Here's the next chapter. And I don't want to spoil anything, but Kaylee finally gets to fight with the Zords. There is also an appearence from a character from Kaylee's past.
For those of you who are wondering about the Drogonzord, Faith and I still have to decide what happens to it at the end of DT. It might come back, and it might not.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter, and don't forget to read and review!
Rose was reading in the game room while Will and Ronny were talking about their new mission. Mack was standing around, occasionally joining Ronny and Will in their conversation, and Kaylee was trying to stuff the last of her things in her green bag.
"Whoo, St. Lucia! Nothing like a mission to a Caribbean island paradise!" Will smiled, excitement for the next adventure was written all over his face.
"Yeah!" Ronny agreed. "The beach is a little slow for me- unless I'm flying through the sand in a dune buggy!"
"I should really introduce you to surfing," Kaylee laughed.
"I don't think we'll be seeing many dune buggies or surf boards where we're going," Rose said. She looked down at her book and started reading from it. "The southern part of the island is mostly dense jungle and forest."
"It's still amazing!" Mack smiled, taking all the bags on his shoulders. When he got to Kaylee's he saw she wasn't done yet, so he grabbed her bag, with her on top of it.
"WHOA!" Kaylee giggled as she was lifted with all the other bags.
"Not so fast!" Dax frowned. "I hear St. Lucia- is haunted!"
"That's just folklore, Dax!" Rose said, not believing anything the others were saying about adventure... or ghosts."
Mack noticed that the blue Ranger was holding a bag in his hands. He turned to Dax and laughed.
"Are those marbles?"
"Not just any marbles!" Dax smiled. "They're my lucky marbles!"
"Don't worry Dax!" Mack grinned. "We're Power Rangers! We're unbeatable!"
The Rangers watched as Mack left to put the suitcases, and Kaylee, in the front hall for when they left. Were they really unbeatable?
----Operation-Overdrive-----
Downstairs in the base, Andrew was seeing the Rangers off before their mission, when the computers beeped, letting everyone know Moltor was on the loose.
"Looks like your trip's gonna have to wait. Moltor has other plans," Hartford said.
"Where is he?" Kaylee asked.
"Australia," Andrew smiled, watching as his Rangers morphed.
----Operation-Overdrive-----
The Rangers jumped down from the SHARC and landed just in front of Moltor and his goons as they attacked a truck with two drivers.
"We gotta help them!" Rose yelled.
"I'll save the driver!" Mack announced. "You guys go after Moltor!"
As the other Rangers team up on Moltor, Mack leaped up and landed a flying bicycle kick into one of the lava lizards, knocking him away and down. He saw a lizard had one of the drivers in his clutches and made an attempt to save him.
"Hey! Let him go!" Mack yelled. He pulled the driver away from the lizards and kicked one away.
The lizards suddenly start attacking Mack, forcing the red Ranger to fight defensively. The attacks force him the stray away from the driver. Suddenly, a lizard aims a gun at the driver. Mack tried to save him, but it was too late. The driver stumbled backwards and fell off the cliff.
"NO!" Mack yelled, looking over the edge. Just as he was about to jump off, the lizards grab his arms, holding him back.
"I got him!" Kaylee smiled, zwopping away. She appeared just below the falling driver and caught him before zwopping back beside his buddy. "Get to safety!" she told them.
Mack, who was still trapped by the lizards, saw two other lizards grab something from the truck.
"Stop!" he yelled, breaking free from the lava lizard's grip. Moltor swung his sword and knocked Ronny, Dax, Rose and Will down. He then aimed a blast at Mack and hit his target.
"Nice try, Rangers!" Moltor laughed as his lizards handed him the instrument they retrieved from the truck. "Lizards, you know what to do with the machine!"
----Operation-Overdrive-----
"That was brutal!" Dax frowned, rubbing his shoulder as he and the others returned to the base.
"I feel like all four of my tires are blown out!" Ronny sighed, sitting next to Rose on the step leading to the sliding poles.
"You okay, Mack?" Rose asked, noticing Mack looking upset.
"No, I'm not okay; I blew it!" He yelled. "If it wasn't for Kaylee..."
"Don't be so hard on yourself," Will said.
"That's why there's five of us!" Kaylee smiled. "You don't want to know how many times that's happened before!"
"But what did Moltor want with the guy?" Dax asked, hoping to change the subject. Though Mack was still paying attention, his mind was also elsewhere. He was the red Ranger, he was supposed to be the strong one... he was supposed to be the one saving the civilians... not putting them in danger!
