After booking Bergen and tossing him into an interrogation room to sweat, Stabler walked over to his desk and started to fill out his report. Bergen seemed pretty out of it the ride here, but was lucid every time one of them asked him something, so they didn't take him to the hospital. The fed was in the office with the captain, while his doctor friend was at the bomb-site with the NYPD's specialists, as well as some of her own team, examining the remains of the machinery there. The feddie wasn't too happy being left out of the loop like that, but Stabler and the NYPD had been screwed to many times by the FBI for him to really care too much. As Stabler got halfway through the report, a pretty blonde woman in a business suit walked into the precinct and over to his desk.
"Excuse me, Are you Detective Elliot Stabler?" She asked in a British accent.
"Yes I am can I help you?"
"Yes, my name is Susan Waters; I'm a lawyer representing Kyle Bergen. I'd like to talk to him, in private if you don't mind." Stabler's eyebrow arched.
"You got here pretty quickly. He's only been here for half an hour."
"Detective, as much as I'd enjoy pleasant conversation, I'd like to talk to my client, the sooner the better."
"What's your hurry Mrs. Waters? He's not going anywhere. And don't most lawyers have a briefcase?"
"As of right now I am merely checking on the health on my client. I happen to know that he was found underneath rubble, and instead of bringing him to a medical facility to be checked out you brought him here. I don't want to make your job harder than it has to be, I'm sure you have more cases besides this one, but I would like to see my client." Sighing, Stabler nodded and brought he lawyer to Bergen's interrogation room where, he found to his annoyance, Bergen has slipped out of his handcuffs and was laying on the table, seemingly sleeping. Without waiting for Stabler to do it for her, Mrs. Waters opened the door and walked inside. She stood there for a moment and then turned around.
"In private please, Detective. I can assure you that I will not be smuggling my client out hidden in my bra." Rolling his eyes, Stabler told a uniformed officer to watch the door and make sure only the lawyer walked out of the room, back to his desk.
As soon as he was sure that the ego-challenged detective was gone, Kyle sat up and looked at his "Lawyer".
"So Kat, come here to gloat?" The former pink Ranger smiled slightly.
"Not at all Kyle, in fact I'm here to help." She said her natural accent now back in her voice, as she reached into her pocket and held out a familiar looking red wrist watch.
Stabler looked up as the blonde lawyer walked out. Agent Booth also looked up frowning.
"Kat?" He asked out loud as the blonde turned a corner. Stabler turned to face the agent.
"Kat? She said her name was Susan Waters."
"No, I'm pretty sure that was Katharine Hilliard-Scott. She works Administration at the Jeffersonian Institute."
Hearing that, Stabler jumped to his feet and ran to the interrogation room, Booth following him. Reaching the room, he opened the door and looked around the room. There was no sign of Bergen. Cursing as he ran to the front, he grabbed one of the officers.
"There's a blonde woman about to walk out of the precinct, call downstairs and have her stopped." While Booth called the Jeffersonian in D.C., Stabler quickly ran down the stairs and went to the front, looking around.
"I called and said to stop the blonde woman, where is she?"
"Detective, we haven't seen a blonde woman." Cursing, Stabler looked around before turning back.
"Start looking around. She's a blonde woman in a tan business suit. Once you find her, place her under arrest and get her upstairs. Have a few guys look around outside. She can't have got far." Heading upstairs, he was met half way by Booth, who held out his cell showing him a picture of Susan Waters, in a black dress and red blouse.
"Is this the woman you saw before?"
"Yes that's her. She hasn't left the building, so she shouldn't be hard to find." Booth closed his phone and put it in his pocket.
"I did find her. That photo I just showed you was just taken a minute ago, from the Jeffersonian, back in Washington."
"That's impossible. She was just here. Whoever told you she's in D.C. is lying." Stabler said, annoyed.
"As a matter of fact, it was Dr. Goodman, the Director of the Jeffersonian. Hilliard-Scott has been in a meeting with him and most of the administration all morning. The only time she's been away from him in the last 3 hours has been for 15 minutes when she went to her car. There's no way in hell that she could have left D.C., driven down here, sprung Bergen who by the way we have no clue how he got out, and gotten back up there without someone noticing her being gone." Booth told him. Stabler shook his head.
"Well she found a way. It was her. I'm absolutely sure of it." Stabler told him, annoyed that the FBI agent wasn't helping more. Booth thought for a second.
"Did she have an accent?" he asked.
"Yeah, a British one. Stiff upper lip crap. Why?"
"Because Kat is Australian, not British." The Special agent told him as he walked off. Stabler looked at him in disbelief.
Lilly looked up as Chris walked back into the motel room they got. While the Pink Ranger tried to contact tried to contact the others, the Green Ranger went out to find out what he could from the local news.
"Any word on the others?" He asked as he sat down on the bed. Lilly shook her head.
