The Rangers stood in the Power Chamber watching the fight between Tommy and Jason in shock. None of them could believe this was happening.

"This is unbelievable," Rocky said shaking his head. He had never really seen Jason and Tommy fight each other. There was the time that Tommy was the Gray Ranger but somehow that seemed different. Both of them were morphed during their battles. Tommy was helpless against Jason and the Machine Empire. Just like he had been when Jason was the Gray Ranger.

"What can we do?" Kat asked. "Tommy's got to defend himself."

"How," Tanya asked, "he has no powers and he's surrounded by the Machine Empire."

"He's done it before," Billy said remembering the times he had fought with low powers or no powers at all.

"RANGERS," Zordon spoke up, "WE MUST MOVE QUICKLY TO FIND THE COORDINATES THAT WILL SEND YOU TO GASKET'S ARENA."

"I'll help Billy and Alpha," Adam volunteered.

The other Rangers went back to watching the fight on the viewing globe.


Tommy pulled himself painfully back to his feet. He quickly moved to block Jason's next move. Jason's next blow attempt hit him hard in the hand. Tommy tried to hide the pain and fought the urge to grab his hand. He knew he had to fight with one hand in order to protect his finger. Usually during a fight he had the Gold Ranger Powers to protect his finger. He was happy that Jason didn't have his sword.

"Jason listen to me," Tommy said blocking another attack.

"I'm not going to listen to any more of your lies," Jason declared. He hit him hard in the head.

Tommy fell back and put a hand to his head when he felt something start to go down his face. It was blood. This was not good.


In the Power Chamber, Kat grimaced before turning to face Billy, Alpha, and Adam. "Do you have a lock yet?"

"Just about," Adam answered.

There was a noise from one of the consoles. Rocky and Tanya turned their attention to the others.

Alpha read through the information that was displayed and said, "This is it!"

"RANGERS," Zordon said, "YOU NEED TO MORPH AND TELEPORT TO THE LAKE. WE WILL TELEPORT YOU AS SOON AS WE HAVE THE COORDINATES IN THE SYSTEM. IT IS BEST THAT YOU LEAVE FROM THE SAME PLACE THAT TOMMY AND JASON DID."

The Rangers morphed and teleported to the lake.


Tommy once again pulled himself to his feet. He was getting really tired. He wasn't sure how long he could keep going.

"Are you ready to give up Gold Ranger," Jason asked.

"Never," Tommy said breathing hard. He didn't need to look to see that his shirt was in shreds and that his pants were covered in dirt.

There was a bright flash of light bringing the other Zeo Rangers to Gasket's Arena.

"Tommy are you okay?" Kat asked as she and the others hurried over to Tommy.

"I'm okay," Tommy answered. "But we've got to help Jason. He thinks we're his enemies."

"We know," Rocky answered as he and Adam stepped in front of Tommy to allow him to catch his breath.

Jason stood there watching them intently. "More Rangers?" He asked in disgust.

Gasket stood in the box behind Jason. He was furious. This was not going according to his plan. He did not want all of the Zeo Rangers there at the same time.

"How fitting," Archerina said from next to him, "they are going to be destroyed by their own leader."

Gasket nodded. He hadn't thought of it that way but she was right. Jason was under his control and he would destroy his friends.

The Rangers struggled against Jason not wanting to hurt him. Jason, however, did not extend the same courtesy.

Tommy moved to join the Rangers and was knocked down when Tanya fell into him.

"There's got to be a way to get through to him," Tommy said when the Rangers regrouped.

"How?" Rocky asked. "When he was the Grey Ranger he only snapped out of it when Zedd ordered him to kill you in the hospital," he reminded him.

Tanya and Kat exchanged looks. They had never heard about that.

Jason took a momentary step back. Tommy, who had been watching Jason, took this as a good sign. It was very possible that Jason had heard that. He decided to use a different tactic.

"After he had cut off my finger, I didn't know what else he would do."

Tanya and Kat exchanged another look. There was so much they didn't know about the history of the team.

"You are my enemy," Jason said though his voice faltered a little. "I have to rid the universe of the Power Rangers."

"Are you sure Jason?" Tommy asked. "You've been a Ranger longer then any of us."

"Do not listen to him Sire," Gasket called from the box. "He's just trying to trick you into sparing his life."

