Kaylee, Ronny, Samantha, Gem and Gemma were searching the city for the boys when they turned the corner and spotted a mob of people screaming.
"The traitors! They're getting away!" the citizens yelled, chasing the boys towards the team of allies. Kaylee grabbed Scott's arm, pulling him into a side street and the others quickly followed their leader. Everyone pressed themselves against the wall as the mob ran right by them. When the last person passed, Kaylee let out her breath and checked around the corner, just in case.
"We're clear," she whispered turning back to the team.
"We really need to find Dr. K and make sure she's okay," Ziggy frowned. "We can't leave her alone too long."
"There she is!" someone screamed from down the street. Kaylee and Ziggy ran to the other side of their side street to look out without being seem. On the pedestrian crossing that went over the street, Dr. K stood with a shocked look on her face. As people started running to the crossing, Dr. K smirked and disappeared, before she appeared right under the crossing. The citizens stood in utter shock as the Hologram of K started running off.
"Well, at least we know she hasn't been discovered," Kaylee breathed, looking down at Ziggy. He nodded, letting out a breath he was holding. He was obviously worried about the doctor, and Kaylee could see it in his face. She placed her hand on his back as she turned to the others, leaning against the wall.
"Everyone knows we're wanted in prison," she said, "I don't know how, but it seems they want all of us, and are willing to catch us."
"I bet you they would leave us alone if the military didn't offer a reward for our capture," Flynn muttered.
"They did that?" Kaylee breathed. "Bastards..."
"Wait; can't Kaylee do something to stop this?" Ronny asked.
"Yeah, isn't she..."
"... head of the military?" the twins frowned.
"I'm wanted for treason!" Kaylee shook her head sadly. "This is something my high ranking can't get me out of."
"Let's just hope the girls and Mike find something," Scott said.
-----RPM-----
"Rebecca Kinsley," Summer said, revealing Dr. K's name to her cousins.
Dani didn't bother linger on the name like Mike and Hayden. Instead she searched through the cabinet for Dr. K's real name.
"Kinsley, Rebecca," she smiled, pulling out the file. She read over it quickly and smiled, "It's all in here. Abduction date and the reason they wanted her."
Hayden snatched the folder from her cousin and read it as well.
"It says here they wanted her for her quick mind and her ability to remember everything she's been told."
"Okay, Dr. K is totally awesome," Mike said. The girls looked at him with a "duh" look as Dani tucked both Dr. K's file and Greg's in her jacket.
"I think we still need more proof that they unleashed Venjix for the sole purpose of escaping this prison," she frowned. "I don't want the military to turn this down and say it was forged... I want Greg to be free!"
"I know, Dani, we'll find something, I promise," Hayden assured the younger girl. Daniela nodded, hugging herself and the files under her jacket as the others searched.
Mike was examining all the beakers, not leaving anything unchecked, as he got a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. He looked over at Summer, Hayden and Dani with worried looks.
Something bad was going to happen. He could feel it. Mike rested his hands on the table to try and rid himself of this feeling, and he could feel it vibrating.
"What?" he frowned. He looked at the beakers. They didn't seem to be moving. He summoned his water powers and filled one of the beakers with water. Just as he suspected, the water was moving slightly.
"If we're underground, and there's something causing this table to... Girls, we have to get out!" he yelled, grabbing Hayden and Dani, pulling them to the exit. Summer turned to him.
"What? Why?" she croaked. Mike spun around and looked at her.
"I don't know if I have time to explain, just follow!" he yelled. Summer rolled her eyes and followed the boy to the surface. When she reached him, he was lifting Dani out of the pit, and Hayden was pulling her up.
"Mike, what's going on?" she asked him.
"I don't know, just get over here!" he called, pulling her forward and lifting her so Dani and Hayden could help her up. As soon as she was safe on the ground, Mike hopped up and started climbing out. With a little help from the girls, he made it to the surface. He got to his feet quickly and pulled all three of them behind him, taking them as far away as he could.
Just as they reached the spot where the trees started growing and where they clearing (where the pit was located) ended, a giant mechanical worm burst out of the ground, soaring into the air as tracks were created in front of it. As the four Ranger kids got a better look at it, they saw it was a giant, Ranger train.
