In the recent weeks since Ryder's temporary departure, there was one thing that suddenly crossed Kim's mind. She had the time to ponder things, especially with the pregnancy keeping her from being a gym teacher. But unfortunately, she couldn't prove her theory at the moment.
She decided to tell Tommy, the moment he got home. Which as luck would have it, was right after. It was 4 PM, so it was no surprise.
Tommy: Hey Kim. How you feeling?
Kim: I feel...well actually I'm not sure. Worried is the best way to put it.
Tommy: Worried. What's there to be worried about.
Kim: Two obvious things. Any expecting mother is worried if she's making the child right, and the other thing...Azalia and Lothor. Though...more so Lothor right now, all things considered.
Tommy: Good point. But...it seems something more then that, correct?
Kim: Well...yeah. Since I have time on my hands, and after seeing some things, I have to wonder...will the powers of the dragons cause harm to their bearers? It seems like a possibility.
Tommy: Wow. Never thought of that. And please...don't comment on that.
Kim: I won't...for now.
Kim gave Tommy a cheeky smile, which Tommy only chuckled at, before giving his girlfriend a nice, five second, loving kiss. It kept Kim's smile on for a good couple of seconds, but then her worries came back head on. Tommy saw this, and nodded.
Tommy: I'll get the team together. Should we do the analysis in the lab, on on the Ragnarok?
Kim: Don't feel like traveling, so here will do.
Tommy smiled, and nodded. He when opened up the dino lab, and helped Kim down. Once down there, he patched a video communication to Haley's Cybercafe. Not long after, Haley answered.
Haley: Tommy! Hey, what a nice surprise.
Tommy: Hey Hale.
Haley: How you guys doing?
Tommy: Good, but we may have a bit of a problem.
Haley: Oh, what kind.
Tommy: Kind that requires the rangers, and your attention. I assume that they are there, correct?
Haley: They are. I'll let them know.
The communication ended. Tommy and Kim both waited a few minutes until the rangers, and Haley arrived. Karen and Raykhan were also there. When Hanzo saw Raykhan, he halfheartedly saluted him, remembering the warrior's rank, but also remembering he's long since retired. But what was the most puzzling, was the fact that Karmyn was very feverish. She almost missed school, but she refused to.
Kim: Oh my god. Kar...you okay?
Karmyn: *cough* I think so. Feeling a bit down. But just in case, stay away. I *cough* don't want you to catch something, especially in your condition.
Kim nodded. Once everyone was seated, she pulled up a hologram of a human, with an emerald's power flowing through them.
Kim: the reason I called you all here, was because after having the time to think about it, I believe that there is an off chance that your emeralds are affecting you in more then just giving you powers.
Tyrell: Yeah. Ti's given us different attributes. Some positive, some negative.
Kim: That's not entirely what I was about to explain, but it's still a side effect, nevertheless. No...the thing I'm concerned about is, will these powers have other adverse side effects, such as various illnesses. Hence why I called Karen, Raykhan, and Haley here.
Karen: I don't exactly have experience with this, so I can't say for certain.
Raykhan. Well, miss Hart. You do bring up a very good point. Yes, it is possible that these side effects can happen. In fact, I'd say for those who can survive them, will become even stronger.
Kim: Really?
Hanzo: Yeah. But I believe that they've already passed those trials. Though they achieved that power a different way. so...I don't know.
Haley: Well I see Kim's theory. It's still a foreign substance that is flowing into the system. The Dino Thunder Rangers each had brief bouts of illnesses themselves. Dragons powers could be different.
Karmyn: Heh. What *cough* Irony. I'm sick, and you guys are talking about this.
Heather: Hmm...I wonder...
Heather pulled out a small magnet off her keychain. It was a thicker one better for holding things on a fridge, shaped like a palm tree, from a vacation she was on once in her life. She tossed it at Karmyn, and it immediately hit Karmyn on the head, and stuck to her.
Karmyn: Hey...what's the deal?
Kim: No no. this is good. It seems your fever Karmyn...isn't a normal fever. It has to be induced from your powers, which is electricity. You must either have an over abundance, or a overwhelming lack.
Karmyn: Great. At least I know what's causing it.
Carl: Well we have to try. Hit me.
Karmyn: Wha?
Carl: You heard me hun, hit me. Hit me with some thunder. Give me your best shot. We ave to know what it is.
Karmyn: B-b-b-ut...you'll get injured.
Carl: Risk I'm willing to take. Now do it!
Karmyn sighed, and coughed. She opened her palm out towards Carl, and focused her powers to it, and blasted Carl with electricity.
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... Or at least, she thought she did. Truth was, meek sparks came out. Karmyn knew she focused everything into it, but couldn't muster up even a decent attack. Raykhan looked on in concern. As did Hanzo.
Hanzo: This...was Admiral Ikazuchi's main problem, was it not.
Raykhan: Yes. She did have the occasional day where she was not herself. Same symptoms. Thought there was other, but a lot less likely days, whee she was extremely hyper, and fried everything she touched. That was when she generated to much.
Karmyn: Great. Now we know I can be sick often.
Tommy: Well we can always monitor it close enough. However, I suggest you simply stay away from your house tomorrow, because if what you said earlier was true, your parents have no idea that you're sick.
Karen: ummm...she can stay at my place. I'll keep an eye out on her.
Carl: So will I. Well just say that Ryder's back for the weekend, and wanted us to crash with him while he's here. In the meantime, she should be fed some.
