PART FOURTEEN: Dangerous Ground
Dustin got up holding a hand to his pounding head. His grip on his sword tightened. "Kira, Trent. kick it up a notch." Dustin charged forwards as he did so. "Ninja sword gold mode." Dustin then went to dicing monsters so that he could get back to Lothor.
Xander got up and continued slashing, and Andros continued to rain laser fire on the monsters.
Tommy spread his hand forward, as he was about to shoot at Tori, but the load in his arms reminded him of a promise. He held Kat close to him and they teleported away.
They arrived in the cave which was occupied by a now passed out Jason. Tommy sent him back to the field behind his house. He then summoned a bed, the nicest most luxurious bed he could. He laid Kat down with the utmost care. The anger was almost gone replaced by concern for Kat.
He lay next to her trying to bring her back to consciousness. "Kat, love, please wake up. You weren't supposed to pass out. Please wake up!"
Tori came back down and slashed at the kelzaks. "Dustin Dr. O has Kat again!" She cried once she got up to him. She felt awful she had lost Kat again!
Kira and Trent went into super dino mode. Most of the kelzaks were defeated and Kira and Trent stood in front of Lothor. "Your help is gone Lothor." Trent said getting ready for anything Lothor might toss at them.
Madison sighed. "I guess your fine." She said to Xander as she destroyed a lot more kelzaks. Now there was only a few left.
Chip had destroyed the kelzak that had tried to knock him out now he stood face to face with one more. "Make my day." Chip said as he shot the kelzak defeating him!
Karone found Jason in the field behind Tommy's house! "Jason!" She cried running over to him and falling to her knees. "Jason, Jason you have to wake up." She sobbed as tears rolled down her face and landed on Jason's as she leaned over him trying to find a pulse.
Kat stirred and opened her eyes slowly. "Tommy?" She started to sit up but almost passed out again. She lay her head back on the pillow. "What happened?" She asked everything still a bit foggy. She was not sure where she and Tommy were at the moment.
Dustin destroyed the last kelzak in front of him as Tori came up. "That can't be good."
He then turned and faced Lothor. "So what ya gonna do now mister space ninja."
"Well goodbye for now rangers, but do no fear I shall be back!" With that Lothor and the remaining Kelzaks disappeared.
"Yeah Madison Im fine."
Xander went to slice another Kelzak when they all disappeared. He didnt have time to compensate for his momentum and he fell over from the force of his swing. Head first into the ground. "Just freakin great."
Jasons head moved slightly and he moaned but other than that showed no signs of consciousness.
Tommy seemed to have a cool demeanor about what had happened. "Shh, stay down Kat you passed out, though I dont know why." But in his mind a battle was raging.. NO!
Look at her she is vulnerable do it now she must want it.NOshe doesnt just changer her now.
"We are back in the cave remember?" Change her now. NO!
Tori reached out a lay a hand on Dustin. "I think he may have taken her too one of the caves around here." She told him.
Kira and Trent sighed. "One of the caves? There is so many of them!" Kira cried frustrated. Trent shook his head. "There has to be an easier way to find out which cave they are in."
Madison sighed as she reached a hand out to Xander. "Come on Xander we did well." She said hoping she could get Xander to calm down. Chip shook his head and held his crossbow over his head. "We showed them not to mess with us!" He said almost losing his balance.
Karone was glad Jason was okay. "Jason I need to get you help." She said not sure if he could even hear her. "I will be right back!" Karone ran toward where the battle was and found her brother. "Andros I found Jason. He is out cold though." She said out of breath. "He is in the field behind the house. I am going back there I need help getting him inside."
Kat winced. "When did we get back here? I was watching something from your room then I can't remember much of anything else right now." She was still a bit dazed.
She thought she remembered something bout the rangers and that she could not trust them? No that couldn't be right. She was confused once again. "Tommy what happened?" She asked quietly.
"No matter what we do its gonna take a long time to find them if they are in one of these caves."
Xander took Madisons hand and hauled himself up. "Yeah, you're right, as is normal. So whats the plan now?"
As she left Jason muttered. "Karone, what?"
Andros powered down. "Ok Karone lead the way."
Just lie to her, NO,Do it, No, Now, no
"Kat the rangers were attacked by Lothor, and old enemy that we had thought had been destroyed by Mesagog.
Tommy put some more pillows behind Kats head so that she was propped up slightly, making it easier for her.
"You passed out the Tori came in and tried to attack me." When he said this he sent an immense amount of anger through their connection, at the idea of Tori hurting him.
"They betrayed you Kat, by attacking me they betrayed you. Does your head hurt or is it just a slight amnesia?"
Tori sighed. "Wait doesn't our morphers have like a tracking device on them?" She said powering down and looking at her morpher. "I mean if it does we could find her that way."
