, who placed a twenty dollar bill in it.
"You guys bet on if I could stay dry?" Nathalie asked, her teeth chattering less now. Some feeling had started to return back to her fingers. Her eyes glared at the two male Rangers.
"Don't be mad at me," Bryce said, raising his hands. "I bet that you could stay dry–" He eyed her up and down. "Clearly I was wrong."
"Like you're ever right?" Charley sneered, suddenly in the seat across from Bryce. Her feet were up on the table, and she was filling her finger nails. Bryce jumped, at her sudden appearance.
"Ninja!" he shrieked. He held his heart. "I think you gave me a heart attack. Someone grab your phone, I might need you to dial 9-1-1. I'll let you know when."
"Where have you been?" Jet asked, fuming. "We had to clean the Zord Bay along with the rest of the base all by ourselves!"
"Ah, I had better places to go, people to see," She said, blowing on her finger nails. Jet got up and walked over to her side of the table. He grabbed a hold of her feet and roughly slid them off of the table.
"Get your feet off of the table. What's up with you?" Jet half yelled, half asked. His arms were crossed and his temper was rising fast.
"What's wrong with you?" Charley sneered back. "Someone needs to take a chill pill." She propped her feet back up on the table. Jet groaned, and pushed them off again. Nathalie had got up and wedged herself between the two Rangers.
"You–" she shouted, facing Jet. "Need to take a walk. And you–" Nathalie turned and faced Charley, who had re-propped her feet back up. Nathalie pushed her feet off. "Need to get your act together." Charley stood up and got in Nathalie's face, looking the Red Ranger in the eye. Neither blinked, nor moved. Charley towered over the Red Ranger, making it hard for Nathalie to seem intimidating.
"Stop telling me what to do," Charley said, through gritted teeth. The Yellow Ranger sat back down. She crossed her arms and placed her feet back on the table again. Nathalie was about to remove them when the alarm system went off. She glared at Charley, before spinning on her heels towards the Central Command post.
"Nereus is back, down by the docks," Lew said, as Nereus popped up on the large screen monitor. The other three Rangers stood behind Nathalie. Nathalie turned around and nodded to the three. Charley made no effort to get up and join the others. She sat there, still filling her nails.
"Let's morph," Nathalie commanded receiving four nods.
"Olympian Force, Protectors of Earth," five out of the six rangers shouted. After finishing his morphing sequence, Jet walked over to Charley and gripped her arm tightly.
"Feel like joining us?" He asked, squeezing her arm. She recoiled her arm back and re-crossed her arms against her chest. She made no effort to join the others. Kennedi pulled Jet away and whispered something in his ears, incoherent to the other Rangers. He nodded and joined the rest. The five Rangers then teleported away in a flash of five colors.
"Ah, back for more fun I see," Nereus committed from where he sat on top of a few empty wood crates. The docks were empty besides Nereus, the Rangers, and shipments that were getting ready to be shipped out. Most of the crew had evacuated the area at the sign of the metal Daemon. A cold breeze blew through the port causing a few things to break lose. All of the leaves from the trees were long gone now.
"I guess we just didn't have enough last time," Jet shouted over the hollowing wind. He and the rest of the Rangers stood on the ground towards the water's edge. Each of them had their respective Olympian Weapons drawn.
"I like your arrow, but you haven't seen mine yet. It sure is fine!" Nathalie mentioned, pulling the black string back on her bow. Releasing the string, the arrow flew towards Nereus. But, it missed the Daemon and hit the wooden crate instead. "Oh darn I missed, but don't count on that happening again." She shot another arrow, hitting Nereus in the chest this time. Nereus stood up and pulled the arrow out before jumping down. He drew his own sword out of its hoister.
"Let's get this over with!" Nereus shouted, running towards the Rangers. Kennedi ran towards Nereus first, her daggers in her hands. Running by him she tossed the dagger, but missed. Nereus slashed at Kennedi's waist causing her to spin around. Nereus grabbed her and flipped the Orange Ranger over his shoulders into a pile of crates.
With Nereus back turned to him, Bryce ran forward with his Scrimtar draw. Nereus heard the Green Ranger coming and flipped into the air just as Bryce lunged forward. Turning around, Bryce's sword clashed with Nereus. The two went back and forth, inching Bryce closer to the water's edge. Dropping his sword, Nereus kicked Bryce into the cold ocean water.
