After Darkness Falls

"Ferral"

Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers, that is owned by Saban/Disney. Carri and all things related to Carri (including Jason's cougar ninjetti power) belong to KJ with many thanks. Everyone else belongs to me.

A/N: Kim's powers were inspired by KSuzie, but unlike KSuzie's she cannot travel between dimensions, only time. As always, reviews are appreciated. Sorry it took so long to get it up, I've been catching up on some things. But, here is chapter 10.

Jason sat in the same hanger all the red rangers met in for the Serpentera mission. At the time he had thought that they had destroyed Zedd's Zord, but now he knew better. The real Serpentera had been left in the M-51 Galaxy. Zedd had been wary of trying to make it back to Earth's moon in it, due to the amount of power it had taken to get from there to Master Vile's. So he, along with Rita and Finster, returned to the moon in one of Master Vile's vehicles and proceeded to construct a new, more compact Serpentera. Fortunately, Zedd had been unable to complete it's power up before they, along with every other villain, were called to the Cimmerrian planet by Dark Specter. Unfortunately Sarahna had somehow discovered this was now in possession of the original Serpentera. She had made it known too, destroying their Power Chamber with only a few attacks.

It had been a few days since then, and so far everything had been quiet. The commander of the NASADA compound was an old friend of Billy's from when he worked there after returning to Earth. He knew about the what the Government wanted to do with the Rangers, and he had promised not to say anything to them about the Rangers using an old hanger as their base for a while. Beneath the hanger was Billy's old lab at NASADA. He had, with the commanders permission, turned it into a back up base for the Rangers in case something like this ever happened.

"So explain to me again why we're sitting here doing nothing." Jason said as he looked from Billy to Trini. He didn't get it, they had set everything up the way they needed it. Billy had shut everything down in his lab, their new base, when he resigned from NASADA. So they had to go through and set everything back up, the alarms, the screens, everything. They had finished the day before, so he wondered what this was about.

"There's no telling what sort of effect the explosion from the Power Chamber may have had on the Zeo Crystals, we really should have checked that out first, but we didn't have the equipment for it due to everything needing to be reset in here. So that's what I'm about to do." Billy said absently as he fumbled over the computer so he could get started. He was about to walk over to Tommy when the alarm began to go off.

Jason plugged his ear and said "At least we know that works. Guess we'd better get going, you'll have to run your test later."

"Wait!" Billy called out as they teleported out.

The Rangers landed by the lake, luckily the monster had scared everyone away. The monster that Sarahna had sent down was a giant cat. "Seriously?" Kim asked as she eyed the monster.

"Ready?" Jason asked "It's Morphin' Time!" As the five Rangers moved into position and called out their morphing calls, nothing happened. "What's going on?" Karone asked as she looked from herself to the others, seeing that none of them were morphed.

"We didn't morph..." Kim said, pointing out the obvious.

Billy dropped his head as he looked at the viewing screen. "I was afraid of this..."

Trini looked at her old friend, she wasn't quite sure what happened, but she had a pretty good idea. "Do you think the Zeo Crystals are fried or something?" She asked as she placed her hand on his back.

"That's my theory." Billy said "Rangers, I need you to return to the Power Chamber immediately." He watched as the cat knocked them all back a few feet. As they stood back up they teleported back to the new Power Chamber.

Sarahna sat up in her palace laughing. She couldn't believe it, she knew she had destroyed their base, she meant to do that, but she had also destroyed their powers, that was a nice treat. "Well, it wasn't part of the plan, but it works." She said as she stood up and grabbed the Z-staff. She looked at her reflection in it. Thinking about how she had come into posession of it. She had been sent to the planet Onyx to acquire it, how it had wound up there she didn't know, and truthfully, she didn't care. All she knew was that it was there and she had killed everyone in the auction hall to get her hands on it.

"Come Xinas, let us go down to the Earth and have some fun." She said as she walked over towards her new general, Xinas. He was a humanoid wolf in bronze armor with nappy silver hair falling down upon his shoulders and back.

"Yes my queen." He said in a deep, throaty growl.

Once they arrived back in the Power Chamber the Rangers began to immediately question Billy about their powers. All of them wanted to know what had happened. "If you had let me examine them before you ran off into battle then you probably woudn't have gotten your butts kicked." Billy said as he grabbed the device needed to examine them. After he scanned all five of them he sighed and said "It's just as I thought, your crystals are burnt out. The last of their power was probably used up during the Power Chambers explosion, protecting us all from harm. I'm sorry, but you'll have to find a new power source, if there is one."

