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"ANOTHER RANGER!" yelled Lothor. He threw something and the psycho rangers all jumped out of the way to avoid it. "TWO RANGERS! TWO RANGERS GONE!"

Kapri and Marah stood on either side of their uncle, giggling behind their hands. "Air five, Marah!" said Kapri, extending her hand above her head. "We didn't screw this one up!"

"Oh yes!" exclaimed Marah. She returned Marah's air five. "We definitely didn't screw this one up!" She gestured to the morphed psycho rangers. "This is all their fault!"

Lothor glared at his nieces. The two of them immediately stopped talking over him. He growled at the psycho rangers. "DEMORPH! DEMORPH AND LET ME SEE YOUR FACES!"

Somewhat reluctantly, the remaining four psycho rangers demorphed. All of them were looking down, a bit ashamed at what happened. Kim took a step back from the rest of the group, shifting her weight between her legs. She knew it was her arrow that took down Rocky and wasn't exactly sure what to feel. She was angry that she had missed the blue ninja ranger and even more angrier that Rocky had gotten hit.

Lothor paced in front of them, slapping each of them across the face as he walked by them. Each of the rangers recoiled, feeling the sting of Lothor's hand.

"GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" he yelled. He slapped each of them again as they left the room. Lothor watched them leave, growling in anger.

"Good job, pink," Jason said, brushing past her. "Nice shot."

"Shut up," Kim retorted. "Shut up and leave me the hell alone."

"You know I'll do that. Don't want to be the next one to get hit by one of your arrows."

Tommy stepped between them. "Go away, Jason."

Jason looked at him and laughed. "You're seriously defending her? Her? Do you know who she is?"

"Yeah, I know. Go away, Jason. Before I make you."

Jason rolled his eyes. "You can't take me. But I'll go. Just watch your back, O fearless leader. Never know when she's going to backstab you or break your heart, right?" He laughed and walked away.

"I could take care of myself," Kim said, pushing Tommy away. "So stay the hell away from me. It should be easy for you. You've done it for years." She stomped away, glaring at him. Aisha glared at Tommy, too, and followed Kim down the hall.

"Kimberly," she said, harshly.

Kim looked back and saw Aisha standing behind her. She groaned and rolled her eyes. "What do you want?"

"I want to propose a plan."

Kim shook her head and kept on walking. "Not interested."

"You almost hit me with an arrow before. And now you've hit Rocky. You owe me."

"I owe you nothing."

"Fine. But I still have a plan."

"Again, not interested."

"Oh, I think you would be."

Kim exhaled and crossed her arms. "Just so you could stop talking to me. What do you want?"

"You and me, working together to take down the rangers. We get rid of blue first and take care of navy. You look like you're after them. Reminds you a little of the past, doesn't it?" Aisha smirked, crossing her own arms."

"Like I said, not interested."

"You sure? I'll save blue blondie for you."

Kim bit her lip, seriously thinking about it. "Fine. What's the plan?"

"We go down to Earth. Get the blue ranger out. Tell her we've seen the error of our ways and will only see her."

"They'll never buy it. There are too many of them."

"Not if we go down there in our natural form." Aisha smirked again. "You know them. Or their type. They can't resist helping others. And when we defeat them, we will be raised above the others in Lothor's eyes."

Kim slightly nodded. "Say I go along with this plan. When will we do it?"

Aisha grinned and wrinkled her nose. "Tomorrow. The woods near their base. If we can somehow find a way to get into their base, even better. But the useless green ranger isn't talking."

"Okay. The woods near their base."

"All right. Tomorrow, blue and navy go down. I'll see you later." She nodded to Kim and walked away.

Kim looked after her and smirked. "Oh, that's right. Except we'll be losing yellow along with blue and navy. Another slip of the bow should do it. And this time, I won't miss." She quietly laughed. "And when I get their powers...you will all bow down to me..."


Ashley, TJ, and Tori surrounded Rocky. TJ was holding Rocky down while Tori stood next to Ashley, assisting her in anything she needed. Ashley found some morphine among Billy's medical supplies that he brought from Aquitar and injected it into Rocky, hoping that he wouldn't feel too much pain. She didn't want to cause him any more than he already had. Ashley looked up at TJ and Tori, who both nodded to her. She was vaguely aware of Shane and Dustin commenting on every thing she was doing and the eyes of Blake, Hunter, and Carlos following her every move. She took a deep breath and held out her hand for the large tweezers that TJ found earlier.

"Do you think this'll work?" Ashley asked. "I mean, the arrowhead is pretty big."

"You could try just pulling it out," said TJ. "That's what you were going to do with the tweezers, anyway, right?"

"It's in there pretty good." Ashley wrinkled her forehead. "I guess if I could somehow maneuver the it closer to the surface and then pick it out?"

"Can't hurt to try."

"Actually, it can. I don't want to ruin his shoulder."

TJ shrugged his shoulders. "I think the arrow's already done that."