"Holy shit..." Daniela muttered with eyes wide in excitement. "I totally call driving it!"
Suddenly, the trained turned sharply and they four noticed it was heading right for them. Mike grabbed the girls, throwing them to the side and throwing himself over them to protect them. The train past swiftly, just missing the four teens.
"Okay, it's a rogue train," Daniela breathed as Mike rolled onto the ground, taking deep breaths, "I can work with that."
Hayden pulled out her morpher, "Mom, are you there?"
-----RPM-----
Kaylee and the others were hiding deep in an old alleyway, behind a dumpster, when Kaylee's communicator went off.
"Mom, are you there?" Hayden asked.
"I'm here, kiddo. Find anything?"
"A few files, and a giant fucking train that tried to kill us! Any idea what it could be?"
Gem and Gemma smiled.
"The Paleozord!" they said in unison.
"Dr. K was working on it before we tried leaving the Soup!" Gem explained.
"She had to trash it though because it was uncontrollable," Gemma finished.
"And very powerful!" Gem added.
"Great..." Hayden mumbled.
"I'm sure I can tame this train!" Daniela giggled through the communicator.
"It's almost impossible," Gemma frowned, "Its code is based off extinct life forms."
Kaylee groaned loudly, hitting her head on the dumpster in frustration. Not only did they have to worry about finding Dr. K and avoiding prison, but they also had to worry about the insane train in the wastes."
Suddenly, it hit her. The word paleozord was close to the word palaeontology, which was the study of prehistoric life. It was what Dr. O would teach her in science class. Dinosaurs.
"Not so extinct now," Kaylee smirked, "Hayden, do you, by any chance, have my green dino gem with you?"
"Why the hell would she... ooh," Summer spoke and Kaylee could tell by her niece's tone that Hayden had pulled it out.
"I always keep it in my jacket for luck," Hayden said.
"Good, try to see if you can tame the train with the gem," Kaylee smiled. Suddenly, the mob of people passed by the alley and one noticed them. Kaylee and the others began climbing the fence behind them to get away. "For now, we got to go. This city is filled with savages! Oh, hey, another Dr. K! Kaylee out!"
-----RPM-----
"Tame it?" Hayden growled. "How the hell do I tame a freaking train?"
"With a whip?" Mike suggested, snapping his wrist as if he were holding the whip. Hayden frowned, unimpressed. "I don't know, my parent's didn't come from the dino team."
"Neither did mine," Daniela sulked, "But if Hayden tames it, does that mean I can't drive it?"
"I don't know what it means," Hayden frowned, "But I think it would be best if we found it first."
"It went that way," Mike pointed in the direction in which the train speed off. The girls rolled their eyes.
"I didn't know my cousin was a Sherlock Holmes," Summer snapped sarcastically, taking the lead.
"What about Greg and the files?" Daniela asked, pulling out the two files from her jacket, "We have to go back."
"We can't leave this train out here," Mike reasoned, "What if it makes its way into the city? Then we're all doomed."
Daniela looked back in the direction of the dome and sighed, "Fine... let's go."
Mike wrapped his arm around her, walking alongside the young red head, "We'll save Greg soon, I promise."
"Come one, crazy train, come out, come out wherever you are!" Hayden called while Summer rolled her eyes at the young brunette. Mike laughed and smiled at Dani.
"See, Hayden'll draw it out and we'll be riding that hunk of junk back home in no time."
-----RPM-----
"Come on, Dr. K, where the hell could you be hiding?" Kaylee muttered, leading the Rangers through a deserted region of the city. Ziggy was right behind her, looking down every street and every alley for the missing doctor.
"Dr. K? Are you around here?" he called, but received no answer. His head dropped back in frustration as he looked at the control tower, where the colonel would spend most of his day.
"Where would Dr. K run and hide?" Scott asked.
"In the last place we would think of finding her?" Dillon suggested. Ziggy frowned, turning to the black Ranger.
"Say that again."
"In the last place we..."
Dillon didn't finish. Ziggy was already halfway down the street, with Kaylee in tow.
"I know where she is!" he called, dragging Kaylee behind him. The boys, Ronny, Samantha and Gemma exchanged looks and shrugged, running after him.
