Chapter 3: Code busters

Chelbell2016:

Well next chapter yes it's small but that's because I don't want to delete any and I will update as soon as possible.

*Keeper of the powers*

Courtney's POV:

Oh my god do I love these mystic racers. We are having a lesson with Udonna. It's my day off from college and I love doing this lesson. Me and my team are having a race. I feel a little guilty as we fly over Bowen and Clare who are gathering ingredients.

They have to duck to avoid being hit.

"Heads up!" I tell them.

"Coming through!" Xander says who is right behind me.

"Sorry!" I say turning back to look at them before racing off. "Yeah!"

I race on ahead of the others.

"Come on pinky!" I say turning around to taunt Vida. "Try and keep up!"

I then race further on ahead but after a few seconds Vida catches up with me.

"You'd better run!" I hear her say from right behind me and I have to laugh out loud as she misses me. "Almost had you!"

I looked back at her. "You still there?"

I then turn back to see I'm about to hit a tree and I have to stop quickly. I look up to see Vida fly by.

"Who's in the lead now Courtney girl?" Vida mocks.

As a group all five of us ride around the Rootcore tree. I know it is now time to go back to the ground.

"Dismount!" I tell my team and we jump back to the ground. "All right!"

As we go down we demorph and land. We look back up as our mystic racers become broomsticks. They then drop down and we catch them.

"Very good rangers," Udonna says as she approaches. "That's enough mystic racer practise for today."

I feel slight disappointment but I also want to learn spells and other things to sharpen my magic.

"Aw come on," Chip says looking more disappointed then me. "One more lap around the forest."

"Yeah I'm just getting warmed up," Vida agrees. "I want to see what this bad boy can really do!"

"Training can't always be fun Vida," I tell her smiling remembering some of the training I went through.

"I'm afraid she's right Vida," Udonna tells her. "It's time for elementary incantations."

"Boring!" Both Chip and Vida complain.

"Hey I think that sounds kind of interesting," Maddie says.

I nod my head in agreement. "So do I!"

"Only you two," Vida says grudgingly.

I shake my head at her and she turns back to Udonna.

"Udonna the mystic racers are amazing," She tells her as we all walk along. "But now that we're power rangers, don't we get lots of other cool stuff too?"

"Oh yeah," Chip agrees. "I mean no ones more excited than me to finally get to wear a cape."

Xander chuckles.

"Finally?" he questions the yellow ranger. "If I remember correctly you used to come to school with a pillow case pinned to your back."

I giggle at that.

"That was a long time ago," Chip defended as we laughed.

"That was last week mate," Xander says and we laugh louder.

"Well anyway, Vida's right," Chip says. "We're official superheroes now. Where's the rest of the vehicles, weapons, and gadgets that we get?"

"Those things take time Chip," I tell him.

"The Xenetome holds the spell codes," Udonna explained to all of us. "That can unlock magical powers beyond your imagination!"

Vida's eyes widen in excitement. "So what are we waiting for? let's bust it open, load the codes, and get our booty."

I roll my eyes at her.

"It doesn't work that way Vida," Udonna says facing the girl. "As you preform heroic deeds and grow as rangers, the Xenetome will reveal the spell codes when the time is right."

Udonna walks off to go inside Rootcore.

"Ok," Vida says. Her and Chip whisper for a few seconds and then turn to us.

"We'll catch up with you guys later," she tells us.

Maddie, Xander and I follow after Udonna and go inside Rootcore.

*Keeper of the powers*

I am inside Rootcore with the other two reading up on incantations. It is nice to know about all the different spells and stuff that I will be able to do once I master my abilities.

"Man look at all these incantations," Xander says from across the table. "How is my brain supposed to fit all this in?"

I rub my head as he is causing me a headache. Maddie walks over carrying lots and lots of books.

"Why don't you let me help you with that?" She offers to Xander and grabs her morpher. "CRANEOR MAGNUS!"

I watch as Xanders head grows to an enormous size and I burst out laughing along with Maddie.

"Now you have lots more room," Maddie says as I continue to laugh.

I have tears in my eyes as I continue to laugh.

"And I thought he had a big head before," I teased him looking at Maddie.

"Very funny," he says to me. "Maddison.. if you wouldn't mind."

She reverses the spell and his head goes back to normal.

We leave to go to work.

"Hey chip and Vida never showed," Xander realised. "Where do you think they went?"

"I don't know," Maddie tells him. "But when my sister gets that crazy look in her eye, it usually means trouble!"

All of a sudden a bat like creature appears. It has black wings and pointed teeth.

"I'll show you real trouble," she says.

