Once again: I do not own the Power Rangers, Disney/Saban owns them.
Chapter One
There was a lot on his mind. His heart had practically skipped a beat, it had been about three years that he had last seen her. His heart ached at the memory that he didn't want to relieve, but now watching the events unfold, he felt he had been cheated out on his happy, wonderful, future he had once known and hoped for after everything they had gone through.
He saw on the monitors the blonde woman move swiftly in and out of focus, the camera had been torn from the reporter's hand, but it still captured the images streaming live from where the attack had begun.
In his hands he held the only evidence, the only thing that assured him that the woman attacking innocent people wasn't the one he loved.
It was only yesterday that he heard that she was in town, looking specifically for him, the Black Ranger.
"The one everyone calls Tommy." He had heard her inform his team, as she had began looking for him and trying her luck by kidnapping some students from the local high school. Then the rangers had been sent to take care of the matter, as he looked on, Hayley, in specific had told him to stay behind, she knew of the emotional tie between him and the pretty blonde.
Even more surprise arose when two others showed, two evil rangers, the familiarity made them all realize that the matter was much more grave. Kim and Jason had also been turned, his heart pounded as he realized that he'd have to save them all. His love for Kim had changed into a deep friendship and also that loved existed for his brother Jason. His agony was greater than he had ever felt. He had never known that something like this would ever happen to him again.
She had been hunting him down.
She had been turned evil.
The curse once broken, now, again took control of her and even worse she wasn't alone.
She had Kim, once, also the love of his life and also she had been turned evil.
She had Jason his best friend...
His agony was greater than he had ever felt. He had never known that something like this would ever happen to him again.
Worst of all he didn't know motives or the reason why anyone was now trying to find the Black Ranger.
Her face was beaten, there must've been no part of her body that wasn't bruised or battered. She could feel the salty iron taste of blood in her mouth. She had been taken out cold, no warning came and she didn't even hear when the things approached her. The moment she felt the grip on her waist and on her arms was the moment she knew she had to act, but all too quickly whoever "it" was beat her to the punch and threw her across the room. Things swarmed her and she was outnumbered quickly, too quickly, or maybe it was just that she was rusty.
Her ranger days were long gone, but she thought she was in pretty good shape to defend herself, but that day she had been proven wrong.
That morning she had been in her apartment, getting ready to go for her morning jog when something attacked her, and then more and more came and she was outnumbered. She forgot all too quickly the moves she had learned from him. At that moment his face had popped in her head and she wished she hadn't thought about him, it cause her pain and she lost focus and was taken and transported to a dark dungeon like place.
After arriving, the creatures that resembled dinosaurs, beat her again and brought another creature more menacing, scarier with a horrible metallic voice that brought chills to her as she remembered. He had begun questioning her and if she knew anything about being captured by evil beings was that she wouldn't say anything, so he had beaten her and left her in the floor of her cell.
There were too many questions all mainly about Tommy and the Black Ranger, she couldn't place the two together and she wondered why this creature wanted Tommy or for that matter the Black Ranger.
The last Black Ranger she had heard about was a guy named Danny, Tommy had mentioned him, a few days before he left…
But that was that, she couldn't place why, if it was Danny, these creatures were looking for. She hadn't known much, just that those Wild Force rangers had defeated their nemesis.
She struggled with the idea of another ranger getting hurt, even if it was one she didn't know, so she kept what small information she had on Danny to herself.
Now, she lay motionless, not because that's what her attackers wanted to see, but because she felt her body torn. There was no part of her body that didn't hurt when she tried to rest at certain angles. She had finally found a spot, laying on her right side, almost curled, that made the pain bearable. Her chest and abdomen hurt, so she thought she might have a broken rib.
Hours had passed, she was sure, but not days, she had taken a beating but hadn't blacked out and it gave her some sort of time frame.
She looked up at the ceiling, the light was so bright, and it hurt her to see it. Her eyes felt like they were on fire, she shut them and instead focused on the sounds around her.
She had been left there all alone, battered and beaten, and no one had come, not even her attackers.
She knew there was no logical explanation as to why any Ranger would to come her rescue, they, more than likely didn't know she existed.
But still, she had a sliver of hope, ranger teams had come and gone, but she hoped that her history had at least been passed down and how she had once served and maybe, just maybe that would be a reason enough for someone to come looking for her.
In all her years of being alone she hadn't thought about the rangers of the present, she only thought of her days, the girl she had passed her powers to and of course her team members.
But one team member stood out from the pack, Tommy...
Just thinking the name hurt her.
She couldn't begin to comprehend as to the reasons why things had ended the way they had, but that was life and that was what Zordon had told them they needed to experience.