The Rangers arrived at the tower at the same time as the Colonel. He pulled his gun out, pointing it at Dr. K. She was sitting by the main computer when he yelled to her.
"Step away from the computer!" he said. Dr. K turned to him, but didn't budge. Colonel Truman grew angry, "I said, step away from the computer!" he yelled again, but louder. Dr. K did as she was told, fearing the gun in the Colonel's hands.
Kaylee and Ziggy ran over to the doctor, putting themselves in front of her protectively. The Colonel glared at them, then the rest of the team.
"How the hell did all of you get in here?" he asked.
"Well, when everyone's out in the city, it's not that hard," Dillon smirked.
Kaylee stepped forward, pushing Dr. K behind her, "Colonel, put the gun down. You know this isn't right."
"She created Venjix!" the colonel yelled, waving the gun around dangerously. Ziggy made sure that if the Colonel shot, there was no way it could hit the defenceless doctor. Kaylee was protecting her from the front and her left side, while he stood on her right.
The Colonel continued his rant, "She unleashed him into this world! Her and those other genius brats brought forth the end of the world! They killed billions and ruined all our lives!"
"Colonel, calm down..." Kaylee tried to reason. The Colonel didn't take it.
"And you all knew about it!" he yelled, "You knew Dr. K and that Gregory kid were criminals, but you didn't say a word! You're working with her..."
"We didn't tell you because we didn't think it mattered that Dr. K created Venjix!" Scott frowned. The colonel growled, turning to his youngest son.
"It doesn't matter?" he asked, standing over the young boy. "You don't think it matters who killed your brother?"
"Dad, it wasn't on purpose!" Scott argued.
"Colonel, Dr. K and Greg created the Venjix, but they didn't want this," Kaylee said, "They were prisoners! Taken as children and forced to work on developing technology for the government! Hayden and the others are out there finding proof for you."
"We just wanted to go outside," Dr. K muttered with a slight hint of fear in her voice. "We wanted to be kids! We wanted to play like everyone else... I wanted to know who I really was."
"Colonel... please," Kaylee breathed, "I've been head of city and responsible for protecting it. If I thought Dr. K was a menace, she would have been in jail long ago!"
"You're working with her!" the colonel screamed.
"And if I was a traitor, this city would have been destroyed long ago! Think about it, Colonel! I'm a fucking former Ranger! I've served on so many teams and I still have access to all the weapons from those days. I could take this entire city out with both hands tied behind my back. Why would I wait if I was working with Venjix?"
The colonel turned to the picture of him and Marcus, sitting on his desk.
"Did he know?" he asked, keeping the gun pointed at Kaylee and Dr. K. "Did Marcus know about Dr. K?"
Kaylee shook her head, "He didn't," she whispered. "He had no idea..."
"Dad, the Rangers... we only found out a few months ago," Scott assured his father, "And we were all angry as hell when we did. But when Dr. K told us why she unleashed Venjix, and her intentions with it, we realised... she's a good person. She just... she did a bad thing."
"She's trying to redeem herself, Colonel," Ziggy said. "Her and Greg... He assisted her with some of the harder codes. When they wanted to release the Virus, it was only meant for Alphabet Soup. But she didn't have the time to upload the firewall to keep it from spreading, and that's exactly what it did."
"How can I believe you?" the colonel asked, "How can I trust you now?"
"We all do things we regret," Dr. K said, stepping forward. Kaylee and Ziggy eyed Col. Truman's gun carefully. "But if we don't learn from them, and move towards a brighter future, we pay twice."
Tears were brimming Dr. K's eyes as she spoke, "Colonel, if I could access the space/time continuum long enough to undo what I did, I would. But it's not possible. So instead, I'm trying to fix what I've done by stopping my creation. I'm ready to do anything to make sure Venjix is destroyed and we can all try and go back to living a normal life, without fear of what's on the other side of the dome."
Kaylee smiled, "Colonel, I'm one of the fortunate ones. In the evacuations, all my friends and family made it safely to Corinth or NewTech. I didn't lose anyone. Most people did. But because me entire family is living in fear of what could happen, I want to make sure they are protected. There is nothing I value more than my family. I only want to protect them from Venjix. That's why I'm fighting today. That's why destroying Venjix means so much to me. If anyone did side with Venjix, I would dispose of them long before you or the rest of the city found them out."
