A/N: Welcome to what's only the beginning...
"Woman must not depend upon the protection of man,
but must be taught to protect herself."
- Unknown
Her Portrait In Pink: Part 2
" What is going on in there?" Kat inquired as she stepped close enough to see the tavern, but far away enough not to disturb her zeo morphing energy.
"I have no idea, but the other rangers need our help." Dana spoke from her side. "The question is how are we supposed to destroy that device, if we don't know who is carrying it?"
"Wish we thought of that sooner." Ashley grumbled, checking their surroundings for any lurking danger. The town was built of two columns of shacks with cavities of alleyways peaking out between every few cabins. The single road that ran between the town burned tan under the hot sun, the ground pressed flat with footprints, tire tracks, and litter of glass bottles oozing with liquid substance that puffed steams of smoke.
The tavern that Trini's team was supposed to enter stood off to the right opposite from where they were now. The sound of voices reached outside the bar, but nothing clear enough for them to know if their friends were all right.
Dana edged out a bit further around the shack they hid along side of to get a clear view down each side of the street. The road was completely deserted of any life, but down the far left a stretch of alien motor vehicles parked in wait of their owners.
"Those motorcycles down there," Dana point to the line of bikes for the others to see around her. " If we blow them with our blasters, maybe we could clear out the tavern."
"And hopefully give the others all time to get away." Kat agreed with the plan. "We have to try."
"But we can't get ourselves captured either. " Kendrix reminded them. " They got both Jen's and Trini's team in there, which means they could easily get us as well."
"Not if we make the explosion big enough for them to believe they're out numbered." Ashley pointed out. "Its the only shot we got."
Kat nodded. "Let's do it!"
Meanwhile...
Hold your breath quiet now don't say a word
You could run (but) it wont do any good
Prayers forsaken when you lose faith inside
It's not time to die
Aisha watched the chaos erupt down stairs not believing a single thing her eyes just showed her.
They had all saw everything happen clearly from the balcony view as they were about to step out and try to save Tori from being shredded when it happened. There was no way Kimberly could have ran down the stairs in time to get to Tori so fast, so she jumped off the balcony ten feet in the air and somehow landed right in the middle of the bar below.
Right in the middle!
Not only was the jump insane to achieve, unmorphed, the middle of the tavern was at a wide angle that was just impossible to land without at least a good running start off the balcony.
Kim didn't even need a running start!
She just leaped off the edge, body hazing into thin pink embers that made Aisha question her sanity.
What the hell is going on? Aisha's mind screamed, completely baffled with her mouth hanging open. In a blink of eye, Dasku and the hand full of creatures surrounding Tori were tossed towards the edge of the bar in a burst of pink swells that radiated off Kim's petite frame.
She didn't even touch them!
"Oh my..." Tanya couldn't even finish her own sentence, mesmerized by the strikes of pink energy that fused through Kimberly, below them. "How did she...? How?"
The yellow ranger fought to recover some full sentences in her bewilderment.
" I have no idea." Aisha shook her own head mystified. "But that's definitely not a morphers work."
She felt the touch of a hand on her shoulder and looked to her left to find Trini. Her eyes were glued on Kim with the same masking emotions as she could only guess were the one's she was wearing herself.
" How is that possible? She's not even morphed; she can't morph! None of them can with that device Taverist told us about! Even with her power coin fully charged could she do that." Karone rambled, feeling the throbbing of the pink flares that dripped off Kim's body in to the air, causing the hairs on the back of her neck to stand and goose bumps to prickle on her arms.
Trini could only stare down at the fight scene below, her eyes mesmerized by Kim unknown power. She only glanced at Aisha as she pulled out her laser gun and spoke out an strict order.
"Its time to leave." Aisha nodded, still enchanted by the performed display of her friend.
Your life
Is it a lie
When you get what your looking for
Your cravings subside
Or will you crawl into
A casket
An early tomb
Lay down and give up inside
She'd rather die
They each pulled out there lasers and hurried to the balcony where they could get an even better view of what was happening below.
