Author's Note: Second to last chapter for this season. I had an awesome run with you guys. I'm glad you've enjoyed this season so much. I'm a little said OO is ending, but at the same time that means that I can finally move on to another season, or rather, sub-season. Thanks for all your support and enjoy this chapter.
With Kamdor, Miratrix and the Fearcats, who had just recently been destroyed by Tyzonn, only Moltor and Flurious were left as competitions for the crown.
Kaylee had also still been feeling sick, on and off. She would occasionally run to the bathroom when Spencer brought in food, or even just in the middle of the night; but she still kept fighting. She had been in this business way too long to give up because of a little bug in her stomach.
She also refused to fight, because with two of the four teams of villains down, she knew it wasn't much longer before the final battle and her team was going to need all the help they could get.
"I found it!" Rose yelled, breaking Kaylee from her thoughts as the Rangers traveled through the skies, in the SHARC. "The tri-dragon key is set to reside in a mythical shrine in Japan. Legend states that when the three dragons roar its elusive power will be unleashed."
"Resetting the course!" the co-pilot, Will, announced. "We're going to the land of the rising sun."
The SHARC landed in Japan, and the Rangers were following Dax, who was trusting his Tracker, through a forest.
Dax suddenly stopped and turned to the others, "The signature is spiking... we found it," he smiled.
"Stop right there, Rangers!" Moltor yelled, causing the Rangers to turn, "the tri-dragon key will be mine!"
"Nahuh!" Kaylee yelled.
"YAHUH!" the monster beside Moltor retorted.
"NAHUH!"
"YAHUH!"
"NAHUH!" Kaylee screamed before grabbing her Tracker, "Ready guys?"
"Ready!"
"OVERDRIVE ACCELERATE!"
"YAHUH!" the monster yelled, running towards the Rangers for a fight. Tyzonn took on Moltor, single-handily, feeling a bit more powerful after defeating the Fearcats.
The monster seemed to be the most powerful yet. Every shot her threw hit the Rangers and knocked them down before they even got a chance to attack.
Moltor grabbed Tyzonn's arm and held him in place as he watched his monster fight, "Go Magmador! Show them what you can do!"
Ronny pulled out her Drive Claws and hit them together as she glared at the monster.
"Let's see how you like this!" she yelled, swinging her claws at the monster and finally landing the first blow. It didn't do much, seeing as the monster was still on his feet, but it did allow the monster to use his ability.
"Oh, I like it a lot!" he yelled as his arm turned into a copy of the Drive Claw and swinging it, sending a wave of energy at the Rangers that knocked them all down.
Ronny hit the ground with her Claws and yelled, "He copied my weapon! That's low!"
"Let me give it a try!" Will yelled, making it to his feet first as he pulled out the Hammer. "DRIVE DEFENDER!"
"Will, watch out!" Mack frowned.
After getting a good look at the weapon, Magmador managed to copy it before Will got to close. He ran towards the black Ranger, bringing his arm up and slashing down Will's chest.
"Will, get out of there!" Dax yelled, watching as Will was being thrown around like a ragdoll.
"I'm not done yet!" Will shook his head, running back into battle.
"C'mon, learn from your mistakes! He'll copy your weapon!" Kaylee groaned.
"DRIVE HAMMER!" Will yelled, swinging his hammer around in hopes of landed one good blow on the monster. When he did, the monster merely laughed.
"You're a stubborn one, aren't you?"
His arm changed from the sword to the hammer before he mimicked Will. Just before the Hammer was about to squish the spy, Mack, wearing the defender vest, stepped up, holding a laser as he shot.
Magmador rolled on the ground and stood up, trying to change his arm to the laser, but couldn't. With his arm out of service, he found it best to retreat.
"Don't think this is over!" he told the Rangers.
Moltor slashed at Tyzonn in the air and let the alien drop the ground in pain so he could walk up to where the key was resting.
"Now the tri-dragon key will be mine!" he chuckled, "I'll show my brother, and everyone else on this planet, that I am the most fearsome warrior!"
He reached for the key, but it began to glow and flew above his head.
Tyzonn crawled up behind a tree and watched as the key went underground, leaving no hole for Moltor to reach down.
Moltor looked over to Tyzonn and growled, "I will find it again!"
As he left, Tyzonn got to his feet, holding his ribs as he did. Dax and the other ran up to him.
"Ty, you okay?" Dax asked, touching the alien's shoulder in case he needed help.
"I'm fine... but the tri-dragon key is gone..."
"Alright Rangers, grab your Trackers and begin scanning for it," Kaylee ordered, taking her own Tracker off her shoulder. "It's got to be here somewhere."
The others did as they were told, pointing their trackers to the ground. They were receiving faint signals from the devices, until Rose's started beeping a lot faster than the others.
"Guys, the signal is getting stronger!" she called. "Follow me!"
The signal led them to a waterfall, where Moltor and the monster were standing, searching for the key as well.
"I won't let that key get away!" Moltor growled before the Rangers showed up, ready and morphed.