Raykhan. Bad idea. Just because she has Ikazuchi's powers and element, does not mean her genetic material is the same. Aside from the emerald, I sense no dragosyn blood in her, so merely feeding the thunder ranger electricity, could be disasterous.
Suddenly, the alarsm went off. With that, Karmyn stumbled a bit, and nearly fainted. Ragnarok (at least the face) showed up on the screens.
Ragnarok: Big news guys. We got some serious trouble to deal with, with a capital S
Raykahn. Well as good as it is to see you again Ragnarok...Trouble has no 'S' in it at all.
Ragnarok: Well old friend, this one does, and this ain't no capital S either. This is an 'S' the size of a teenager. Slasheria's wrecking up the city.
Raykhan: Slasheria?
Kim: Evil monster of a bad kind. This particular one, was made by Azalia, but has since gone rogue. She's a real mean cookie, considering she's the darkside of my daughter's soul.
Raykhan: Oh...oh. Yeah touchy subject still. Well then I'm going to help.
Carl: The problem is, we can't destroy her. Not only is she an evil ranger, using powers from the Zeo generation, but she's also a spectralis.
Raykhan (extremely surprised): GREAT SCOTT!
Hanzo: I know, it's heavy.
Jake: The worst of it is, she's a wind user, and with her enhanced powers, Hanzo can't do much to her.
Hanzo: Instead of talking let's go! Oh...ummm...Karmyn...stay behind.
Karmyn: Not a chance. I might be sick but *cough* I can still go.
With that, the rangers morphed, and got out there as fast as they could. They sped on their G-Riders to where Slasheria was. Slasheria was already morphed. They got off, and began to attack her from all sides, but she kept dodging their attacks, both close range and long ranged. Karmyn then had a charged up lighting javelin, but Slasheria dodged, and grabbed Slasheria, and tossed her away, into a few power lines, which collapes on top of her. Carl was shocked.
Carl: You evil little...no good witch. I'LL KILL YOU!
Slasheria: If you're going to compliment me, make sure it's isn't a lame one. Make it flattering, by calling me what I truly am.
Carl charged at her. Like all the others, he was in dragoon form, and thus the two were in the sky. Slasheria kept dodging, until Carl faked her out, and managed to ladn a diamond enhanced shield stricke to the head, causing Slasheria to fall to the ground. But she got up, and hit a few powerful gold wind blasts on Carl, making him crash and burn.
Slasheria: Vanish to the wind FOREVER!
Slasheria shot out an extremely powerful gold tonadow, which sent all the ranger backwards. And back into the ground. She then kept blasting them, until they were demorphed.
Jake: This blows.
Slasheria: Kneel before the true empress of evil. I'll take your powers away, and then, i'll erase everything you hold deal. Then...you'll cease to EXIST!
Slasheria was about to attack then again, when she suddenly felt Karmyn's whip wrapped around her, and greatly shocking her to the core. They all looked over, to see Karmyn up, with bolts flying off of her in a wild rate.
She retracted her whip, until it was a javelin, and charged right at Slasheria. Slasheria, as fast as she was, couldn't dodge or block being thrust throught by the javeling, and then hugely shocked out of her morph. Karmyn then Threw Slasheria up into the air.
Karmyn: YOU WILL SUFFER!
Karmynhad anamazing electric aura, before channeling all her power to the javelin. A massive electric ball erupted, hit Slasheria, causing a massive explosion. Radiatin of the electricity was in the air, but Karmyn quickly absorbed it. Slasheria then landed on the ground, knocked out and bleeding from the mouth. The others got up, as Karmyn picked up Slasheria, and got on her G-Rider.
Karmyn: What are you waiting for. Let's get back to the lab.
The other rangers nodded, and got on their G-riders, after quickly morphing again.
1 hour later, with Slasheria still out, she was put in a tank, and was frozen. Kim was scanning over both Karmyn and Slasheria.
Kim: Well I got some good news, and some potentially bad news.
Hanzo: Let's hear the good news first then.
Kim: Good news, is what Slasheria did to Karmyn gave her the electrical boos she needed to recover. It was to much at once, so it was good that Karmyn burned it off quickly, and got back to stable levels. Plus her capacity has increased. The potentially bad news, is that I'm not sure how long we'll be able to hold Slasheria down here. The fact that she's combined with the gold ranger powers will allow her to eventually recover and break out, but hopefully, she'll be weaker.
Tommy: I guess it's a good time to allow Trey to get his powers back, if he can.
Suddenly, the doors to the lab opened. The rangers were being a bit cautious as to whom it was, but their faces lit up, when they saw that it was a much calmer, longer haired, red and black wearing, Ryder.
Ryder: Hey guys. What's up?
Jake: Quite a bit.
Ryder: I imagine so. Is that Slasheria there?
Karmyn: Yup. I managed to defeat her. Her own fault to. She should watch where she's throwing us, because it's made 2 of us already more powerful.
Ryder: Ah. I'm guessing those power lines then. Well can't say she hasn't deserved a real smackdown. To bad though, was hoping to roast her myself.
Jake: You done you're training then?
Ryder: Yeah. At least, as much as I could do. I couldn't leave Reefside be to much longer. I'm confident though, that I've gotten full control.
Everyone was real happy to hear about that. The absolute last thing they needed was Ryder to go on a rampage again, especially in his dragon form.
