A/N: Thanks for teh review guys. They really mean a lot (and they help motivate Faith to write). As for Tori's appearance, I'm glad it was a big hit. You can expect more rangers from Kaylee's past to show up. Mostly Tori and Kira seeing as they're close with Kaylee, but I might, I repeat, might have others pop in.
For now, enjoy the chapter. Read and Review!
"St. Lucia," Rose smiled, holding her tracker up as she and the other Rangers walked down along the island's beach. Well, most of the Rangers were walking.
"Kawabunga!" Kaylee called from the waters as she stood on her surfboard. She had also manipulated the water currants to push her along the beach as she rode the waves.
"I've read a lot about this island," Rose continued, laughing at her friend.
"Hey, Mack," Ronny called excitedly. "Get out that map! It'd be nice to have some idea of what we're looking for!"
"I hope it leads to something good," Mack smiled, pulling the map out from his short-sleeved uniform.
"Guys!" Dax smiled, bouncing up and down. "It's so obvious! We got a crusty old map to a remote island in the Caribbean! We must be looking for..."
"Pirate treasure!" Mack finished, his eyes now as wide as Dax's.
Everyone, who was on the beach, cheered, but Rose was the only one not to join in, rolling her eyes instead.
"Yeah, right, all the relics from that era have been discovered long ago," she said, bringing the mood down.
"How do you know? Maybe we haven't discovered the rest," Ronny pointed out, patting her younger friend on the head.
"After all, some of those pirates were really clever!" Mack added.
"Not clever enough to bathe, from what I read," Rose frowned. "Don't get your hopes up. We could be going to a big, fat, dead end!"
"Hey, when did we start talking about my sister?" Kaylee asked, running up the beach with her board.
"Kaylee! We're going to find buried treasure!" Dax exclaimed, still hoping like a little child.
"OH!" Kaylee smiled, hoping as well. "I want treasure! Where is it? Are we going to it? How about now? Now? Please make it now!"
"Kaylee!" Rose called, trying to get the Green Ranger's attention. "There is no buried treasure!"
"I can't hear you, party pooper!" Kaylee smiled, bouncing down the beach. "I have gold in my ears!"
Rose rolled her eyes, watching as her friend hopped around excitedly. Suddenly, she saw the blonde's foot got stuck in a root coming up from the ground, and Kaylee fell, face first, into the sand.
BEEP!
"Hey, I think you found something!" Will smiled, running up beside Kaylee and scanning the area with his Tracker.
"That's nice... but I think I lost my eyesight," Kaylee whined, trying to rub the sand from her eyes.
After brushing off the sand from the artefact, Will figured out what Kaylee had found. "It's an old canon!" He brushed off some more sand. "Black Scabbard?"
"Blue Turkey!" Kaylee frowned, still rubbing her eyes.
"Not you... the name on the cannon!" Will laughed.
"Oh."
"I was right!" Mack smiled. "This is a pirate ship! I read about this in Brownbeard the Pirate's High-Sea Adventures! YAR!"
"Will you guys stop with the reading and the books?" Kaylee laughed. "Rose says she read this. Mack says he read that. Neither one works with the other. Make up your damn minds!"
"I know a lot about Brownbeard too," Rose frowned. "But I re- got them in a history book. Like most pirates, he was an outlaw, and he spent his life stealing and looting. He was nothing but a crook."
"Yeah, but he was a jolly crook!" Dax smiled.
"Brownbeard's ultimate goal was to find the legendary Eye of the Sea jewel, but he died long before he did. Some say that his ghost still searches for it till this very day!" Mack said.
"Well, if Brownbeard wanted that jewel so much, then it's got to have a lot of power," Ronny smiled. "Who wants to bet that the Eye of the Sea is the first jewel of the Corona?"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"...Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me!" Kaylee and Dax sang, though Kaylee's voice wasn't hurting the other's ears, unlike Dax.
"EEEE!" Dax finished, extending the last note and raising his voice higher than it could go. Kaylee quickly slammed her hand over his mouth.
"I like Kira as my singing partner better. Sorry, but we're breaking up," she teased.
"Kira? Kira Ford?" Ronny asked. Kaylee nodded, and the Yellow Ranger smiled. "My sister's a big fan of hers. She dances to her music all the time!"
"What about me?" Kaylee asked. "We're Kira and Kaylee!"
"I'm sure she likes you too," Ronny laughed.
