AN: This is my own version of how Heckyl combined with Snide and the events that took place after. This is slightly AU. Enjoy!

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The warm breeze rustled the leaves as the rangers walked through the forest to train. Noticing something down the path, Sir Ivan stopped alarming the others.

"Ivan?" Shelby looked at him.

"Is that figure whom I think it is?"

The rangers followed Ivan's eye line to someone lying on the ground ahead of them. They all rushed over to the man, but stopped once they confirmed his identity.

"Heckyl?" Riley looked up at the others.

Koda looked around. "Is this trick?" He poked him with his foot, but Heckyl remained still.

"I think he may actually be hurt." Chase did not want to inspect more than from where he stood, but it was plain to see that Heckyl had been in a fight and was not in the best of shape.

Shelby looked at Chase before inching towards Heckyl and kneeling down next to him.

"Be careful." Tyler was ready to jump in if it were a trap.

"Guys look." Shelby tilted Heckyl's head to the side exposing his neck. "The symbol is gone."

"Does that mean Snide split them apart?" Chase did not like the thought of that.

"Great, now that's one more thing to worry about." Tyler did not like that either.

"They must have used the split-o-meter on themselves, but why?" Riley was trying to piece everything together.

"Guys we can worry about that later. Right now he needs our help." Shelby was beginning to worry about the state he was in.

"Right." Tyler got his communicator out to call Ms. Morgan.

After Tyler told her what happened, she met them in the woods. "Has he stirred at all?" She felt for Heckyl's pulse.

"No, nothing." Shelby answered.

Kendall sighed. "He's really weak." She took off her glasses. "I hate to say this, but I think we need to take him back to the base.

Everyone began argue this, but Kendall put her hand up to stop them all from talking. "It's the only place we can properly treat and analyze him. We'll restrain him, make sure he can't trick us or anything, but it's the only choice I see right now."

"We could just leave him here." Chase said what the others would not.

"Chase," Kendall gave him a look. "We can't just leave him here. If they did this to him, then something has changed and we need to know what that is. Helping him will help us."

"She has a good point there." Riley looked at the Black Ranger.

"Come, Sir Tyler, help me get him up." Ivan stepped in to help get Heckyl and bring him to the base. All of them wondered if they were making the right choice, or setting themselves up for a trap.

When they got to the base they restrained Heckyl to a bed. Riley worked on setting up energy beams in case Heckyl woke up and tried to escape. If he broke the restraints he would be hit with the blast. Once everything was secure, Kendall got to work looking Heckyl over. He was in pretty bad shape. He had a lot of bruising and cuts all over him, he was definitely in a fight, and by the looks of it he had barely made it out. Once Kendell was done patching him up the best she could, she, and the others left him to rest. They could not do anything until he awoke, so now all they could do was wait.

Hours had passed and everyone was busy doing something inside the cave. Koda was first to hear a noise come from the back room where Heckyl was. Once they all realized he was awake they rushed in.

Heckyl began to open his eyes and try to move. He soon found himself restrained. He thought Snide had found him, but when he opened his eyes all the way, he found himself somewhere else. Confusion set in as to his whereabouts until the rangers came in. Once he pieced it all together he laughed.

None of the rangers were sure what to do. Heckyl had always been dramatic, but they thought that maybe he had finally gone off the deep end.

"It's funny." Heckyl continued to laugh. "I've been trying to find this place for so long, and now that I don't care, here I am!"

"Why don't you care anymore? What happened to you?" Kendall wanted answers, and she wanted them now.

Heckyl stopped laughing and cleared his throat. "Lord Arcanon came and ruined everything. Snide betrayed me and split us apart. He tried destroying me, but everyone underestimates the alien that looks human. We fought, and I escaped. They think I'm weak, but I will make them pay for what they did." Anger flashed across his eyes.

"He has the dark energem doesn't he?" Shelby looked worried.

Heckyl nodded.

"You touched it didn't you? That's why you and Snide combined." Shelby was piecing together what had happened to Heckyl.

Heckyl snickered. "You could say that. My tale is a dark one stretching almost a million years ago."

Kendall sat down. "Will you tell it?"

