• HEATHER • Chase Randall

9 - When Logic Fails

"Oh shush. You love him." My uncle rolls his eyes, picking the cat up with a discontent trill and shooing him away.

"So, am I gonna get to meet these friends of yours anytime soon?" He questions me as I put on my jacket.

"Uh, actually I'm gonna be late, gotta go, bye, love you!" I escape out the door, waving behind me as I hurry off to work.

• HEATHER •

I suck in a breath through my teeth as Ms Morgan pulls out the blackened wires of the E-Tracer.

"My beautiful E-Tracer...up in smoke." Shleby says disappointedly.

"At least-" i'm interrupted by a deep bellow coming from Koda's stomach. I slowly turn my head, slightly taken aback.

"Sorry," He pats his abdomen, "I very hungry."

"Don't worry Koda, I sent Chase to get Pizza." Kendall reassures him.

"You did?" I ask, earning a curt nod, "Aw, I could've skipped my Uncle's charred bacon."

Shelby tilts her head, "You live with your Uncle?" She asks.

"No." I immediately lie, "...maybe."

"Anyway...Fury knows where the Ptera zord is but will he tell Sledge?" the pink ranger now turns to our boss for an answer.

"Sledge doesn't care about the zord unless it leads Fury to the gold energem." She shakes her head dismissively.

Shelby, stubborn as ever, argues "But Fury betrayed Poisandra so Sledge can't trust him anymore-"

"Woah, woah, woah, I am so confused. What's our next step?" Tyler cuts them off, drawing their focus back to the actual topic at hand.

Koda pipes up, "Maybe, we eat." He suggests with a boyish grin.

"I think I solved it." Riley suddenly announces to the room, after having hovered at another table, messing around with his marble puzzle. He turns back to us, holding his closed hand near his face, "We need to look at the problen logically."

His hand drops from his face, opening up to reveal three marbles: one black; one purple; one grey. "Sledge, Poisandra, Fury. Now..." He lists off, holding up each marble individually as he does so. "They each take their own paths." He slots each marble into a different entrance to his puzzle. "Chasing after power, love, maybe revenge." He continues, "But, there's one thing that all of them need first-"

"The energems." Shelby deduces.

"Exactly! But their only chance of getting an energem is with a very powerful weapon - like the Ptera zord. Different paths..." Riley explains as the three marbles funnel back onto the same dish, "leading to one conclusion."

"So they've got to power up the Ptera charger?" Tyler asks.

"But there's only one lab like ours with equipment strong enough to energise a dino charger." Ms Morgan reveals.

'What?...'

"Then logically," Riley chimes back in, "that lab's where we start."