Dasku burned with vengeance as he collided in to a one-on-one battle with Kimberly. It was purely mind-blowing, the combat opened up the ground floor to give the two rooms for their astonishing performance.
Dasku was lethal, far more homicidal than even his twisted appearance gave him credit to being, his movement was a flash of spit-fire green energy that exploded with each contact his blows made, his agility was unmatchable to any ranger or monster, Aisha had ever seen. His skill and capabilities was an entire new league that would leave Golder and Zedd weeping in dread. And on top of all his abilities, his jagged sword bleed wickedly with energy across the entire blade, so each swipe of it through the air seemed to pulsate with throbbing energy to boil the skin and pop blood vessels with a cut no smaller than a paper cut!
Aisha witnessed that theory personally as the green glinted sword slashed pass a few monsters in Dasku's attempt to get Kim. Each monster that felt the swipe, lost a limb or their skin instantly swelled to a bubble of fluid that resembled the size of a baseball.
It was gruesome.
And not a single attempt could touch Kim.
Dasku was in a league of his own in mastery, but Kimberly developed a whole new level above him with her hidden expertise.
The pink ranger defied gravity, literally. When she jumped, it was well above everyone's heads and beyond longer than the average split second in mid-air. Her speed was blasts of pink mist and streaks of electricity that left you blinking disbelief, as one moment you saw her and in an instant she was somewhere else. Her arms flung out in movement of wings and a multitudes of fists that could only be seen in the bust of impact when they cracked Dasku in the face and ribs, then sent currents of energy through his body by the bucket loads. The kicks she unleashed were blinding, her keen mobility launched her into various kicking combos that knocked Dasku off his balance more than once. He was unable to regain his ground as her advances flooded him.
When you fall
So spent from emotion
She is what
Brings you to your feet
Where challenges lie
On the verge of destruction
She pulls you back
And she gives you wings
(death wont hold you as tight as she will)
Besides their private match that no one dared to intervene, the monsters bare as much as they could stand of patience and were eager to take their turn at killing a ranger.
Tori weaved her way through the attacks that came at her with attacks of her own she inherited from her study at the wind ninja academy. Skilled in water technics, she ran fluidly through the mob of punches and kicks, blocking them, before sending them to the ground with quick movement to stun them.
First up was Katie, a single roundhouse kick from Tori knocked two of the tangas of the ten monsters down. That alone was enough to topple the balance. The yellow ranger flexed, the muscles in her legs bringing her up from her knees to her feet as with one great heave, she threw the group of creatures off of her and three feet in each direction. Katie grinned and winked at Tori as she grabbed for a reptile creature by the collar and held him over her head by the arms and legs, before she hurled him at its fellow baddies that held Jen and the others, freeing them.
Jen unleashed instantly, windmilling kicks in every direction, each blow catching the neck and head of a creature. She didn't give herself time to identify. Cassie flipped forward till she landed between two large monsters of different origin, and leaped in to the air with a split kick between the two that sent each sailing in the opposite direction. Tayler was in major payback mode as she punched each exposed chest open to her and delivered elbow and knee shots, giving each being that stepped up to her, the appropriate time to gain their much, deserved ass kicking. She had no doubt in her mind that they were grateful.
That was sarcasm of course.
Alyssa crouched herself into a stance, hands flexing into forms of claws as she keyed into her tiger technic that she had mastered within the years, through her father teaching. In close combat, her hands latched on to open throats and chest, raking them her nails and plowing them with kicks and knee blows she turn her body hard into for the pain to ripple through their armor and clothing without trouble.
Can you feel her
Running through your veins
She will always live forever
(Can you bear the burden?)
Can you feel her
Running through your veins
She will always live forever
(Can you bear the burden?)