The Rangers finally stopped when they reached a ravine. The only way across was an old, rope and wood bridge.
"Looks like we have to cross," Will frowned, reading the map.
"No sweat!" Dax smiled, stepping onto the bridge to test it out. "I've done this thing a ton of times. It's actually kinda fun!"
The blue Ranger stepped off the bridge and looked at his team, "Who's going first?"
"Umm..."
The Rangers all exchanged worried looks as they looked down at the bottom of the ravine. It was a long fall if the ropes broke.
"I guess I should go first," Kaylee frowned. She was leader after all. And she shouldn't ask people to do something she wasn't going to do herself. Unlike Mr. Hartford, she would get her own lemonade every once in a while, and occasionally brought Spencer some as well.
She stepped onto the bridge, followed by Mack, then Will, then Ronny, then Dax, and finally, Rose.
"See, pretty easy!" Dax encouraged.
"This is really high!" Ronny frowned, looking down again. Suddenly, the ropes on the first end of the bridge broke. The bridge swung down and crashed into the other end, with only one side holding the Rangers up. The six of them were holding onto the wooden planks, for their lives.
"It's actually kinda fun!" Will yelled, looking down at Dax, who was no longer behind him, but under his feet.
"Everybody hold on!" Kaylee called down.
"Do we have a choice?" Ronny frowned.
Kaylee shrugged, realising the girl was right. Slowly, the blonde tried using the blanks as a ladder to climb up, but the blank before her hand broken off when the bridge slammed into the rock wall of the ravine, and the next one was too high for the small girl to reach.
"I think I can Zwop us back up!" Kaylee called down, shutting her eyes. "It's Zwopping time!"
Nothing happened.
"I said, It's Zwopping time!"
Still nothing.
"Oh, come on!" Kaylee frowned. "Zwop! Zwop? Zwoom? Zwi-no."
"Kaylee, what's wrong?" Mack asked.
"I dunno! I can't Zwop!" the blonde sighed, looking down at her second in-command.
"Try a different catch phrase," Dax suggested.
"We don't have time for this!" Will frowned.
"Or... it's the curse of St. Lucia!" Dax said.
Mack groaned, pulling himself up so he was beside Kaylee on the bridge. He wrapped one arm around her, supporting her weight. Kaylee let go of the bridge and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Aww, it's like a love scene in a movie!" Dax cooed when he saw Kaylee hanging onto Mack for dear life. "Mack has to hold onto Kaylee or else she plummets to her death!"
"Death?" Kaylee shrieked, before burying her head in Mack's shoulder, making the "scene" even better for the movie geek.
"Will, grab my leg!" Mack told the black Ranger. "Everyone else, grab the man in front of you and hold on!"
Seeing as Mack was no longer right above Will, all the Rangers had to climb up slightly to be able to reach he man above. Mack shifted Kaylee around so she was hanging off his back. He then reached up for the next wooden plank. His hand barely reached it, but he was tall enough. Using his super strength, he pulled himself and his five friends up to solid ground.
"I hate being short," Kaylee frowned. She then realised she was still on Mack's back and laughed. "Except when I get piggy backs!"
Mack waited for Kaylee to get off, but she didn't. He didn't force her off though. Because of his strength, and her small size and weight, he barely felt the difference.
"It is weird though... that you couldn't tele-"
"Use it right, or don't use it at all!" Kaylee said, pointing to the Will.
"Zwop us to safety," Will finished. "Try zwopping now."
"I would, but one, I want the piggy back ride from Mack, and two, I can't," Kaylee smiled, swinging her legs.
"That's weird," Ronny frowned, running in circles. "I can't run fast... er"
"And I'm still visible," Rose said, looking at her hands. "And Dax can't jump."
Will looked at each of his friends, before trying to use his powers. "I can't do anything either."
"No fair! How come Mack still has his powers!" Kaylee whined, gently punching Mack on the back.
"Maybe it's got to do with the genetics?" Rose suggested.
"Or lack thereof," Will teased.
"We can ask Hartford and Spencer later," Kaylee said. "But now, onward to the treasure!"
"Hold on," Dax said, stopping the others. "There's something else... that bridge was secure when we started. Someone must have cut the ropes."
"Maybe there is a curse on the island," Ronny frowned.
Rose could only roll her eyes. Sure she and the others had no powers, and sure the bridge was secure when they started. But there were no such things as curses!
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
After searching the island, the Rangers found the entrance of a cave.