"Who are you?" I demand as I fall into fighting stance.

"I am Necrolai," she says. "Dark mistress of the underworld."

I am about to fight when Xander pats my shoulder.

"I'll handle this one," he tells me.

I roll my eyes. That boy has a lot to learn.

"Hi, Xander Bly," he tells her smiling and me and Maddison share a look. "Whatever the problem is here, I'm sure we can just talk this one out."

"You wish," Necrolai says and she fires purple energy at him.

His eyes widen as I move in front of him and raise a shield that destroys the dark energy.

"Xander," Maddison says as he moves backwards away from her with me.

"Not a big talker I see," he says.

I growl and stand in the middle of my two friends.

"Let's ranger up!" I tell them.

We pull out our morphers, open them up and press the buttons 1-2-3.

"MAGICAL SOURCE MYSTIC FORCE!" We all call and we morph.

"MYSTIC POWER!"

We all run forward and Xander goes to kick her but she blocks it and sends him away from her.

"Come on Maddie!" I tell my female teammate.

We both flip over to Necrolai who screams and passes in between us, Maddie goes to kick her but she ducks and then does the same thing to me. Xander joins in and manages to trip her and she moves away from us.

"Get her!" I tell my friends as we regroup.

We do constant kicks and flips to try and get Necrolai down. She kicks me and I fall to the ground.

She then trips Maddie who lands not too far away from me and focuses on Xander who jumps at her again. He strikes the ground with his axe and green light goes flying towards Necrolai who jumps away.

I jump in the same direction and she turns to face me. The others regroup around me and we have our Magi-staffs in our hands prepared to fight more.

"Playtime is over," Necrolai says to us.

"Oh yeah?" Maddie questions tauntingly.

"We'll see!" I say.

She flies off and before I can do anything she blasts the three of us and we hit the ground hard.

"Let's go for a little ride!" She says.

She grabs me with one arm, Xander with her other arm and traps Maddie between her legs. She then takes off flying with the three of us. We struggle more and more as she drags us away.

She drags all three of us to a slime monster and deposits us in its mouth where we are trapped and I am unable to flame.

*Keeper of the powers*

We are in here for a few minutes when my morpher goes off. It's Chip.

"Guys this is Chip," he says. "Where are you?"

"Inside the belly of the beast," I inform him. "Spread out chip! I think he's got room for seconds."

All of a sudden we feel ourselves go flying as the monster sneezes. We fall to the ground and we are covered in goo.

"All right it worked!" Vida cheered.

"Ugh monster muck," I say disgusted as I try to get the stuff off of me.

We watch as Chip on his racer heads towards the monster. It keeps firing at him but he dodges.

"Somebody's gotta take this freak down," He said. "And I'm just the ranger for the job!"

He jumps up to stand on his racer. He then grabs his magic staff and it produces lightning.

"Magi-staff!" He called and his staff changes into a crossbow. "Crossbow mode! Sneeze on this!"

He fires at the monster and it hits and the monster begins to smoke. The monster falls to the ground and we all regroup with chip as he comes down to the ground.

"Great job Chip!" I tell him and everyone else cheers him on.

"Just doing our job!" He says and then he turns to the pink ranger. "Right Vida?"

"All in a days work!" She replies point her finger at us.

Suddenly the earth begins to shake and we all struggle to stay on our feet.

"Whoa!" We all cry.

"Please don't be what I think that is?" I say closing my eyes.

We turn around and the monster stands up again.

"I'm not afraid of him!" Chip states. "Come on rangers!"

We all nod.

"STRONG AS A TREE! GREEN MYSTIC RANGER!"

"EVER-CHANGING AS THE WIND! PINK MYSTIC RANGER!"

"FLUID AS THE SEA! BLUE MYSTIC RANGER!"

"FAST AS LIGHTNING! YELLOW MYSTIC RANGER!"

"FORCEFUL AS FIRE! RED MYSTIC RANGER!"

We all do a back flip and land on a hill.

"We call forth the magic!" We all say. "Power rangers mystic force!"

All of a sudden bright orange lights float down to us and land in our morphers.

We all call out in surprise.

"Whats going on?" Maddie asks.

"I get it now," Chip says. "Udonna was right!"

"All right rangers," I tell my team. "Let's do it!"

"Yeah!" They all agree.

We press in the new code and spin around fast.

"GALWIT MYSTO PRIFIOR!"

"IT'S TITAN TIME!"

"MYSTIC MINOTAUR!" Xander grows and as he goes through a spell seal he turns into a zord with horns on it's head. He also holds an axe in his hand and he swings it around.