"No Jason," Tommy said, "Gasket's the one trying to trick you. You didn't let Zedd win when he tried to make you kill me.

Jason looked down at Tommy's hand. Tommy took that as a sign that maybe he was starting to remember things.

Jason looked up quickly. "I don't know what you are talking about. I'm through talking!" He charged at the Rangers.

Adam and Rocky moved to stand in front of Tommy but Tommy put himself in the path of Jason. He knew this was probably crazy but he was willing to try anything at the moment. He held up his hand ready to block whatever Jason was about to do. Jason stopped for a moment and stared at him. Or more importantly, he was staring at Tommy's finger. Tommy really hoped his plan was not about to go up in smoke.


Jason stared wearily at the hand. He looked down at his own hand remembering a long time ago that he had stuck his hand out in friendship to him but that couldn't be right. The Gold Ranger was his enemy. It had to be a trick like Gasket said. Tommy was just trying to get him to spare his life. He was not going to fall for it.

"You give up."

He heard himself standing in front of a home with a monkey with wings and someone made out of just bones.

"No." The Ranger said.

There was a flash of light and something appeared in Tommy's hands. Jason looked at him and saw it was the Tiger Zord morpher. That was his morpher. How dare Zordon give it back to Tommy? Tommy didn't want it.

Jason shook his head. Morpher? What morpher? What did he need with this evil person's morpher and who was Zordon.

"It's Morph..." The other started to say.

Jason moved quickly. He would make sure Tommy didn't get the morpher. He lunged at Tommy with the sword and grabbed the morpher with the sword. He felt something cut away and saw it was Tommy's finger. He looked at all the blood on the ground with satisfaction.

Tommy and Jason locked eyes for a moment before Jason picked up the morpher and the finger. The morpher was damaged which made Jason angry. That was not his intention. Jason dropped the morpher to the ground and watched, as Tommy and the morpher were teleported away.

"What was that?" He demanded snapping back to attention.

"What was what?" Adam asked.

Adam. No how did he know Adam's name? Why would he know his enemy's name? Something was wrong here. They had done something to him when his attention was diverted.

"I will not fall for your tricks!" Jason declared again. You will not trick me!"

"We are not tricking you," Tanya said stepping forward. "Jason we are your friends. We are here to help you."

Tanya? No that couldn't be right.

Jason's head started to pound as another image appeared in his head.

"I don't want to be the White Ranger."

"Why not?" Kimberly finally spoke up.

"It's not mine. It's Jason's."

"And I'm giving them back." He said holding it towards him. "I only took the powers because Zordon asked me to. I never expected to keep them when you came back."

He was remembering Kimberly now. This was right before he was kidnapped by Zedd.

That couldn't be right. He had never been a Ranger! The Rangers were the ones trying to destroy the Universe.

He fell to the ground holding his head in pain. Memories were coming back so quickly he could not even begin to understand them.

"What is wrong with me?" He asked standing up.

Jason stared at the Rangers with his Zeo Pistol pointed at Tommy.

"What are you doing my King?" Gasket thundered. "They are your enemies. Destroy them!"

Everything became crystal clear to Jason and he looked at the Rangers in front of him. Tommy was standing there watching him. On one side was Tanya and Rocky and on the other side were Adam and Kat. They were all watching him. He could only see one face and that was Tommy's. Tommy was looking at him with pure determination.

There was a noise and Jason turned around to see Gasket standing behind him.

"Fight them!" Gasket yelled.

"I don't think so Gasket." Jason said. "These are my friends and I'm not going to destroy them. And we are leaving."

He stood back so that he was standing next to Tommy. He didn't even want to look at the blood flowing from the wounds on Tommy's arms.

"Try it." He challenged.

They brought up their morphers and all they got was static.

"You cannot teleport out. My force field is firmly in place again. This is the end Power Rangers."

The other robots in the arena soon joined gasket.

The Zeo Rangers prepared for a fight. There was a noise and suddenly the force field disappeared.

"Let's get out of here," Tanya said.

"We'll meet again Gasket," Jason promised.

"You can count on it."

They were gone in a flash of light.

Ddd

Notes: A lot of the dialogue from this chapter came from King for a Day Part 2 and a few scenes were borrowed from my fic Faded. I had to make quite a few changes as Finster is on another planet far away from Zedd and can't give Zedd ideas on how to fix things ;).