"Nope, everyone's dropped off the grid. Can't say I blame them, not after this morning. What about you?"
Only thing I found out was that Kyle got hauled off to jail for blowing up the warehouse. The cops have got teams of people scouring the wreckage, but they won't find anything." Lilly jumped to her feet.
"Kyle's under arrest?" Chris put his hands on her shoulders to calm her down.
"Relax, he's Kyle. He'll come up with something. He's not about to let us down. Now, we need to rest up. We've got to be ready for a fight if they find us before we get to the docks in the morning." Not happy, Lilly sighed and went to her bed. It took a while before either of them fell asleep.
Back in Space: Major Coaster walked into the throne room of the Sicorax Warship and kneeled. The King was resting, but the Queen had ordered him to make a report to her.
"My Queen, I must report the missing was only a partial success." The Queen of the Sicorax people tilted her head at his words, getting up from the throne and walking down the steps.
"Rise, Major Coaster and make your report. Not completing a mission is not like you."
"Yes my Queen. So far it appears only two of the rangers escaped the ambush. The Rangers who didn't escape blew up their base, so it's making finding their remains difficult. Also the local authority began to arrive, and per his majesties orders, we avoided contact with them. We've had aerial beastials searching, but it appears the three that didn't escape the initial ambush have been vaporized by their own explosion." He reported. The Queen was silent as she walked to the window of the ship, looking out into space.
"What did we lose in terms of troops?" She asked after a few moments.
"We lost almost all of our Beastials and roughly 70% of our Sicorax. I must acknowledge the skills of the three Rangers that stayed however. Nearly a third of our lost forces were defeated by them." The Queen turned to face the Major.
"Impressive indeed, it was a good idea to attack them before they became a serious threat, but we aren't done yet. I feel a dark future building for us. Find the missing Rangers and make sure they join their comrades in Death. Send out fresh beastials to hunt them down, tear apart the city if you have to. I want them found. Dismissed." Maj. Coaster kneeled and left to take care of the remaining rangers.
Spencer sighed as he triple checked to make sure the trailer of the Semi-Truck was locked. Parked only a few blocks from the docks, He and Emma were prepared to bolt and make their way to the boat the moment they had to. They hadn't heard anything about the other rangers, but they knew they had focus on helping themselves right now.
The only reason Emma hadn't smacked Spencer yet because of all his sighing was she knew what he was thinking. They knew that there was a chance it was down to them, and they haven't even gotten close to the dangerous parts of the mission yet. Fighting a sigh of her own, the Yellow Ranger took off her jacket, balled it up and used it as a pillow, laying down on the seat, trying to go to sleep.
Crossing the street into an alley, Kyle looked up into the sky. It was becoming dawn; he didn't have much time left. He had to get across town and to the docks in only a few hours, or he would be left of Earth. Chuckling, he thought back to his escape from the NYPD building.
Flashback: Strapping the communicator to his wrist, Kyle glanced up at Kat. The former Pink Zeo Ranger had just explained how the teleportation abilities work on the older style communicators.
"What I don't get is, how'd you know I was in trouble? I haven't used my phone call."
"I've been keeping an ear out for any sort of strange disturbances from New York since our last meeting. When I heard of a strange explosion at the wharf, and Dr. Brennan calling her team down, I called an old friend. Justin Stewart, former Blue turbo Ranger, works for the NYPD. When he told me you were arrested and thrown in here, I was able to teleport to my house; grab Jason's old communicator, and teleport here. As soon as I leave here, I'm going to teleport back to work. They won't know I was ever gone. Now remember, the communicators are pretty old and don't have much juice, you'll only be able to teleport once so make it count."
"Will Mr. S be mad I'm using his old watch? He may have gotten old and fat, but I'm pretty sure he can still kick my ass." The Zeo leader joked. Kat rolled her eyes and walked out. After she left, Kyle waited a few second, then stepped into the corner of the room and teleported out. Finding himself behind a Goodwill store, Kyle immediately ditched his Ranger issue jacket and stole a hoodie. Pulling the hood up, he began the long and alley ridden trip to the docks.
With nearly an hour to go, he was just a few blocks away when he found himself in an alley, face to gun with a detective he remembered seeing at the police station, an older man. M-something. He started to put his hands up when the Detective spoke.
"A group of detectives are being attacked by some strange monsters not far from here. The same monsters that the Power Rangers have fought at least twice now. The police are being overwhelmed. I want to ask you…can you do anything about it?"
Kyle paused, thinking. This officer obviously knew, or at least had a good feeling about his abilities to help. He didn't have much time before the others took off into space, but he couldn't abandon people in need. Biting his lip, he turned to look up at the sky.
"What time is it?" The Detective looked at his watch.