"MYSTIC SPRITE!" Vida calls as she goes through a spell seal and becomes a really small zord that can turn into a ball.

"MYSTIC MERMAID!" Maddison calls as she turns into a blue mermaid zord complete with a tail.

"MYSTIC GARUDA!" Chip calls as he turns into a bird like zord with wings.

"MYSTIC PHOENIX!" I call and as I go through the seal it is different as I turn into a red phoenix like zord but with no wings. On the arms are shoulder pads. I carry a sword in my hand.

Vida stands on Xanders shoulder and the rest of us all stand together.

"ANCIENT POWER!" We all yell. "MYSTIC TITANTS!"

The monster growls and fires green pods out at us. They hit the ground around us and me and Chip jump through the explosions and I whack all the other pods that are coming our way so they do not hit us or the ground around us.

"Lightning lasers!" Chip calls and he shoots lightning out of his eyes.

It hits the monster who screams as smoke appears and it lands in the water.

I then run forward with my sword in hand and prepare to fight the monster. I strike it across the middle of the chest.

"This powers incredible!" I state impressed with the new zords and how we actually turn into them this time. "Yeah!"

"Let's go!" Xander tells the other girls.

"Let's play ball!" Vida says and she turns into a ball.

"Nice Maddie!" Xander calls to the blue ranger and uses his axe to bat Vida towards Maddie.

Maddie dives into the water and goes under. When she comes back up she heads for the ball.

"Chip coming your way!" She says and then whacks Vida with her tail. Chip catches the ball between his wings and lightning powers up around him and the ball.

"Courtney go long!" Chip says and then he kicks the ball my way.

I run ahead of the ball. I then do a back flip.

"Watch this!" I kick the ball and it catches on fire and heads towards the monster.

"Don't! I don't catch so good!" The monster says.

The ball grows and so do the flames. It hits the monster full on and the monster explodes. Vida comes back towards us and she turns back to her sprite mode and lands back on Xanders shoulder.

"Yeah!" She says.

"Oh yeah!" I agree.

*Keeper of the powers*

I am in the woods looking at the lumps that were made by some sort of creature that as I had been told attacked Clare and Bowen. Their gigantic and it looks as if the creature had burrowed underground.

I get up when I sense something behind me in the bushes.

"Hello?" I say a little cautious. "Anybody there?"

I go up to the bushes and begin to look in them. A weird looking creature jumps out and I jump.

"Get back!" I warn the weird creature.

"You stand back!" The creature retorts.

"I said it first!" I remind him still in fighting stance.

"Whoa!" it says and making me want to be sick he smells his underarms. "So you did!"

I move as he tries to get closer.

"You're not from around here are you?" he asks as he continues to move.

So do I. "No not really."

"Nah I didn't think so," he said. "I've seen mump toads with prettier faces."

"Thanks," I say sarcastically.

"Ho! He is an ugly one to be sure to be sure," I was confused when it looked like he was talking to himself.

"Excuse me," I say getting a little frustrated. "I don't want to interrupt your, uh, conversation. But what are you doing here?"

He turned to the invisible man that he was talking to.

"He wants to know what we're doing here," he said and I felt really confused. "Well I don't think you should tell him. He's the one who came into our part of the forest and-."

The creature was suddenly cut off as a whole appeared beneath it's feet and it went down. My eyes widened. A second later and whatever had taken him spat him back out. He went flying into the air. He lands on the ground and I move to help him to his feet.

"Oh man," I say wondering what that thing was as he stumbled back to his feet. "You okay?"

The monster begins to stutter. "You saved me."

He tried to get me to give him a hug.

"Not really," I say looking back to see the giant worm thing coming this way.

"Give me a hug," he tells me.

"We'll discuss it later," I say and i begin to run away from that thing. "I'm just kinda busy right now!"

I take off. I pull out my morpher and phone my team.

"Guys," I tell them. "I think I found what I was looking for!"

I then turn back around to see the worm still following me. I am forced to dive aside when the thing comes flying at me.

"All right!" I say when I get back to my feet and pull out my morpher. "You want to play!"

I open my morpher up and press the code 1-2-3.

"MAGICAL SOURCE MYSTIC FORCE!" I shout. "MYSTIC POWER!"

I morph and prepare to fight this thing.

I pull out my Magi-staff and I am shocked when that thing shows how big it is.

"Oh man," I say and it takes a swing at me.

I roll away and get back to my feet raising my magi-staff to defend myself if it tries again. He comes at me again and before I have a chance to raise my shield he hits me and my magi-staff goes flying out of my hand.

