Author's Note: I'd like to apologize for how long this chapter took me to get out. Since it took me so long, I did make this chapter a little longer than my other chapters. I am a college student and have been really busy recently. Since my school projects have deadlines and this is a side project for me, it's been put on the back burner while I take care of some other, more pressing, projects. However, I have not forgotten about this, and plan to continue working on this story. Hope you enjoy chapter 10. Please read and review. Thanks!
Chapter 10
The rangers teleport back into the Command Center.
"Welcome back, Rangers." Zordon says.
"Zordon, we've got a major problem." Jason says. "Rita's got her hands on D.E.T.A.'s super ranger powers."
"I am aware, Jason." Zordon says. "This makes it even more imperative that we retrieve your powers."
Billy turns to Alpha. "You said you've located my communicator?" Billy asks.
"That's right, Billy." Alpha says. "I will pull up a map of the D.E.T.A. facilities. Please, take a look at the viewing globe." The rangers all turn to the viewing globe as Alpha presses a few buttons on the computer. A 3 dimensional map of the D.E.T.A. facilities is pulled up. There are 4 levels of the facilities. "Billy's communicator is located on the bottom the 4 floors. There's only one staircase leading to this level."
"Well, that's great." Zack says. "Even if the morphers are there, how are we supposed to get there? That staircase is probably heavily guarded."
"That facility is heavily guarded." Trini says. "How are we supposed to even get in?"
"Yeah, it's not like there just going to let us walk in there." Kim says.
"That's exactly what they're going to do." Billy says.
"You got a plan, Billy?" Jason asks.
"Yeah." Billy says. "Their super ranger powers were stolen and we know this. It would really rude of not to pay Commander Harrison a visit and let him know."
"I like the way you think, Billy." Jason says.
"Yeah, but that still doesn't explain how to get to the morphers." Kim says. "Commander Harrison's office is up on the highest floor, 3 stories above where the morphers might be."
"Well, not all of us need to go and talk to Command Harrison." Zack says. "After all, he and I didn't exactly see eye to eye. Why would I want to help him? While you guys keep him, and hopefully the guards, busy, I'll sneak down to get the morphers."
"I don't want you going alone." Jason says. "If you're the only one who doesn't show up, they'll think something is up."
"Then I think Kim should go with Zack." Billy says.
"Me?" Kim asks. "Why me?"
"Well no offense, Kim, but Jason is the leader and, to an outside, Trini and would be seen as the more rational members of the team. It wouldn't make sense that one of us would not show up. You, on the other hand, didn't really say that much at our last meeting. You were clearly uncomfortable, and it would make sense that you wouldn't want to put yourself in that situation voluntarily."
"Plus, your gymnastics skills might come in handy when trying to sneak around." Zack points out.
"I guess that makes sense." Kim says.
"Be warned, Rangers." Zordon says. "Once you enter the D.E.T.A. headquarters, Alpha and I will be unable to contact you."
"I will print you off a copy of the map." Alpha says. She presses a few buttons on the computer and a map starts printing out. Once it finishes, he hands it to Zack. "Please, be careful, rangers."
"We'll be careful." Jason says. "Alright guys let's go." He nods at Alpha, who presses a few buttons on the computer and the rangers teleport away.
Goldar drags Tommy into Rita's palace. He walks to Rita and hands her the Power Coin.
"My mission was successful, empress." Goldar says.
Rita looks at the coin. "Excellent, Goldar." She says. Then she looks at Tommy. "Who is this and why have you brought him here?"
"My queen, I know the user of the Green Rangers powers is not my call, but this boy is a skilled fighter." Goldar says. "He fought me in attempt to protect the Power Coin, and was able to defeat the putties with ease."
"I will see for myself how skilled a warrior he is." Rita says. "Take him to the Dark Dimension! When he awakens, call the putties, and attack him. If he survives, he could be a suitable Green Ranger candidate."
