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Even though the rangers freed Heckyl from his restraints, he knew he was not a free man by any means. He knew if he tried to leave they would stop him, and even if he wanted to leave, he was still weaker than he liked to be; Snide almost killed him. He also knew he needed to gain the rangers' trust if they were ever going to let him help defeat the enemy. Knowing that, Heckyl mostly stayed in the area they had kept him in. They would grow suspicious if he began to wander and look at anything in the base. He spent most of his time thinking up ways to destroy Snide. He also could not stop the memories of his past flooding in; that he did not care for.
Ivan decided to peek in at where Heckyl was in the base when he noticed the man staring at his pocket watch. At first he thought they had all been fooled, and that Heckyl was strategizing with Snide, but upon approach he saw that there was nothing in the watch. No Snide, no nothing, just a blank spot where Snide had inhabited.
"Worried he'll try and put you two together again?"
Heckyl looked up in surprise. He had no idea Sir Ivan had even entered the room. "I keep feeling that pain shoot up my neck like he's going to be there. I have to keep reassuring myself that he's really gone. He should be weaker now without me, but I suppose I'm not as strong either."
Ivan sat down next to Heckyl. "I remember what it was like, that feeling of being trapped in another's body. The pain, the distance; the fear that it will reoccur once again. You are free from him now. Your path is yours to create."
Heckyl looked at him, but said nothing. Everyone was being so nice to him after everything he had done. He did not know what to do anymore. Heckyl had been bad his entire life, Snide made him more so, but now he was stuck in the middle, and he felt lost.
The rangers were in and out; living their lives and fighting whatever monsters Snide and Arcanon were throwing at them. They rarely told Heckyl what was going on, though he only asked about Snide and what he was up to. Heckyl often worried Snide would track him down. Heckyl felt useless at the base, and he hated that feeling. He also hated that someone always stayed behind to keep an eye on him. This time it was Koda who was left in the base. Heckyl was getting restless, so he decided to stretch his legs; his eyes pulled towards the blue energem wedged between its crystal base. He walked up to it, and was enthralled.
"What you doing?" Koda was standing behind him.
"Not what you think." Heckyl continued to stare at the energem. "I've had plenty of chances to get your energems. No, I was just thinking."
"What you thinking?" Koda walked next to him.
Heckyl sighed a little. "The dark energem is extremely powerful. I can feel its pull on me. It's the negative of all the good energems, so I wonder what would happen if someone bonded to the dark energem was hit with an energy blast by it while having all the other gems in their possession."
"They be destroyed." Koda was trying to follow.
"Yes, but so would anyone nearby I bet, including whomever had their hands on the dark energem."
Koda was understanding now. "You bonded with dark energem. Energems would reject dark force, and make huge power surge."
Heckyl faced him. "It's all irrelevant anyway isn't it? I'd never be able to test that theory."
"Why you let you die?"
Heckyl sighed. "All I want now is Snide and the others destroyed. I don't care if that means I go down with them."
Koda was trying to decide if Heckyl meant that or not.
The rangers had been working on tracking down the eggs hidden all over the world by Sledge. At first they were hesitant to ask Heckyl for help, but in the end they caved and were able to get valuable information.
"All of the Greenzilla monsters emit a specific type of radioactive material. If we, you, can figure out exactly what type of radiation it is, you should be able to build a tracker for it." Heckyl was not sure why he was helping them. He wanted Sledge and the others destroyed, but he did not exactly want the rangers to come out on top either. Most of all though, he did not want to see another planet destroyed; too many had been lost, and now it was time for all the madness to stop.
Kendall thought about his words. "That could work. We can search the grid of Amber Beach for radiation levels, it should be strong so once we find the egg here, the others should be easier."
Kendall went to a computer and began working. Riley came over and helped her. Shelby smiled a little at Heckyl, who gave half a nod in return. The rangers all began working on tracking down the eggs, while Heckyl retreated back to his corner. He was not sure what to do anymore, he felt so lost.
When the rangers were called off to a fight, Heckyl would watch. He would watch Snide try to destroy them and lose, and he would watch the monsters Lord Arcanon sent down. He watched Snide act out some of the plans he had intended for the rangers with poorer execution. It angered Heckyl to see Snide still using him in a way. Heckyl wished he could leave and fight, helping or not, but the rangers would never allow that.
Heckyl thought about any weaknesses Snide and the other monsters had. If he knew the rangers needed a lot of help he would tell them, but sometimes he would just watch the rangers suffer to see if they could beat the monsters on their own. Part of him also took note of the rangers fighting abilities. If he ever wanted to fight them again, he would have a better chance. Heckyl spent a lot of time thinking about that. He did owe the rangers for saving him after Snide had almost destroyed him, but he thought about how easy it would be to try and take them down now. He still could not go back to the ship, because Snide and the others would destroy him, but he could go after the rangers. They had been nice to him though, even after everything he had done to them and anyone else he had ever come across. Heckyl had never been around nice people, so he was not sure how to act around them. Hurting nice people would not help out anyone. Heckyl did know a few things; he knew he wanted Snide destroyed, he knew he wanted the Earth to not get destroyed, and he knew nice people did not deserve to be destroyed. Heckyl needed to decide if he was going to be in this fight with the rangers, or if he was just going to stand aside and help out here and there. If they were going to do everything Heckyl wanted done, then he needed to stop sitting around and watching, he needed to help.
