"We just can't get the bleeding to stop," Dr. Evans explained as the parents of the injured rangers gathered around. They had been trying to get all of this to work, but every treatment that they tried only seemed to make things worse. "We have tried everything in our power and nothing is working."
"There must be something you can do," Annie Oliver said as Dr. Evans just shook his head. They had exhausted all of the technology that they had. "They can't die, they're only kids."
"Whatever happened to them is something that most kids never have to deal with," Dr. Evans said as the parents' merely shook their heads. The other rangers were standing off to the side, pretending to not listen to the conversation. They had known that their friends were in trouble, but in the last few hours they had figure out the magnitude of their injuries. "We're not even completely sure of out diagnosis."
"You need to be sure of that, at the very least," Doug Hart said as he certainly did not want to see his daughter die at the age of sixteen.
"We're still researching, but we haven't found a disease that would have all of these symptoms," Dr. Evans said as Billy just shook his head. It wasn't a disease, he knew that much. It had to have something to do with the fact that Mondo's death had affected all of them. Trini and Kim hadn't even been at the battle, but they had been promptly knocked out when the others finished him off.
"You're not going to," Billy said, just loud enough that everyone in the room was able to hear him.
"What do you mean we're not going to find something?" Dr. Evans asked as Billy looked back at him.
"Do you have an idea what was going on last night?" Billy asked as Dr. Evans barely nodded his head yes. It wasn't much, but it was enough to let Billy know he could carry on. "Put two and two together."
"They…they can't be," Dr. Evans said as Billy held up what looked like a watch, but it obviously was some sort of device, a very familiar device. In fact, all of the teenagers in serious trouble had that same thing.
"They are and you're just going to have to all wait this out," Billy said as the parents' looked over at him for some sort of explanation. "I wish I could tell you, but Tommy will kill me when he wakes up."
"If he wakes up," Annie said as Billy looked over at him. He could not think of that right now.
"Tommy will wake up, he still has some promises to make good on and if there is anyone he won't let down, it's Kim," Billy said as Annie just shook her head. She did not know how this boy could be so confident that her son would awake from this damn coma.
"Can I go see them?" Aisha asked, as she was thoroughly worried about all of them and she just wanted to see them. She wanted to see how they looked.
"We're not even allowed the family inside," Dr. Evans said as Aisha just threw her hands up in resignation. This was absolute lunacy. Some human contact just might be good for them right now. "It's for their own health. They are extremely weak already."
"No shit," Rocky said as Dr. Evans looked over at the young man. "You'd be weak if you had gone through that hell."
"You act like this wasn't an accident," Ben Scott said as Rocky looked over at the man.
"It was only an accident that they wound up having to do it; somebody was going to have to do it," Rocky said as they all gave him confused looks. "Tommy was the only one that was guaranteed to have to do it."
"That is absolutely idiotic," Annie said as Rocky turned to walk out. He couldn't stand her and continue to hear about things that didn't matter.
"We promised that we would stay," Aisha said as she grabbed Rocky's hand and he merely nodded. Zordon had made them promise to stay at the hospital until the others had woken up. He knew that they would need reassurances, considering everything else that had happened. "Let's just go to the waiting room."
"That's probably a good idea," Adam said as the four of them walked out of the crowded hallway and back into the waiting room. "Do you really think that they'll make it?"
"I do, but I don't know what state that they'll come back in. We have to be prepared for almost anything," Billy said as the other three nodded and he looked away from them. "They won't even be out of the woods when they wake up."
"I know," Aisha said as Rocky gently rubbed her back. He knew that she was on the verge of an emotional breakdown and whatever else happened was going to determine which way she went. "This isn't fair."
"They knew what they were getting into," Billy said as Aisha just shook her head.
"Kim wasn't even supposed to fight yesterday, we all knew that they were trying to conserve her powers. Why couldn't this have happened before she found out she was pregnant? Would that have been too much to ask?" Aisha asked as Rocky looked over at her and pulled her into a strong hug. "They won't be able to bounce back from this."