"Yes my Queen." Goldar says. He grabs Tommy and then pulls out his sword. Goldar pulls his sword across his chest and disappears along with Tommy.
Finster walks into the room. "Did I hear correctly?" Finster says. "Was Goldar successful in capturing the Green Ranger power coin?"
"You heard right." Rita says.
"Can I examine the coin?" Finster says.
"Of course." Rita yells. "I was planning on having you do that anyway."
Rita hands Finster the coin and he takes it into his laboratory.
"Soon, the Earth will fall, and I will rule it!" Rita shouts. Then she laughs manically.
The rangers teleport onto a hill right outside of the D.E.T.A. facilities. Rain is coming down. The rangers crouch, hoping they were not seen. They look at the gate at the front of the facilities and see that it is guarded by two guards.
"OK guys." Jason says. "Billy and I are heading in. Hopefully we'll get one of the guards to take us to Commander Harrison."
"What about the other one?" Kim asks.
"That's where Trini comes in." Jason says. He looks at Trini. "As soon as the first guard leaves, wait about 10 seconds then come running in. Say you weren't sure if you wanted to come with us or not, but decided last minute to come. Ask him to take you to us."
"What if they don't cooperate?" Zack asks. "You're plan depends on them letting you guys in, and it's not like they're going to just let anyone in today a highly guarded government facility."
"You're right." Trini says.
"If they don't let us in, I guess we'll have to sneak in." Jason says.
"Or, at least make them think we're sneaking in." Billy says.
"What?" Jason asks.
"Think about it." Billy says. "Our biggest priority is to get those guards away from the gate so Kim and Zack can get in. Well, if they see us trying to sneak in, don't you think they'll go try to stop us?"
"That's genius." Jason says. "Why didn't I think of that?"
"Because that plan is brilliant, and you're, well, you're a good athlete." Zack says. The others laugh, except Jason, who just shakes his head.
"Haha, very funny." Jason says. "Alright, that's the plan if they don't let us in. Now, let's go Billy." Billy and Jason get up and start running towards the facility. Trini gets a little bit closer to the facility before crouching again. Kim and Zack remain where they were.
Billy and Jason run up to the guards. "We need to see Commander Harrison, now!" Billy shouts. "It's urgent!"
"Whoa!" One of the guards shouts. "Slow down. Who are you, and how do you know Commander Harrison?"
Jason steps forward. "We're the Power Rangers." Jason says. "Or at least we were the Power Rangers. Look, it's a long story, but right now we need to talk to Commander Harrison."
"Look, kid, I don't know what you're trying to pull, but our orders are clear." The guard says. "No one, except members of D.E.T.A., gets through this gate. That means, no one."
"I understand, but our planet is in danger." Billy says.
"Sorry, kid." The other guard says. "We can't let you in. Now beat it."
Billy looks back at Trini and nods at her. She comes running towards them. "Guys, wait up she shouts." Trini says.
"You decided to come." Jason says. "How nice of you to show up, but it doesn't look like we're getting in here."
"What?" Trini asks. "Why not?"
"Because unless you're a D.E.T.A. employee, you are not authorized entrance." The guard says. "No get the hell out of here."
"Great." Trini says. "We came all this way for nothing."
They start to walk away. They walk along the fence that surrounds the facility. Billy nods and then the three of them start trying to climb the fence. The guards see this. "Hey, what are you kids doing!?" They shout and run over to the kids. At this time, Zack and Kim get up and sprint towards the gate. The guards grab Jason, Billy, and Trini off the wall and throw them to the ground. Jason looks over and see that Zack and Kim still aren't in yet, so he quickly gets up and punches one of the guards in the stomach. The guard stumbles back.
"I'm sorry, but we have to Commander Harrison." Jason says. "And you're not going to stop us." The guard who wasn't punched grabs Jason, but Trini gets up and kicks him in the side.
"Thanks." Jason says to Trini.
"You're welcome." Trini says.
