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Chapter 3: Infiltrating the Command Center

Command Center

Tensou was observing the fight between the rangers and the X-Borgs platoon on one of the monitors.

"Gosei, something is wrong." Tensou told the giant head. "The X-Borgs aren't being led by a commander."

"Hm, yes, something does seem amiss with this situation." Gosei bellowed.

"HA, HA, HA!" A sinister laughed echoed through the cave-like Command Center. "Your Power Rangers are so easy to fool."

"Who goes there?" Gosei demanded.

"You can call me Zilas." The figure said as he entered the room, wielding his sword.

"Oh, no, intruder alert! Intruder alert!" Tensou wailed, running around the entire Command Center.

"Shut up, you hunk of junk!" Zilas shouted as he fired energy beams at Tensou, causing the robot to deactivate.

"No, stop this!" Gosei bellowed.

"I don't think so, Mr. Tiki." Zilas sneered. "You and your Power Rangers have been pests to the Armada for too long. And now I'm here to put a stop to it."

"Rangers, Rangers, you must—" Gosei began before being cut off by Zilas slashing him with his sword.

"Your rangers can't help you now, Gosei!" Zilas laughed as he approached the giant head.

"I hope you're hungry, because the Armada has a treat for you." Zilas smiled as he held up a disc.

"You mustn't do this!" Gosei begged. "Stop!"

"Bon Appetit!" Zilas chimed as he placed the disc inside Gosei's mouth.

"What-What did put into me?" Gosei ordered.

"Just a few little virus." Zilas answered. "Just to keep you out of the way so you can't help your rangers."

"No-Rangers, you must help—I've been—" Gosei droned as his power went out.

"Now to get what I came for." Zilas said to himself. He examined the walls closely. "The Legendary Ranger keys!"

Zilas stared obsessively at the keys. It amazed him that such ordinary and petty objects could hold the power to save the universe.

"And now they are mine." Zilas laughed as reached out to grab the Mighty Morphin Keys.

Suddenly a wave of electric energy shocked him as his hand entered the viewing panel.

"Ahhhh!" Zilas shouted as he grasped his injured hand. "It seems that evil beings can't touch these keys. There must be another way."

Zilas examined the monitors around the Command Center. He rapidly began clicking buttons, hoping to find results. Finally, he clicked a button that opened a secret viewing panel beneath the one that held the ranger keys.

"What do we have here?" Zilas questioned as he bent down to look inside the panel.

Inside the panel were the keys of the rangers never seen on Earth, lined up by team just like the other ranger keys.

"The Keys of the Power rangers that were destroyed long ago." Zilas laughed in triumphant. He began to grab the keys and place them inside a small container he brought with him.

"Yes, the Prince will be most pleased with this discovery." Zilas chuckled to himself as he placed the Squadron Ranger keys inside the container, the last ones he needed.

"Gosei!" Troy's voice echoed beyond the cave.

"Uh-oh!" Zilas gasped. "I'd better get out of here!"

Zilas then quickly teleported the moment the rangers arrived, but in his haste, accidentally dropped the Mighty Morphin White Ranger key.

"Gosei, we're here! What's the…." Troy began before he saw Gosei's lifeless head.

The rangers looked around at the broken monitors that Zilas destroyed. Tensou's lifeless body was smashed and broken.

"Tensou!" Emma cried as she rushed over and picked up Tensou's body. "Who did this to you?"

Troy stepped in front of Gosei.

"Guys, something's not right." Troy said to his teammates.

"Why do I get the feeling that those X-Borgs were just a distraction?" Gia piped in.

"Because it was." Troy answered. "So someone could disable Gosei."

"Guys, look." Orion called.

The Rangers looked over to Orion who bent down and picked up something off the rocky floor. It was a Ranger key.

"It's the White Ranger key from Mighty Morphin." Orion told them as he recognized the key.

"How did it get there?" Jake pondered.

"We can't worry about that now." Troy reminded them. "Just put it back with the Mighty Morphin keys, Orion."

Orion nodded and did so.

"Noah, how's Tensou?" Troy asked as he got down on his knees to speak to the Blue Ranger who was examining the robot.

"I think I can fix him, but it's going to take some time." Noah replied after examining Tensou's injuries. "I'm not familiar with his technology, but I'll do my best.

"Do it, Noah, whatever it takes, get him back up and running." Troy pleaded. "He might be able to tell us who did this and why."


End Notes: Next chapter will feature Zilas fighting against the rangers. I also plan on giving him a ranger form to fight them with. The Next chapter will be the last for this story.

And yes, I ship Vrak and Levira.