"7:49, why?" He might be able to make it, but once he showed up no doubt more Sicoarx would appear. But could he really abandon people in need? "Sorry man. I'd help any other time, but I have a space shuttle to catch." Running past him, he looked back and saw the detectives shoulders drop.
Munch cursed. He was sure that Bergen and his friends were the Power Rangers, and if that was the case, they would be able to help. However, it appeared his was wrong. As he reached for the radio to let them know he was on his way, when he heard a frustrated yell. Turning around, he saw a red blur running in the direction of the officers in distress.
Looking up, Emma and Chris nodded to Lilly and Spencer as they joined up with them.
"Any word from Kyle?"
"No, I think we may have to leave without him. I'd love to get him out, but do we really have the time? I mean-"an explosion a few blocks away cut Spencer off from his sentence. Running out onto the docks, the spotted the source of the explosion. Looking at each other, they all nodded and began running to the source.
When Fin woke up this morning, there were some things he expected, some things he didn't. Being attacked by mutant monsters he found incredible and would have filed under "strange stories Munch likes." But seeing a figure in red, leaping at the monsters, waving a sword and screaming "Die Al-Qaeda" was something he doubted he would ever forget. Seeing him having his hands full with a group of them, the veteran detective launched himself at a monster sneaking up on the red figure, punching it as hard as he could, nearly breaking his fist but succeeding in knocking it out. As he took a deep breath to try and get back in the fight, 4 lasers of different colors began to strike the creatures, as the other 4 Zeo Rangers arrived to help.
"I thought I told you to get going?" Kyle asked as he kicked a beastial.
"You did, but it's not 9 yet. Plus, all 5 of us are here. Artillitron isn't going anywhere without a pilot, remember?" Chris replied. Kyle was silent for a moment, slightly embarrassed about having not thought of that.
"Ok then, let's make these chumps into chunks and bail. We've got work to do." Pulling out their Power Weapons, they charged at the group of beastials and Sicorax. Aided by the NYPD, they managed to hold their own against the superior numbers. As they formed the Zeo Power Blaster, they took aim, an energy blast nailed them from behind, scattering them. As they dragged themselves to their feet, ready to defend themselves against a pincer attack, 5 red/yellow lines stuck the group, followed by large balls of energy, blasting the beastials apart. Looking over, the Power Rangers noticed 5 men in brown jumpsuits, wearing large backpacks and holding off devices in their hands.
"Well what do you know; Proton Streams and Boson Darts do work on these things." One said said as he fired another red/yellow "proton stream" at the beastials.
"Well of course they do Ray, they fry everything else." Another man sarcastically said as he fired yellow energy balls at some Sicorax. As the Zeo Rangers and their new allies regrouped to fight, a white lightning bolt zoomed by, tackling the Sicorax. The Lightning bolt became a guy in a red jumpsuit with an F! on his chest, blue shin and black super sayian like hair.
"Hellllooooo Bad guys. I'm here in the story!" As that, the Zeo Rangers looked at each other and shrugged, before charging back into the battle. Together with their strange allies, they managed to surround the remaining Sicorax.
"Let's bring out the big gun and finish this." Lilly suggested as the group took positions
"Zeo Power Cannon". Loading the Crystals into the chamber, they took aim.
"FIRE!" Launching the massive blast, they finished off the last of the Sicorax. The guy in the red jumpsuit jumped forward.
"My work here is done. Good bye people!" He yelled dramatically, before running down the street with his arms out, making whooshing sounds.
"Ok, who the hell was that?" Lilly asked. Seeing that no one knew, she shrugged and joined the other Rangers.
"We better bail before more show up." Kyle said. The Zeo Rangers all left as reporters began to show up. Getting to the boat, the demorphed and loaded up, before heading out to onto the water.
Special Agent Booth rubbed his knuckles as he stood on a bridge alongside Stabler and Fin. They, along with a few other more fit officers, had the best luck against the monsters, which seemed to only be pretty strong and weren't affected by conventional gun fire. As they talked of what had happened, the ocean a few miles out began to bubble, and a massive train like object flew out of the water, heading higher and higher until it disappeared from view.
On Board the Artillitraon.
"Well, we should be in position in a few weeks. Did anyone have the presence of mind to grab a game boy, or a 360? Maybe a deck of cards?" Spencer asked as he turned around in the pilot's chair. The Rangers looked at each other and dropped their faces into their hands. "This is going to be a long flight."
Looking at each other, the Rangers did the most logical thing anyone could do under those circumstances.
"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are there yet?"
Took longer than I thought, but I ended up rewriting the ending of the story. Originally the ending featured the TMNT and had the Zeo Rangers fleeing from the Police and Coast guard. I'll try to have the last chapter up, but since the entire ending has changed it will take a bit longer. I'm also working on a Star Wars: Kotor story, as well as my new job so please bear with me, and as always, Read and Review.