"You won't get the chance!" Kaylee grinned.
"Take care of them, Magmador," Moltor waved his monster off, hoping to do some searching.
Magmador fought the Rangers, knocking them down whenever they got close, but they always seemed to get up.
He aimed a punch for Kaylee's stomach, but she blocked it with her hands. He changed his plans quickly, grabbing her arms and flipping her over his head, where she crashed into Will and Mack.
"I'll take him myself," Mack groaned, pushing Kaylee off his as he stood up.
"No, Mack, we're in this together!" Will told him, grabbing his arm.
"It won't matter if I get hurt!" Mack yelled.
"Good to know," Moltor grinned as he ran towards the Rangers. The boys brought up their sword, blocking Moltor's hit. The lava-head decided to take on one Ranger, and kicked Will towards the monster. He then turned to Kaylee and smirked before trying to bring his sword down on her.
ZWOP!
"That leaves just you and me!" Mack yelled.
When Will saw his friends were in trouble, he willingly went after the monster, pushing him away. The others tried to help, but Moltor turned away from his fight with Mack and blasted them.
Magmador copied Will's hammer as soon as he pulled it out, and the two began swinging at each other. Finally, they both hit the ground with the hammers, causing a small earthquake that sent Magmador slightly off balance. Will jumped into the air and brought his hammer down on the monster.
Magmador grabbed the hammer and threw Will down, hitting him in this chest with his arm.
"I've got you now," Magmador grinned, before Mack jumped into view, holding a laser.
"FIRE!" he yelled.
Mack landed as Magmador was hit, and trying attacking, but the monster countered his shots before sending him flying into a tree.
"Power of the rising water!" Kaylee yelled as she burst out from the water, bringing a stream along with her. She directed the water at the monster, blasting his with a thin, yet powerful blow.
"I love fighting Moltor's goons," Kaylee giggled, turning to the two boys. "Wanna know why?"
"WATER! NO!" the monster yelled, melting on the spot.
"Cause they're all fire type!" she finished.
Mack and Will laughed, shaking their heads as they looked at each other.
"Mack, you gotta stop putting yourself out there," Will told him. "You're gonna get hurt!"
"I thought you could take him," Mack shrugged.
"I thought computers were supposed to be smart," Will grinned. Mack playfully shoved him aside as Kaylee looked down at them.
From inside the waterfall, Moltor saw something glowing. He grinned as it shot out, right towards him.
"Yes!" he smiled, reaching out to grab the flying key.
ZWOP!
"MUHAHA!" Kaylee giggled, teleporting in front of his and grabbing the key. She then ran over to her friends and smiled as she held it up, "Looking for this, hot head?"
"Give me that key!" Moltor pleaded, only making Kaylee laugh.
"NAHUH!" Kaylee shook her head, pulling out her Drive Defended and swinging it around. Green energy surrounded it, before being shot at Moltor.
As Moltor held his chest in pain, he looked at the Rangers.
"I don't need any key to defeat the likes of you!" he roared before running off.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Even if we get the jewel away from the sarcophagus we still need to get the crown away from Moltor," Rose reminded the team as they packed their packs for the next trip.
"I say we just go there right now and take it!" Dax suggested.
"Yeah!" the others agreed, grabbing their stuff and walking to the door, where Spencer stood, holding his hand up to stop them.
"If volcanoes were inhabitable someone would have turned one into a condo before now!" he yelled. "NONE of you are going to the volcano."
"Party pooper," Kaylee frowned, crossing her arms over her chest as her bag fell off her shoulder.
Mack shook his head as he silently turned away. The only reason Spencer didn't want them going to the volcano was because the others were human. They could get hurt. Mack wasn't human. He was an android. If something happened to him, then his dad could just build another one. His life meant nothing.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Moltor placed the crown down on a rock by his throne before looking over at his lava lizards.
"Come my soldiers, we will get that key back if we have to destroy each and every Power Ranger!"
"Sorry Moltor," Mack said, walking into the volcano, "that's not gonna happen!"
"Really?" Moltor mocked.
"Give me the crown!" Mack yelled.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Where's Mack?" Will asked, holding his suitcase as he stood in the base, "We've got a jewel to retrieve."
"Spencer, hone in on his locator watch," Hartford asked the butler. Spencer nodded, doing as he was asked.
"Oh my," he gasped when he received Mack's location. "He's in Moltor's lair, and sensors indicate massive volcanic activity."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Do you have any last words?" Moltor asked the Red Ranger as Mack got closer and closer.
"You were human once," Mack told the monster, "but you lost that because you're obsessed with power! How can you give up the most precious gift there is? The gift of humanity!"
"Being human means nothing!" Moltor yelled.
Mack grabbed his tracker and morphed on the spot.
"If you won't give me the crown, I'll take it!" Mack warned the hot head.
Mack fought the monster, putting in all the energy he had. Whether he made it or not, the crown was going to get out of Moltor's hands.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"He's WHERE?" Rose yelled, clenching her morpher.