Jason set his Zeo crystal and morphers down on the table and summoned his Terra Morpher. "That won't do any good, Jason." Kim said as she too set her crystal and morphers down. "Carri's still not back yet, not until sometime tomorrow at least. That only leaves two of us, since Sarahna still has the other four Terra morphers." She could see that Jason still felt responsible for losing them, but it was done. Sure she could always go back in time and prevent it from happening, but doing so could have a drastic effect on the present here, and she wasn't about to chance that.

Karone and Zhane looked at each other, nodding their heads. "I think I may know of something that can help." Zhane said.

"How's that?" Tommy said, stepping forward.

"Well," Zhane began "there's a story on KO-35 of a secret power that Zordon created, like the Terra Powers and Dino Gems you can't choose them, they choose you. None of Zordons original warriors were able to bond with the powers, so he hid them somewhere and had Ninjor create the Dino Coins instead."

"The way Andros has put it is that these Powers are even stronger than your Terra Powers, which are also legendary on KO-35, though Zordon didn't create them." Karone finished.

Jason took a step towards them and asked "Where are these Powers supposedly hid?" He knew they needed to try something, and right now this was the closest some thing they were going to get.

Zhane looked at them and said "Well, according to the story they're hidden on the planet Phaedos, carefully watched over by Dulcea." He looked at Kim as he said that, everyone knew she had trained with the great Phaedosian warrior.

"Guys," Billy said from over at the viewing screen, "Sarahna's down here on Earth, and she brought a friend."

Jason sighed, now not only did they have a monster to contend with, they had Sarahna and a Goldar wanna-be. "Kim, you go and talk to Dulcea, see if this power really exists. I'll go and hold off Sarahna and her goons."

"I'm coming with you." Zhane said to Jason. "I'm not completely powerless, I still have my old morpher." He held up the old cell phone he used to morph into the silver Astro Ranger."

"Right, Kim get going. Zhane, you're with me, everyone else stay here. Sorry bro, I know your tough, but you do not want to take on Sarahna without your powers, trust me." Jason said to Tommy just before he and Zhane teleported out, and Kim teleported to Phaedos.

Jason and Zhane teleported down to the city where Sarahna and her new general were attacking. Sarahna looked over at the two rangers and said "Only two of you? I was hoping for a full set. Oh well, I guess torturing you will just have to do." She looked at Zhane and smiled.

"We don't need all of us to take you on!" Zhane snapped back. He sounded braver than he felt, Jason, Kim, and Carri had all faught her and thought they won before, and they had the Terra powers at their disposal. Now it was just him and Jason, one Terra, and one Astro against Sarahna, her general, and the monster.

"We'll see about that." Sarahna said as she threw one of her knives at him. Zhane instictively dodged it and watched as it went through the wall behind him.

"That's enough. You ready?" Jason asked as he glanced over at Zhane, who nodded. "Black Ranger, Terra Power!"

"Let's Rocket!"

In flashes of black and silver light Jason and Zhane stood as the Black Terra Ranger and the Silver Astro Ranger. Jason pulled out his Ice Sword and struck the ground, sending a trail of ice towards the trio. Sarahna and Xinas jumped out of the way, but the cat creature wasn't so lucky. He was frozen in a black of ice. "Zhane, now!" Jason called out to his teammate.

"Super Silverizer!" Zhane pulled out his blaster and shattered the frozen monster. "Now it's a bit more even."

Sarahna snarled at the two rangers. If not for Jason's ice power they would not have defeated her monster so easily. "Try that on me!" She yelled as she sent four flaming daggers at them. Jason managed to freeze two of the daggers, while Zhane blasted the other two.

While the two rangers were busy with Sarahna's daggers, Xinas ran around behind them. He figured he's have a better chance at stopping the silver ranger at the moment, and Sarahna wanted the black one alive, so he began running for him. He drew his sword and was about to strike when a red blade shaped like a clock hand stopped his own. "What?" He called out in surprise.

Zhane turned around, seeing just how close Sarahna's general had got to him. He also saw the person who had stopped him. "Wes."

Jason sent a trail of ice heading for Sarahna, freezing her, before turning to face the red ranger who had just saved his teammate. "Wes, Eric, what're you guys doing here?" He asked as the Quantum Ranger holstered his blaster after shooting the bronze-clad general.

"Billy called for us, said you could probably use some help." Wes said to his fellow red.

"Looks like he was right. You two were doing pretty bad by yourselves." Eric said jokingly.

