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Chapter Thirteen: Tensou the Amnesiac
A/N: Hey guys! I finally got another chapter finished! Hope you guys are ready!
"Some day fate is beyond our command, but I know better. Our destiny is within us. You just have to be brave enough to see it." -Merida, Brave
Storm clouds were moving over Angel Grove. Prince Vekar watched the instruments on his spaceship. He nodded to himself. "Excellent! The electrical storm conditions are perfect." He turned to Damaras. "Have you located the power-mid my brother Vrak was working on?"
"Yes sire," Damaras answered. "This storm should energize Vrak's power crystal. And allow us to access the power-mid's incredible destructive force. But we must move quickly."
"Don't tell me what to do!" Vekar snapped. "Now, move quickly."
"I have deployed Commander Sirjinkor," Damaras replied, having previously predicted the prince's response. "Soon this planet will be ours."
Meanwhile, else where on the ship, Zhane watched as Andros shifted again. "What's bothering you?"
"Nothing," Andros muttered.
"I know you're lying. Tell me the truth."
"It's just..." He could feel Zhane staring at him intensely in the darkness of the cell. "Kiara's birthday must've passed by now."
"Oh."
"Yeah. Her third birthday. I should've been there."
"I'm sorry-"
"It's not your fault. I'm the one who volunteered for this crazy mission." He sighed. "I just wanted a quiet life."
Zhane snorted. "Quiet life? Andros have you met us?"
"I know, I know. I should'nt have volunteered. If I hadn't, we'd be on Earth right now and I'd be with my family."
"You did the right thing. You took the mission because you wanted to help. Because you want the universe to be safe for Kiara to grow up in. She and Ashley will understand someday. I promise."
"I hope so."
Zhane knew he'd done little to cheer up his friend, but he supposed there was nothing he could do about it. He knew Andros loved his daughter more than life itself. It was hard for him to be away like this. Which Zhane definitely understood. With everyday that passed he grew more worried about Orion, just like Andros worried about Kiara. But Orion is in more immediate danger than Kiara, Zhane reminded himself. He didn't even want to think about what would happen if the Armada found out the truth about Orion. Zhane had considered telling Andros, but was still set against it. Under no circumstances could the Armada know. They can't find out. I won't let them.
-Silver Legend-
Back on Earth, the storm was getting worse and Tensou was noticing it. "Gosei," he said, rolling towards the entrance of the command center. "I'm going outside to check on the communication module." He knew it was of vital importance they maintain the ability to communicate with the rangers at all times. A storm like this one could potentially damage it.
"Be careful Tensou," Gosei said. "I sense an electrical storm gathering. Your metal frame could potentially attract a lightning strike.
"Okee-dokee!" Tensou cheered. "I'll only be out there for a minute." He left the command center and made his way over the rocks to where the communication module was hidden. He moved pretty well over them for a robot. "Whoa!" he exclaimed when he saw the sky. "Gosei was right! Those clouds don't look friendly at all." He stopped at the edge of a cliff and could very clearly see the ferocity of the storm as it approached the city. "Oh! I'd better hurry and get back inside!"
Before he could move however, lighting struck him, electrifying his whole body. "Whoa!" His vision went dark for a second before everything came back online. "What just happened to me? Wait, I don't even know who me is." He started moving around the rocks, hoping something would jog his memory. "Who am I? Where am I? Hello?! Is anybody out there?!" he called as he moved along the rocks. Unaware he was heading the opposite direction of where he needed to go.
-Silver Legend-
In Ernie's froyo shop, Ernie was attempting to fill two cones with the delicious treat. He frowned when nothing came out of the machine as he pulled down the lever. The Rangers, minus Noah, were sitting at a table, waiting for their food. Noah walked in and spotted them almost immediately.
"Hey guys!" he said walking up to them.
"Hey!" Troy and Orion greeted.
"Hey buddy!" Jake said.
"What's up with the umbrella?" Troy asked, nodding his head at the wet umbrella Noah was shaking out.
"You kidding me? There's this freaky lightning storm going on right now," Noah said as he sat down. He shivered. He loved science, but large storms like this were a reason why he didn't really like meteorology.
"Oh," Emma smiled. "I love lighting. Well...you know, from a distance." Everyone chucked as Ernie stepped up the the front counter.
"I'm sorry guys," he said. "No froyo today. The machine's busted." Everyone groaned, including the megaforce Rangers. It didn't really matter though, because at that moment Troy's morpher went off. He opened up one side of his jacket discreetly.
"What is it Gosei?" he asked, bringing it close to his mouth. Everyone leaned in close to hear what was going on.
"Rangers," Gosei said, never one to waste time with greetings. "Tensou went outside and did not come back. I need you to find him."