"He didn't want the guy," Rose corrected him. "He wanted a subatomic energy generator."
"That's exactly right, Rose," Hartford smiled. "But why?"
The elevator doors opened, causing Kaylee to shudder as she saw inside the small room. Spencer came out and was soaking wet, from head to toe as he stood there in his overalls holding some vegetables in his hands.
"Sir, this weather is relentless! First, the sun cooked my daisies. And then, this sudden downpour washed away my favourite melons! Something is terribly wrong!"
A look of concern crossed Andrew's face before the mentor went back to working on his computer. He hit a control, making a television broadcast pop up on the screen.
"Stifling heat and massive rainfall seemingly out of nowhere have washed out roads and knocked out power around the globe. The National Guard has been called in to regulate the chaos."
"Whatever he's doing, it's connected to this inclement weather. I'm putting the jewel quest on hold!" Andrew said, putting away his files for the jewel.
"What?" Will asked, shocked.
"Hartford, if you're going to put the quest on hold because of strange weather, we aren't going to find it until global warming ends!" Kaylee frowned.
Andrew shook his head, and then turned to his son. "I have a new Zord to help you battle. It's got your name on it, Mack!"
Mack shook his head. "No. Maybe you should give it to someone else."
"Look, I know you have some trouble out there, but its times like these that define a hero!" Andrew smiled.
Mack saw all heads turn to him anxiously. He couldn't disagree with his team and his father, so he gave a nod.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"COME ON!" Mack yelled, sitting inside the new Zord. He finally gave up and sighed. "It's too powerful!"
Hartford, who was watching from the base, had a look of concern as a jolt of electricity shocked Mack. The Zord's engine stopped and Mack slumped out of the vehicles.
"I can't do it!" he yelled, coming back inside the base.
"So you'll try again," Andrew persisted.
"Maybe you were right when we started this!" Mack sighed. "I shouldn't be a Ranger! I failed! That driver almost got hurt because of me! It was too close!"
"Now is not the time for second-guessing, Mack!" Hartford yelled softly.
"You're the one who didn't want me to do this in the first place!"
"But you wanted it, and you got it! The world needs you! Ranger UP!"
The alarm blared through the room, sending Mack off to fight.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Mack, Dax and Will somersaulted into action against three lava lizards. Dax blocked a sword strike and Rose came in to kick the lizards away. The lizards came back for more. Rose grabbed its arm while Dax kicked it.
Suddenly, more lizards showed up. Rose ducked under a sword and leg-swept while Dax did a flying spin kick. Together, they rolled and knocked two lizards down.
Thanks to Will, Ronny was thrown over his shoulder into her attack, kicking a sword out of a lizard's hand. Then, she stood in position as Kaylee pushed herself off her shoulders to do another air attack. While she took out one lizards, Will and Ronny teamed up to grab a lizard as it charged between them. They kicked two more away before throwing their captive lizard into a spinning fall.
Mack was alone as he kicked and punched three lizards, then he hit one with a spin kick, drove an elbow into a second, then kicked it down.
"What are you doing to the weather?" he asked. Surprisingly, the lizards answered him.
"I'll never tell you!"
There was a loud crash of thunder and the Rangers all took cover on the ground as light blue lightning struck down and blew up the lava lizards.
"What was that?" Mack asked, before seeing a black and blue streak jump into the trees and hide.
Before anyone could answer, not that they knew what it was anyways, there was a strong gust of wind that knocked all the Rangers back down, and the mysterious figure was knocked out of the tree.
"The weatherman said 'sunny and warm'! What does he know?" Dax laughed.
Kaylee turned to the blue Ranger and frowned. Between Tori and Dax, the blue Rangers maturity had really gone down.
"Funny, Dax," she frowned.
Moltor appeared with his group of lava lizards, one of which was holding the weather machine.
"My weather machine has made me powerful!" Moltor laughed.
"And a little nuts..." Will smirked.
"After I destroy you, my brother will respect me! Do you have any last words before I push this machine to its limits and destroy the living world?" Moltor asked.
"Are you alive?" Kaylee asked. She received confused looks from her friends and the red villain. "What? If he's alive, and he destroys the living world, he's going to kill himself too!"
"You can't do that!" Ronny yelled.
"You'll drown the entire planet!" Rose added.
"That's right, pink Ranger!" Moltor smiled. "Engage the machine!"
"Come on, Rangers!" Mack ordered.
The six Rangers attacked Moltor, but he easily defeats them all. The lava lizards turned on the machine, but something started going wrong.
