(Command centre before Tommy's plan)
The computers were still spitting sparks and hissing, but Billy would not be defeated.
"Man Tommy did a number on the computers" said Billy as he came from under the main computer console for the teleportation grid. "He's scrambled the targeting sensors, damaged the crystal that feeds the energy to the matter transfer". He sighed; Billy loved computers so much that during his younger years the rangers needed a translator for him. He was an expert on the computers that he came in contact with, some said he was part computer others that he was a prodigy among prodigy. He never cared for the praise himself, he worked like everyone else to get where he was but right now he would give anything to be half of what people say because right now he hated computers.
"Is there anything you can do?" asked Rocky
"Not right now, I'm still trying to find out the full extent of the damage" he said running a hand through his hair, "I have the computer core back online and the Zord bay is now on emergency power, we can launch but the repair bay is offline as are the transporters, were lucky we moved Zordon's locater to a computer with a triple redundancy or we could have lost him to Tommy again".
Jason's face was serious, not since Tommy's evil green days had he been any more serious. The others who stood with him had never faced Tommy in open combat or they would be more worried than they are now.
"Give us a run down on the damage Billy" his computer friend nodded
"Teleportation is down, repair bay down, main computer interface down, Zord launching is online but slowed to half, some of the computers are still locked, but on the good side I've isolated the subroutines Tommy has affected but the is still bad news, we don't know where Tommy is or what he has planned. But there more good news we can track him when he morphs"
The rangers turned to Zordon looking for answers.
"Tommy has locked his morpher with his own DNA to replace him we would haft to kill him, and I am not going to ask any of you to do that" he said in his fatherly tone, "but there may be another way if we can knock him unconscious we can move him to a secure room in the med bay and treat his mental instability"
Nodding solemnly, Jason understood what needed to be done; he would need to go to that place he went when he fought that aria in his mind that he was at when he fought Tommy last.
The computers main console began to flash red; Billy sprang into action going one of the fixed consoles and began pressing buttons.
"Tommy's just morphed" he said turning to Jason slightly
"Where is he at Billy" he asked as the others crowded around.
"I can't get a proper fix but he's near the...the quarry"
"How can we get there Billy" said an impatient Adam
Ignoring him he pressed yet more buttons and a white VW beetle appeared.
(Quarry moments after Tommy's escape)
They had arrived too late, too late to stop him and too late to catch him. They felt utterly useless they now had to wait for Tommy's next move whatever it may be. They had to hope that whatever it is, it won't hurt any innocents in the process.
(The cave)
Tommy was almost ready he had the plan down but needed one more item explosives. He began to study the blue prints from the small robots core memory. The armoury was near the staging aria, to close for him to believe, one grenade or explosive would blow the whole aria apart. The plan was set now he was about to execute it.