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The sun was setting on Ignus City. The Rangers minus Hathaway, ran as fast as they could through the thousands of wanderers ahead of them.
They chopped, hacked and slashed their way through the horde.
"I can't keep this up much longer!"
Leonide said. Rilan punched a wanderer and kept walking with Blade.
"We can't stop now! Let's go!" He instructed. The Rangers continued to run through the massive hoard of wanderers.
*-PRNF-*
Hathaway sliced two wanderers, kicked a third and elbowed a fourth.
"Hah!" He grunted. The wanderers dissappeared but more took their place.
"Rey! Re-rout all team artillery to me!"
Hathaway instructed.
"Done!" Rey said.
"Paradox Cannon!" Hathaway shouted.
The weapon materialized into his hands.
"Spread Fire!" He shouted as he pulled the trigger. The blast blew up a good portion of the wanderers. Even more swarmed in on him. He fired the cannon twice before it de-materialized.
"Raider Gun!" Hathaway said.
He drew his blaster and fired at the wanderers. He slashed two more with his Orion Saber and kicked another away from him.
"I can't keep this up...!" Hathaway noticed a crowd of wanderers surrounding something.
From his angle he couldn't tell until he heard a scream. He ran towards the crowd and knocked some of the wanderers aside.
He came to see a boy, not much older than himself, protecting what appeared to be his sister.
The wanderers were beating on him, causing the fabric of his shirt to come apart.
"Back off!" Hathaway shouted. He knocked all the wanderers away.
The beaten and bruised man looked up.
"Thank you! Thank you!" He said.
Hathaway nodded.
"Let's get you outta here." Hathaway said.
He helped the boy and his sister up.
They took off into a nearby alley.
"There's a little hold up somewhere near by." The boy said holding his sister in his arms. Hathaway turned a corner and ran into a wanderer.
He disarmed the wanderer and bashed its head into the wall followed by shooting it. They continued running until they reached a boarded up building.
"Wow, people here sure move fast." Hathaway said.
"This was acutally made a while ago, most people come here when there's a monster attack." The boy said.
"Huh, well here you go I gotta get back before they find this spot."
The boy nodded, "Thank you so much."
Hathaway nodded and took off in the direction he came from.
*-PRNF-*
It was dark out by now and the rangers were too exhausted to keep running.
They set up a camp and lit a fire to keep warm. Marias sighed.
"What are we gonna do?" She said.
"Whatever we can, we can't let Dragomir win again." Leonide said.
"But we're all exhausted, Aquarius and the biggest hoard of wanderers I've ever seen are on the loose." Zeili said.
"What are we gonna do without Hathaway though?" Megan said.
As if on cue, Hathaway now demorphed had come into the encampment.
"Oh thank God you guys are all okay."
He said.
"Good, now everyone is here." Rilan said. Hathaway took a seat next to the fire.
"So what can we do? The BlackHole empire sent us running for cover. They're most likely going to start the consumption of the planet's Life Source." Zeili said.
"Okay, what's all of this Life Source nonsense?" Roxy asked.
"A Life Source is the energy that let's your planet maintain its stability. If the Life Source were to be removed the planet would degrade over time into nothing. Like Nova."
The earthborn rangers were a bit shocked.
"Has Nova completely deteriorated?" Hathaway asked.
"No, a planet takes a year to completely deteriorate so we still have time." Marias said.
Megan thought to herself for a second.
"What could they possibly need so much power for?" She asked.
Marias, Leonide and Zeili looked stumped at that point.
"For Queen Andromeda." Rilan said.
"Queen Andromeda?" Marias asked.
"Queen Andromeda was always the one true empress of the BlackHole empire, but after exhausting her power she was transformed into a crystal, the legend says, only the power of the planets can awaken the empress." Rilan said.
"So the point of all of this is to revive Queen Andromeda." Blade said.
"Well we can't let this happen. We've gotta get on Dragomir's ship and stop him." Megan said.
Hathaway thought for a moment,
"I'll go." He said plainly.
The other rangers excluding Rilan looked at him as if he was insane.
There were mixed responsed followe by Rilan hushing them.
"I'm going with you, after all I owe Dragomir some payback." He said.
Hathaway smiled.
"We've got this." He said. Rilan fist bumped his leader.
Wes beeped in on their morphers.
"If you guys are going, take the Sonic Jet in cruiser mode, it'll cloak you from view." Hathaway nodded. Roxy seemed a bit distressed at this point.
"You guys better be careful." Rey interjected.
"Yeah!" Tiffany shouted.
"We're gonna head off soon." Rilan said.
"Okay, while you guys do that, we'll fend off the monsters down here."
Leonide said. The others began conversing amongst themselves.
Hathaway got up and walked away from the group. Roxy stared as Hathaway walked off. She sighed and looked at her feet. Her morpher beeped. It was Tiffany.
"What is it?" Roxy asked.
"I still remember what you told me that day about Hathaway. You'd better say something to him before he leaves." Tiffany answered.
"But what if-!" Tiffany cut her off with an abrupt grunt.
"Since when is it like you to let something bother you this much? Now go!" Tiffany said.
"Okay, okay!" Roxy said. She got up and went after Hathaway.
*-PRNF-*
"Well Dad, I'm doing this for you. I wish you could have seen how far I've come."
Hathaway said, his ring illuminated by the moonlight.
He heard footsteps behind him. It was Roxy.
"Oh hey." He said.
"Hey." She whispered softly.
"What's up?" Hathaway asked.
Roxy kicked at a pebble.
"Listen, there's something I've been wanting to tell you." She said.
"I'm listening." Hathaway said.
Roxy was at a loss for words. No guy had ever made her feel like this before.
She never had a problem with speaking her mind. Say it!, Say it!
"I-I..."
"C'mon, you can say it."
Hathaway said. Screw it.
In one swift motion Roxy had rushed forward, placed her hands on his shoulders and kissed him. Hathaway was a bit stunned but not displeased.
Hathaway cupped his left hand around her face and embraced her with the other. The two leaned away from each other. Roxy was still at a loss for words but Hathaway spoke.
"I get it now, you don't need to say anything." He said.
A soft smile formed on her face and tears formed in her eyes.
Hathaway wiped them away.
"Hey, where's that tough Roxy Summers I'm so used to seeing?"
Roxy punched him on the shoulder.
"She never left." The Silver Ranger said.
The two finally separated from each other. Roxy smiled.
"I want you to come back you hear me?" She instructed.
Hathaway nodded.
"You can count on it." Hathaway said.
Just then the other rangers had come over to them.
"Rilan's ready to go." Zeili said.
"I am too. Let's get on with it."
The two rangers stepped away from their comrades.
"Good luck you guys." Blade said.
The two nodded.
"Nova Force! Start it up!"
The two morphed in red and purple flashes of light.
"Sonic Jet! Cruiser mode!" Hathaway said. His miniature jet, now with a cockpit and capable of housing two appeared before them.
The two stepped into it and waved before ascending and taking off.
"Please come back to me..." Roxy whispered softly as the wind blew her hair around.
A/N: Sorry that this chapter was a little short but I wanted to get it out there.
This is it! The final showdown in the final chapter of this season! Be sure to look for it, I'll try to have it up as soon as possible. Until then, bye! :)