She began to cry, if only she hadn't stopped being a ranger, then maybe they could still be...
"So, is this her?" a silky, deep woman's voice asked.
"Yes." The metallic voice from before answered.
"Good, she will get us to him..."
She shut her eyes and slowly built the strength to reach out her hands and lay them on the floor, she pushed against the hard floor, "AGHH!" She cried out in pain. Her breathing intensified as she heard the cell door open, she pushed again, now as hard as she could and managed to stand up and turn to look at her captors.
All too quickly memories flooded her head and she wished she hadn't turned.
She began fighting.
The being took her, the woman wore all black and talked very much like someone who had class. Its like she could almost figure it out, the human behind the monster.
Her body still ached and the woman shoved her in every direction to another part of the place where they were. She thought it might be a dungeon, very much like Rita's because her cell had been cave-like, but then they had come for her and she had tried to fight her way out but they beat her. Then they took her out of her cell, she walked the interior of a building, more modern than what she had expected. The walls were of different shades of grey and yellow light bulbs engulfed the place.
She was shoved one last time into a room.
The room was darker, yet yellow lights surrounded her and everywhere she could see glass containers filled with grotesque remains of whatever had been there before her. The woman pushed against her spine hard, it felt like she had used her foot to shove her down to what resembled a medical chair.
"Pretty little thing you are." The metallic voice she had heard before say from the shadows of the room, she turned to meet her captor.
"It's hard to imagine it, but I like the idea of such a beautiful creature being evil."
The woman grabbed her arms and pulled her to the chair, she tried to fight again, but she was weak and the woman punched her and she tasted of blood in her mouth.
"Please...Stop..." She heard herself whimper out, but then the woman was choking her, and her lungs cried out for air. The burning made it difficult to concentrate, but she began to look forward to dying.
"Elsa, stop, we need her alive."
The grip on her throat was gone and she took a breath. It hurt her to though, she thought she might still be suffocating, but the pain came from within her body.
"Look what you've done! We have to start working fast or we'll lose her!"
Her eyes felt heavy and she no longer felt pain, it was difficult to breathe, her body was numb. Someone grabbed at her, she felt a pinch, but couldn't place where in her body the sensation had come from. She wasn't paying attention anymore, not to a thing. Her eyes focused on the light that floated above her and she felt peaceful.
She felt very distant from where she had been, she wasn't sure if it was a dream or what it might be, but she heard muffled sounds.
Then she didn't hear anything, and altogether something rushed at her and she found herself wearing a light pink sweater and jeans, just like her ranger days, she was wearing pink again.
She smiled and looked around her.
She knew she had to be dreaming, she was back in Angel Grove High and she could see the many faces of students she knew.
Her memory was hazy; it made it hard for her to remember what she had last been looking at.
She couldn't remember if there was something more important to be worrying about, she couldn't place why she felt like she needed to focus and remember what it was that had just happened.
"Ha, ha ha!" A sweet girly voice floated to her, she knew it well, she turned the moment she heard it and Kim stood before her.
"Kimberly..." She began to reach out, but Kim didn't notice her, instead Kim ran to him.
Tommy stood near his locker, Kim raced to hug him and he reached down to her and gently kissed her. She had to smile, she knew that it didn't hurt her to relive the memory; it just felt awkward looking at it. She knew that was the past, when Tommy didn't know her. She knew how to react because at that time Tommy wasn't hers and she had always understood. She knew a part of Tommy ached for having been with Kim and not wait around for her, but she knew that sometimes you took a chance with someone and sometimes it didn't work out.
Kim now grabbed Tommy's hand and they smiled at each other, just like any other teenage couple, adoringly gazing at each other. She felt a sting, though she knew it wasn't because she was jealous, but because that was the emotion Rita had used against her, what fueled her wanting to get rid of Kim, the feeling of someone as good as Tommy wanting her.
Being wanted.
The memory faded and she found herself lost, again she was sure she was still dreaming and then she was with Kyle, the guy who had been so nice to her, well he really wasn't a guy but a Tenga used by Rita to fool her. Then she had been captured.
She remembered how Rita used mind control and searched her mind for something to use against her to get to the rangers.
She found the emotion she had felt, she wasn't good enough, but what Rita didn't plan was that at the moment her anger began growing, she had thought about Kim and Tommy and how great their relationship was. That wasn't in the plan Rita had wanted, but it had come in handy later on. The emotions she felt of wanting to be next to a great guy as Tommy. Sure, he was a looker, but she could tell that there was something more than looks about him.
Altogether she heard voices again, the silky voice and the mechanical one.
"We didn't lose her, begin memory extraction."