Meanwhile, Kim and Zack are charging at the gate. They look over and see the other teens fighting with the guards. "We don't have much time." Zack says. They get to the gate, and find it won't open. It's locked and you need an ID badge to unlock it.
"Great." Kim says. "Now what?" Zack looks around.
"Um… I don't know." Zack says. Zack looks over and see they don't have much time left. He spots a few bushes. "Quick, into these bushes. It looks like we're almost out of time." The two of them dart into the bushes.
At the same time, Trini, Billy, and Jason are fighting with the two guards. The three of them are holding their own against the guards, but then they hear a clicking sound. They turn around to see the one of the guards pointing a gun at them. The three teens raises the hands.
"OK, kids." He says. "Now, I don't want to have to shoot you, so no funny business. Attempting to break into a government facility is a serious offense."
"We know." Jason says. "We would never do anything like this if it wasn't important."
"Shut up!" The guard yells. "I don't know what you kids thought was going to happen here, but since you guys wouldn't leave when we asked you to, now, you're going to be put in our holding cells until we can figure out an appropriate punishment for your actions." The guards grabs the 3 teens and shoves them back towards the gate. One of the guards looks at the other guard.
"I'll take these kids to the holding cell and then go let Commander Harrison know the situation." He says. "You stand watch out here. I'll be back soon." The guard sticks his gun into Jason's back. "If any of you three try to run off, I'll blast a bullet right through this guy." He then uses his ID to open the gate and shoves the ranger teens through.
Zack and Kim see this from the bushes and take a deep breath. "They've been caught." Kim whispers to Zack.
"No shit, Sherlock." Zack whispers back. "I think we can take this guard, get his ID, and get in."
The guard notices some ruffling in the bushes. He slowly walks over to the bushes and pulls out his gun. "Hello." He says slowly. "Who's there?" He asks. "I've got a gun, so show yourself." He continues walking slowly towards the bushes.
Zack looks at Kim and nods. "Now!" He shouts, and they both jump out at the guard and tackle him to the ground. He drops the gun before he is able to fire it. Zack punches the guard in the face. "I'm really sorry about this man, but we have to do this." He punches the guard again, and the guard passes out. Kim grabs the man's ID badge and uses it to open the gate.
"Let's go." She says. They run in through the gate, and the gate closes after them.
Tommy wakes up lying on the ground in a caged in area. There is smoke covering the ground. He looks around. "Where am I?" he asks to no one. He walks over to the bars encaging him. He grabs one and it shocks him. He is sent flying back to the ground. "OK, Tommy, let's not do that again." he says. He stands up and brushes himself off.
Out of nowhere, Goldar rushes towards Tommy. "So, you're awake." Goldar says. Tommy jumps back into a fighting stance.
"Where am I?" Tommy shouts at Goldar.
"You're in Empress Rita's dark dimension." Goldar explains. "She has a job for you."
"Empress Rita?" Tommy says. "You can tell her that she can forget it. I'd never work for the same side as you."
"You won't have a choice." Goldar says. He pulls out his sword and swings it at Tommy. Tommy dives under the sword and rolls behind Goldar. He kicks Goldar's back, which sends him toward the bars that are encaging them. Goldar is able to catch his balance. He turns to Tommy. "Impressive." Goldar says. "But let's just see how impressive you can be. Putties attack."
Suddenly a bunch of putties appear in the small area. Tommy just shakes his head. "These guys again?" Tommy asks. "You don't learn, do you?" A putty attempts to punch him, but he grabs the creatures fist. He flips the putty onto the ground and punches his stomach. Two other putties grab Tommy arms, trying to hold him in place, but Tommy is able to flip them both over his shoulders.
Four putties now come at him from different angles. Tommy looks around, noticing he is surrounded. He quickly assesses the situation, and charge at one of them, punching it multiple times quickly in the chest. He immediately turns and kicks one of the putties in the shoulder. He then does a spinning jump kick hitting the putty directly in the last one of the putties who surrounded him grabs him from behind, but Tommy flips the putty over his back. He turns to Goldar.