Kira and Trent looked at Dustin hopeful. If the tracking device was true they could find both Kat and Dr. O!
Madison nodded. "I'm okay. I think we need to get started on another plan of action." She said as she looked toward Dustin and the others. Chip just sighed. "So we wait again." He muttered.
"This way." She took Andros with her and led him back to Jason. She looked at Jason and hurried back over to him. "Jason are you okay?" She asked for it appeared he was beginning to wake up.
Kat frowned. "Tori that does not seem like her." She said though she felt anger begin as Tommy told her all this. "And Lothor is back." She sighed. "I think I just hit my head I don't think I have amnesia." She said. "I am also very tired. I don't think I have been sleeping well." The emotions Tommy was sending her were making her upset! "I just can't believe Tori would try to attack you Tommy."
Dustin demorphed and shrugged his shoulders. "Well. It is worth a shot, and if they do then Dr.O definatly has some equipment down in his basement that would track them."
"Looks like we do Chip, but is it really such a bad thing?" Xander asked seriously.
"Uhh, Karone? I dont know. Just a lot of pain." Jason admitted.
"Alright Jason just dont move. Karone help me carry him, it wont be easy we need to keep his body level in case there's something internally wrong."
A sneer crossed Tommys face. "You really find it that hard to believe that Tori, or any of the rangers for that matter would attack me? You yourself told me that they are planning something big and they havent told you what. Dont you think that could be because they intend to kill me and they know that if you know you will try and stop them."
As Tommy sent this he sent more anger, also he didnt send distrust but he built on the small amount that was already inside of her.
Tori nodded. "Then lets you and I go work on that." She said as she turned to head back inside. "Come on Dustin." She said as she waited for him.
Chip sighed. "Not really a bad thing." He said as he demorphed. "Hey Tori I'll help you and Dustin. I am pretty good with equipment." He said as he went to follow Tori and Dustin.
Madison frowned. "This may take a while." She whispered to Xander.
Karone nodded as she reached down to take Jason's shoulders. Then she smiled a bit. "Didn't we just get you back on your feet Jason?" She teased.
Kat was once again very confused and a bit angry. "I know." She said quietly though she still had that inkling that Tommy was wrong. The rangers would not hurt him they wanted him back to normal. She sighed. "Calm down Tommy." She said firmly as she reached over and lay her hands on Tommy's chest. "Maybe your right and maybe your not." She chewed her lip. "We can't jump to conclusion." Though the feelings of not trusting the other rangers started to get stronger. She was trying to keep her anger under control. She did not want to assume anything yet! Not till she had a chance to talk to the other rangers. Try to explain to them what was going on.
"Alright." Dustin followed Tori down to Dr.O's lab. "Uhh any idea where to get started?"
"Yea. So not much for us to do, lets see is Andros needs any help." With that Xander started to walk in the direction Karone and her brother had gone.
Jason cracked a small smile, his voice was wispy and cracked. "Hey, I'll be the punching bag. Better me than you."
Tommy shut off the connection to stop the flow of emotions. Tommy's personal anger was starting to get the best of him. The only thing that was holding him back was the presence of Kat, her hand on his was keeping his anger in check, though even he didnt know why.
"I think I have ever right to jump to a conclusion, especially if your or my life is involved! How do you know they arent coming to get me right now? How can you look me in the eye and tell me not to jump to my conclusions when you know as well as I do that they could be doing that right now?"
His anger reached a peak, and he let her comfort bring it down. In a much calmer voice "I just have to be ready Kat, for anything."
Tori sighed. "Not sure." She said as they got downstairs. "We could look in the computer files to start." She said as she walked over to the computer
and used the mouse and searched in the files.
Chip walked around the lab. He was impressed. "Almost looks like our hideout." He said to Tori and Dustin.
"Though we don't have a computer we have this crystal ball globe thing that shows us stuff."
Madison hurried to catch up. They rounded the corner and found Karone and Andros trying to get Jason inside. "We could help with that." Madison said as she took out her morpher. "Wonder if there is a spell we could use."
Karone frowned as she looked into Jason's eyes. "I don't like you being the punching bag." She said softly as Madison and Xander joined them.
"Tommy they don't even know where here is." Kat said quietly. The distrust of the others was still there but her anger had calmed down a bit. "Ready for anything? Tommy what do you think they are going to do to you?" She said not removing her hands. "Your more powerful then them right now." When she realized what she had just said some fear crept in. Tommy was not doing anything to the rangers cause she Kat had made him promise not too! Had that been a mistake?
"A crystal ball? thats a little weird."
Dustin took a chair next to the main monitor. "Yeah thats probably the best idea."
