A/N: I'm really sorry for the long wait on this chapter. A lot of things came up and if you've recently visited my profile you would have seen that I have been really sick and we don't know what is going on. Hopefully though, things will be turning around soon and I can return to weekly updates. But until the I get my CT scan and MRI done I will not know. As always, thank you so much to each one of my reviewers. Thank you for your continuous kind words and support.

Disclaimer: still a poor student with little money and so I do not own Power Ranger. But my imagination does own Nathalie though.

Four of the seven Rangers were all scattered throughout the Command Room. With the quick news from the Olympian Council, Phoebe and the Rangers quickly sprung into action. Currently, the eight of them were getting supplies ready for the trip to retrieve the Irenic Crystals. So far it had been decided that four of the Rangers would go and the other three would stay behind to watch after the city.

For the trip, four of the emergency travel backpacks were pulled off their respective Ranger's rack and placed on the center table. Each emergency backpack held the basic needs for survival; water, batteries, a few matches, enough food for three days worth (if they rationed carefully), a small flashlight, a folding knife, a compass, a basic first-aid kit, and a few energy bars.

"Water; check," Charley said, as she walked over to the green bag and placed the bottle in the side pocket.

Kennedi sat on the table next to the backpacks. Rested in her lap was a brown clip board with the list of supplies. She made a quick check next to water. "How about matches?" Kennedi asked, as she looked up.

"Check, check, check," Bryce said, as he quickly took a peek in each backpack. It had been a few thousand years since the emergency backpacks were used, and so the Rangers were updating them. In retrospect, what was pulled off of the Ranger's shouldn't even be called a backpack. So, new bags were bought along with some new supplies. Jet and Nathalie were currently out getting the last few items on the list.

"Marissa!" Charley shouted, as she saw a flash of the inactive White Ranger. She was on her way to the Med Bay to grab the medical kits that Phoebe and Lew had been working on. "Could you come try this on to make sure it's not too heavy?"

Marissa nodded as she walked over to the Green and Yellow Rangers. She grabbed the white backpack from Charley and swung it over her shoulders. She hitched it up her back and snapped the straps together. "Nah, you are good. Rule of thumb is to keep it under ten pounds."

"Medical bags!" Lew said, as he teleported next to Bryce. He put a small kit in each bag.

"Great!" Kennedi cheered. "Now all we need are the last few supplies from Nathalie and Jet. Did anyone check on the hiking polls? I don't think we're going to take them, but its better safe than sorry."

Charley nodded. "All seem good. I put some weight on them and they all seem sturdy enough." Charley looked over her shoulder as she heard Jet and Nathalie walk in.

"I'm just saying you drive way too slow," Nathalie said with a shrug, as she swung the plastic bag in her hand. "We could have been back about twenty minutes."

"And you drive like a freaking manic," Jet countered, as he snatched the bag out of her hand. He paused. "How did you get your license in the first place?"

"Hey Romeo… Juliet-" Bryce shouted. "Would you two quit bickering and bring the bags over here."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Nathalie said, as she used super-speed to rush to Bryce's side. "If someone would not have driven so slowly, we would have been back sooner."

"I was going eight over!" Jet argued. Nathalie rolled her eyes and walked over to Phoebe, but not without knocking into Jet along the way.

"Who taught her how to drive?" Charley asked, quietly to Bryce who only shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't want to know," Jet said, as he grabbed the energy bars out of the two grocery bags. He put two in each backpack. "Are we all set then?"

"Looks like it," Lew said, as he snatched the clip board out of Kennedi's hands. Kennedi scowled, but quickly dropped it. "All we need to do is figure out who is going to go." With that, Phoebe and Nathalie joined the group.

"Alright, let's go over everything," Phoebe said, as she led the Rangers over to the active board. She clicked on a link and brought up a map of Mt. Olympus. "Because the crystals can't be teleported four of you must go and retrieve them yourselves." Phoebe looked over to Nathalie and nodded. The Red Ranger stepped forward.

"The Mt. Olympus is found in Northern Greece," Nathalie added. She touched the spot on the map and zoomed in. "It is approximately 1,000 feet above sea level. Normally a hike of that size would only take an hour, but because of the rocky terrain the trip will be more of a three to four hour trip."

"If anyone has any hiking experience, it would be best for them to go," Phoebe said. "It's going to be a rather difficult hike."

"Isaac and I have hiked many different mountains in the area while we stay in Greece," Nathalie said. "I am willing to go."

Phoebe nodded at Nathalie and looked to the others. "Anyone else?"

"I've grown up with two military parents," Bryce said. "Physical fitness is a pretty big thing in our family. I'm willing to make the trek."

"I can too," Marissa added. "Being a shape shifter it will be easy for me to make the hike up."

"Charley and I can stay behind," Kennedi said, after she got the silent nod from Charley. "Neither of us are very experienced hikers. We would be of better use if we stayed behind."

Jet looked over at Lew and saw the Blue Ranger looking up at the map. Lew bit his lower lip, not for sure if he should say anything.

"Lew, you can go," Jet said, shocking the Blue Ranger. "I don't mind staying behind and looking after these two." Jet pointed over his shoulder at the two other female Rangers.

Charley chuckled, "Look who's talking."

"Really?" Lew asked. Jet nodded. "Thanks."

"So, when do we leave?" Bryce asked, as he clasped a hand over Nathalie and Marissa's shoulders.