"What's the matter? Afraid to face me yourself." Tommy says to Goldar.
"Not at all." Goldar says. At his point a bright flash appears. Rita appears next to Goldar.
"You were right, Goldar." Rita says. "This human is very impressive. Nicely done, human. Based on your performance, I have chosen you!"
"Chosen me? For what?" Tommy asks.
"You will see soon enough!" Rita says. Then she waves her wand and her and Goldar disappear, leaving Tommy alone in Rita's Dark Dimension.
"What have I gotten myself into this time?" Tommy asks himself.
Commander Harrison is sitting at his desk in his office. He is shuffling through some papers when suddenly he hears a knock on his door. He opens the door to see the guard who had taken Jason, Trini, and Billy to the holding cell.
"What do you want?" Harrison asks the guard. "Why aren't you guarding your gate?"
"I was sir." The guard says. "But three teenagers tried to enter the facility at the gate. They said they were the 'Power Rangers' and had an urgent message for you. I told them to get lost, as no one enters the facility except D.E.T.A. employees, but they attempted to sneak in. Me and my partner decided it was best to take them to a holding cell for the time being."
"Three teenagers?" Commander Harrison asks.
"Yes sir." The guard responds. "Three of them."
"There were five teenagers who were the Power Rangers." Harrison says. "I wonder where there friends are. What was their message?"
"Excuse me?" The guard responds.
"Their message for me." Harrison says. "What was it?"
"We never got the message." The guard says.
"You never got the message?!"Harrison yells. "Why not?!"
"It didn't occur to me." The guard says. "Our instructions were to not let anyone in the gate. We followed those orders."
"Yes, but you could have contacted me and I could have come to the gate if the message was urgent enough." Harrison says. "More than likely their message was not important, but it would have been nice if you at least had had the common sense to figure out what the message was before dismissing it."
"I'm sorry, sir." The guard says. "Forgive me."
"Where are the teenagers being held at?" Harrison says.
"Holding block A. Cell 14" The guard says.
"I'll have to go pay them a visit." Harrison says. "I'll figure out what was so important. As for you, I want you to search the facility. There were 5 ranger teens. While it's possible only 3 of them came, I very much doubt it. I get the feeling the other 2 are around here somewhere."
"Yes sir." The guard says saluting. Harrison walks out his door and heads for the holding block.
Rita walks into Finster's lab. "Finster!" She shouts.
Finster turns to her. "My queen." Finster responds. "What do you need?"
"Have you finished examining the Power Coin yet?" Rita asks. "Our operator is ready."
"I have my queen, and I must urge you to reconsider using it." Finster says. "It's power is limited. The Power Source that it uses is poorly designed. It won't last very long in a fight."
"I didn't go to all this trouble to reconsider!" Rita shouts. "We will use the Green Ranger to destroy the Earth. What if I provided my own power source for the coin?"
"What did you have in mind?" Finster asks.
"The Sword of Darkness!" Rita shouts and then laughs maniacally.
"Of course my Queen." Finster says. "Why didn't I think of that. You can use the Sword of Darkness to enhance both the power of the coin and your control of the human who uses it."
"Yes." Rita says. "Goldar!" Goldar walks in. He bows. "Bring me the Sword of Darkness!" Rita demands.
"Right away, empress Rita." Goldar says. He turns and leaves.
Rita turns to Finster. "The time for battle is near! Soon, the world will bow down to me, and me alone!"
Kim and Zack are sneaking through the D.E.T.A. facilities. They come to hallway that splits two directions and look at each other.
"Which way?" Kim asks Zack.
Zack shakes his head. "Ah, man, I don't remember." he says. "I don't remember this part of the map."
"I think we're supposed to go left." Kim says and starts heading that way. She goes about 5 feet, and hears the sound of someone coming. She turns back to Zack. "Then again, maybe it was this way." She says running in the opposite direction.
"What's going on?" Zack asks.