"Like you'd have done any better." Zhane replied. He vaguely knew these two. He'd seen them once or twice at the ranger meetings, but he'd never actually met them. Andros knew them from the missions the reds would sometimes go on, and Zhane had heard a few stories about them, but that was it.

"I'm glad you two are here, but we'll catch up later, come on!" Jason said as he turned to face Sarahna who had broken free of the ice. The others nodded and Wes ran to go help Jason while Eric and Zhane went to take on Xinas.

Kim climbed up the rocky path she had travelled so many time before, hopefully Zhane was right, and this wasn't just a legend. Hopefully the Ferral Powers did exist. "This would be so much easier if I could just teleport up there." She muttered. Everytime she visited Phaedos, Dulcea gave her some sort of challenge. Apparently this time it was traversing the path again, without her powers. As she continued to head up the path her foot slipped and she quickly caught her balance.

As she finally made it to the top of the temple where her master resided she sighed and said "Finally!"

"Hello, Kimberly." Dulcea said with a smile on her face as she landed before her pupil. "What brings you to Phaedos?"

Kim sighed, deciding not to beat around the bush she said "I need to know, is it true that you have the Ferral Powers hidden away? If it is, I need them. My friends and I lost our Zeo Powers, and Sarahna was able to capture the Terra Powers." After she said she realized just how much of it had been jumbled together, she hoped that Dulcea was able to make sense of it all.

"I see," Dulcea said witha sigh "Kimberly, there is no guarantee that you or your friends will be able to use these Powers-"

"We have to try!" Kim interrupted her.

Dulcea cleared her throat and continued "As I was saying, but I have a feeling that if anyone can utilize the Power, it's you and your friends."

Kim's face lit up with excitement "So does that mean you'll give them to us?"

The Phaedosian Warrior held her hand up "I will. But I hid them away in a pocket dimension, much like the ones that Rita Repulsa utilized for prisoners. I can open a temporary portal into it, but if you are in and out within five minutes the portal will close and it can never be opened again. Understand?" Kim nodded her head and Dulcea proceeded to open the portal.

Kim stared into the black hole before her, inside were the Ferral Powers, the powers that she and her friends needed to combat Sarahna. Putting one foot in front of the other she began to enter the portal until she completely vanished. "Good luck, Kimberly..."

Billy, Tommy, Trini, and Karone watched in the viewing screen as the four rangers each took a beating from Sarahna and her goon. Jason and Wes were getting beat by Sarahna, while Zhane and Eric were getting beat by her general.

"They need help."Karone said, stating the obvious.

"Agreed, but if you and Tommy were to go down there you'd do more harm than good. All we can do is wait for Kim, and hope that the powers choose at least one of you." Billy said, he knew they wouldn't choose him, due to his experiment going wrong and the destruction of the Command Center he could never hold the power again. It saddened him sometimes, but he also knew tha he wwas more useful in the Power Chamber than in actual battle.

"Damn it!" Tommy said as he punched the wall. He hated being powerless, at least when his friends needed him he hated it. "Hurry back, Kim." He whispered.

A red light fizzled in and said "Someone say my name?"

"Your back!" Trini exclaimed.

Tommy smiled, he knew that she would make it back. Now hopefully he could get down there and help his friends out.

"Yes, and I brought gifts." She held up the box that contained the Ferral Mophers. "One at a time we'll see if any of us are chosen by the Powers. Karone, you go first. If you're chosen then the morpher will glow in your respective color. Just wave your hand over them."

Kim opened the box up and seven morphers, each with the shape of an animal face etched into the center, lay there. Karone walked up and did as Kim instructed, but nothing happened. Disappointed she turned and headed back to the others.

Tommy was next, he walked up and waved his hand over them, and the Crimson Tiger Morpher glowed in response. He proceeded to pick it up and put it on his wrist. As he put it on he felt the power surge through him, like none he had ever felt before.

"Billy, Trini you guys try it too." Kim said. She knew there was a strong possibility that Billy wouldn't be chosen and Trini probably wouldn't either, but she wanted to be fair about it. Both the former blue and former yellow ranger stepped forward and tried it, but nothing happened.

Billy was relieved, he wasn't sure he could handle going back into battle after all these years. He'd been a ranger techinician longer than he'd been a ranger.

Trini was somewhat saddened, it would have been great to have been chosen, but she wasn't sure it was what she wanted.

Kim was next, she waved her hand over the box and the Red Jaguar Morpher glowed. Kim picked it up and put it on, feeling the power rush through her. "Come on Tommy, let's go." He nodded and together the two Ferral Rangers teleported out to the battlefield.