The next morning, at the base, the Rangers had finished their breakfast and were ready for Cherry to begin the Zord driving.
"Okay, Cherry, are you ready to drive?" Atticus asked.
"Oh... Yeah... Sure," Cherry said. "Just let me go to the bathroom real quick."
"You'd better be back shortly," Drell explained. "Or else you get zapped!"
Cherry's eyes widened before narrowing them. "You wouldn't."
"Wouldn't I?" asked Drell. "I definitely would if you only plan on using going to the restroom as an excuse to try and make a run for it."
Cherry blinked rapidly and soon went to the bathroom.
"I don't want you to hurt her, but that might be a good idea to get it through her system." Atticus said to Drell.
"Hey, I needed insurance to make sure she didn't go trying to weasel out of it!" Drell replied. "And now I have it!"
"She does do that sometimes," Atticus said before wiping his mouth. "Mm... That was a good breakfast."
"Oh, come on, she wouldn't do that... Would she?" Kat asked.
"Yes, she would." Patch replied.
"Sad...but true," Lionel sighed. "Much as I hate admitting it, she has her moments of trying to ditch us when we're in trouble."
Patch soon kept an ear out for Cherry for just in case.
"Don't make me come in there!" Drell called out.
"OH, GOD, PLEASE NO!" Cherry called back.
Lionel waited while playing with a ball-in-a-cup for a few minutes. Drell drummed his fingers against the table and soon went to the bathroom to see what was keeping Cherry.
"Okay, Cherry, calm down..." Cherry told herself. "You can do this... What're you so afraid of...? ...Crashing..."
"Cherry! Just calm down!" Drell called into the restroom. "Remember yesterday!"
"Yesterday...?" Cherry shivered.
"Look..." Drell said, coming to her. "I know I'm not the best teacher in the world... And you're not the most confident... But you need to relax..." he then said, trying to help her out. "I know it's scary, but it'll be worse if Divatox beats the Power Rangers without you. Can't you see they need you?"
"Need me?" Cherry shivered.
"Yeah!" Drell replied. "They need the whole group to help save the world, and you're still part of it!"
Cherry looked very scared, looking down from him.
"I know I don't say this much, but...you're stronger than you think you are," explained Drell. "You never backed down against monsters or evil space aliens, and you can't back down now. Sure, it's alright to be afraid, but you can't let your fear keep you from helping your friends. Otherwise the villains win. And that's scarier than any automobile accident."
"That's a good point..." Cherry had to admit.
"Come on... If I believe in you, what more can you do?" Drell smiled, lifting her face up so that she would look at him.
"...Okay..." Cherry took a deep breath. "I think I'm ready."
"Atta girl," Drell smirked. "Now get on out there and show that your training wasn't completely worthless!"
"All right..." Cherry said before getting a glass of water and soon tossed the glass, missing the trashcan.
"...But your aim could use work." Drell deadpanned.
Cherry rolled her eyes as she came outside. Drell soon followed after her.
"Okay, guys, let's hit the road, right?" Cherry said to the others.
"YEAH!" The group whooped as they got to their vehicles.
Cherry watched them go as she stepped backwards, bumping against Drell. Drell leaned over her slightly with crossed arms.
"O-Okay! I-I'm going!" Cherry said to him.
"Damn right you are!" Drell snapped. "You're not running off after that whole speech I gave you earlier...or ELSE."
Cherry grinned nervously and soon dashed off after the others.
Drell smirked. "That's what I thought."
"You ready or what?" asked Lionel over the CB radio.
"I think we're all good over here." Kat said to him.
"Well, alrighty then!" Lionel replied. "Let's rev up and roll out!"
Everyone soon started their engines and began to drive on out.
"I'm comin' for ya, Divatox!" Cherry called out. "You're not getting away from me this time!"
"Yeah! We're gonna kick your butt, but good!" Lionel added.
They soon rode off together.
"I'm tired..." Drell yawned as he went back inside after waving them off. "I think I'm gonna take a little nap..."
Meanwhile, Jason and Kimberly were out scuba-diving...
The two looked to each other while exploring the deep blue sea. However, they didn't know they had been spotted by Divatox's periscope.
"Well, well... Two humans, ripe for the picking, and they're headed our way!" Divatox grinned.
"Who is it?" Cassandra asked.
"Looks like two little Rangers all by themselves." Divatox chuckled darkly.
"Perfect timing!" Gem replied. "Maligore's definitely going to like this."
"What do you say we bring them over for a visit?" Divatox suggested.
"Sounds like a plan!" Elgar replied. "Time to roll out the welcome wagon!"
"It's about time," Cassandra smirked. "Poor little humans..."
"But no match for us." Gem added.
"Or myself..." said a deep, sinister voice.
Elgar blinked in surprise. "Hey, it's that voice I heard last night!" he exclaimed.
"Huh... So it is..." Cassandra replied.
"Doesn't sound very friendly," Gem added before shrugging. "But what do I care? I always said 'Who needs money when you have riches?'."
"Isn't that the same thing?" asked Elgar. "Anyways, take it from here, mysterious voice!"
"Right...well, I am also hoping to find Maligore as well..." The voice replied, manifesting itself in the shadowy form of a dark unicorn in armor with a red, curved horn on its head. "For with his power...he can restore my physical form."
"All of our wishes are sure to come true soon enough." Divatox grinned to the dark unicorn stallion.
"Excellent..." Sombra grinned back, flashing his pointed teeth.
Jason and Kimberly kept swimming together, though they seemed to stop as they felt like something was terribly wrong. Suddenly, they felt something pulling them backwards. They tried to swim forward, but they were soon being pulled, almost like they were being sucked in with a giant vacuum cleaner. The vacuum pulled them inside and dumped them onto the floor.