Not to far from the white ranger, Kelsey whipped her way through monster after monster in quick, energic movements, she honed through kick boxing skills. She twisted an arm of a putty till she heard a pop and then flipped over its back to an awaiting cog that hadn't expected her action.
As for Trini and her group, they rushed down stairs, their blasters cutting through the bodies of beast and mutant alike that covered every inch of the bar.
Aisha leveled her weapon at the monster that was getting ready to attack Tori from behind and fired. The monster crumbled to a heap on the floor leaving the blue ninja strom ranger to deliver a tornado kick to another approaching monster along side of her. She glanced over by the flight of stairs and saw Trini and the others firing, knocking down the large sum of mutants around her and smiled, gratefully, before continuing.
Aisha ran down the last few steps of stairs with the others in tow and instantly eloped with kicks and punches coming from all sides. A trophy martial artist, thanks to Rocky and Adam, Aisha dodged the blows to her chest and tumbled beneath them, coming up with a snap kick to the head of a monster in front of her. She turned, back handing the being to her right and shooting down another monster that leaped into the air from the bar to jump her. Instead, it landed on two quanatrons with their backs turned away from it.
Karone spun through fluttering arms and legs that lashed out at her and shot everyone in the chest that sent them spiraling to the floor, stunned. She then lowered her upper body and whipped her legs over her head to a handless flip, her blaster firing blast after blast in midair till she landed back on her feet and kicked out at a reptile creature in front of her.
Tanya plowed through the thick line of monsters and foot soldiers in various of tornado kicks, each time she landed red lines of her laser blaster spitting out energy to the beings around her. Tables and walls exploded with the impact of bodies and her weapon as they received the affliction.
You'll turn your back, you'll patronize
She's pleading
You will question your every want
She's bleeding out
She's bleeding out
She's bleeding out
It was Trini that saved her blaster for the last resort.
Feeling the vitality of the chaos fuel her passion for Kung Fu, she release it in powerful blows, Trini channeled through her fists and feet. To anyone who would see her would think she was a female Bruce Lee as she set loose an exhalation of chi, which the sudden impact alone, stunned her opponents, before she sent them crashing to the floor with a concentrated attack. Martial arts is about finding your focuses on inner spiritual development, balance, form, and mental awareness. But Trini was pissed and when tempers flared, she delivered hard and fast till no one was left standing.
It was clear, the rangers matched their rival strengths, but the numbers were overwhelming. Without their powers, Trini knew soon the help of their morphers would be what they needed to come out of this without the taking one of her friends lives.
Trini was knocked on to her back by two putties, she hadn't fought against, since her prime as the yellow ranger, her blaster flew out of her hands and skid across the wooden floor through the forest of legs of both sides. She knew she would not be able to recover the blaster in time soon. Everyone was fighting their own intense battles and wouldn't be able to help her without endangering their own selves.
Both putties were about to hook her with their fists...
POW!
When a loud explosion stopped all attacks from continuing to engage. The ground quaked knocking some off balance and some tumbling to the windows to see debris crashing to the lone road in flames.
She will always live forever
Taking the distraction as her only chance, Trini flipped on to her feet and did a round house kick to the two putties, sending them crashing on to the floor.
" Its more rangers! They're taking over Oynx!" A monster cried, being closes to the door. "I'm out of here!" He high tailed it out the door, his action and fear causing a chain reaction through the crowd as they all made it for the back door and in to the deserts sun. Trini and Jen both grinned at one another.
Reinforcements had arrived.
"Get back here, you fools!" Dasku shouted furiously after their retreat. Kimberly still crouched into a battle stance across from him. Pink energy, visible as it flowed on top her bare skin in fiery currents. He growled, stabbing his sword through the air as he glared hatefully at the former pink ranger.
"No matter. I'll finish you all by myself." He said, confidently.
"If you think you can." Jen remarked slyly as she took her position by Kim, the others following suit.
She's bleeding out
She's bleeding out
She's bleeding out
"Don't!" Kimberly barked at them. Trini looked at her best friend still hanging in shock over the energy that licked off of her. Kim's eyes never left Dasku's as she spoke. " He's mine."