"Tomorrow morning," Phoebe said. "The sooner the better. Lew was able to put in the coordinates of Mt. Olympus for you guys. You'll follow that for about a day's worth of hiking before you reach the base of the mountain. Once you start to ascend, you'll no longer have access to the morphing grid."

"Why is that?" Marissa asked.

"It's because Mt. Olympus isn't technically apart of this universe. Kind of like Olympian Ops, Mt. Olympus is in an alternate dimension. The Gods created it this way to keep curious mortals away," Phoebe said.

"How are we going to get there though?" Bryce asked, looking at the map.

"How about by Zords?" Lew suggested. "We could take Bryce's and mine. They would both be able to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. I could take either Nathalie or Marissa in my Zord and Bryce could take the other."

"That could work," Nathalie said, yawning. "Let us all go home and get some sleep. We will meet back here at sunrise." The other Rangers all nodded, a couple of them letting out yawn.

"Go get some sleep," Phoebe nodded. "And don't be late tomorrow!" She shouted out towards the Rangers, who had made their way over the portal.

"This is going to be really cool," Lew said excitedly to Bryce, as the two of them made their way out of the base.

"Wait!" Marissa said, as she paused before going through the portal. "Where is Greece?" a few of the Rangers groaned, before walking through.

Hades towered over a small pool of water. Like most of Hades' underworld palace, the pool was made of a white and gray marble. Diana and Phoebus both stood on Hades' flank. The three of them look down onto the pool. The water acted like a movie screen, showing the Rangers loading into the two Zords on the cliffs of Olympian Heights.

"It appears that the council has come to a decision," Hades said, as he watched the Rangers. "I'm surprised they were able to come to one so quickly."

"It's been about 5,000 years since the crystals have ever left Mt. Olympus," Phoebus noted. "I'm surprised that's about to change."

"It's kind of sweet to see them risking their lives for someone they don't even know," Diana said with a hint of disgust in her voice. "I don't like sweet."

"It's not the shape shifter they are doing this for. It's for the white crystal." Phoebus said.

Diana turned to face Hades. "Let Phoebus and I go after them. Unlike Mercury was able to, we'll bring you back seven crystals."

"Yes," Hades said, as he stared into the looking pool. "But also bring me back the four of them alive. I have a bone to pick with a few of them." Hades laughed, as the two Roman Rangers turned around and fled the room.

"Are we almost there yet?" Nathalie asked, as she paced behind Lew in the cockpit of the Hawk Zord. The green Raven Zord flew next to them, holding Bryce and Marissa. Even though the cockpit in the Hawk Zord wasn't the largest, there was still enough room behind Lew for Nathalie to pace. Neither of the Rangers we're morphed.

"Not yet," Lew said for the umpteenth time. He leaned over and zoomed in on the map next to the control panel. "We're almost there though."

"Do you want me to take over," Nathalie asked, as she stopped pacing and leaned on the back door.

"With the way you drive a car, no thanks," Lew laughed. "I think the Hawk Zord would appreciate it if he returned home all in one piece," The Zord swooped down a bit and caused Nathalie to lose her balance. "It doesn't matter anyways. We're here now."

Nathalie leaned over Lew's shoulder and looked out the window. "Wow, it's still as beautiful as I remember." She said. The area of Greece that the Zords flew towards was the east coast of the main land. Most of Greece consisted of mountains and coastline.

"Look," Nathalie said, as she pointed towards the ground. "There is a little cove there covered by the cliff. I bet we could keep the Zords there and no one would find them."

"Good idea," Lew said. He reached over and grabbed the headset of the control panel. "Hey Bryce, do you guys see the small cover to the left."

"Yeah, I can see it," Bryce's voice said through the speakers.

"Let's store the Zords there," Lew recommended. "We'll have to travel by foot from there, but It's the closes were going to get."

"Alright," Bryce said.

"Hold on tight," Lew said. "This might get a little rough." The two bird Zords swooped down into the cove. Carefully the Raven Zord landed first and the Hawk Zord landed on its right side.

"Alright, let's go," Lew said, as he opened the door in the cockpit. Nathalie climbed out first and jumped down onto the sand with a little thud. Lew followed out right behind her.

"Good eye guys," Marissa said, as she jumped out of the Raven Zord. She lost her balance slightly but was able to quickly regain it. She jogged over to Lew and Nathalie. "This seems like a great spot." Bryce nodded.

"So, how far away are we?" Bryce asked Lew.

"Only about twenty miles," Lew said, as he pulled up the coordinates on his morpher. The map glowed up out of the morpher like a hologram.

"Only," Bryce whined.

"I have an idea. Nathalie, with your super speed and my shape shifting abilities we could make the trip in about half the time. I could transform into a horse and you two could jump onto my back." Marissa said to Bryce and Lew.

"Do you think you could hold us?" Bryce asked skeptical of the idea.

"Yeah, trust me." Marissa said. "I have held much more on my back."

Lew shrugged. "It's worth a shot and it could save us a lot of hiking."

"I am all for it," Nathalie said, as Marissa transformed behind the Red Ranger.

"This is going to be really strange," Bryce said to himself, as he walked over to Marissa.

Trivia: Greece has 13,676 km (or 8,498 mi) of coastline, making it the eleventh longest coastline in the world. Also you may notice that sometimes Nathalie and Marissa's english isn't very smooth and very rarely will I use contractions with them. I try to make it show that they don't speak English fluently.

Aria: Thank you so much for your kind words. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.