"Maybe he got scared away by the storm passing through," Noah suggested. "You know, the thunder and lightning?" There was some small, collective nodding among the group.
"That may very well be Noah."
"We're on it Gosei," Troy assured him. The Rangers all got up and left the restaurant, while Ernie called someone on his, albeit ancient, cell phone.
"Fro yo repairs," the voice on the other end said the Rangers headed for the mall exit.
Back on Prince Vekar's ship, he wasn't pleased with the amount of progress that had made. "What's with the delay?! We need to harness the storm's power now! This could be our best chance to crush the Rangers and I won't lose it! Activate the power-mid and destroy them all!" he snapped at Damras.
-Silver Legend-
Tensou was in the downtown area of the city, looking for something that was familiar. "Oh," he said. "None of this looks familiar." He rolled to the edge of the sidewalk. "Why is everyone ignoring me?" He attempted to cross the street but had to roll back at the last second. "Whoa! That wasn't very nice!" A few second later he noticed a sign on the other side changed to a green person and everyone around him started moving. He followed the flow of the crowd. "Whoa!" he yelled moving around someone. "They're all too busy to even notice me! Am I really that short?"
He got across the street and saw what he thought, might be another robot. "Oh hello," he greeted the fire hydrant. Tensou though, was just glad to find something that was his own height. "Can you tell me who I am? Or anything at all?" He waited for a reply, but didn't get one. "Hello?! Fine be that way," he said turning away from what he didn't know was an inanimate object. "How rude. I wish I was taller so that they'd pay attention to me," he said as he rolled on down the street. "Maybe that furry guy can tell me who I am!" He rolled up to a yellow dog that was about his height, so he figured it was sure to see him. "Hello?! Throw me a bone here!" Unfortunately for Tensou he didn't know that dogs don't talk.
In another part of the city, Noah was searching near some railroad tracks for their missing friend. "Tensou!" he shouted. He looked around, but didn't see him anywhere.
Emma was on her pink BMX bike, searching for him. She looked a round as she rode through the city. "Tensou!" she shouted as she rode down the street.
Jake ran down another street in a different part of the city, worried about what would happen if someone besides a member of the team found him first. Or the Armada. "Tensou?!" he said, jumping on a wall to look behind it. He didn't see him and jumped back down, running down the street. Gia stopped momentarily at a street corner to look, but then continued running in her search. Everyone knew time was of the essence to find Tensou and get him back to the command center.
Tensou meanwhile, completely oblivious to the search and rescue team looking for him, stopped to admire his own reflection in a store window. "Oh!" he exclaimed. "Who's that handles me guy? Huh! Wait a minute...that's me!" A small fragment of his memory and slipped through and he recognized his reflection. "Well, whoever I am, I'm a looker." At that moment, Emma rounded the corner and stopped her bike. She smiled when she saw the little robot.
"Guys," she said into her Gosei morpher, glad that the downtown area was full of people who were too busy minding their own business. "I've spotted Tensou. I'm going in."
"Huh?" Tensou said, noticing something strange in the background of the reflection. "Oh! Another me!" Indeed, the suitcase that the man was holding did look very similar to Tensou. "Maybe he knows who I am," he said, rolling towards the man and the suitcase; oblivious to Emma who was leaning her bike gently against a store window. "Excuse me friend," Tensou said to the suitcase. "Could you please help me out?" Of course he didn't get a reply, but he was blissfully unaware of why. "Hello?" Completely unknown to him, a bus was pulling up to the stop. The man grabbed Tensou, mistaking him for the suitcase. "Hey!"
Emma saw a gasped. "Oh no!" She could only watch as the man walked into the bus with their friend. "Everyone!" she said into her morpher as the bus pulled away. "Some guy in a tan raincoat took Tensou on the 875 bus towards Carson street. "I think he mistook him for his suitcase."
"Carson street?" Jake asked. "I'm three blocks away. I'm on it!" He took off running, hoping he could catch that bus. Emma drive her bike up to the forgetten suitcase and grabbed, figuring that when they found the guy, he would still need it. She managed to attach it to the handlebars of her bike and rode off after the bus.
"Hey!" she shouted uselessly, on the off chance the bus driver would hear her. "Bus driver! Wait!"
Meanwhile on the bus, Tensou was sitting very scared and still. I've been captured, he thought to himself. Better sit quietly until I can escape.
Jake jumped over a wall and ran as fast as he could towards Carson Street. "Enjoy your food!" he shouted someone as way of apology for jumping over them. He scaled a wall with ease, grateful for how fit being a ranger had made him, and continued running.
Back on the bus, the man who'd grabbed Tensou pulled out his phone. He dialed a number and brought it to his ear. "Hello? Yes," he said, patting Tensou, scaring the little robot. "I have it with me. I'm brining it to you."