"Kaylee..."
"Dr. K is the only person I trust to help me. She's the only person who can create the technology and the weapons that will destroy Venjix! I found her just after she left the Soup, and she helped me bring Project Ranger to life. We've been working together for three years now, and I love her to death. But, Mason Truman, you know that if I found out she was a traitor, nothing would stop me from exiling her."
"Then why didn't you?" the colonel asked. "When you found out, why didn't you kick her out of the city?"
"Because... I didn't believe she could endanger the dome. We were all mad at her, sure, but deep down, we all knew she wasn't to blame."
"Dad, let Greg go and let us all off the hook," Scott begged, touching his father's arm. He reached for the gun, and slowly lowered it. "Don't let Marcus' death keep you from thinking straight."
"I'm sorry," the Colonel nodded, dropping the gun. "I'm sorry, Dr. K."
Dr. K smiled and nodded.
"What about Greg?" Ronny asked, "You have to let him go."
The Colonel turned to Ronny. He smiled at her and grabbed a pen and paper. He quickly wrote something down, folded the paper, and handed it to Ronny.
"This is an official release, signed by me, telling the guards the release Gregory Hartford immediately," he said. Ronny took the note and ran off to the prison to rescue her nephew from jail.
The Colonel turned to Scott and the Rangers, "I'll alert the city and tell them that the accusations against you were false. They don't need to know what happened."
Kaylee smirked, poking the Colonel, "Now that I'm not accused of treason, I'm your boss again, which means after you make the announcement, I can fire your ass for pointing a gun at me."
The colour in the Colonel's face disappeared as he stood, afraid Kaylee might do as she said, but the blonde laughed.
"I'm just kidding," she said, "I don't have a replacement yet... but Hicks seems like he's doing a great job... note to self, Kaylee, promote him to Colonel and fire the current one."
Colonel Truman laughed nervously, playing along with Kaylee insanity, before the communicators and the morphers all beeped.
"Um, Aunt Kaylee, how the hell is Hayden supposed to tame the train?" Summer's scratchy voice spoke. "It ripped off her hand... again... and again... and again..."
"Summer, stop, I get it," Kaylee sighed, "I can't help you..."
"A train?" Dr. K asked, "What kind of train?"
"It's the Paleozord," Mike answered, "And it's seriously trying to kill us! The dino gem's not working."
Dr. K thought of a solution. If the Paleozord was released, someone needed to get in under control before I really went insane. She didn't know how, but if the dino gem was her only lead, she was going to try and work with it.
"Try combining the old dino gem with your morpher, Hayden," the doctor announced. "There should be enough power to control the locomotive."
"Um, not to be rude, Dr. K, but were the hell have you been for the past few hours?" Dani asked. "What's happening in there?"
"Greg and I have been pardoned, Dani, you don't have to worry about us anymore. Just focus on the train!"
"Sweet, can I drive it?"
"We'll talk about it," K sighed. Dani grumbled, and Dr. K could here communication was about to be cut off, but Dani spoke again.
"Um, Dr. K, we found something important while searching the Soup," she said. "You'll be interested..."
"I appreciate the gesture, Daniela, but I want nothing more to do with that place..."
"We learned your name."
The room fell silent as Daniela's words sunk in. Kaylee, the boom-twins and the Rangers all knew that Dr. K desperately wanted to remember her name. They would sometimes catch her going through old files to see if there was anything that would spark her memory, but she would find nothing and get herself all worked up. It sounded silly, but Dr. k thought that if she knew her name, she could find her old files with ease and locate where she came from, who she really was, and who her parents were.
But right now, that didn't matter. The Paleozord was a danger to everyone as long as it wasn't controlled. Dr. K pushed back her tears.
"Focus on the Paleozord, Daniela," she said. "Just... don't forget my name. I'll work from here and see if I can help you four."
-----RPM-----
Once Hayden had been told to combine her mothers' gem with her morpher, she got to work.
First she had to figure out how the rock was going to fit.
"Damn slot," she grumbled, "Why the hell weren't you made the fit a rock?"
Summer chuckled slightly at her cousin, while trying to come up with a solution.
"Wait a minute," she said, "Hayden, the gems bonded with our parent's DNA, right?"