I groan in pain as a strong pain begins in my shoulder.

Then the thing comes at me again mouth open.

"NO!" I yell.

I hear a yell and Xander appears axe in hand and strikes the worm type creature so it goes back down into the hole.

"Thanks Xander," I say getting back to my feet. "I owe you one."

"No worries," Xander assures me and we clap hands as the others arrive.

"Way to go amigos," Chip says as he gets closer.

We all cheer and then we stumble as the Earth begins to shake again.

The worm reappears but this time it has many heads and many mouths.

"He looks mad!" I point out to my team.

"How can you tell?" Chip asks sarcastically.

Xander pulls out his morpher.

"Hey I have a new spell code," Xander says.

The other three gathered around him and they realised they also have the new spell code.

"Udonna said the Titans have more power," Vida reminded them.

"Well then," I say and we stand in a line. "Let's just see what they can do!"

We go into Titan mode.

"MYSTIC TITANTS!"

I turn around to watch as the other four begin to speak.

"MYSTIC TITANS! DRAGON FORMATION!"

I am impressed as my four friends become a dragon. Xander the body Vida the head, Chip the wings and Maddie the tail.

"How cool is that?" I say really loving the titan zords. "Hang on everybody! I'm ready to ride!"

I kick off from the ground and cheer as I land on the back of the dragon.

I am a bit unsteady at first but I quickly gain my balance.

"Let's bury that worm!" I say to my team.

We move towards him but have to dodge as he fires at us. None of the shots hit us.

"Still hungry?" I taunt as we move through the smoke that the explosions had caused.

I strike the monster as I pass and then we fly a bit higher and turn back around.

"Look out!" I call as we have to dodge more shots aimed at us. "DRAGON BLAST!"

The dragon opens its jaws and fires a huge ball of fire at the worm. It hits sending sparks flying.

"All right rangers! Let's get fired up!" I called down.

I then jump off of the dragon and turn as a fireball comes my way. Then as it gets close enough I do a back flip kicking the fireball into the worm and resulting in its destruction.

I land back on the dragon and we all land on the ground.

"All right!" I say and I raise my arm and snap my fingers at the same time as I speak again. "That was a snap!"

*Keeper of the powers*

I am out looking for the ingredients for Udonna's potion. I find some sort of blue berries and I know these are what I am looking for so I pick one up.

"So these are stickle berries," I say and try to taste one. They are horrible. I groan and spit them out trying to get rid of the taste that is now in my mouth. I then get to my feet wiping my mouth and gagging at the same time. "Gross I better pick some more!"

I head towards a bush of them but as I pull the branches aside I scream as I see the same creature as before looking back at me.

"You... you gotta stop doing that," I say trying to slow my heart rate down.

"I've been looking everywhere for you," he says to me as I continue to pick the berries. "I wanted to thank you for saving me."

I sighed as I continued to pick the berries and he held his hands up as if he wanted to hug me.

"To tell you the truth," I tell him honestly. " I don't think I saved you so much as that monster spit you out."

"Rat feathers," the creature said sounding upset now. "Even that hideous beast rejected me. I don't belong anywhere not even in a worms stomach."

I feel a little bad now.

"I'm Phineas," he says after a pause and he holds his hand out. I shake his hand.

I have gathered all of the ingredients needed and I am on my way back to Rootcore. Phineas is still following me.

"You see I'm a Troblin," he tells me. "Now uh that is the unfortunate result of the union between a troll and a goblin. But both sides hate me. So.. so I wander the forest on my own now."

I smile and remind myself why I was glad to see him.

"Well actually, the reason I was out here," I tell him smiling a little. "Is because you uh, helped a friend of mine Phineas, I wanted to thank you. I hope you like stickle berries."

I held the basket out to him in an offer. He looked really happy and began to dig in.

"Who doesn't?" he asks.

I watch as he eats them and I cannot help but smile.

"Right," I say chuckling.

"Ooh I must warn you though young warrior," he says to me and I chuckle more at the nickname. "This forest is full of danger!"

"I have seen a lot of danger Phineas," I tell him thinking back to all I have gone through. "But anyway tell me something I don't know."

I sigh and then continue.

"My friends and I are up against Necrolai and Koragg," I tell him of the two main enemies I know. "It cant get worse than that."

"Uh yes," he says and I turn to look at him no longer smiling. "Yes it can. You still haven't faced... him."

"Who's him?" I demand to know.

"The supreme master of the underworld," He tells me and my eyes widen.

*Keeper of the powers*

Chelbell2016:

Ok so next chapter and I am going to update 3 or 4 more before going back to my other story. Please review.