Author's Note: part 4/8

Good news, Faith is finally writing Mystic Force again! Don't know how long it'll take for her to be done, but at least this is a step forward for those of you going "DAMMIT UPDATE! I want to read/understand what's going on in this teamup!". I'm waiting for it just as you all are though, so I know how you feel.

Btw guys, if you feel like reading another Kaylee oneshot, my boyfriend's got loads of them waiting for you, but he needs reviews to know how he's doing with characterization and stuff. Feel free to check out his stuff and review. I think they're pretty awesome.

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"Muhaha!" Bridge smirked, finding Mack sitting by the lake, just outside the Hartford mansion. He figured the red Overdrive Ranger wouldn't go too far from his house, and decided that was the first place to look. Luckily he didn't have to look too far.

When Mack heard Bridge's laugh, he jumped up slightly, turning around and glaring at the man who replaced him.

"What do you want?" he asked, turning back to the water.

"Talk," Bridge smiled.

"Well, I don't," Mack said. Bridge just shook his head as he sat next to Mack.

"Well, Tori and Kaylee talked, and their back to being friends. So why don't you and I try it?" Bridge asked. "You know, talking always helps people let out there feelings. This one time, I had a fish, but, you see, it died. So after I flushed it, I didn't want to talk to anyone. I was so sad..."

"Bridge," Mack sighed. "Please don't ramble."

"Well, that's kinda hard to do... or not do," Bridge frowned. "You see, if you don't talk, then I have to carry this conversation. And if I have to carry it, then I have to do all the talking. So really, the only way to get me to stop talking is for you to talk. So in this case, my rambling is the perfect way to get you to talk. I can totally use this to my advantage. All I have to do is jump from subject to subject until you crack!"

"Alright, fine, we can talk," Mack groaned. "You replaced us. There three words."

"Wow... you said three words, I've said..."

Bridge tried to remember everything he just said, using his fingers to count his words. But once he reached ten, he realised he ran out of fingers and let out a sigh.

"Damn, this'll be hard," he said. "Okay, so 'being' was number ten... All I have to do is remember that..."

"Bridge, seriously, leave me alone," Mack snapped. "No matter what you say, you can't change my mind. I don't have my Ranger powers anymore! I can't be a hero, even if I wanted to."

"Whoa, who said you weren't a hero?" Bridge frowned.

"I don't have my Ranger powers anymore."

"So? Do you need those powers to be a hero? Last I remember a hero was an ordinary person, who did extraordinary things. With or without the spandex," Bridge smiled. "Look, Mack, I know you love adventure. You can't give up on this. It's your dream!"

Mack looked away, realising Bridge was right. For as long as he could remember, he had always wanted to go on an adventure; and Operation Overdrive had given him that chance. It was all he ever really wanted. Being on the team allowed him to go all around the world, in places his father could only imagine exploring. Being a Ranger wasn't what he had actually wanted; it was the adventure.

"Not knowing where you're going next," Bridge smiled, knowing he was getting through. "Never knowing if you're going to make it home. Wondering what the bad guys are going to do to stop you."

"Bridge," Mack laughed. "You can shut up now. You got me. I'll come home."

Bridge smiled, bumping fists with Mack as the two stood up and walked home. But the Red SPD Ranger had to thank Kaylee for him getting through to Mack. That girl really knew her team.

-----Operation-Overdrive-----

Will stepped down the stairs of the museum, holding his pay check in his hands. Now that he was no longer a Ranger, he could focus on his career... but even pretending to sneak into a museum to steal a precious artefact, couldn't match the adrenaline of sneaking into a villain's lair to steal back a jewel and save the world from utter destruction.

"Does it pay better than the billionaire?" Adam asked, approaching Will and putting a hand on his shoulder. The Overdrive Ranger jumped as he spun around, grabbing Adam's arm. "Whoa... glad to see you haven't lost your touch."

"What are you doing here?" Will frowned, throwing Adam's arm away and turning.

"I came to talk."

"I'm not big on the whole 'talking' thing."

"How about listening?"

"Not big on that either," Will snapped.

"Alright, fine, be a sucky baby," Adam called as Will walked away. "Maybe you weren't meant to be a Ranger. After all, I've never once seen a Ranger throw in the towel, just because someone else was sitting in the limelight. It's pretty pathetic."

"Who are you calling pathetic?" Will asked, turning back to Adam, getting in his face. "Pathetic is standing right in front of me. How many late-twenty year olds actually want to run around in tight spandex?"