"Who wants to be the first one inside the creepy cave?" Ronny asked, seeing the uneasy, and panicked, looks, the latter coming from the green Ranger. "Hands?"
When no one volunteered, Rose sighed. "Come on..."
"Uh... I'll just stay here," Kaylee said, trying to get off Mack's back. But the Red Ranger but his arms underneath her and held her up. "Not so fast Kaylee, you should come too. We might need you."
"Call me via Tracker!" Kaylee suggested, shoving the tracker in Mack's face.
"Saving the world comes first, right boss," Mack said, forcing Kaylee to give in.
"Fine..."
Rose led the way inside the cave, followed by the others, and Kaylee, who was still on Mack's back, clutching his neck with her arms.
"Kayl... I... can't..."
"Oh... sorry," Kaylee smiled sheepishly, releasing her grip on Mack.
Dax looked around the cave as the rangers heard a ghostly voice. "Uh, I don't know about you guys, but, uh, my timbers are actually shivering!"
"Shivering."
"They say Brownbeard haunts this island trying to scare away anyone else looking for the Eye!" Mack explained.
"Remind me to take away your library card!" Rose sighed. How many times did she have to tell these... children? "I told you, there's no such things as ghosts!"
"Then, the hell is that?" Kaylee asked, pointing to a ghostly cloud behind Rose.
"Ahoy!" a man said as he appeared from the cloud. "Ye be lookin' at the most fearsome ghost of them all! 'Tis I, Brownbeard the pirate!"
"No... really... who are you?" Kaylee asked.
"I can't believe it!" Mack smiled, making Kaylee look down at him in disbelief. "I've read every story ever written about you! You're a legend!"
Brownbeard laughed. "You make an old sea dog blush! 'Tis a true pleasure to make your aquaintance!" Brownbeard bowed to the Rangers and smiled. "Now if you'd be so kind, get off me island!"
"What?" Dax frowned.
"Dude! We just got here!" Kaylee frowned, getting off Mack's back. "We're not leaving until we get what we came for?"
"And what is it ye be here for?" Brownbeard asked.
"The Eye of the sea!" Dax exclaimed, but quickly received an elbow in the stomach from Ronny.
"So ye be lookin' for the Eye! Well you'll never get it! It's going to be mine, you hear! All mine!" Brownbeard cried angrily as he grabbed Dax by the collar. Dax nodded his head fearfully as he looked up at the pirate.
"Listen, we need that jewel for something very important, so just stay out of our way!" Rose explained, putting herself between Brownbeard and Dax.
"And who is this saucy young beauty?" Brownbeard smiled.
"The name's Rose and you're not fooling me with your phony pirate charm! I know you're nothing but a common thief!"
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," the pirate smiled as he took Rose's hand and kissed it. Kaylee could hear Mack scoff in disgust, and then she heard him laugh when Rose pulled her hand away.
"See what I mean! He even steals from Shakespeare!" Rose frowned.
"Well, I tell ye one thing, girlie. You will never find the Eye of the Sea!" Brownbeard smirked.
"Oh, yes we will! We've got a ouff... map..." Dax groaned as Ronny elbowed him again. "I'll just shut up."
"Good idea," Kaylee frowned.
"So ye do?" Brownbeard smiled. "What say we look for the Eye together? I bet me lucky pearl we can find it!"
"And I bet Ronny's lucky socks you'll steal it!" Kaylee frowned. "And even if we win, you can keep the socks!"
Ronny turned and glared at her leader.
"Actually," Will smiled. "Maybe it's not such a bad idea. He does know the island!"
"Yeah, he knew enough to cut those ropes on the footbridge!" Rose accused, pointing to a knife Brownbeard had hidden in his trench coat.
"What can I say," Brownbeard laughed nervously. "I'm a scoundrel. But I don't want to keep the jewel! I just want to hold it – in my hand – once, so that my own spirit finally rests."
"Bullshit!" Rose yelled, but her friends didn't seem to think so. "You guys can do what you want, but count me out!"
Rose stormed off from the cave, with Kaylee right behind her. But when they got to the entrance, Rose kept walking and Kaylee stopped. The Rangers followed the two, stopping with Kaylee.
"Well, we better get going," Ronny sighed, watching as Brownbeard ran past them. "Before he gets it and I lose my lucky socks!"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Rose was really mad, huh?" Dax asked as he ducked under a low tree branch.
"She'll cool down, but we better keep following the map," Will said.