Whatever that was, she didn't want it, please don't let anything bad happen, she thought and then sure enough something went wrong, the memories she had just relieved rushed at her, too fast, like a moving picture whizzing by and then she saw as it disappeared into nothingness.
Her mind went blank and she wondered what she had been so concentrated on.
Then she felt really sad, she knew she had lost something, but she didn't know what it was, it was if she could feel her heart racing and she wanted to cry, but it was useless, she wasn't using her body, her mind was all she had.
She knew that it was only her mind looking in at the memories, it was all in her head and she knew that while she didn't have control of the situation, something bad could happen.
"Hmm, the first time she ever laid eyes on him, but he was with another, and look who it is, Kimberly Hart. She will also be of good use to us. With two women from his past he won't be able to resist."
NO! Please, stop it! Don't touch Kim; she has nothing to do with this!
Her thoughts tricked her, she wasn't sure why, but the next time she saw Kim flooded her, all around her the images came around her and engulfed her with the first memory... Yet she knew that wasn't the first memory of seeing Kim, but couldn't place the first time, nothing came up. She knew she was missing memories then, they had begun extracting her memories of when she had first seen Kim.
She had taken the look of a cat, matching her nickname, and she had fooled both Aisha and Kim.
Then at that moment all too soon the memory was gone and she cried out, it wasn't precious to her, but it reminded her why she was the way she was and why she had defeated it.
Again more memories flooded her head, time and again, then she had forgotten.
Few memories remained, she tried hiding them, thinking that if the last few memories stayed intact she could force the ones she had lost back.
She felt tired and she saw his beautiful face, dark, long hair and the kiss they had shared that day, her last day as a ranger. His brown eyes meeting hers and the way he smiled, crookedly and warmheartedly at her, she knew he loved her.
She didn't want to forget that perfect moment, but it left again, and then she was in the truck, riding along with him, discussing the future.
It went.
She let the last few moments as a ranger leave her mind; it was useless trying to fight it. The more she did, the more it seemed her memory failed her and she was left with nothing.
Then all memories after her ranger days came and went and Kat was no longer Kat.
"Here they are, all of them. Everything that once made Katherine Hilliard a ranger is now gone. Her memories are all mine and finally my plan is ready."
"Elsa, you've been keeping this a secret for so long, how do you know it will work?" Zeltrax asked the woman who now stood before him with multiple hard drive looking objects that contained memories and emotions of Kat.
"Mesogog has done a great job, but its time we took a turn and tried to destroy the rangers from within."
"So, then what's the next step?"
"Well, she had to know that someone else, you in this case, took whatever she will be searching for and will never find. She'll think she has found that something once I give her this."
Elsa pulled out another one of the objects, circular and the color of metallic grey.
"What is it?"
"She was once turned evil, she was able to free herself. Her evil side was fueled by the idea that she wasn't good enough, at all, not even good enough to be with Tommy. She wanted to destroy what stood in the way, which was Tommy's girlfriend at the time, Kimberly Hart, but the moment Kim's good side appealed to her was when she reverted back and fought off Rita. Tommy would've been next, if she had succeeded in destroying the Pink Ranger, Rita had a well-executed plan. If the first two were taken down then the next ranger would follow and so on all the others would fall, but first she was to take the stronger ones. But Kimberly ruined it, so that's why we've captured her, there will be no residing, lingering, connecting emotions that will help Kim turn her back. That's why we named her Scarlett; Kat can't very well go on to think that Kim is alive and working right alongside her. And this little thing will revert her back, not completely but this will take her back to the moment she first laid eyes on Kim and Tommy and then the forged memories will invade her mind and convince her that the plan worked and that indeed Kim died, but she failed to destroy Tommy, who never got over Kim and who never dared to look at her twice."
"Good plan, but what of that other ranger."
"He just got in the way, when we took Kimberly, but something tells me that he will be of good use to us against Tommy, when he's turned."
"Hmm, and the feeling that we will have to evoke so her dark side will gain strength?"
"Have you not been listening, its all like before the drive to be known, to prove that she deserves the attention and that she isn't just anybody."
"And you've studied everything, made sure that nothing will go wrong, that she has no other escape?"
"Yes, I've perfected it, I will do what Rita couldn't do, I will bring back the Evil Green Ranger and he will destroy all the rangers and help us revert the earth back!"
"Elsa, who is the Evil Green Ranger?"
"Thomas Oliver."
"Interesting. Shall we begin?"
"Yes, we should implant the memories now, we need her to find him and bring him to us."
Hope you like, I will try to update as soon as I can, my mind is running with a million ideas, but I know I will finish this one. Please review!