Adam breathed deeply while Will sat on the steps, putting his head in his hands.

"Two," Adam spoke, breaking the small silence. "I've seen two. Me and Tommy."

"Yeah, the reject Rangers."

"We're not rejects," Adam forced a laugh, thinking it would cheer up the mood. "We're retro."

"Well, whatever kind you are, you don't need our help."

"Says who?" Adam asked.

"Says the giant Lego man who dismissed us!"

"His pieces aren't all there," Adam laughed, though this time it wasn't as forced. "We still need you guys... actually, right now, I really need you."

"Me?" Will asked, pointing to himself, making sure he understood right.

"No, the Black Ranger behind you," Adam smiled. Will turned around, looking over his shoulder, while Adam laughed. "We want to fix the morphing grid..."

"Good luck with that," Will muttered.

"But I need to find something first," Adam continued. "It's hiding in a warehouse, and I'm sure it's guarded by... something. We need some advice about sneaking in and out of places."

"What's the catch?" Will frowned.

"You return to Operation Overdrive," Adam smiled. "I know it's a shit deal for you, you give me help and you have to go through with my demand, but it's for your own good."

"So, I tell you, Adam Park, the one of the Great Reject Rangers, how to sneak past security to steal something of high importance, and all I have to do is go back to work as a highly paid superhero?" Will asked.

"Or it's a great deal for you and makes me look incompetent," Adam frowned.

"You know what, I'll do it," Will grinned, shaking Adam's hand. "Just as long as you tell the others you needed help from the newbie Black Ranger."

"I have a horrible feeling I'm going to regret this," Adam sighed.

-----Operation-Overdrive-----

"Stuck, mate?" Xander asked, leaning on the green screen behind the blue Ranger, who was still hanging on the trick wires, while everyone else on set was gone for lunch.

"Xander?" Dax frowned, looking around and spotting his Australian buddy, laughing at him.

"Who else?" Xander smirked.

"What are you doing here?" Dax tugged on his wires and kicked his feet, only causing himself to flip around a few times and get tangled.

"Kaylee told me to find you," Xander laughed. He found the controls for Dax and lowered him to the ground, before unclipping him.

"Thanks," Dax nodded. "But if you think I'm coming back easily, then you're wrong."

"Even if I show you the secrets to plan Xander?" Xander grinned.

"That failure of a plan?" Dax frowned. "No way; I want the girls to come to me, not run away."

"Alright, what can I do to get you to come back?" Xander frowned.

"Teach me to talk Australian," Dax smiled.

"Teach ya to... what?" Xander asked, confused to no end. "I'm speaking English, mate... Australian's not a language!"

"No... no... I want the accent!" Dax explained. "You see, if I can master a different accent, I might get more roles in movies!

"Whatever you say, my blue friend," Xander laughed. "But you promise you'll come back if I teach ya?"

"Can I use the accent?"

"Um... sure, mate," Xander laughed, slapping a hand on Dax's shoulder.

"Sweet!"

Dax jumped happily, thinking his new accent was going to help him further his career. He decided to begin, by showing Xander.

"Oh, oh, I know some already! Listen... listen! Wait for it! G'day mate! And... and...I've got to use the dunny... what does that mean, anyway?" Dax frowned.

"Oh, you've got much to learn, mate," Xander laughed.

-----Operation-Overdrive-----

"And I thought I lived out in the middle of nowhere," Tommy grumbled, stepping over yet another tree root. He had been wandering this forest for nearly an hour trying to locate the mercurian, and he was seriously thinking of calling it quits.

"Oh, I don't live here," Tyzonn's voice came from behind the White Ranger. Tommy turned and saw Tyzonn standing there.

"Oh, hey," he smiled, letting his feet rest by sitting on the root sticking out. "I didn't see you."

"Yeah, sure," Tyzonn snapped, sitting across from him.

"Why did you come all the way out here?" Tommy frowned. "I mean... it's nice and all, but the bugs are getting on my nerves."

"It's better than being where I'm not wanted," Tyzonn said, swatting away a fly, but never hurting it.

"You've got it all wrong, Ty," Tommy smiled, looking over to his friend. "You are wanted... and needed... but not right now... not in a bad way."

"Make it sound not bad," Tyzonn challenged.

"We're only here until you get your powers back," Tommy assured the alien. "When that happens, all of us, we'll gladly pack up and go home!"