"Follow this, Rangers!" Miratrix yelled just before the Rangers were attacked by a monster. The Rangers tried to stand, but the cannon monster fired again, knocking them back down to the ground.
"She is so into me!" Dax smiled, struggling to get back to his feet.
"Do you really want to become emo-Ken by association?" Kaylee asked.
"Give me the map!" Miratrix yelled, holding her out hand. Mack clutched the map protectively while jumping in front of the red ranger. She swung at Miratrix, but she ducked and dove for her. She pulled out her swords and slashed at Kaylee. Miratrix then jumped at Mack and grabbed the map. He tried to jump at her, but she blasted him away.
Miratrix looked at the map in her hands in triumph, before a pirate swung down from a vine and snatched it from her hands.
"Rose?" Mack asked when he noticed the pirate looked a hell of a lot like the pink Ranger.
"Rosie the bold, at your service!" Rose smiled.
"What happened to her?" Will laughed as Rose fought off Miratrix.
"You'll not be taking this map, you wicked wench!" Rose – or rather, Rosie – smiled.
"Think again, matey," Miratrix smirked, snapping her fingers and calling the cannon monster. "Get her!"
Rosie blocked several swings and punches before shoving the monster back. She tucked the map inside her shirt and held up her hand. A curved cutlass appeared in her open hand. She slashed at the Cannon monster several times. The monster tried to aim his cannon at her, she but blocked it and his shot hit the ground.
"Why you scurvy hunk of scrap iron! Back to the briny deep with you!" Rosie laughed. She pulled out her sword and lunged at the monster.
"Don't you think we should help her?" Ronny asked as she and the others watched in awe.
"I think we should help Cannon boy... but he's trying to kill us, so we're good," Kaylee laughed.
"This isn't over!" Miratrix called, cradling her ribs with her hands as she disappeared with her defeated monster.
"That was awesome!" Mack smiled. "But... what happened to you?"
"I don't know, but I feel as jolly as a jaybird! Now, let's go find us the Eye of the Sea!"
Rosie gave the map back to Mack and ran ahead.
"What has gotten into her?" Will asked, laughing.
"I dunno, first our genetic powers stop working, except Mack's, now Rose is acting like a pirate..." Kaylee thought aloud. "Too bad Brownbeard wasn't here to... wait a minute!"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Rosie stopped in her tracks and smiled, pointing to the ground. "I'll bet me lucky pearl it's here! I can feel it!"
"Or you read it on the map," Kaylee laughed, pulling out a shovel from her bag. The five Rangers started shovelling as Rosie watched eagerly. Suddenly, there was a loud clink!
"Aye! We found it!" Rosie exclaimed as she brushed away the dust from the trunk as the Rangers pulled it out. She opened the trunk and searched through all the treasures inside.
"I don't see it," Ronny frowned.
"There's more here than meets the eye!" Rosie smiled. She pulled out a wooden box and opened it. Inside was the Eye. "Thar she be... the Eye of the Sea. It's more beautiful than I ever imagined!"
"Okay Brownbeard, you said you just wanted to hold it once, and you've done it. Now we want the real Rose back," Kaylee frowned.
"Fair enough."
Brownbeard's ghostly figure emerged from Rose and materialized.
"Where am I? What happened?" Rose asked, looking down at herself in disgust. "I feel so... dirty!"
"Sorry," Brownbeard frowned, smelling himself before pulling his nose away in disgust. "I haven't bathed for a few hundred years."
"Can we have the – "
"Well, I'm off!" Brownbeard smiled, cutting Kaylee off as he tried to run past her. "And I'll be keeping the Eye for meself!"
"What happened to holding it, then letting your soul rest?" Ronny asked as Rose tried to snatch the jewel.
"Oh, that was a little - lie. I always meant to steal it from ye! Now I must be shovin' off!"
Before he could shove off, a massive explosion knocked them all down. Brownbeard dropped the Eye on the ground as Miratrix appeared from the smoke.
"Thanks for doing all the hard work for me, darlings. Especially after destroying my monster..." Miratrix laughed as she picked up the eyes. "It's all mine baby!"
"NO!" Dax yelled, trying to get up with the others, but it was too late. Before he made it to his feet, Miratrix was gone.
"I hope you're happy!" Rose yelled, walking up to Brownbeard, getting up in his face.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"I had it right in my hands..." Rose sighed while she and the others returned home. "Oh, that thieving, good-for-nothing, deceptive, smelly-"
"I don't think Brownbeard meant for Miratrix to get the jewel," Mack laughed, wrapping his arm around his pink friend.