Jen looked unsure. Katie looked to Jen in question, her eyes widen as if asking her if they should listen. Jen looked to Trini and slowly everyone else looked to her, but her decision didn't matter. Kimberly and Dasku raced at one another, drawing the remaining few who watched back from the incredible battle that intensified before their eyes.
They were both bleeding in blazes of power no one else possessed, but gasped at in awe.
Dasku attacked hard, but Kim countered back, twice as hard and more accurately. Trini couldn't believe her own eyes as she saw technics, she knew Kim never had when they were rangers. Not to say the former pink ranger was weak nor incapable to learn such abilities, but Trini knew her best friend long enough to know Kim rather practice her gymnastics than to spend a large amount of time enhancing her skills in martial arts. When the time called for it, Kim could hone in on combo attacks she learned from her time as a ranger and her teammates, but a majority of the time, she didn't surpass anyone in mastery or only came equal to them. Now, she could easily outmatch all them, and still be ready to take on another team or two.
Trini could see that the corners of Kim's lips tugging into a grin of amusement.
She was toying with him. Trini realized, marveled by the revelation. Kim loves every minute of this, which means if she wanted to, she could take Dasku down easily. And she knows it!
Death won't hold you as tight as she will
Trini gasped as Dasku managed to kick Kim in the pelvis and caused her to stumble back a few steps. All in the time it took Kimberly regained her footing, Dasku sent the deadly side of his sword to her side, but Kim rolled out the way and jumped, stretching out her right leg to connect a kick to Dasku's chest. He tripped over a fallen chair and went down to the floor with a loud thud, his hooded cape whipping back to reveal a small black device that glistened in the sunlight that broke through the window. Trini's eyes keyed on to it, instantly.
The triblockulator.
Trini looked around till her eyes laid upon the fallen blaster she had dropped earlier, she cocked the tip of her foot down under the weapon and snapped it upward, sending the blaster hurling up at her for her hand to catch.
Dasku recovered fast, already rising to begin his attack anew.
Trini spun towards him, the location of the device already encrypted in to her memory.
Dasku raised his sword, prepared to rush Kimberly again.
Trini aimed.
Fired.
Can you feel her running through your veins
She will always live forever
( an you bear the burden?)
Can you feel her running through your veins
She will always live forever
(Can you bear the burden?)
The steady light beam burned through the air in a column of red energy, but Dasku never saw it coming. The machine at his waist caught the blast, crackling and sizzling as sparks flared from the box and melt in its case. Dasku jumped at the sudden fire that nipped at his cape in tiny embers. He patted them out with his hand, while trying to keep his sword gripped in the other.
The rush of energy waved over the rangers and their morphers came to life.
"No!" Dasku shouted as he held the device within his hand.
"Trini, come in, it's Katherine. Can you read me?" Kat's voice filled the rangers communicators. "Jen can you hear me?" Jen glanced from Kim to Trini before she replied to the anxious ranger.
Within seconds, Kat, Dana, Kendrix and Ashely entered the tavern fully morphed before they powered down and all gazed in astonishment at Kimberly's glowing form before them. The group reformed, all in front of the door, before Dasku and Kim.
"Oh my gosh..." Kat gasped at her friend. Kimberly shivered under her friend's stunned face.
"What happened?" Ashley inquired softly, eyes never leaving the flares of pink on the original rangers body.
Kimberly looked away from their intense gaze, suddenly ashamed and uncomfortable from her exposer. She watched as the wheels turned in Trini's head and realization dawn on Aisha's face. The power her small body contained, pulsed through her, radiating her skin, like a pink beacon. The familiar warmth ran through her blood and all her senses awakened fully as they always done before. Kim clenched her fists as the energy streaked up and down her arms as they did whenever she used her power. Kim concentrated to lower the energy that swelled within her, the radiation burning off of her, reducing till her skin returned to its natural appearance.
