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When Goldar and the putties teleported Tommy back to Rita's Castle, the first thing Tommy did was struggle out of the putties grip. He kicked the one on his left away and flipped the one on his right over. He turned around and marched up to Goldar.

"You idiot, those rangers were mine!" Tommy glared at the big golden baboon.

Goldar growled, "I had specific orders from Queen Rita to bring you back here."

Tommy huffed, "You should have let me finish them off."

"My original Green Ranger has returned!"

Tommy turned away from Goldar to see Rita smiling in the center of the room. Tommy smirked, walked over to her, and bowed, "My Queen, I am at your service."

Her smile beamed across the room, "Good, now we have a chance at destroying those rangers once and for all!"

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Bulk was nodding off in his seat next to Skull. His friend was not twitching as much, or scrunching up in pain, but that was not necessarily a good thing. He was getting worse every minute, and Bulk was not sure how long the poor boy could last. It seemed like his body was completely giving up, and had gone into a coma like state. Bulk had been exhausted from worrying about Skull and from physically holding him back from fighting. He fought staying awake, but after awhile he let his eyes stayed shut.

Alpha noticed Bulk fall asleep and got a blanket for him. The little robot was worried about the two boys. He knew that they were mean sometimes, but inside they both had good hearts. He could not believe the change he had seen in both of them since Skull had found the green power morpher. He really hoped Tommy's mission was successful and everyone could just forget about events that had taken place over the last few days.

Skull could feel himself losing his internal battle. The evil was strong inside him, and part of him thought maybe that was the only power that was keeping him alive. Everything hurt to the point where he really did not feel anything anymore. He felt disconnected from himself. It was as if he was just floating, paralyzed. Somehow he felt as though he was two different people, part of him was evil and wanted the rangers destroyed, and the other part was the old Skull, the one before finding the morpher, trying to break free. He knew Bulk was near him and that was keeping him going, if Bulk had not given up on him, then he would not give up on himself. Skull continued to fight with his evil self hoping that he could somehow wake up and get through Rita's spell.

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Rita paced back and forth, "We need a full proof plan to destroy the power rangers! I'm tired of waiting for those stupid kids to be destroyed."

Tommy was trying to think of a way to be able to get the potion from Rita. "My Queen, could I work with Finster? With my help he could actually make a decent monster that can aid me in destroying the rangers."

Rita stopped pacing and smiled, "Ah yes, good…go with Finster and make me a monster! In fact make several," She stood there for a moment, "Go!"

Tommy bowed and followed Finster to his workshop. Finster would have all the potions and books in his workshop, so Tommy hoped he would be able to find the potion that could reverse the evil effect that were coursing through Skull. As soon as they entered the workshop Finster was running around grabbing different things.

"Now the queen wants different monsters, so we need to make her some designs that she will never forget."

Tommy demorphed and stood next to Finster, who was looking at all the supplies. He was gathering up books and clay to make his monsters. Tommy grabbed a book that was marked as potions and began looking through it, Finster was busy enough that he did not notice which book Tommy grabbed. He thought he was looking for ideas. Thankfully the book was in English so he was able to tell what each potion meant. The pages were loose with all the spells on separate scrolls. After a while he found what he was looking for, it was the evil potion that Rita used on Skull. He hoped it would help him get closer to finding the antidote. There was a picture of the potion; it was green and thick looking. The passage said that anyone who took potion would turn evil after a spell was spoken. There were ingredients for the potion, but at the bottom of the page there was something that caught Tommy's eye.

The evil potion could be reversed if three more ingredients were added and a different spell was spoken. If Tommy could find the ingredients and somehow get the spell to be spoken he could save Skull. After setting the book down, Tommy looked at all the potions on Finster's table. There were all sorts of different kinds, but there was one that stood out among the rest. A large bottle that contained a thick green liquid was near the back of the table. Rita must have kept a supply around just in case she needed it. Tommy knew he had to get that potion, but he could not do it with Finster right in front of him.

Tommy walked back over to Finster and checked on what he was doing. He was busy sculpting a monster out of clay. He glanced up at Tommy before pointing to a bookshelf, "Why don't you look through some of those books, for ideas."