"There's someone coming from that way." Kim says looking back at him. Zack quickly runs after Kim. He looks up ahead, and sees an open door. "Quick, Kim, in that room on the right." Zack says. "I think someone they're coming up on us." They quickly rush into the room that Zack spotted.
No one is in the room. There are about 15 desks, all slanted. On some of the desks, there appears to be some kind of drawings. Kim and Zack walk over to the desks.
"This must be the room where all of D.E.T.A.'s designs are done." Zack says. He shuffles through some papers, but stops when one catches his eye. "Check this out. It looks like an early blueprint for a zord." He hands Kim the paper.
"It looks like Godzilla." Kim says. She doesn't truly understand what all of the markings on the drawings mean. "This is much more complicated than anything I've ever seen." she says.
"All I know is that this thing has more destructive capabilities than our swords." Zack says. He points at some a few different things drawn on the paper. "Rockets that are fired from the 'fingers', a drill for a tail. It's like this thing was designed with the sole intention of destroying things, not for defensive purposes like our zords."
"Maybe we should get moving again, Zack." Kim says. "After all we should be looking for the morphers, not at these drawings."
"Yeah," Zack says. "Hopefully those guys have passed this room by now. They slowly open the door back to the hallway and see the guard that had caught Trini, Billy, and Jason standing there looking at them.
"Hi there." The guard says. "You two are coming with me."
"Well, that could have gone a lot better." Kim says.
"Damn." Zack says. The guard grabs both of them and takes them down to the holding cell.
Goldar returns to Rita holding a sword. The handle has a red marking and the blade does not go straight up from it. Instead it curves slightly. This is the Sword of Darkness.
"I have retrieved the sword, my queen." Goldar says to Rita. Rita turns to him and grabs the sword. She examines it.
"Ah yes, the sword of Darkness." Rita says. "10,000 years ago, when I imprisoned Zordon in his time warp, this was the sword my strongest warrior used. Now is the time for it to be used again. It will not allow me to control my ranger and take over the planet. This time, my plan can not fail. Now Goldar, go and retrieve the human from the dark dimension. It is time to give him the power of the Green Ranger."
Goldar nods and pulls his sword over his chest and disappears. Rita turns to Finster. "Isn't it magnificent?" She asks him.
"Oh yes, my queen." Finster says. "It most certainly is."
Goldar quickly returns. He is holding Tommy's arms behind his back. Tommy is struggling to escape from Goldar's grasp, but is unable to. Goldar's grip is too much for Tommy to escape from. "Here he is, empress Rita." Goldar says.
"Ah, yes." Rita says. "Thank you Goldar." Tommy once again struggles to get free, but can't. Rita nods at Goldar, and he throws Tommy to the ground. Rita hands Goldar the Sword of Darkness and then grabs Tommy's face. "You work for me now." She throws back down. Tommy grimaces.
"I'll never work for you." Tommy says. He struggles to get up but two putties come in from behind and grab him. Tommy, fatigued, is unable to escape from them.
"We'll see about that." Rita says. She grabs her wand and points it at the Sword of Darkness. Finster pulls out the Green Ranger coin and runs over next to Goldar.
"The coin!' Tommy says. He immediately tries to break free again. This time he is successful flipping the putties over and they land on their backs. Tommy tries to run in and grab the coin from Finster, but even more putties come in and tackle him to the ground.
"Hold him still!" Rita says. The putties pull him onto his feet and put him so that he directly facing Finster.
Rita swings her wand at Goldar and a bright beam of light comes out of the wand. It hit the Sword of Darkness. From the sword of darkness, another beam of light comes out and hits the green ranger coin. The coin starts to glow an eerie green color. Tommy's eyes widen.
"What's going on!?" Tommy shouts.
The coin then shoots a green light out of it and hits Tommy square in the chest. The putties let him go and he screams. Tommy drops his head. He slowly raises it back up and his eyes were now glowing the same green color as the Power Coin.