Oh boy! Tensou thought in fear.
"Hey!" Jake shouted when he saw the bus. "Hey wait!" He ran beside it, running even faster. "Slow down! Come on!" He turned down another street as he lost the bus, determined to catch it. He jumped over another wall several other obstacles in his haste. "Whoa! Excuse me!" he said last almost running into a lady. The woman recognized him instantly and followed him. Jake turned another corner and caught up with the bus. "Hey! Hey!" He raced to the stop and the bus finally stopped. Jake breathed a sigh of relief and got on. The woman watched the doors close and the bus pull away, but the Megaforce ranger was no where to be found.
"Kids these days," Alyssa observed. "Always in a rush."
On the bus, Jake was at least happy he'd managed to get on. Of course it's going to be crowded, he thought. Where is he? He scanned the interior for Tensou, looking for any sign if the small robot. As he made his way down the aisle, he spotted a tan raincoat; and underneath he saw part of Tensou's face. Ha! There he is! Jake sat down in a seat that was luckily near Tensou. "Pst," he hissed.
"Huh?" Tensou said.
Jake looked straight ahead for a second, realizing that this was going to be tough in a place this crowded. He took his keys out of his pocket and pretended to drop them on the ground. He bent down to pick them up, and used the opportunity to talk to Tensou. "Hey, Tensou," he whispered. "Tensou!"
"Huh? What's a Tensou?"
"Tensou!" Jake hissed a little louder.
"Bless you!" the woman sitting next to Jake said. He sat up and looked at her, glad she'd just mistaken his talking for sneezing.
"Oh, uh, thank you," he replied. He tried to get back to Tensou, but the woman tapped him on the arm.
"You know I have some truly horrible allergies. I've had them for years. I found out when I bought my first cat, Jellybean." Jake nodded, trying to be polite, but thinking that he really didn't have time for this. "Then I just started sneezing and sneezing. And eventually, I had to give her away."
"Oh, I'm sorry-" Jake began, once again trying to be polite.
"Oh, you're probably sneezing because of this weather. Did you see the storm that came through this morning? What a doozy!" The bus came to a stop and Jake saw, out the window, that the man who'd taken Tensou had gotten off.
"Oh no!" He got up and headed for the front. "C-can you stop the bus please?! Stop the bus please!" The driver complied, figuring Jake was just some stupid kid who forgotten he was that was his stop. He pulled over and Jake got off. He looked around as the bus pulled away, but the man and Tensou were nowhere to be found. "Aw man!" He sighed and pulled out his Gosei morpher. "Guys I-I think I lost them. They-they might have gone through Hodges Park, I don't know." He stood at the entrance of the park as Troy replied.
"Me and Orion are nearby," the red ranger said. "We'll look for them there." He nodded to the silver ranger, who didn't know the city well enough to search on his own, and they took off. Emma was also near the park, having followed the bus. She spotted Jake and called out to him.
"Jake!" she yelled.
Jake turned and saw her. "Emma, good, you're here." Emma stopped her bike and got off. "There's something wrong with Tensou. He doesn't recognize me."
"Yeah," Emma agreed. "I saw trying to talk to this suitcase." She gestured to the silver suitcase on her handlebars. Jake smiled as he looked it over.
"Man, it looks just like him."
"We have to find them before that man realizes Tensou is not his real suitcase." And nether of them wanted to have to explain why the man had a robot. Jake nodded.
"Ok let's go." He lead Emma into the park so they could continue their search. It wasn't long before they ran into Troy and Orion.
"There's no sign of a guy with a tan raincoat," Troy told them as the four Rangers met up.
"Or Tensou," Orion said. Troy's morpher chirped and he answered it.
"Have you found Tensou yet?" Noah asked.
"We lost him," Troy replied.
Jake suddenly had an idea and grabbed the suitcase off of Emma's handlebars. "What're you doing?" Emma asked him as he sat down on a bench.
"Looking for a tag, or a label, or something. Maybe it'll give us a clue."
"Wait," Troy said. "What if we open it? Maybe there's some kind of info on the guy inside. Like an ID or something."
"What if there's a million dollars inside?" Jake joked, not able to resist himself.
"No!" Emma said, putting her hand on the suitcase. "It doesn't belong to us. We can't just look into someone's case without their permission."
"But we have to find Tensou," Orion argued.
"No, she's right,, Jake admitted. Orion and Troy nodded. As power rangers, they had to carry out their missions with respect and moral fiber.
"Guys!" Gia said from Troy's morpher. "I see Tensou and the man who has him! They're at the mall!"
Indeed they were. The man walked through the busy shopping center, pulling Tensou along behind him. Gia watched them go.
"Alright!" Troy answered excitedly. "We're on our way!"
"Ok," Gia said following the man.