"You fools! I'll make you pay for what you've done!" Kimberly's eyes snapped open instantly as Dasku stood up in rage and fired a neon green sphere from his hand straight at Trini and the others.
"No!"
The power within her burst free once again, she felt the pink cloud form around her, pulling her in and teleporting her in a blink of an eye. The energy within her kindled her body and flowed from her hand as she stretched a force field out in front of them. The green beam hit the field and backfired at Dasku, sending him sailing back in to the bar with a cringing thud.
He didn't move.
Kim lowered her arm from in front of her, the field retracting back through her fingers in webs. She glanced over her shoulder at the others, all of their mouths falling open with gasps.
Her eyes widen with terror.
Can you feel her running through your veins
She will always live forever
( an you bear the burden?)
Can you feel her running through your veins
She will always live forever
(Can you bear the burden?)
Trini absently took a step back and Kimberly saw the others with the same expression worn on their faces. Kimberly swallowed and looked across the tavern to where a full mirror hung behind the bar and saw twin pink orbs looking back at her. A slight tremble eloped her, but she carefully pushed it away as she shut her eyes and pushed down her powers, if only a little bit, incase Dasku decided to attack again. She looked in to the mirror again and saw her brown eyes staring back.
"How...?" Trini murmured softly, stumbling over her thoughts.
Kimberly opened her mouth to speak, casually avoiding everyone's gaze. For so many years, she knew she would one day have to explain. She had practiced what she would say, before she could say anything Tayler spoke.
" I think we should hold this conversation for later." The yellow rangers eyes inspected the pink ranger as if she were under a microscope, but Dasku's groan split her attention. "Right now, we need to get that information, so we can save our friends."
"She's right; let's finish what we came here to do." Jen agreed in an firm tone to her voice, but Trini could see the uneasiness in her eye's as they looked at one another.
Kimberly missed the exchange between Trini and Jen, happy for the delay, but business did need to be handled if they were going to ever see Tommy and the others again. She rolled her head to release the tension in her neck and stalked over to the groaning villain at her feet. Dasku scrambled back against the bar as he stared up at her in pure fear.
Good, Kimberly thought in approval.
"What- What are you? No ranger has powers like you." He said to her sternly. Now with curiosity, he said, "And the triblockulator would have for surely prevented you from using your powers."
Kimberly kneeled down in front of him till she met his eyes.
"Something, you don't want to mess with, so don't do anything stupid." The others had gathered nearby to hear. "You seem to know a lot about what's going on; tell us what you know. Where are our friend's? Who has them?"
A burst of laughter filled the wooden tavern as Dasku chuckled, manically as if he had been told the funniest thing in all the universe. His head tossed back and saliva streamed down his razor teeth and wetted his sickly yellow colored lips.
Kimberly straightened in surprise of his reaction at first, but then felt her patience and temper kick in, refueling her powers. Dasku's laugh came to a halt and a cry of pain now took over as Kim pulled him up by the neck of his cape and pushed him roughly back on to the top of the bar, his towering height half over the top of the counter. The remaining stools where knocked over on to their side and glass rolled off the counter behind the bar as the tip of his boots scraped the splinters off the floor boards. Kim's eyes were beaming with pink flames as she glared at him, holding him with far more strength than any normal girl her size would have.
Kimberly's words were icy, colder than anyone knew she was capable of forming as she spoke in a low, but firm tone. " Tell me where my friends are! Now. Or else..."
Her eyes rekindled with hot flames.
Dasku shiver in her iron on him. " Definitely not an ordinary power ranger." He chuckled softly. " I smell power, but you're still out of you league, girl. I rather meet death by you then her."
"Kim...!" Trini reached for her, but jumped back as Kimberly swung Dasku around in to a wooden chair. He collapsed in to it hard, nearly tipping over in it, but Kim made sure it was kept steady.