"I am the loyal servant of Rita Repulsa." Tommy says, almost robotically. "What are your orders, my queen?"
"Take the Green Ranger power coin and attack Angel Grove!" Rita says. "That is the only place in the world that has any chance of stopping me. If we conquer there, nothing can stop us."
"Yes my queen." Tommy says. He walks over to Finster. "I'll take that." He says grabbing the Green Ranger coin. Suddenly, the coin and Tommy start to glow. Then Tommy morphs into the Green Ranger.
"I've never felt this much power!" Tommy says. "I like it!" He starts to laughs maniacally. Then he teleports away.
Harrison walks into the holding area. He walks over to the cell where Jason, Trini, and Billy are.
"Hello again." Harrison says. "I must say I'm surprised to see you back here. After all, I thought I made it clear that you are no longer Power Rangers. Why have you returned?"
"It's about the Super Ranger Project." Jason says.
"Let me guess?" Harrison says. "Your friend 'Zordon' says that a human made ranger power won't be enough to defend the Earth."
"Well… Yeah, but that's not why we're here." Jason says.
"Rita stole the Green Ranger coin." Billy says.
"What?!" Harrison exclaims. The look on his face becomes very distraught.
"We tried to stop them, but we were too late." Trini says.
"Besides, I'm not sure how effective we would have been against Rita's forces without our powers." Jason says.
"You're lying to me." Harrison says. "If there as any problem with the coin my men would have informed me."
"Most of your men who were on that job are dead." Billy says. "Only one is alive, and he's in the hospital. If he had died we would have had no idea what happened."
"Are you kidding me?!" Harrison says.
"We would never kid about the safety of the world." Trini says.
"We wanted to let you know, and beg you to give us back our powers." Jason says. "We're the only ones that can stop your ranger."
"Oh… I see what this is about." Harrison says. "This isn't about the Green Ranger powers at all. The power coin is fine, isn't it? You just want me to give you your powers back. Well you can forget it!"
"We're not lying." Trini says.
"By the way, where are your other friends?" Harrison says. "Did they not think this was a big enough issue to come and tell us."
"They don't like you." Billy says very bluntly. "I can't say I blame them. I don't like you either, but I felt that you had a right to know what was going on with your 'Super Ranger'."
"That might be the first honest thing you said all day." Harrison says.
"Think again." The guard says, bringing Zack and Kim in. "I found them sneaking around the design area. They won't tell me why they're here."
"So, now I see the whole picture clearly." Harrison says. "You guys make up some story about how my powers were stolen, as a diversion. You figured that while I was busy listening to your story and worrying about it, your friends would sneak in and steal your powers back. It was quite a well thought out plan. Unfortunately it failed."
"Alright, yeah, they were going after our powers." Jason says. "But only because it was the only way we could stop your Super Ranger, which were stolen by Rita."
Harrison laughs. "I'm sure they were." He turns to the guard. "Leave them locked in here over night. Perhaps that will teach them to try to sneak into a government facility." Harrison starts to walk out when another employee runs in. This is Nathan Jones, who originally spotted the space dumpster. "Jones, what's wrong?" Harrison asks.
"I'm so glad I found you." Jones says. "I was monitoring our satellite feed when I saw a weird green glow shoot from the moon to the Earth. I wasn't sure what it was, but I tapped into some traffic light cameras in the area where the light headed, and you won't believe this, but our Super Ranger is attacking the city of Angel Grove."
"Angel Grove?!" Jason shouts.
"What?" Harrison says. "Well send in our troops. We have to stop it!"
"Sir, are you sure that's such a good idea." Jones asks. "I talked to the head of research and development and he said that nothing in our arsenal has the power to stand up to our ranger. Our troops would get creamed!"
Harrison sighs. "You're right." He says. "But we can't do nothing."
"There is one thing in you arsenal that can stop it." Jason says, smiling. "You just have to make the call."
"So, Harrison what's it going to be?" Billy asks.
END CHAPTER 10