Heckyl spent the next several hours devising a way to help. When the rangers came back from working at the museum he handed them a notebook.
Tyler took it. "What's this?"
Heckyl looked him in the eye. "Every plan I thought of to destroy you. Snide has already tried a few of them, but I spent a lot of time on strategy. I know he'll try some of these, so I wanted to give you a forewarning just in case."
Chase seemed skeptical. "Why would you do that?"
"Because I'm tired of sitting around doing nothing. I'm here watching everything, so I may as well help out. Read them if you want, but you don't have to."
Shelby took the notebook from Tyler and opened it. "This has lists of monster powers and weaknesses." She showed the others.
"I spent a long time in that place, I know who can do what and what can hurt them. Like I said you don't have to use it, but I think it may come in handy." Heckyl went to his little cubby of a room.
"Thank you." Koda was not sure the man heard him.
Although Chase was skeptical of Heckyl wanting to help them, the other rangers took turns reading the notebook he had given them. They figured it could not harm anything to read what he wrote down. Even if he gave them wrong information, the rangers were confident it would not hurt them in battle.
Chase's skepticism lessened when they were fighting against one of the monsters in Heckyl's notebook. It had the power to make everything the rangers say sounds like gibberish. None of them could understand what the other was saying, but Riley remembered reading about this monster in the notebook. His weakness was high pitched noises, so Riley began to whistle and soon the others joined in. He was so disoriented the rangers were able to destroy him. When they got back to the lab, Chase walked up to Heckyl.
"I think we would have been lost out there today if you hadn't told us about that guy."
Heckyl nodded. "I don't want to feel useless anymore."
"So you won't." Kendall came over with the device they were working on for the eggs.
Heckyl walked over to her where she sat the device down.
"You can help me finish this thing."
Heckyl looked at the others, and then at Kendall. "What do you need me to do?"
"I think you may be able to use your power to boot this thing up, it may be just what it needs to begin working properly."
He looked at the device. "I don't want to fry it."
Shelby came over. "You've had almost a million years to perfect your powers haven't you?"
Heckyl shrugged. "Well, I mostly spent that time making sure I could decimate anything I could with them, but a low blast shouldn't be too tricky."
"You can do it." Shelby smiled.
Heckyl reached out to the device and concentrated on the energy flowing through his body. He just needed a little tap to get the machine working. He let a small spark hit the machine and it booted up.
"It worked!" Kendall began messing with it to get it set to find all of the eggs.
Riley stepped in to help her.
"See, told you, you could do it." Shelby looked at Heckyl.
"Thanks." Heckyl was not sure if that was a genuine thanks or not, but he was trying. They were getting one step closer to destroying Sledge and the others. He let the others work as he retreated back to his room. He wanted to check his wounds and see how they were coming along. Heckyl knew most of the damage had healed, but he lifted up his shirt to see his sides were still in rough shape. Heckyl's mind went to his last battle with Snide.
He had escaped from his cell thanks to Poisandra. His plan was to leave, but the explosion in the cell had alerted quite a lot of monsters on the ship. Heckyl had easily taken out all the vivix that came after him, but he was stopped by Snide before he could get out of the ship.
"Always trying to weasel your way out." Snide stared Heckyl down.
Heckyl said nothing, but stood his ground ready to send out an energy bolt.
Snide pulled out his sword and swung it at Heckyl, who dodged it. He in turn sent an energy bolt, but Snide deflected it with his sword. Heckyl was able to get a hard kick in Snide's chest, but now more monsters were on their way in. Heckyl was trying to fight off a few of the monsters when he was caught off guard by Snide's vine. It rapped about Heckyl's side, digging into him He yelled out as he was thrown from side to side of the room. Hit after hit came, and Heckyl could feel the blood running down his face. He could barely breathe, but Heckyl knew he could not let Snide take him out like that. Heckyl conjured up all the energy he could and sent it all towards Snide. The blue monster dropped Heckyl and in seconds Snide spent recovering he ran. Heckyl pushed an emergency shut down button on his way out the door to try and slow them down.
Although Heckyl was in pain, he knew he had to run. The man did not stop as the branches tore at his clothes and face. Heckyl did not stop until he physically could not go anymore. Heckyl collapsed to the forest floor and tried to catch his breath. He was not sure if Snide and the others followed him, but he hoped if they had he had gotten far enough away that they would not find him. Heckyl could not seem to bring his body back to normal. His breaths were coming in shorter spurts, and his vision began to blur. The last thing Heckyl remembered was the lightheaded feeling before his world faded away. The next thing he remembered was waking up in the ranger base.
That seemed like ages ago, even for an immortal. Heckyl hated all this time he had to think now. Being the only one in his head led to terrible thoughts full of painful memories. Heckyl laid down on his bed and tried to get some sleep, he needed to try and forget for a while. Even if it was only for a few hours.
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