"Maybe not, but it's because of him that she has it! No to mention, his spirit taking me over and turning me into a pirate! How humiliating!"
"You're kidding me? You were awesome as a pirate!" Mack laughed. "Arr, I'm Rosie the bold! Yarr! Yo-ho-ho!"
Rose looked up at the red Ranger, hurt. Mack caught the look and stopped his Rosie the Bold imitation. "But it's great to have the Rose we all know and love back."
The others laughed as they caught Mack's mistake. Rose realized it too and blushed as she turned away.
"Umm... I mean... the Rose we all like," Mack smiled, pulling his arm away from its spot on Rose's shoulders.
A loud beeping saved the Red Ranger.
"Spencer, who is it?" Kaylee asked, running beside the old butler.
"Miratrix!" Spencer said.
"I want it back!" A familiar voice yelled as Brownbeard appeared on the screen. "The Eye of the Sea is mine! I stole it fair and square!"
"Let me handle this one," Rose said, looking at each of her friends I have a score to settle with him.
"Okay, but we're stepping in if you need backup," Kaylee smiled.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"I can't believe he ran off... After I save his ass... he runs away with the Eye!" Rose cried as she flopped down on the couch. After she had arrived to fight Miratrix, she noticed Brownbeard was close to death (as close as a ghost could get). She had put aside her anger to save him, and midway through her fight with the evil ninja, he had disappeared.
"Don't beat yourself up about it," Kaylee smiled softly, sitting next to her friend. "At least he didn't turn out to be your sister's crush, who wants to use you to bring his parents back to life. Then after nearly killing you, and leaving town without a word, he comes back and makes moves on your sister. Then, two years later! He's married to your sister and she barely spends time with you anymore!"
"When did this stop being about me?" Rose laughed.
"When Blake got down on one knee," Kaylee smiled. "What I'm trying to say is, don't feel bad. We lost one jewel. There's still four more we can keep safe."
Rose nodded, looking at the Sword of Neptune on the table.
"Ahoy, me fine mateys!"
Six heads shot up when they heard the pirate. His ghostly figure appeared from thin air.
Spencer walked into the room, just in time to bump into the old smelly pirate. "Good heavens, a buccaneer. Shall I prepare a tankard of lemonade?"
"That won't be necessary, Spencer," Rose said, eyeing the pirate. "He's not welcome here!"
"I – uh – I may be a scoundrel, but I'm not a rat!" Brownbeard smiled. "I believe this is what you're looking for." Brownbeard holded up the Eye of the Sea and handed it to Rose, who looked surprised and touched. "I never meant to cause harm."
"I believe that. Thank you," Rose smiled, taking the Eye.
Will grabbed the Eye from Rose and tried to fit it into the empty socket on the Sword of Neptune. It didn't even come close to fitting.
"No..." Kaylee sighed, resting her head on Spencer's shoulder. "All that for nothing."
"Well, if that's not the jewel you're looking for, then…," Brownbeard smiled hopefully.
"Keep it," Rose sighed, giving the Eye to the pirate. "From one pirate, to another."
"Thank ye, missy. But I'll not be taking things unduly anymore. I offer ye something in exchange," Brownbeard put the Eye into a pocket and searched through his clothes under his beard. "Ah! Me lucky pearl. May it bring ye good fortune in all your journeys."
"It's got to be better than the socks," Kaylee smiled as Brownbeard gave his Pearl to Rose. Suddenly, her tracker beeps. She pulled it off her shoulder and flipped it open. Rose wasn't completely sure, but she tried putting the Pearl in the Sword.
"That's it!" Will smiled as the Sword started to glow. "The Pearl is the first jewel of the Corona!"
"Well, blow me down!" Brownbeard said, making the Rangers and Spencer laugh.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Rose and Brownbeard were on the beach back at St. Lucia. Brownbeard was kneeling and holding a mirror.
"Well, what do you think?" Rose asked.
"Most handsome indeed, but I'll need a new pirate name," Brownbeard chuckled, running his hand over his clean-shaven face.
"How about no-beard?"
"Most excellent!"
Rose looked around and saw the others were waiting by the SHARC. She leaned into Brownbeard, giving him a hug and whispering in his ear. "Don't tell the others, but I loved being a pirate."
"Bon voyage! Your secret's safe with me, Rosie the Bold!"