"I guess that's a vote for rescuing Mack," Kaylee said, turning to Spencer and Hartford. "I don't care what you say, we're going!"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
The Rangers jumped out of the SHARC and landed just outside the volcano. They could felt the ground shaking under their boots as the volcano prepared to give in.
"We don't have a lot of time," Kaylee warned her team. "We get it, grab Mack, and get out, got it?"
"Got it!"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Inside the Volcano, the ground beneath Moltor and Mack's feet was slowly giving away as the two fought for the crown.
"Give me the crown!" Mack yelled.
"That will never happen!" Moltor ran towards the Ranger, "The crown is mine!"
ZWOP!
A green cloud of smoke and a yelled blur appeared in front of Mack, knocking Moltor off the edge of the rock. Moltor grabbed the side of the rock wall and slowly pulled himself up as the other Rangers ran in behind Mack.
"Mack, you idiot!" Rose yelled, jumping into his arms.
"We gotta get out of here!" Will told him.
"Not without the crown!" Mack tried running, but the others pushed him out of the cave, with Ronny and Kaylee right behind him.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
All seven Rangers stood before Hartford, Spencer and David, with the humans nursing the burns they had received while in the hot cave. Hartford did not look happy with Mack as he walked up to his son.
"You had no business going to Moltor's lair in the first place!" he yelled, "You put your team in danger!"
David's handheld computer beeped. He picked it up and turned to Hartford.
"The crown's in the north," he said.
"Flurious," Rose growled.
"We'll deal with his later!" Hartford breathed, "Our priority is to recover the last jewel, right Kaylee?"
"For once, I agree," Kaylee nodded.
"You're going back to Egypt."
"Never mind," Kaylee shook her head and backed away.
"Let's go," Mack whispered.
"NOT YOU!" Hartford yelled, stopping his son from leaving like the others, "We haven't finished out conversation."
Kaylee hung back as she heard this. Hartford had really made an effort to earn her trust and respect; she wanted to see if he could do the same with his son.
"Let me guess, you want to take away my Tracker?" Mack asked his father as a smug smile crossed his lips. Hartford had to do everything he could to keep himself from hitting his son then and there for his attitude.
"Maybe I should, if you keep making such rash and irresponsible decisions!"
"I went into the volcano because I'm the most expendable," Mack smirked, "If something happens to me, you can just build another... Mack 2.0 or even three... I'm not human and I never will be."
Mack turned away, bumping into Kaylee as he did. He walked out, leaving the blonde with the three men.
Spencer and David looked over to Hartford, feeling a little sorry for the way Mack had been behaving in the past few days since finding about he was an android.
Kaylee also looked up at Hartford and saw the sadness in his eyes. Even he, the most careless mentor she's ever met, didn't deserve to be treated with such hate by his own son. She reached out and hugged her mentor.
"I'm sorry," she whispered in his ear before running out with the others.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
The SHARC once again landed in Egypt and the Rangers quickly made it to the tomb.
"I baptise this country as the land where we have been the most!" Kaylee announced, holding the key above her head.
"Yeah, yeah," Ronny shook her head and laughed.
"Give me that," Rose frowned, swiping the key away from her friend and placing it down on the tomb. The tomb unlocked and the Rangers pushed it open.
Inside was a small, gold coin.
"Are you fucking kidding me?" Kaylee growled, picking up the coin. "I came inside these tunnels, lived through my fear and all I get is a bloody coin! Where's the dead guy!"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"The king's tomb was in the main room," Will explained to Hartford as soon as they got home. "We think it was the burial place for a warrior, or an eternal guardian. All we found was a small gold medallion."
"It's not even a dead gold medallion," Kaylee frowned, crossing her arms ass he gave the coin to her mentor.
"Wait a minute," Rose stopped, remembering everything she knew about Egyptian rituals for their dead kings. "The ancients sometimes buried their kings in the side room, and a slave or a soldier would be buried with the riches so grave robbers would be fooled!"
Hartford suddenly remembered something crucial as he looked to the three before him.
"Gather the team and meet me upstairs, you're not going to believe this!"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"I got the three jewels," Mack said, holding all three jewels in his hand as he and the team met up with Hartford in front of the mummy.
"Rose was right, again!" Hartford smiled, "The ancients did bury their kinds in simply tombs, to fool grave robbers."
"Way to go, Rosie," Kaylee smirked.
"Fifteen years ago, I was given a gift by a foreign government for helping them further their archaeological studies. They gave me a mummy of a tomb guardian," Hartford walked over to the mummy and placed the coin in the little indent all the Rangers had noticed at one point. They had no idea why it was there, so whenever they got bored they began coming up with theories for it. They had come up with so many, that the little indent was starting to seriously piss them off. "Everything else points to this being the king."
Rose looked at the mummy, then took the jewels from Mack and began to walk forward. When she got too close, the jewels began to glow, before the Rangers were knocked off their feet.
From the ground, they all watched as the mummy's head moved, and he stepped out of his tomb.
To be continued...