"The question is what will I do to you, if you don't give me the answers I want!" Kim exposed her right palm to the mirror behind the bar and a pink orb appeared within her open palm, pulsing with hot pink streaks of her energy.
"What are you doing?" Jen shouted in inquiry.
Before anyone realized what was happening, the orb left Kim's hand and sailed in to the mirror. It exploded; glass glittered with pink veins as it fell to the floor and bar around it. The aroma of alien liquor intensified as bottles popped open and emptied multi-colored liquids on to the floor, creating small pillars of white clouds of smoke and burning clear through the floors.
Dasku was frozen as he stared stunned at the results of her power, but still he knew it was a way just to get him to talk and nothing more. A smile curled his lips.
" What are you going to do? Kill me?" He said, deeply amused though the level of her power that coursed within her caused his heart to ache.
This girl, He thought amazed. I've never in my life felt such power.
Kimberly took a step closer, her hand inches from his chest.
"Try me." She challenged.
Pink energy swirled in the center of her hand, forming a small orb, running currents of electricity ran around its spherical shape.
Dasku looked, one by one, at the other rangers.
"Doesn't this go against your code, rangers?" Dasku leered. "I was merely defensive when you all evaded premises you have no right to stand foot on."
"We have a right to find our friends when your kind takes them." Trini countered back.
"The red rangers, of course..." He flashed them his best smile. " Sorry to say, I didn't grab them myself."
"Who did?" Jen demanded.
"I'll tell you what I know," He said directly to Kimberly. "If you give me your word she won't kill me."
"You have our word." Trini narrowed her gazed at Kim.
There was a brief moment of hesitation before Kimberly reluctantly lowered her hand, the orb disappearing in a buff of thin mist. The fire in her eyes died and two pools of brown dawned in their place.
" Tell us what you know." Jen said coming up to Kim's side.
" Some time ago, rumors started to reach the darkest places of the universe. I, myself, am not part of this region of the universe and I heard what was rising here. It wasn't till I got here that I felt the power, myself." Dasku started.
"What were the rumors?" Dana inquired pushing him further.
" Queen Diamond has returned to this part of the galaxy to take over what was once her fathers. You might say back before you rangers, she was the true Princess of Darkness." He eyed Karone distastefully.
" Now she is Queen, one whom isn't at all, so weak to become one of you. Wouldn't you say, Astronama. Or is it Karone now?"
Karone raised her chin, proudly. " Watch what you say, Dasku. I may be on the side of good, but I have not forgotten all I have done as Astronama." Her voice was tight with Astronama's edge and deadly venom tone. "And what I could do to you now."
"Is that right?" Dasku could only smile in satisfaction.
"Get on with the information," Katie rounded to his front. " Our friends... does this, Queen Diamond have them?"
"Yes, but if I were you I would leave them for dead. Your powers are useless against hers." He pointed his gaze at Kimberly. " Even yours, pink ranger."
"You have no idea what I can do when motivated." Kimberly shot back, boldly.
"I've witnessed enough." Dasku leaned forward in his seat. "You rangers have no idea what you are dealing with. She'll kill you, just like she'll kill your friends. That is if they're not already dead."
"If she could do that, why hasn't she shown up sooner? Why didn't I know of her?" Karone inquired.
"She was thought to be dead. When her father died many years ago, no one knew what happened to her. Not even Dark Spector. Of course then, he was a servant to her father's as you were to Dark Spector." Dasku explained.
"Why did she take the red rangers? Why not all the rangers?" Kendrix asked in curiosity.
"I don't know the answer to that." Dasku shrugged. "I've told you all I know. You'll keep your word?"
Karone leaned closer to Trini, keeping her voice down. " We should be able to get more answers from Elder Heida on Queen Diamond." Trini nodded in agreement.
" I think we got all we needed. Let's start to move out of here. "Trini looked back to Dasku. "My word is kept."
Kim folded her arms over her chest as her eyes met her appointed leader and childhood friend in annoyance. We shouldn't let him go. Kimberly mused. He said it for himself, he's not from this part of the universe, he's here for a reason.
