The command centre was thrown into chaos as lights began to flicker on and off and all the doors sealed shut, Billy Ran to the main transport computer to try and release the doors when all of a sudden a loud whirring and whining sound began to echo throughout the room, Adam's danger senses kicked in to overdrive at the sound grabbing Billy just before the computers began to explode, electronic sparks and a torrents of flame began to erupt from the consoles forcing the rangers to move to the far side of the command centre to escape the danger. In the gravity chamber the force field shut down the doors sealed the two rangers into the room the sudden buzz of energy signalled a force field turning on around the door.

Several sudden and powerful explosions rocked the room almost knocking Jason off his feet, the lights suddenly dimmed and a red alert lights flicked to life, Jason looked to Tommy in astonishment

"Tommy what have you done" he shouted

"If you are not with me you are against me" he monotoned, Jason met his eyes and for the first time he couldn't recognise his long time friend and brother, it was as if Tommy had somehow been scooped out of his body, all the vibrancy life and energy were gone it was as if he was looking at a corpse that didn't know he was dead.

Tommy made another move to his communicator watch, Jason knew he needed to stop Tommy, to get him help but as he moved he was met by a strait kick to the chest. Jason landed on his back winded and was slow to get to his feet; Tommy's new strength was awesome.

Jason moved to launch a kick low kick to Tommy then to capture him in a leg lock, but Tommy saw it coming, his reflexes made Jason fell as if he was moving at a snail's pace; he jumped up and hit Jason with his own kick hitting the golden ranger in the head knocking the gold ranger on to his front. Tommy moved to Kick Jason when he was down, nothing fancy a punt to the head, but Jason caught his leg and pushed forcing Tommy on to the back foot when Jason went for a knee strike missing narrowly. Tommy made to strike at Jason's eyes when Jason rolled away from Tommy to avoid another attack putting ten feet between them.

Tommy ran forward three steps then launched his Zeo power kick; the impact sent Jason into the wall hard enough for him to bounce off with a sickening thud. Rising to his feet unsteadily, Jason moved by instinct alone just in time to avoid a powerful punch to his face by mere inches, but not in time to avoid a very strong back hand that almost knocked him off his feet again, Jason struggled to regain his footing again the world was cloudy and unsteady but he tried to hold himself up, Tommy just looked at Jason like a disapproving teacher at delinquent students before he raised his arm and teleported out in a red wave.

The shield at the door suddenly shut down, and the door hissed as the seal was broken fingers were working their way through the crack in the door before the screech of motion and the door opened, the other rangers came running in just as he fell exhausted on his front the world darkened around him.

"What happened?" asked Rocky between gasps for air, the door was heavy and thick and took allot of strength to open.

"Tommy" he murmured

Kat turned to Billy

"How could this have happened?"

"Tommy" he said razing his arms in exasperation "he laid a code inside the computer subroutines its fused the Zeo morpher control so we can't remove his powers, it also moved his red Zords off site and locked them down and us out" said Billy as he helped Rocky and Adam carry Jason "its also scrambled his teleport code so we can't lock him down and find him"

"How did we let him fall this far" said Adam as Billy led the two active rangers to the medical centre.

(Bluff overlooking Angel Grove port and shipping centre)

Tommy materialized at the top of the bluff overlooking the bustling port of Angel Grove, he had visited here often when he was first starting out to visit his first Zord and friend the Dragonzord, it would awaken and stand over the port like a real life Godzilla its mighty roar would echo for miles. He didn't have time for sentiment now; he found a set of Caves here during one of his visits and had set it up as a place to regroup just in case he needed to retreat somewhere safe,

The cave had a military cot and some MRE boxes, a small portable TV and radio, he also had a shovel and some bottles of fresh water, and he sat on the cot and immediately began a plan of attack on the machine empires base and his inevitable confrontation with the other rangers.