Jason and Kimberly yelped and looked around as they fell.
"What happened?" Kimberly frowned.
"Some kinda vacuum thing pulled us in here..." Jason replied.
"Correct... It did..." Sombra's voice told them.
"Whoa...what the heck is THAT?" Jason asked, his eyes darting around.
Sombra chuckled all around.
"Come on out!" Kimberly glared. "What do you want with us?!"
"Very well then..." Sombra replied, manifesting himself in front of the duo.
"Okay...this just got crazier..." Jason remarked, reaching for his morpher.
"Hello there... I am King Sombra." The unicorn informed.
"What do you want from us?" Kimberly demanded.
"You two...are merely my keys to gaining Maligore's power...and reclaiming my body," Sombra remarked. "And then...with Maligore's influence...Atticus will realize his true destiny."
"We're not helping you!" Jason glared.
"I doubt you'll have a choice." Sombra grinned.
"You better let us go!" Jason glared as he brought out his Morpher.
"Oh, no! It's a Morpher! I'm so frightened!" Sombra cried out before laughing. "You think that's going to stop me?!"
"Whatever, wise guy." Kimberly replied.
Sombra soon levitated their Morphers with his horn.
"Hey!" Jason and Kimberly cried out.
"I'm afraid you're not going to be using these." Sombra said, getting rid of the Morphers.
"This might be a problem..." Jason said.
Sombra soon smashed the Morphers against the wall to destroy them.
"And now it's a problem." Kimberly replied.
"Are you going to kill us?" Jason asked.
"Oh... No, no, I'm not going to kill you." Sombra said.
Jason and Kimberly looked relieved at first.
"YET!" Sombra then added.
Jason and Kimberly looked at each other, then took defensive stances.
"You children make me laugh," Sombra smirked. "Just a little silly filly and colt."
"Well, we can still stop you and beat you." Kimberly glared.
"Yeah!" Jason nodded.
Sombra just laughed at them. "I'm afraid the only pain and suffering going on around here will be your own to appease Maligore."
"Bring it on!" Kimberly and Jason replied.
Sombra soon had his horn glow which brought out chains on Jason and Kimberly made out of crystals to weigh them down. The duo struggled to escape, but they couldn't break free.
"There we go," Sombra smirked. "Aww... Uncomfortable? Ooh... Good! That should keep you children out of trouble now."
"You're not gonna win," Kimberly snapped. "The others will stop you."
"Yeah, I've heard it all," Sombra rolled his eyes. "With Maligore, we'll both be unstoppable. Not to mention, I'll finally have my heir accept his fate and destiny, even if I have to murder that so-called best friend of his."
"You haven't succeeded before...you're not gonna start now." Jason glared.
"I will keep on trying until one of us is DEAD!" Sombra glared back, furiously. "It's me or HER!"
"Then I guess you're gonna lose," Jason replied. "Cuz Atticus is always gonna pick his pals over ultimate power."
Sombra growled at him as his eyes and horn glowed.
Back at the Command Center, Grogley began to clutch his head as he grunted.
"Is there a problem?" Zordon asked Grogley out of concern.
"My head...I feel something strange..." Grogley groaned. "It's receiving a transmission...from Divatox's ship...!"
"Could I patch it through?" Alpha-5 asked the two.
"See that you do." Zordon nodded.
Alpha-5 soon began to help both Grogley and Zordon by patching through the communication.
Drell yawned and stretched as he soon came out. "What's goin' on?"
"We've got a transmission from Divatox's ship." Alpha-5 explained.
"I know it's not good news..." Drell grumbled before he went to watch and listen to the transmission with the others.
"We'll most likely have to tell the others." Zordon replied.
Alpha-5 soon put the transmission online for them all to see.
On the screen, Divatox sat, smugly sipping a glass of wine. "Zordon...it's been a long time," she smirked. "I trust you're receiving this?"
"Grr..." Drell narrowed his eyes.
"What does she want now?" Zordon sighed to himself.
"Let's cut to the chase. Grogley must surrender, otherwise...well, say hello to his mentor, Barza." Divatox explained, showing the elderly sorcerer.
"Barza..." Grogley muttered.
"What're you doing with him?" Drell grimaced at first. "He's a million years old!"
"Unless Grogley surrenders...I'll have my associate Sombra leech out his power until he's nothing but a dried-up husk." Divatox explained. "Not to mention your little friends."
At that, she showed footage of Jason and Kimberly, trapped in the crystal chains.
"Jason! Kimberly!" Zordon gasped to the hostages.
"You're still not gonna win!" Kimberly cried out. "Good always beats evil! Everybody knows that!"
"Ah, the foolish of the youth." Divatox smiled darkly.
"You can't hurt Barza!" Grogley frowned.
"It's Barza or these children..." Divatox smirked. "The choice is up to you." She then concluded the transmission afterwards.
"This is NOT good." Grogley sighed.
"What can you do in a situation like this?" Drell frowned as even he showed concern.
"Hope that the Rangers can stop her in time?" Zordon suggested.
"We have to alert them." Alpha-5 replied.
"Yes," Drell agreed before sighing. "I know Atticus isn't going to be too happy about Uncle Sombra making an unannounced visit again."
"I know I wouldn't." Alpha-5 replied.
"All right, let's get a hold of the Rangers... Hopefully they're not too far off." Drell said as he came to help Zordon and Alpha.
Alpha-5 nodded to the both of them. Zordon soon went to work on getting the others.
"Shouldn't be too hard..." Drell said. "They're probably near the desert by now."