Tommy nodded and went to the shelf; he thought he might be able to find out how to get the ingredients he needed. Two of the ingredients from the potions book were easy enough to find, a little gold dust and heart of newt. They were already in the workshop, but there was one thing on list he had never heard of, a petal from the Star flower, there was no picture, so he would have to figure it out on his own. He looked through the bookshelf until he found one about plants and began to look through it. The plants were in alphabetical order, so Tommy flipped through the pages until he reached the S's. Near the end of the S's Tommy saw the flower he was looking for. The picture was enough to know why it was called a Star flower. It had five thick petals that made the shape of a star; the flower was red in the center but yellow on the edges. The dark purple stem had large thorns on it. The book said the plant only grew on Venus, but maybe they had one somewhere in the castle. Tommy was determined not to give up. After a moment of thinking Tommy took the book and headed over to Finster.

"What if we made a monster after this flower?" He put the book on the table and pointed to the picture.

Finster stopped sculpting to look at the page, "Ah, the Star flower. Yes that is an interesting idea for a monster, but I am not sure it has the right properties for what we are looking for. Why don't you look at poisonous plants, I think that would be better for the monsters we want."

Tommy nodded and picked up the book, "What kind of properties does the Star flower have?"

Finster did not look up, but shook his head, "I really don't have time for that now, why don't you ask Baboo, he has one, it is one of his most prized possessions."

Tommy's ears perked up; if he could just get the flower from Baboo then he could make the potion and be one step closer to getting out of there and saving Skull. There was nothing he could do about that at the moment though, so Tommy had no choice but to help Finster make monsters. He looked for poisonous plants that the rangers could easily destroy and helped Finster create monsters out of them. After a while Finster had a row of five clay monsters ready to go into the monster making machine. They had decided to attack Angel Grove first thing in the morning, so Tommy would be well rested to lead the monsters into the city. That meant Tommy would have the night to get the flower and the potion ready.

Even though it was night time not everyone was asleep. Monsters did not need as much sleep as humans, so they stayed up in the castle until late at night. Tommy waited in his room for Rita and Finster to go to bed; they were his biggest problems if they found him roaming the castle. Tommy was sure that he could talk his way out of a situation with the other monsters. Once he checked to make sure the hallway was clear, Tommy snuck into Finster's workshop and looked at the potion book again. He had to make sure everything was right. He looked around the shop until he found an empty vile. He grabbed the bottle of evil potion and carefully poured some into the empty vile. He looked around until he found the gold dust and newt parts. Once he added the dust and newt heart he shook up the potion and put it in his pocket. Before exiting the workshop, Tommy looked at the clay monsters he and Finster had made earlier. They were ready to be turned into real monsters the next day. Tommy knew that he had to help out his team any way he could, so he grabbed one of Finster's sculpting tools and added undetectable weak spots to all five monsters. He hoped that would be enough for the rangers to win against these new monsters.

Now came the hard part. Tommy had to sneak into Baboo's room and get the flower petal. He had to sneak past the throne room where Squatt and Baboo were playing a game while Goldar was strategizing. Tommy quickly snuck past them in hopes they would not see him. After he got out of their sight he breathed a sigh of relief. Baboo's room was near the end of one of the long hallways.

He opened the door and shut it gently behind him. Tommy looked around the room until his saw the flower sitting on the window sill. Under the starlight, the flower seemed to give off a bit of a glow. It was a beautiful flower. Tommy walked over to the Star flower and reached for one of its petals, he looked at the door before plucking the pedal off the flower. When he did, the flower sank down a little bit and lost some of its glow. Tommy added the red and yellow petal to the vile and shook up the contents. It immediately turned into a lighter, almost white liquid. Now all Tommy needed to do was figure out how he could get Rita to say the spell to activate the potion.

Tommy did not have time to think of that in the middle of Baboo's room, he could think of that in his own room where it was safe. He walked over to the door to leave, but just as Tommy put his hand on the doorknob he heard Baboo on the other side. This was it; Tommy's cover would be blown. There was no reason for him to be in Baboo's room, and if he saw that the Star flower was missing a petal then everyone would figure out exactly what he was up to. Tommy froze as he watched the door begin to open.

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AN: Do you hate me for leaving it on a cliffhanger? At least I am not updating these as slow as before. Thanks for reading; I hope you liked the chapter! I think there may only be one or two more chapters after this so we are very close to the end. Thanks again!