"Yahuh," Tyzonn nodded, rolling his eyes.

"Who pissed in your cheerios?" Tommy laughed.

"Karly, but what does that have to do with anything?" Tyzonn asked.

Tommy stared at the alien for a while, before shaking it off, "Look... being a Ranger, it's a full time job... with or without the suits."

"Then why are you here, if we can still handle it?"

"Think of us, as the punching bags for the villains... until you get your suits back," Tommy smiled. "Really... all the suits do is protect you from death, or wedgie you... being a Ranger... that's in the heart... like being a rescuer."

Tyzonn's head snapped up as Tommy caught his attention.

"Whether you're on the clock or not, if someone's in trouble, you would help them, right?"

"It's an oath all mercurian rescuers have to take," Tyzonn nodded.

"Well little silver buddy, you're off the clock," Tommy said. "But are you really going to sit by and watch as Thrax tries to destroy this planet, and all the people on it?"

"No wonder you're a legend," Tyzonn smiled, standing up, and offering a hand to Dr. O. "Thanks, Tommy."

"No problem."

-----Operation-Overdrive-----

Kelly walked into a university class and smiled as she watched Rose finish her lesson. After only one a month or so back in England the girl was already a professor. Her parents must have been proud.

When the class was done, all the students gathered their things and walked out, passing right by the red head. Kelly walked down to the front of the class, carefully walking over to Rose.

"Hey there, Doc," she smiled. "Whatcha doing?"

Rose frowned at the older girl, whipping off the marker from the white board.

"What does it look like?" she asked.

"It looks like your trying to cover up your pain by running away to England," Kelly said. "Wanna talk about it?"

"With you? Fat chance."

"Ouch," Kelly frowned as Rose stepped away. Kelly ran after her, catching her arm and spinning her around. "What's wrong?"

"I don't wanna talk about it."

"See, you don't have a choice in the matter," Kelly stated. "I call the shots, and I say you talk."

"I don't wanna..."

"I don't wanna not," Kelly interrupted. "And my not don't wanna-ing out rules your don't wanna-ing cause I'm senior and that's how this game goes."

Rose shook her head, looking up at the taller girl, "What?"

"I've spend too much time with Kaylee," Kelly laughed. "But I have a point..."

Kelly paused, rethinking her sentence, "I think..."

"Kelly, what are you talking about?"

"I don't know anymore," Kelly admitted. "I lost myself."

"You were talking about getting me to talk," Rose sighed, helping the pink Ranger out.

"Oh, right," Kelly smirked. "Okay, talk."

"I was, and now I'm done."

"No you're not," Kelly pushed Rose down into a seat and sat beside her. "This Ranger replacing thing, it's eating you up."

"For once, I felt important... and now, in the blink of an eye, it's gone."

"It's not gone," Kelly smiled. "And you're still important."

"How?" Rose asked. "How am I still important?"

"You majored in robotics, right?" Kelly smirked.

Rose nodded, "Yeah."

"Well, Kaylee was telling me about some Alpha thing... I think it's an old Might Morphin' robot... but we need some help getting it started."

"Push the start button," Rose frowned. "Can I go?"

As Rose jumped out of her seat, Kelly grabbed her arm and pulled her down.

"No," she stated flatly. "If it were that easy, I wouldn't have flown all the way to England to come get you. I don't think the great and powerful magic head in a jar would have made it that simple to reboot a tin can."

"What?" Rose frowned.

"I don't know, it's on the cue cards Kaylee gave me," Kelly pulled out small pieces of paper to show Rose. The Overdrive Ranger took them and read them over.

Kelly took a deep breath, taking one of Rose's hands in hers.

"Look, we need you to come back... the team wouldn't work without you. You're the brains behind everything! We need you to find the jewels and save the world!"

"It's called a map," Rose frowned.

"I don't give a damn about the friggin' maps!" Kelly raised her voice slightly. "I want Operation Overdrive back! Sure, your brains put you on the team, but your friendships... it's keeping you there... or at least, it was."

"Explain..." Rose persisted the red head.

"I'm pretty sure someone as smart as you didn't have the chance to make many friends growing up."

"Maybe..."

"And now you have six new ones! And those six have you. Rosie, you bring something special to the team, that no one else can! Sure no one can uncover a clue faster than you, but you're level-headed, well educated, fun, resourceful, and you have a huge heart... I don't think I can fill those shoes, even if I tried."