Ashley shook her head, trying to find some confidence. She briefly glanced over at Billy, Adam, and Cassie, wishing desperately that Billy was the one doing this instead of helping Adam harness the Frog Ninjetti power. "Well, here goes nothing."

TJ nodded and grabbed Rocky's hand and held down his torso. "You could do it, Ashley."

Ashley bent over, leaning closer to Rocky's shoulder to see better. She carefully inserted the tweezers into the open wound, but didn't use them like normal tweezers. Instead, she carefully felt around for the arrow head and when she knocked against it, Ashley slowly and gently prodded it upwards, toward her. She moved very slow, hoping that it wouldn't slip back inside his body somehow. So far, Rocky barely moved a muscle, almost like he didn't feel anything. Ashley continued to slowly move the arrowhead upward and soon saw a bloody point emerge. She took one hand, directing it upward, but still used the tweezers to prod it out of Rocky's shoulder.

Tori looked away, feeling a little queasy at the sight of Ashley basically performing surgery on the table in front of her. She knew that, as rangers, they healed faster than normal rangers. But she wondered if Rocky would be as lucky as Dustin. Dustin, although he was still pretty weak, looked like he was getting better every minute. Tori glanced back at Ashley, who had beads of sweat forming on her forehead. She furrowed her brow even more, using the sleeve of her gray jacket to wipe it away.

"Hold down the towel, Tori," Ashley was saying. "Put some pressure on it."

Tori pressed down on Rocky's wound. She looked down at Rocky's shoulder and began to feel a little more sick. Her breath caught in her throat and she let go. "I'm sorry," she choked out, running from the room.

TJ nodded to her, watching her leave. He looked at Shane and nodded him over. "Shane. Come here."

Shane watched Tori leave, torn between helping Ashley and TJ and going after her. Blake passed by him, lightly tapping him as he walked by. Shane nodded to him and headed toward Ashley and TJ. He carefully pulled on gloves and took the towel, pressing it down on Rocky's wound.

Blake followed Tori out of Ninja Ops and found her sitting on a rock, near the water. "Hey," he said, slowly approaching her from behind. "Mind if I join you?"

Tori looked up at him and gestured down next to her. "Feel free."

Blake sat down and bumped his shoulder against Tori's. "Crazy, huh? Everything. The psycho rangers. Adam. Rocky."

"Cam. Sensei. The space rangers. Billy."

"Yeah." He nudged her. "Hey, are you okay?"

Tori shook her head. Then she nodded. Then she shook her head again. "I don't know. We've never...we've never faced anything like this. Not even when we were fighting you and Hunter...it wasn't like this. Last time, we had Cam and Sensei to help us." She sighed and rubbed her head. "And then...Rocky, too..."

Blake's face changed. "Yeah," he said, softly. "Rocky..."

Tori looked up at him and sighed again. "Oh, Blake. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean-"

"No, it's okay, Tori. I mean...I still kind of feel like it's my fault about why he got hurt, but...I know that it was an accident. And, who knows...it probably would've been you to get hit by that arrow. And I don't know what I would've done if..." Blake trailed off, looking away.

"If what?" Tori lightly elbowed him, prodding him to continue.

"If...I don't know what I would've done if anything happened to you." Blake looked at her and smiled. He brushed her hair behind her ear. "You're, like, pretty important to me."

Tori looked down, smiling to herself. She looked at Blake and leaned into him. "You're pretty important to me, too, Blake."

Blake nodded and smiled. "So...we're both pretty important to each other."

"Yeah. Important to each other."

"Tori."

"Blake."

They stopped, laughing nervously. Blake took her hand, stroking it with his finger. "Tori...we'll get through this. We'll get Cam back, Sensei back, and the others back." Tori nodded, looking down. She didn't move her hand from Blake's. She took a deep breath and looked back at him. Blake brought his other hand up to her face and lightly pulled her toward him. He leaned into her and gently kissed her. He pulled back and grinned. "I've been wanting to do that for a long time." Tori smiled at him and Blake put his arm around her. "So...after all of this is said and done, what do you say we go see a movie together? Just me and you."

"Like a date?"

"Oh, it's definitely a date. So, what do you say?"

Tori abruptly stood up, dropping Blake's hand. She turned away from him, smiling to herself and staring out at the water.

"Tor?" Blake stood up behind her. "Tori? Is it okay?"

Tori turned around and started laughing. "Of course I'll go out on a date with you."

"Then why..."

"I didn't want to make it easy for you." She laughed again and the two of them hugged and gave each other another kiss.

"Well, well, well. Isn't this sweet."

Tori and Blake broke apart, hearing a deep, angry, and robotic voice behind them. They saw a familiar-looking short, petite figure emerge from the woods. She was wearing pink shorts and a white vest. Tori noticed that her eyes were a dark, deep red. Almost like blood.

Blake shoved Tori behind him and stood protectively in front of her. "What do you want?" he demanded.