"I don't think that Zordon expects them to. He knows what is going to happen if he doesn't give them sometime," Billy said as the parents' burst back into the waiting room and sat down in the positions that they had been sitting in before the doctor called them.
"But Lord Zedd," Rocky whispered as Billy just shook his head.
"Has been greatly weakened by them. I don't know how they did it, but they were able to pull him down a lot more than we have been able to in the past couple of years," Billy said as Rocky just shook his head. He could not believe that had happened. "I think they're going to have plenty of time to rest."
"I hope so," Aisha said as Billy nodded. He had to agree with her there.
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"We have been approaching this situation incorrectly," Dr. Evans said as he walked into the room that held the five teenagers. "It seems that we are looking at five of the earth's Power Rangers."
"They're only kids," Margaret said as Dr. Evans nodded his head in agreement. He didn't know how they had been doing this, but it was obvious to him that nothing was going to stop them until they completed their mission.
"And what does that have to do with their treatment?" Dr. Griscavage asked as he was certain that their methods would eventually pay off. His medicine had never failed him before.
"I think that they need to be taken to a place that takes care of only rangers. I think we need to let the others take them to be with whoever is in charge of the ranger activity. They should surely be able to help them in ways that we would never think of," Dr. Evans said as Margaret thought about it and then nodded her head that she agreed. She knew that things were not likely to get better if they continued to take of them with their method of 'just wait and hope that everything would turn out all right'. She knew that it was far too futile to continue something like that.
"I don't think that they're parents will agree to that," Dr. Griscavage said as Dr. Evans looked over at him.
"I am not suggesting that we tell their parents; I am suggesting that we get the other rangers to visit them and the sooner the better," Dr. Evans said as Dr. Griscavage shook his head and then walked out of the room. He did not see how sending them to be with whoever sent them on this deathly mission was going to help them any. The thing would probably just send them to do something else that would nearly get them killed.
"You know that he is going to raise hell about this Mark," Margret said as Dr. Evans walked over to Kim and looked at her sweat covered face. She had had a fever ever since she got here and they had not been able to break it. They just had to do something to get them better and the only thing he could see was that they needed to go to someone that was much more experienced.
"He can raise hell all he wants, they need to go now. It's their only chance," Dr. Evans said as he turned and walked out of the room. He had made up his mind that these rangers were not going to spend another night in the hospital. They were going to be taken to the best treatment center that the rangers knew of, immediately if he could pull it off. He knew that they all had long lives ahead of them and he did not want that to be taken away because they had absolutely no clue how they were supposed to treat a ranger that was injured this badly. "Billy…"
"Yes sir," Billy said as he stood up and walked over to the doctor, who motioned for the other teenagers to follow him.
"How quickly can you get them to help?" Dr. Evans asked as Billy looked over at him, sure that this meant that he believed that they were rangers, but not much more.
"Right away," Billy said as the doctor nodded his head and then motioned for them to follow him back.
"You know that this is against every hospital policy known to man," Dr. Evans said as Billy nodded his head that he realized that. This doctor, however, realized that they were not going to get better unless they had a lot of help and it was help that he couldn't give.
"And I thank you for this," Billy said as Dr. Evans nodded as he walked them into the room, where they got to see their friends for the first time in days. They all looked horrible and were hooked up to various machines, but the only ones that needed oxygen were Tommy and Kim.
"I can't let them die," Dr. Evans said as Billy nodded as he walked over and grabbed Tommy and Trini's hands. "Before you go, you have to bring them back here so that they can be formally discharged and if you don't mind, could I get a progress report every few days?"
"Hopefully it won't take that long," Billy said as Dr. Evans gave him a shocked look. "You'd be surprised what we can do in a couple of hours."
"I trust that they'll come back in much better condition than anything I could do," Dr. Evans said as the room began sparkling with light and in a matter of seconds, the rangers were gone from his presence. He had no clue what they might possibly be able to do, but he knew that he had no other choice. The world owed at least this much to these teenagers.