But what else can we do, if we don't let him go?
Can you feel her running through your veins
She will always live forever
( an you bear the burden?)
Can you feel her running through your veins
She will always live forever
(Can you bear the burden?)
The answer caused fiery heat up and down Kim's arms. None that was visible to the eye.
Tanya informed Katie about Alpha being stored away upstairs and minutes later, they returned with Katie cradling Alpha 5 in her arms as if he were a newborn baby. Taverist was in tow looking around at the large mess with a displeasing eye. A string of curse words came muttered from his thin lips.
The rangers began to move towards the door, but Kimberly didn't move. Her arms were tightly folded over her chest as Dasku looked up at her, studying her as if he were looking right into her.
"I never thought I'd see the day, when a power ranger would become like you." His eye's narrowed. " Out for blood are we?"
Kimberly was disturbed by the question, but not surprised the question was asked, she had often asked herself the same thing. What have I turned into? Kim thought in disgust of herself, remembering the fear on Trini and the others faces.
"Kim?" Trini called.
" I feel it in you, pink ranger. You feel it in you." Dasku continued ignoring the others presence. Kimberly tensed at his words. " Something is dark within you. Those powers you contain are not natural, far too much for a ranger to contain. I feel it... see it in your inflamed eyes when you watch me fall to your supremacy. Your no better than the evil you fight."
Kimberly's jaw was set and her hands were now trembling fists at her sides as Dasku smiled in glee of his own revelation. But wasn't it true...? Wasn't she evil?
"Help me!"
The little girl.
Tommy.
She caused so much pain, Kim wasn't sure whom she was anymore. Or rather she should be on this mission.
The fear in Trini's eyes after she touched her.
The fear of the others after her hidden powers were put on display.
They all feared her.
She was untrustworthy. A monster.
"Kimberly," Trini's hand was placed on her left shoulder, shaking Kim from her absorbing thoughts. "It's time to leave." Kim nodded glancing briefly into her once best friend's eyes.
She was always able to tell Trini anything...
Kim nodded, but looked at Dasku one last time, her own eyes pored in to his disfigured face. Funny, how the next few words came so naturally from her lips.
" If I hear that you told anyone we were here and why...I'll find you. And then, I'll kill you."
...Times were different now.
It had to be.
Can you feel her running through your veins
She will always live forever
The rangers left from where ever they came from, leaving Dasku in their wake to ponder what had occurred, he re-evaluated the situation.
He had to admit, their attack had been unexpected this soon, the device was for future encounters and unfortunately it was the only device he contained. However, none of that mattered, the ranger they called Kimberly was immune to the stolen alien technology. She out matched him easily, and in the end, he had failed.
Failed, for the first and last time.
Dasku stood, collecting his sword from the ground as the owner of the bar went about his business in cleaning up the place. He walked up to him, his footsteps causing the loose floorboards to creak and whine beneath his weight.
"You gave them the Alpha...?"
Taverist looked up to meet his eyes, but they only saw the sole of his boots peaking through his long, dashing robes. Dasku replaced his sword back into its case at his side.
"...I worked hard to get that robot."
Dasku left, the tavern, business was permanently closed on Oynx. Rumors said, the owner lost his head.
Literally.
A/N: Lol, this chapter was nifty! I loved rewriting it! Please, please, please REVIEW! I want to hear what people think, its important to me. No flames, cause I put myself down enough for everyone, haha. I love this chapter though, so I have high hopes. Also, I'd like to dedicate this chapter to Totallysweetc for all the extra reviews written to get me to post sooner. It worked!
The song is called 'Her Portrait In Black' By Atreyu. It inspired the title and feel
of this chapter. I literally listened to it over and over till this
chapter was done being rewritten. I'm a metal head, haha. Look the video up on youtube.
Please excuse any misspellings and grammer errors. I'm stubborn today.
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