"Zordon!" Alpha exclaimed excitedly. "I have been able to breath through the force field around the Command Center!"
"GOOD ALPHA. NOW BRING UP THE RANGERS."
On the viewing globe the static quickly changed to show Adam and Billy assisting the police with removing fallen debris. Aisha and Kat were helping take care of the wounded and Rocky was sitting on a table while someone wrapped a bandage around his arm.
"Zordon I can't locate Tommy anywhere." Alpha said. "The scans show he's not anywhere."
Zordon gazed at the viewing globe. What had happened in the short time that they had lost all contact with the Power Rangers?
"Zordon…" Alpha started to say.
"I KNOW ALPHA. I SEE IT TOO."
The scans showed Tommy wasn't a part of the morphing grid at all. He didn't even want to think about what that meant.
"AS SOON AS THE RANGERS ARE ALONE PLEASE CONTACT THEM AND HAVE THEM TELEPORT TO THE COMMAND CENTER. ALERT ME AS SOON AS THEY ARE HERE." He disappeared.
Rito wiped the sweat from his face as they walked to the Whispering Pines neighborhood. He was used to teleporting where he wanted to go and it was very hot in Angel Grove that day.
"How far is it?" He asked Jason.
"Half a mile or so," Jason answered. "You volunteered for this," he reminded Rito. He was not going to forget what Rito had done to Tommy. He didn't care if Rito was trying to help now. It didn't change what had happened.
"I know but I'm not used to this much walking," he said. "You humans…"
"Shh!" Jason admonished looking around to make sure no one had heard him. "You want everyone to know you work for the group that did this?"
"Oh yeah sorry." Rito moved away from Jason feeling stupid. He was just trying to start a conversation with Jason. He figured if Jason had been Tommy's best friend maybe they could be friends but it didn't look like it. He kicked at a rock in the street.
"Okay kids," Detective Stone said as they neared the entrance to what used to be a nice neighborhood. "It looks like the fires are out. I want you to work in teams of three or four and go into the houses and see if anyone's there and if they need help. If anyone needs medical attention, come see me."
Rito looked around as everyone started making groups.
"Hey you want to be in our group," a girl he didn't know asked. She was standing with two guys.
"Sure," he said glad to find a group.
"My name is Rachel and this is my brother Toby and his friend Shawn."
"I'm Rick."
"Nice to meet you," Shawn said. "Let's go down this street," he said pointing to one none of the other groups had gone down yet. They walked into the first house and found it empty. The next couple of houses were empty too.
"Probably at work or something," Toby said. When they reached the fifth house they found it hadn't been burned but there was a Tenga rifling through drawers.
Oh no. Rito thought. He was going to be in so much trouble.
"Um," he started to say.
"Detective Stone didn't exactly say what to do if we ran into them." Rachel said.
"Hey we've watched them enough on the news I think we can take them." Shawn said.
"Yeah uh I don't know." Rito said eyeing the Tenga nervously. "Shouldn't we get Detective Stone?"
"You can if you want," Toby said. "Shawn and I both know karate."
"Yeah okay well I'm going to go get Detective Stone," Rito said before leaving quickly. He wanted to get out of there before the Tenga said who he was. He decided to find Jason.
He went hurrying down the street trying to find Jason. Jason was a former Power Ranger. He would know what to do. He didn't need the Tengas telling everyone who he was.
He found a boy and asked, "have you seen Jason Scott?"
"Uh yeah he's over there," he said pointing at a home.
"Thanks!" He went in and yelled, "Jason!"
Jason came into the main room and glared at him. "What?"
"There's a Tenga in one of the houses."
"Shit." Jason said. "Which one?"
There was very loud yelling coming from the direction of the house where the Tenga was.
"Never mind," Jason said, "I think I just found it." He took off running.
Rito sighed. What was he going to do?
Master Vile traced the falcon symbol on the Power Coin as he stared down at the Earth. There had been so much power in this coin and he had used most of it when they attacked Angel Grove. He wasn't sure what he was going to do with the remainder of the powers yet.
"That Rito!" Rita yelled as she entered the throne room. "He's down in Angel Grove trying to help the humans. Can you believe that?"
"I can," Vile said, "you were the one who sent him down to be with the humans. Obviously they've had an impact on them."
"But…"
Vile held up a hand. "Leave Rito to me Rita," he said, "I have something planned for him."
He flipped the coin in his hand before making it disappear into a pocket dimension. He looked over to the container where Ninjor was. "I know you are there."
"Vile!" The tiny voice yelled. "I know what you've done to Thomas. You will pay for it."
"Who's going to make me pay for it?" He asked. "You? You are stuck in a jar." He laughed as he walked away. "The only one who will pay for it is Rito." He walked away.