Heckyl looked away. He had not thought about the details of his past in a long time. Every time he was reminded of then, he pushed the memories aside. Snide was the only living creature that knew about his life and now there was a group of people staring at him, wanting to understand.

"I was a part of a group on Sentai 6 that worked to protect the dark energem."

Heckyl saw the looks on the rangers' faces and laughed. "Don't get the wrong idea about me. I've never been one of the good guys. We wanted its power, but so did a lot of others. We wanted to make sure no one else got their hands on it. Snide attacked our planet, but my people were able to trap him inside the energem. It was not long after that when Lord Arcanon came and decimated my home."

Anger flared in Heckyl's eyes.

"I watched as my world burned. My friends and family killed around me while I managed to survive. I escaped with a few others, and started to rebuild what I could. I wanted to restore my home, but to do that I needed more power. We thought the dark energem was destroyed, so we left, and I did what I could to gain control of others. I've always been good at manipulation, and pretty soon I was on top of a crime ring. I thought if I could gain control of another planet, then I could help my own. I may have gotten carried away, because pretty soon I got caught, but it wasn't by law enforcement, it was something a lot worse." Heckyl's eyes went distant, remembering what happened all those years ago.

Flashback

"Sir, we may have found the perfect candidate for our project." A woman stood with a clipboard in hand.

A man turned away from the paper he was reading to see what the doctor had to say. The doctor pulled up a file on a large computer screen.

"His name is Heckyl. He escaped Sentai 6 when it was destroyed. He was part of a group trying to protect the dark energem."

"That's irony for you." The man laughed. "Is he strong enough for something like this?"

The doctor smiled. "We'll know for sure after he's tested, but he's a convict who wiggled his way to the top of a crime organization by manipulating and hurting anything in his way. We believe he, like others from his planet, has strong abilities. He should be perfect to hold this kind of power."

The man nodded. "Good, test him. If he survives we'll continue onto the next phase."

"Right away, sir." The doctor nodded and left the room.

"Why you?" Tyler could not believe the story Heckyl was telling.

Heckyl sighed. "They needed a catalyst. Snide was trapped inside the dark energem. If my body could handle his power then they would use me."

"What did they do to you?" Riley almost kept that question to himself.

Heckyl's dark blue eyes looked haunted when Riley asked that. "For the next several days they put me threw vigorous physical tests. Conditioning that would kill most people, but I'm not human, and my arrogance gave me the will to get through it. I knew survival was my only escape. Extreme heat, cold, lack of oxygen, electricity; I was put through just about every torture a person could think up. And I passed with flying colors. I almost gave up a few times, let them kill me, but I held on." He thought back to that day.

The people torturing him for the last three days hauled him up and took him to another room. Heckyl kept his composure the entire time, despite how tired and in pain he was.

"Don't look so angry, Heckyl. We're about to bestow the ultimate gift upon you."

"You mean use my body to bring back a monster. Sounds so pleasant." Heckyl scoffed.

The man nodded to the others who came over. They were holding the dark energem on a long pair of tongs. Heckyl struggled as large hands held him still. One man pulled his hair, causing his head to tilt, exposing his neck. They pressed the energem to his neck and Heckyl's world exploded.

There was so much pain Heckyl could not bear it any longer. He screamed out as a blue light engulfed him, and he was replaced with Snide. Snide screamed as the blue energy came back and Heckyl was there again. He was holding his neck in pain as it glowed. The others in the room noticed the permeant blue streak in his hair and symbol branded onto his neck. Heckyl screamed again as he was replaced with Snide once more. Snide sighed and let go of his neck.

"Ah, he's a fighter this one."

The man in charge was hopeful. "Do you approve Master Snide?"

"Oh yes." Snide got up. I think he will work out excellent."

Before Snide could take another step he yelled again and Heckyl was there.

"What have you done to me?" He screamed again. Snide was back.

"My turn now boy." He looked at the man and doctor. "I need some time alone with this one." Snide left heading towards the cell they had kept Heckyl in.

Shelby stared with wide eyes. "That sounds terrible."

Heckyl got that haunted look again. "Everything up to that point was nothing compared to what was to come. I never thought it could get worse, but I was wrong."

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AN: Thanks for reading!