Kim laughed and walked towards them. She grabbed a few leaves from the branches and balled it up in her hand. She threw it in the air, blowing them higher up as they fell toward the ground. "What do I want?" she repeated, almost mockingly. "I want a lot of things. But who says that I could get it?" She laughed again, inching forward. "You think that life'll be perfect? For you and your little girlfriend? Well, here's news for you: life ain't perfect. And it'll only get worse!"

"Tor, call Billy," Blake whispered. He shielded her from Kim's sight and Tori crouched behind him, raising her morpher to her mouth.

"Billy?" she whispered. "Billy, just listen. Blake and I are right outside and Kimberly Hart is here."

"What are you doing back there, blue?" Kim asked, throwing a twig in their direction.

Blake and Tori easily dodged it, but stayed on guard. "Nothing," Tori answered.

"You two..." Kim laughed again. "You're the water chick, aren't you?" Tori glared at her. "Yeah, the water chick. And I bet when you grow up, you want to be a professional surfer, don't you? Well," Kim glared at Blake. "Make sure you drop him before he forgets about you. Before he decides that other things are more important than returning a phone call. Then you leave and he's dating the girl that you trusted to take care of your powers." She turned away from them. "But, I can do a favor for you, blue. In order to save you both from heartache...why don't I just kill both of you now."

Blake grabbed Tori. "You're not getting anywhere near us!"

"Kimberly!"

Blake and Tori turned at the voice. They saw Adam and Billy running toward them from Ninja Ops.

"Kimberly!" the two of them yelled again.

Kim looked unfazed at the two new arrivals. She barely glanced at them, keeping her gaze focused on Blake and Tori.

"Kim...come with us," pleaded Adam. He took a step toward her and held out his hand.

She looked at it as if he was holding a handful of cockroaches at her. "No, I'm good here," she said. "But, it's nice to see you again, black." Kim's red eyes bored into Adam's brown eyes. She shook her head. "Actually, not so nice to see you, again." Her eyes flashed a deeper red. "I see you've lost your power."

"No, I haven't. But Kim-"

"I'm not interested."

"What are you doing down here, Kim?" he asked, gently. He still held out his hand to her.

"What am I doing here?" She brought her index finger to her chin and looked as if she were thinking hard. "Hmm...you see, I came up with this plan. If I steal the elemental powers, I will be more powerful and mightier than all! And that includes you. And your new friends."

"Why? Why do you want all that power? What's the point?" Adam was glad that Kim didn't attack yet. He was even more glad that she was keeping up a fairly civil conversation with him. He knew there is still some level of humanity within Kim that made her lay off attacking him, Billy, Blake, and Tori outright.

"Well, black, let me explain it to you. Might controls everything. Therefore, I will control everything."

"You won't be able to control your feelings."

Kim yelled out loud, grabbing at her hair. It was so loud and terrifying that birds flew from the trees. Adam took a step forward, feeling as if he were getting through to her. She growled at him and retreated a few steps back. Adam held up his hands, showing Kim that he didn't have anything to fight her with.

"Kimberly..." Billy's voice sounded broken and tired. He's known Kim since they were kids and it broke his heart, seeing her so angry. Even though she was under an evil spell, and he knew that, Billy felt as though it was different this time. And he knew it was. The other times she had been under an evil spell, Billy knew the evil was the one clouding her mind. Now, Billy knew that it was her own troublesome emotions that ruled her.

"Kim..." he said, again. "Please, just come with us. I know this isn't you. I know that deep down, somewhere, you still care. I know that all you can think about right now is your anger, but please...try to remember."

Kim looked at him as if she were noticing him for the first time. She cocked her head to the side, not completely recognizing him. "And who the hell are you?"

"I'm Billy," he said, holding his hand up to his chest. "It's me. Billy. Your friend."

Kim narrowed her eyes. She glared at him, Adam, Blake, and Tori. "Friends? I don't need friends."

Adam's heart sank at the familiar words. She said almost the exact same thing the last time she was turned evil. "Kimberly, just try to remember," he pleaded. "I'm Adam. We're friends. We are."

Kim's eyes flashed again. She looked like she was about to say something, but suddenly stopped. "And what are you doing here?" she asked, facing away from Adam and the others.

"I should be asking you the same thing." Aisha popped up from behind the bushes. "I thought we were doing this together. And tomorrow."

Kim lazily shrugged. "I saw a chance and took it. Not my fault you're not on your game."

"Aisha," Adam said, rushing forward. "Aisha, it's me. It's Adam."

Aisha ignored Adam and stood face-to-face with Kim. "You were going to betray me."

"Yeah? So? What are you going to do about it?"

Aisha narrowed her eyes and dropped into a defensive stance. Kim copied her and the two of them circled around each other.

"What are you guys...Stop it!" Adam exclaimed.

Kim balled up her fists and held them in front of her, charging at Aisha. Before she could make any contact, the two of them suddenly disappeared, leaving Adam looking around bewildered at what just happened.