"Go on," Rose smiled.

"Rosie... I never wanted to replace you... we Rangers... we're here to protect you! Thrax is pure evil! He would kill you in seconds without your suits! I don't want that to happen! So, while we take the beating, you figure out how to activate the tin can so you can gear up!"

Rose smiled, hugging her friend.

"Alright," she said. "I'll do it."

"YAY!" Kelly smiled. "If the others are successful! I might be on one of the most kick ass team ups in Ranger history!"

-----Operation-Overdrive-----

"Forgetting these?" Kira asked, dangling Ronny's car keys from her finger, while the yellow driver searched everywhere around her car. When she heard Kira's voice, she stood up straight, turning around slowly.

"Give it back," she growled.

"Whoa... temper," Kira backed away, grabbing the keys in her hand. "Kaylee was right, you are the hard one."

"Kira, you're my sister's sister... I don't want to have to kill you for holding my car hostage."

"If I'm your sister's sister, wouldn't I be your sister?" Kira asked, backing into the wall of the garage.

"Um, no."

"Care to explain, I was never too good at the family tree thing."

Ronny reached for the keys in Kira's hand, but the Dino Ranger dropped them, kicking them under the car before Ronny could snatch them away.

"HA!" Kira grinned, but regretted it when Ronny glared at her. "Or not... no ha... oops? That's better, right? Oops?"

"Oh, it better be an oops," Ronny growled, getting on her knees to reach under the car. "If I can't reach these, I'm gonna use your head to smash the window."

"Okay, I know that's an 'ow' for sure!" Kira said.

"Will you leave?" Ronny asked.

"No. I came to talk."

"How about we talk about which side of your head I should use when I smash the window of my car?" Ronny said, getting up and wiping her hands off. "Cause I can't reach the keys."

"Okay... how about we don't bash my skull open, and you join Operation Overdrive again?"

"No... I bash your skull, get my car back, then I think about joining for... five seconds, then say no."

"Will you drive me to the hospital at least?"

"Probably not."

"I need a lawyer for this one," Kira mumbled. "She's more hard headed than Kaylee when she wants to pair up two Rangers.

"I heard that," Ronny frowned.

"I really need to learn how to whisper," Kira laughed to herself.

"So, have you decided?"

"Decided what?"

"Which side? Right or left? I would go with left, seeing as you're left-handed," Ronny explained, raising her left hand slightly.

"You're not seriously going to bash my head into the window, are you?"

"Well, not until you tell me what side to use."

"Then I won't choose."

"I'll choose for you," Ronny grabbed Kira's left shoulder and pulled her forward. Kira squirmed out, letting a squeak escape from her mouth as he ran to the other side of the car.

"Okay... why is it Kaylee sets me up with the psychopath?" Kira mumbled. "She totally owes me a cookie."

"Kira," Ronny called, holding a very dangerous looking tool in her hand. "Go away."

"Um... y- you- you know... m- m- maybe I will," Kira stammered, slowly making her way to the door of the garage. Ronny found it strange that Kira was running away in fear, until she looked down at the tool.

"I'm not going to hit you with it," Ronny assured her. "I need you intact for when I bash your skull!"

"Thanks... I feel much better,' Kira replied sarcastically.

"That makes two of us."

"You know... I'm sure that if you bashed Moltor's head, you could unlock your car, and you would have maybe killed one of the people trying to take over the world. It's a two for one combo... or a one for two... wait that's the same thing."

Ronny shook her head, "No, it's not."

"True... but either way, you become a Ranger again, and I keep my left head."

"I can't be a Ranger," Ronny sighed, sitting on the hood of her car. "I don't have powers! How can I take out Thrax like this?"

"Are you serious?"

"Note serious face," Ronny pointed to her face, which was, in fact, serious.

"Heh, Conner move," Kira giggled.

"What?"

"Never mind," Kira laughed. "Look, you're important to the team! You can kick ass, even when you're not trying. Hell, you had me against the wall, and that's hard to do."

"It was fun."

"And... how else is Overdrive going to travel the world? They need a driver!"

"Dr. O's a driver..."

"Are you gonna let him pilot your SHARC? The fastest vehicle known to man. The one with butt warmers."

"CLAIMED!" Ronny yelled. "No one pilots the SHARC but me. I'm totally coming back."

"I thought that would get you," Kira laughed, hugging her friend.