"This doesn't look good!" Will commented, pointing to the sky, which had gone dark as the rain started to pour.
"It can't be!" Moltor yelled.
Suddenly, the rain froze into snow. The temperature had dropped drastically as a blizzard overcame the city.
"The machine's doing it on it's own!" Dax yelled.
"What have you done?" Mack asked as Moltor ran to fix his machine. "You've lost control of your own evil device."
"I... I don't know what to do!" Moltor yelled before fleeing the scene. Kaylee called Spencer to send the Zords, and heard Hartford mumble something about getting her own damn Zord on the other end.
Though the Zords were big and destructive, the snow was worst. The ground shook as the Zords rolled around, causing...
"It's an avalanche!" Ronny yelled before her Zord, along with Will's, Dax's, Rose's and Kaylee's new one, was buried under all the snow.
"Eject!" Mack yelled, but he was the only one to do so.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Back in the base, Hartford and Spencer watched as the Zords were thrown over a cliff, with the Rangers still inside.
"Will! Dax! Ronny! Rose!" Hartford yelled, desperately pushing buttons to help the Rangers.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Guys?" Mack called, looking around in the storm for his friends. Just as he got to his feet, Moltor jumped him.
Uninjured, Moltor had the upper hand, until another blue bolt of lightning hit down and struck him. As a figure in black approached the red Ranger, he fled.
"Who are you?" Mack asked, seeing what looked to be a ninja. He could already tell it was a woman by her physique. She wore a black leather suit, trimmed with blue. The skirt was also a giveaway that she was a girl. The ninja also wore a mask, like Mack would have expected.
"Not now, let's get out of here!" the ninja said, pulling on Mack's arm.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"What happened?" Rose asked, holding the side of her head as she came too, unmorphed, and in her Zord.
"It's the curse of St. Lucia!" Dax frowned.
"Um, I don't think it makes house calls," Kaylee giggled, reminding Dax that they were still home.
"Oh well, at least we survived," Ronny smiled.
"Let's get out of here," Will suggested. He tried to get his Zord moving, but the wheels spun around, without any grip to the ground.
"It's not working!" Kaylee yelled.
"Looks like the beach is going to have to wait!" Dax sighed after trying to get his Zord moving.
"Oh, man! We're stuck!" Will groaned, slamming his fists on the dashboard of his Zord.
"Don't say stuck..." Kaylee said uneasily. "Please don't say stuck... or trapped... or locked in..."
"Kayl... you going to be okay?" Ronny asked, remembering Kaylee's claustrophobia. Her fear had gotten worst after their adventure in Atlantis. Kaylee had freaked out when she got locked inside the bathroom, for only five minutes. The Green Ranger had also freaked out when all the Rangers were crowded in the training room. Though the room was huge, the Rangers had all piled together, and Kaylee had somehow ended up in the middle.
"I'll... uh... be fine... as long as I remember to b-breath..."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Anything on the emergency channel?" Hartford asked the butler as they searched everything they had on the computer for the Rangers.
"Nothing, sir, just static," Spencer informed the man.
"Keep trying. I'm searching the infrared satellites!"
The elevator doors opened, and Mack walked in with the ninja.
"Who...?"
"I told you not to send me out there!" Mack yelled, getting right up in his father's face. "Look what happened! I lost the team!"
"It's not over yet!" Andrew said, trying to ignore the presence of the ninja in his house. "The Drill Driver can drill them out!"
"I can't drive that thing!" Mack frowned, remembering his last time in the Zord. "I'm not cut out for being a hero! You do it, I quit!"
Mack pulled off his tracker from his shoulder and handed it to his father.
"Don't mind him, sir," Spencer said, putting a comforting hand on the father's shoulder. "We'll find Kaylee."
"Spencer, the others are down there as well!" Andrew yelled.
"I know, sir, we'll help them too."
"We have to help them! We have to get them out!" Andrew said.
"Sir, I think you're forgetting about Kaylee," Spencer stated, out of the blue.
"I haven't forgotten her..." Andrew said. In his head, he was trying to remember a time he included her, so he could prove his butler wrong, but nothing came up.
"Did you know she has claustrophobia?" Spencer asked.
"I... no..."
"She tried to tell you, but you sent her to Atlantis," Spencer said. "Why don't you pay more attention to your team, and not just the new Rangers?"
"Kaylee's done this before... she doesn't need as much help as the others...."
"Sir, she's never gone on a quest to find five jewels. This is new to her," Spencer reminded his boss.