Jet picked up Nereus with his super human strength, while Nereus was still turned towards the ocean. The Black Ranger nodded to Lew, who then teleported to the top of a large pile of crate. Jet threw Nereus towards Lew, who had his large hammer already pulled back. As Nereus reached Lew, the Blue Ranger sung down sending the metal Daemon through the crates, splintering wood around him. Lew quickly teleported to the Black Ranger's side. Jet turned to his partner in crime and gave him a high five.
The two watched as Nathalie climbed with monkey like agility to the top of the crates, above who they thought was un-expecting. Just as Nathalie jumped down onto Nereus, the Daemon tucked and rolled away sending the Red Ranger smack dab into the cement. Once she got up, Nereus quickly pulled out his sword and hit her, sending her back into the crates herself.
Nereus brushed himself off before turning to the two still standing rangers. He put his sword back into its hoister and instead pulled out a small blaster, similar to Charley's. He ran forward and shot two rounds at the Rangers. The hits caused the two to squirm about and lose their balance on the ports edge. Just like Bryce, the two fell backwards into the cold water.
Phoebe frantically paced back in forth in the Command Center. Charley had not removed from her spot, but instead and pulled out her phone. Up on the main computer monitor screen was the fight. Phoebe's eyes were quickly scanning over the book she had in her hands. About ten more lay open where she and Lew used to be working. All of their equipment was removed and instead replaced with books.
"Your friends are getting beat out there and all you do is sit here," Phoebe suddenly mentioned. "I am very ashamed of you. How could you do this to your friends, your family?" Charley said nothing, continuing on with her own business. Phoebe marched over to Charley and ripped her phone out of the Yellow Ranger's hands. Phoebe threw it to the ground and then stomped on it with her heel.
"You're gonna regret doing that," Charley warned, getting up to face Phoebe. Charley reached forward to push Phoebe, but the titan grabbed the Yellow Ranger's hands. Charley quickly regained her posture and twister her hand around, this time her gripping the titan's wrist. Charley tried to snap them, but Phoebe's wrist just would move in that way.
"They are your teammates and they need your help!" Phoebe argued, pulling her wrist back. Her voice quickly rose. "You are being utterly despicable right now! You are the only one who can help them, save them. Yet, all you do is sit here and watch your friends get slaughtered!" Phoebe's head snapped at a quick three little beeping patterns coming from one of the computers. She quickly ran towards it just as Zeus and Hera appeared on the screen.
"You called?" Hera asked, adjusting her posture. Her bronze hair framed her face, not a piece out of place.
"Yes, I need your help. One of our Rangers seems to have fallen under a spell. Do you know how to break it?"
"Do you still have that vial containing water from the Pool of Reflections?" Zeus asked. Phoebe quickly nodded. She pulled out a necklace that had a small clear vial at the end, out of her dress pocket. Zeus continued at the sight. "Three drops of that, no more, no less." Zeus nodded, before ending the communication. Phoebe got up and quickly walked over to Charley, who had turned on her Ipod. The music blared so loud through her head set that Phoebe could hear it. Phoebe frustrated, yanked the cords out of the Yellow Ranger's ear and pried the girl's mouth open.
"What are you doing?" Charley shouted, squirming around. Phoebe only in response gripped the Yellow Ranger's head tight. Popping the cork out of the vial, she placed it above the squirming Ranger's mouth. "I've had enough of this." Phoebe announced, dripping three drops into Charley's mouth. Phoebe released her grip and watched as a soft blue glow surrounded the Yellow Ranger. Her eyes shut and her body slumped forward. Phoebe then carefully shaked the Ranger, waking her up.
"What happened?" Charley asked, rubbing her eyes. Flashes of what happened flipped through her mind and she let out a gasp. "Where are the others?" She asked, quickly getting up. She rushed over to the monitor, her head still killing her.
"West Port," Phoebe said. "They need your help. Go, now!" Phoebe commanded, teleporting the Ranger away.
"Hey, stop right there!" Charley shouted, as she teleported to the docks. "No one messes with my head and gets away from it." She drew her morpher up to the side of her body. "Olympian Force, Protectors of Earth! As graceful as Aphrodite! Yellow Olympian Ranger!" Charley grabbed her blaster and pointed it towards Nereus. Nereus copied her and followed suit. The two of them walked around each other in circles, no one firing.
"Awe, does the little Yellow Ranger think she can beat me," Nereus asked in a baby voice. Charley gripped her blaster tighter, finger over the trigger. Nereus pulled back on his trigger at the same time as Charley. The yellow blast from Charley's hit Nereus sending him into the water. But, before Nereus' blast could hit Charley, a yellow force field extended around her, absorbing the shock. The other Rangers got up and quickly surrounded Charley.
