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Chapter 17
Cole is happy that his friend, Nick, was able to find true love in the middle of battle. In honesty he envy what Nick has now, being able to solve things out together and being able to fight side by side with his family, friends and the love of his life. He is an orphan, his family were kind when he was still a baby and he was raised in the wilderness by the people he consider his family now. He has his friends, the Reds, Mia his secretly adopted sister, but she don't have the woman he love. He left her with the thought that she doesn't deserve him. He has nothing to begin with, he knows nothing of the world where she belongs and he belongs to the wilderness.
She doesn't belong to him. That is what he keeps on telling himself so he will not show up to him in case his heart dictated him to. It was hard not seeing her, not hearing her voice. Maybe for how many years that had passed, she forgot everything about him, even with his friends.
''I'm sorry guys, but I have to do this for all of us." He thought to himself. Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder he look at who it was.
"Tommy?" He said.
"I believe Mia is waiting for that food." Tommy said in a teasing tone.
Cole smiled as he scratched his head. "Sorry, I…."
"I understand. We are in the same boat as you." Tommy said as he pat his shoulder and took the food and opened the door.
Inside, Mia is already standing and slowly wearing her jacket as if planning to go out.
The moment she looks at the door she smiled at the two men.
"Where are you going?" Tommy asked as he walked inside and places the food tray on the table.
"I am hungry, I was about to go out to grab some." Mia answered. Tommy turned at Cole with a look of 'I told you so.' Cole smiled.
"Sorry, I take so long." Cole apologizes
"Nah, it's okay. You don't have to apologize. I should be the one doing that since it is not your responsibility to bring my food her."
"We insisted on doing that, Mia." Cole answered. "We wanted to do that."
Tommy assisted Mia to the chair so she could eat.
"What were you thinking a while ago?" Tommy looked at him.
"Nothing!'' Cole immediately answered.
"That means you are just standing at Mia's door for a long time thinking of nothing?" Tommy's brow raise, Cole brightened while Mia chuckled.
"You can tell us whatever is bothering you." Mia said.
Tommy looked at her. "What if the thing that is bothering us is the thing you just decided on your own." Tommy said as he looks at her.
Mia looked at her. "Like what?"
"You receive those wounds after the battle." Tommy answered
"I don't have any choice."
"You do." Cole butted in. Mia looks at him. "By allowing us, the red rangers receive the hit that the Zord obtain during battle."
"I agree with you Cole. We are the one fighting, so it us who is going to receive the grazes not you." Tommy said.
"I agree with them." Andros who at the moment is leaning on the frame stated. "I hate to see you on that state, Mia."
Mia looks at Andros and saw that he is not alone. He is with the other red rangers.
"We are your comrade, which means you shouldn't be the only one suffering. Let us carry your burdens too." Eric stated.
"We are the one battling the enemy, so we should be the one bearing the pain.'' Mack said.
"This fight isn't just about you, Mia." Jayden said. Mia looks at him. "We are placing our lives in your hand, so put yours in ours.''
Mia sighed and looks at her food.
"Think of what we are telling you while eating." Nick stated as he signaled everyone to go out. Some are reluctant but Nick uses his spell so they could follow. Cole stayed behind.
Cole took a seat on the sofa and took a book on the shelf and started to read.
"Is it really okay?" Mia said.
Cole look at her from the book. "Yes, all of us had talked about that." Silent followed, Cole observes Mia as she slowly eat her food.
"What Jayden had said a while ago, he told me that you once told that to him, is it true?" Mia stopped eating and looked at him, and nodded.
"You are the one who had spoken those words to him; you must know the meaning of it, right?" Cole said. "Know that whatever you had spoken, you should also act it."
"I know, but every time all of you are fighting, guilt fill in my heart." Mia sadly stated.
"All of us wanted to live normally. That is why we are here. If Mechedek won then we will never experience that at all."
"Normal lives. Are you really having a normal life?" Mia said as she put down the spoon. "Fighting isn't a normal life."
"We need to do that, to save someone we cared about."
"But those that you cared most, are they happy seeing you fighting alone?"
"Mia?"
"I would rather die rather than always being protected. The more I see those people I cared about fighting it keeps on killing me inside." Mia looked intently at Cole. "But you know what is more painful, knowing that you can do something to help the people you love but cannot do anything because they are away from you. The pain is so unbearable that the only thing you wish for is to die."
Mia fixed the food and piled them up on the tray. She carried it and went outside leaving Cole on his thoughts.
"Allysa, do you have the same thoughts as her?''
Cole is staring at his morpher, he wanted to call her and tell her that he is okay but he just doesn't have the guts to do so.
"Call her." He heard someone said. The moment he looked around he saw Jayden.
"Jayden."
"Call her before it is too late." Jayden took a seat beside him. "Waiting isn't forever, Cole."
"I can't, what if she is has someone else better for her."
"What if you are wrong?" Jayden said. "When Mia left, I never went to find her, because I thought she is fine, I never thought she had been suffering being alone in a planet where I could have been there supporting her. Now, look at what she is now, a person who thinks that this battle is only hers to partake."
Cole kept quiet.
Jayden was about to say more when the alarm went on.
"The enemy is in the park. Be careful."
Everyone run out except for Mia and morphed. Once they reached the park they saw so many mut orgs and being led by Master Org.
While fighting, Cole realizes something.
"If I die here, Alyssa will not be happy and she will definitely get mad at me. Or more, she will never forgive me."
"How pathetic you are." Master org stated.
"No I am not." Cole answered back.
"I will deliver your demise, Red Ranger."
"No, you won't. I will not die here. I won't die here." Cole blocks all the attack that Master Org gave him as he countered.
"I need to return to her and tell her how much I care for her." Upon saying the words, a bright light enveloped him. The moment the light subsided, he transformed into a Cosmos Ranger.
"I am glad you have been true to yourself now." The Cosmos Lunar wolf ranger stated as he too, morphed.
"Merrick… What are you doing here?" Cole said as they attack Master org.
"I am a ranger too. So wherever evil are I am there too." Merrick said. "And I promised Alyssa, that I will find you and bring you back to her."
"Okay, let us use our powers together and destroy Org at once. I am already bored in this game of attack and block." Merrick nodded. The two combined their powers and destroy Master Org.
He was revived and becomes bigger. Cole calls for the Cosmo megazord and defeat master org with Merrick, Nick, Wes, Eric and Andros went with him in the megazord. After the battle, Coles team, received the Zord took. The others hurriedly brought them to the base to be treated. Mia was there, worriedly waiting for them.
Cole brightly smiled at her and patted her shoulder.
"We are okay." He said. Andros on the other hand never spoke to anyone as he is being treated. Mia knows that he is mad.
"It's okay. Don't worry about him." Cole said when he noticed that Mia had been looking at Andros.
Cole looks at his morpher and dialed her number.
"Hello, Alyssa, it's Cole." Cole said once someone answered the other line.
"I know and I am sorry. I really am.''
Cole listened as he is being stupid for living them and told them to enjoy.
The moment the phone went back to Alyssa.
"I love you, Alyssa. Wait for me"
"I love you too." Alyssa Said. "And I will always wait for you.