"I didn't think about that," Andrew sighed.
The ninja was ignoring the two men a she started typing away on the computer. "We've got to get her out of there before she has another panic attack.
"Who are you?" Hartford asked. He wanted to pull the ninja away, but he was afraid he would receive an ass kicking, seeing as he wasn't the best of fighters.
The ninja pulled off her mask, revealing her face. Both men noticed that she shared traits with Kaylee, like her blonde hair and blue eyes. But there was more than just appearance that matched Kaylee. There was the way she was biting her lip, like Kaylee would do when she was nervous.
"It's too damn hot in here anyways," she said. "I think I got them... but only on video... no audio communication."
On the monitor, Dax was talking to his bag of lucky marbles, Rose was reading a book, Ronny was shuffling cards and Will was bopping and playing air drums as earphones hung from his ears.
Kaylee however wasn't so calm. She was rocking back and forth in her seat as she clutched the wheel. Her knuckles were white, showing the others she was stressing out, but she didn't seem as scared as she should have been.
"They're not scared... Wh- why aren't they scared?" Mack asked.
"Because, they know that you're going to save them," Spencer smiled. "They believe in you. So do we."
"Give me back my tracker," Mack smiled. "I got a hole to dig."
"Wait up," the ninja said, grabbing Ducky as she caught up with Mack. Hartford was about to say something to her, about Kaylee's protectiveness of the duck, but Spencer shook his head. "Kaylee's going to need this when you free her."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Are we going to get this jewel or what?" Mack grinned as he walked into the game room with his friends' bags on his shoulder.
"Yeah, like my father always said!" Dax smiled. "It's not whether you fall down-"
Dax fell off the back of the couch, then popped back up. "It's whether you get back up!"
Kaylee hopped into the room, with Ducky on her head. She sat down on the Orange couch, next to Ronny.
"Why did you freak in the Zord?" Will asked. "I thought claustrophobia was just small spaces?"
"Claustrophobia has two symptoms, the fear of restriction and the fear of suffocation. Claustrophobic do fear small spaces, but they mostly fear what could happen to them should they be confined in those areas. A claustrophobic may have a panic attack in an elevator, tunnels, cellars, locked rooms-"
"Bathrooms," Ronny laughed.
Kaylee glared at her friend before continuing. "Locked rooms, subway trains, caves and crowded areas. Some claustrophobics also fear being confined to one space. Inside the Zord, not only was I in a locked room, but I was trapped under a cave of snow and confined to one space."
"Which is why I brought Ducky," the ninja smiled.
Once the rangers saw a new face in their house, they prepared to attack. The ninja backed away slowly, looking to Kaylee for help, but the blonde smirked as she shrugged and leaned back in her seat, putting her arms behind her head.
"Kaylee..." the ninja said in a warning tone.
"Fine, you brought me Ducky, I guess I owe you."
Kaylee stood up and walked up to the ninja. She turned to her friends, standing protectively in front of the ninja and smiled.
"Aim here, it's her weak point," Kaylee giggled, pointing to Tori's right shoulder.
"KAYLEE!" the ninja yelled.
"Or don't.... you know..."
"KAYLEE ANN HANSON!"
"She's my sister..." Kaylee sighed, flopping back down on the couch. "She loves to ruin my fun."
"Thank you!" Tori smiled.
"So you're Tori!" Dax said, extending a hand and shaking Tori's.
"But I thought you told us she was a water ninja..." Rose said.
"Oh... yeah... that... umm... what?" Kaylee asked.
"I am," Tori laughed, slapping the back of her sister's head. "When the weather started changing, I sensed it and came here. I saw you guys in trouble, and recognised Kaylee, so I tried to help."
"You did help," Mack smiled, remembering how Tori saved him from Moltor. "Thanks."
"But how did you... you know..." Ronny asked. "How did you... buzz... if you're water?"
"Blake, my husband, is a thunder ninja. He kinda taught me how to use the power of thunder. I would have used my own powers, but have you ever tried using water in the rain?"
"Don't," Kaylee said. "The rain gets in the water and you fight for control against the weather and then you're the one who's wet."
"So, are you going to stay?" Dax asked.
Tori shook her head as she stole Ducky off Kaylee's head. "I was just in town to see what the weather was about. I'm heading home soon."
"Come back anytime," Mack smiled.
Kaylee jumped up from her seat and tried to snatch Ducky back, but Tori held Ducky high in the air. Kaylee growled as she chased the other blonde out of the room.