"It's good to have you back!" Kennedi said, wrapping the Yellow Ranger in a hug. Charley tensed at first, but soon accepted the hug. "We really missed ya."
"It's good to be back," Charley added, releasing the huge. "Let's finish this creep off. I can't stand someone who messes with my emotions. Only I'm allowed to do that!" The other Rangers all nodded and they all quickly re-summoned their Olympian Weapons. Together they all threw them in the air. "Olympian Strike Cannon!" Charley shouted. She took the back towards the trigger, swapping out for Nathalie. "Fire!" Charley pulled back the trigger, the blast hitting Nereus just as he got out of the water. Quickly, Nereus grew.
"Let's crank out the Zord!" Jet said, jumping into the air into his Vulture Zord cockpit.
"Awe man, I'm gonna have to clean the Deer Zord all over again," Nathalie groaned, as she jumped into her own Deer Zord. The others all laughed before following suit, jumping into their respective Zords.
"Let's finish this creep off, because I still have a bone to pick with him!" Charley shouted from inside of her Dove Zord. The other's quickly caught on and each Zord combined.
"High Irenic Megazord!" They all shouted, together from inside the larger cockpit. Charley sat in the front row with Nathalie and Lew, while the other three where behind them. Charley gripped the wheel of the Megazord tighter in her own workspace.
"Little girly, do you really think you can beat me?" Nereus asked, as he swung his fist at the Megazord, pushing them onto the edge of the port. The Megazord swayed before catching its balance. It jumped high into the air, landing on the opposite side of Nereus.
"I know so!" Charley said, as she commanded the Zord to punch Nereus' face on his human side. Nereus' body spun around, falling backwards onto the wood crates. Being bigger, he smashed through all of them without and hassle. Nereus' pulled out his blaster hitting the Megazord dead on.
"Let's use the blaster Char," Bryce said, from his pilot spot. The Megazord had fallen to the wood docks, breaking through the wood and crashed into the water. "We'll have better luck that way." Charley nodded, as she called upon the blaster once the Megazord was back on its feet.
"High Irenic Blaster!" Charley shouted, "Fire!" The shot hit Nereus causing him to shrink down in size. Charley jumped out of her Zord and picked Nereus up with her hand.
"Hey!" He shouted, in a helium effected-like voice. "Put me down, I don't like to be man-handled."
"Yeah, well I don't like being messed with either," Charley said, as she unclipped the Ascelpius cube off her belt. She pushed the center button, causing it to grow. Unscrewing the cap, she placed the screaming Daemon inside.
"Hey, Charley! What are you doing in here?" Bryce asked, as he walked towards where Charley was cleaning in the Command Center. "Don't you have a play to be in?" As he got closer he heard a few sobs from the Yellow Ranger. "You know, Nathalie didn't end up agreeing to play the piano, only for you not to show up."
"Hmm?" She asked, mopping the floor, trying to hide her sobs. Her back was still to him, so he couldn't her face.
"You know the play you have been so excited about since the beginning of school?" He said. Bryce carefully grabbed her shoulders and spun her around. Tears stained her face and she was visibly upset. He pulled her into a hug, causing her to drop the mop with a clang. She gripped onto his shirt as she cried.
"I'm sorry," She sobbed out, continuing to hug him.
"It's ok," Bryce soothed, suddenly glad he was the one to come search for Charley instead of Jet. "We're all here for you. We're your friends, teammates, and your family." Charley's tears slowly stopped, and she released Bryce. She whipped her eyes before regaining her posture.
"Thank you," She said, putting the mop and bucket of water away. "I figured I might as well catch up on all that cleaning I didn't do," She laughed, and grabbed her jacket that was hanging on the back of her chair. "Come on! Let's go before I'm late!" She said, dragging Bryce by the hand.
"Is that them, Diana?" A tall man dressed in a dark blue cloak asked, nodding towards a group of teenagers who sat watching. The women, in a red cloak nodded, pieces of her black hair falling out of the hood. None of their faces could be seen.
"They have grown stronger," She acknowledged, watching each of them closely. Her eyes stopped on the female in red who was playing piano up on the stage,
"We must attack soon then!" The black cloaked male said, grabbing the once acknowledged as Diana,
"In good time Mars," She said, still watching them. "In good time. Come one we must go. We've got business to take care of." They all turned around and left without a human noticing.
Trivia: Originally the chapters around Charley were going to have her kidnapped, but I liked the idea of reversing her personality around by a spell instead better. Who knows, maybe that idea will occur in the future. All of that depends on where the fic goes.