"Duh," Hayden frowned, trying to force the rock in.
"And when parents make babies, the children receive the DNA... so the gems would... in a way, be bonded to us as well."
"Ew, it's bad enough getting the talk from my parents, now you're doing it too?" Hayden whined.
"No, dweeb, I'm saying that we only have a little bit of the link... individually."
"Ohh, team up?" Hayden asked. Summer grinned, popping her engine cell put of her morpher and tossing it to Hayden. She figured the Gem and the Cell would be able to work together, seeing as they were both created to bond with DNA. The only thing Summer worried about, was the lack of a genetic link between her and Hayden. But seeing as Mike wasn't the son of a dino ranger, this was the only option.
Hayden caught the cell and instantly it began to glow, along with her own cell and the dino gem. Hayden smiled, opening her hands to show the three items work together.
They were all pulled together as the glow became intense. Suddenly, there was a loud pop and the glow died. Hayden looked down and spotted one engine cell.
It was both yellow and pink, with a long green stripe down the center.
"So, Hayden and Summer get to share a power up, Hayden gets to command this giant train, and I get nothing!" Dani whined. "Not fair!"
"Awesome!" both girls smiled. Hayden looked up at Summer, who nodded.
"You mother's gem, you try it out first," she said. Hayden was grinning as she put the new engine cell in her morpher.
"RPM, GET IN GEAR!" she called out, morphing into her Pink Ranger suit, with a few added features. It had the dino spikes along the side, painted in yellow, and on her belt now hung a whip.
Kaylee's old dino whip.
"Booyah!" Mike cheered. His idea for taming the train was right.
Hayden grabbed the whip in her hand and looked down, in shock that she was holding what was once her mother's weapon.
The train could be heard rumbling in the distance catching everyone's ear as they braced themselves for it to pass. Hayden readied the whip and waited patiently. When the train burst out from the forest, Hayden snapped the whip.
At the sound of the weapon, the train slowed to a stop and backed up on its tracks until the front was beside Hayden. The new powered up Ranger stepped in front of the train and smiled.
"Tamed," she said. "All aboard, my friends, we're going home!"
"This is so unfair," Dani grumbled, climbing on the train and joining her cousin on top. Hayden laughed, patting Daniela on the head. As soon as everyone was on, she snapped her whip and the train took off.
-----RPM-----
"That is so cool!" the boys smiled, admiring Hayden's suit as the team reunited after their long day.
"Hey, we share this cool suit, right Hayden?" Summer laughed. Hayden nodded, powering down. The new engine cell was broken up, allowing Hayden to replace her regular one in her morpher, put the gem back in her pocket, and return Summer's cell.
"So... wait, if you needed the engine cells..." Ziggy started.
"If I morph into Super Dino Ranger, Summer can't even morph into lame Ranger, and vice versa," Hayden sighed.
"Well, the good and the bad, right?" Scott said, wrapping his arms around the two girls. "The important thing is, we're all here."
"Thank God," Daniela nodded, kissing Greg.
Kaylee laughed, but from the corner of her eye, she could see Dr. K was eager for something. Thinking back, she remembered that the Doctor knew the Rangers kids figured out what her real name was. She took K's hand in hers and smiled.
"Actually, there's something more important," she said, "A certain doctor has been through much more than any of us can imagine, and doesn't have the luxury of knowing her real name. I think she deserves it."
Dr. K smiled up at Kaylee, and turned to Daniela. The red head pulled out the two folders, handing one to Greg and presenting the other to Dr. K.
"We found these, hoping they would prove you guys weren't traitors. It's got all your background information in it."
Greg held the folder. He was officially a doctor at the soup, so he had kept his name, just like Gem and Gemma. They were test subjects and he was an assistant. All 26 doctors were given knew names to fit with the letters of the alphabet, and over time, forgot what their birth names were. He didn't need his file like Dr. K did, but it was nice to know he was now in control of his own information.
Kaylee held a sobbing Dr. K in her arms. She knew the doctor was crying tears of joy, but she still didn't want to see the doctor crying.
Dr. K's smile, however, couldn't be any bigger as she read the name printed on the top of the folder.
"Rebecca," she whispered, "My name... my name is Rebecca."