-Silver Legend-
Once at the mall, the Rangers split up. Troy and Jake ran up one staircase and found Emma with the suitcase. She pulled out her Gosei morpher. "Hey Gia," she said. "Where are you?"
"I'm in the first floor," Gia answered.
The Rangers went to the railing and looked over it, spotting Gai. She saw them and stopped. "Where is he?" Jake asked.
"He went that way!" Gia replied pointing. "Throw me the suitcase, I'll try and switch them."
"I got it. I got it," Jake said grabbing the case. He lifted it over the railing and threw it down to Gia, who caught it with ease. Gia nodded to them and went after the man. She walked fast, not wanting to look suspicious. Luckily the man didn't seem to be in any kind of a hurry because she was gaining on him.
"Go Gia!" Jake yelled down to her, making Emma hit him. They didn't need to draw attention to themselves.
"I am going!" Gia hissed.
"Go!"
"Jake, shh!" Troy said.
Gia increased her speed a little bit. Knowing the mall better than the city itself, Orion watched from the other side of the corridor. He saw them coming up to a toy store and a kid playing with a remote contort car. He pointed two fingers at the car and flinched them towards himself. He cashed the car to drive out of control and at the man.
"Oops!" the kid said chasing it. "Sorry." The man glared at the kid a bit, not having the time to deal with him. The kid gulled and drove the car iff quickly. Tensou saw Gia approaching him. Who is she? he wondered. The started walking again and Gia sighed.
"Go after him," Emma hissed. Gia followed, and Troy and the others were about to when their morphers went off.
"Uh guys," Noah said, eyeing the Armada commanded and x-Borges that had appeared. "We have a problem. I see a monster with a bunch of x-Borgs."
"Can you handle them?" Troy asked, knowing that both situations required their attention. "We don't want to lose Tensou."
"I can I me hero you Noah," Orion assured him. "I'm on my way!"
"Ok," Noah replied. "I'll hold them off as long as I can." He ran out from behind the train where he'd been hiding. "Hey!" he shouted getting their attention.
Sirjinkor saw him and sighed. "Why are you always interfering?" he asked, figuring the only human would dare draw his attention like this had to be a ranger. "Today I have a mission to complete on Mount Edenova."
"Not on my watch!" Noah replied. "Thanks for telling me part of your mission though." He grabbed his morpher. "Let's power up! SUPER MEGA MODE!" He morphed into his super mode and attacked the aliens. He knew hell would be there soon, since he wasn't far from the mall.
Back at the mall, the man who had Tenosu hit the button for the elevator. He had been a little lost and figured getting to higher ground would help him fin what he was looking for. Now that he knew where he was going, he needed to get back to the first floor. Gia rounded the corner and managed to catch the elevator with him. The other Rangers saw the doors close, but headed down the stairs. Inside the elevator, Gia glanced at Tensou as the man pulled his phone out again. "Hi," he said, putting it up to his ear. Gia reached out for Tensou, but the man put his hand on the robot. "Yeah, I'm minutes away."
The elevator stopped and the doors opened. The man got off saying, "I'll take care if it. It's what I do." Gia followed him, but luckily, the others were on top of things.
"Uh, excuse me," Jake said. "Do you happen to know what time it is?"
"Hang on," the man said to the person on the other end of the phone. He took his hand off Tensou to check his watch. "3:37," he said as Gia reached out and grabbed Tensou. She pulled him back and left the suitcase in his place. "But you should know, you're wearing a watch."
"Oh," Jake smiled. "Of course I am. Silly me, I'm always forgetting stuff. Have a good day."
The man looked at him incredulously, like how dare this punk waste his time? "Sorry," he said to the person on the phone. "Just some kid wanting to know the time."
"Tensou!" Jake smiled as they knelt down around their friend.
"Who are you guys?" Tensou asked looking around at them all.
"Take it easy," Troy said holding out his hands to clam Tensou down.
"What're you doing?!" Tensou yelled. "Help!"
"Shh! Quiet Tensou!"
"Calm down," Emma said. "We're you're friends, remember?"
"Ten-who?! What?!" Tensou asked.
"Shh!" Troy shushed.
"Uh, I don't know you!"
"Ok, this isn't working," Gia said. "We've got to keep him undercover for now."
"You're right," Troy agreed. He smiled as he looked at a baby stroller. "Hold on!"
Ten minutes later found the Rangers pushing a baby stroller with Tensou in it. They did say they were friends, Tensou thought as they moved. I hope this is a good idea. They passed a little kid who was also in a stroller. "Oh, hey little guy!" Tensou greeted. The kid waved at him as they passed. "Looks like we're in the same boat. Alright, push on my friends." He sat back in the stroller, still unsure if he'd made the right decision. "Whoever you are."