Xander flipped his morpher out as well. "Well theres only one way to find out." With that he said a word and waved the wand. Jason started to float just a few feet above the ground. "Alright it worked!" Xander cried cheerfully.
"Whoa. this is weird. Ive been beat up worse than this before." Jason stated.
"I don't know Kat, but for that reason alone I should defiantly be ready for anything. Than any one of them yes, but if they all banded together, they could take me out."
Tommys demeanor changed a bit. "Wow, we are back together a lot quicker than I could have hoped for though."
Chip smiled. "We the mystic rangers are witches and sorcerers." He told them as he walked over to join them at the computer monitor.
Tori nodded as she used the mouse to scan the files. "Here is something." There was one file on tracking a lost ranger. "It may work." She said as she clicked it open.
Karone gasped. "Be careful." She told Xander as Madison opened the door so they could get inside. She followed them inside her heart hammering in her chest. "All in one day?" Karone asked Jason bout what he said being beat up worse in one day!
Madison helped Xander lower Jason back on the couch. "I am going to look for some ice. We don't know if you hit your head or not Jason." She hurried into the kitchen to get ice for Jason.
Karone knelt next to the couch. "Jason did Tommy do this to you?" She asked knowing full well that Tommy had to have been the one to do this to Jason.
Kira and Trent were busy searching the woods around Dr. O's house seeing if they had missed a secret cave or something.
Kat had to smile at that. "I guess we are." She said quietly. Then she looked Tommy in the eyes. "I won't let them take you out Tommy." She said seriously. "I love you too much and we have come too far." She said surprising even herself. Where had that come from? She really was not going to let the other rangers take Tommy away from her! This she knew for sure.
Dustin leaned over and read the document.
"So what we need to do is look up the rangers power signature in the database on this computer, then run it through Dr.O's worldwide search engine for rangers. Seems pretty simple to me. The only other thing is that we should search for Kat's powers. Since Dr. O combined all of his it might throw the sensors off ya know?"
Xander flipped up his morpher, whipping some sweat from his brow. "Wow, I'm surprised I made it without dropping him."
"I dont think so Karone. One second I was running towards the group. The next I was surrounded by the beings whom proceeded to try and kill me, I fought but there were just to many of them."
Tommy took her hand that was against his chest in his own, and moved closer to her. "I know, its just good to hear you say it." Tommy seemed to shift uncomfortably. "Kat, well ya know that there is so much at stake right now. I mean between what the rangers could be doing, Lothor, and Koragg and his master we are all in more danger than usual. And I know we haven't been back together for very long, ya know, just a couple of weeks, there are some thing that I have to do before I die..."
Tori nodded. "Seems like the right idea. Kat has not let Dr. O combine her powers..yet" She hoped Dr. O wouldn't do that. Then they would have even more problems to deal with. Like they didn't have enough as it is.
Chip leaned toward Tori and Dustin. "If that works there might be away to use the information to find out how to go back in time. Udonna is looking but it seems we really don't have much time left."
Madison frowned. "What kind of beings Jason?" Madison asked. If it was some of Morticon's goons then they had a lot more then they would be able to handle.
Karone lay a hand on Jason's cheek. "How did you get away?" She asked. She was also making sure Jason did not have a fever and that was causing him to be confused bout what happened to him.
Kat sat up almost too fast. "What are you talking about Tommy?" She cried. "Before you die? I am not letting you give up that easily." She said as she looked Tommy in the eyes. "We have always made it through before." She said firmly. Now she was scared. What did Tommy mean before he died? This could not be happening she could not lose him after just finding him again!
"God, I hope she doesn't let him."
Dustin shifted uncomfortably at the thought. "We dont need something like that to happen." A light went on in Dustins head. "Wait, Tori there was that group of time travelin rangers right? Well weren't a couple of them from this time? If that were the case not only would Dr.O. Have them in the database but, maybe they could help us."
"I don't know the answer to either of your questions. There were a lot of the beings, as for how I got out. It was the same as I got in. Suddenly I was gone."
Andros had walked down to the basement. "So hows it goin down here?"
Tommy clasped both his hands around one of Kats.
"I know Kat, and I want and think that we will make it through anything. However we need to be realistic about this. The odds are stacked against me- against us." Tommy sat up so that there were eye to eye.
"I want to spend many, many more years in this life, with you. But if either of us did die I just. I dont think I could ever be ok with myself if I never got to be your husband."
Tori nodded. "Yes and if they are still around we could ask them for help."
Chip turned as Andros came down. "Andros, Tori and Dustin just got a great idea. You know of the time travel rangers?" He asked Andros.
Karone sighed as she dropped her hand and turned away from Jason. "That makes me nervous." Karone said quietly.
Madison figuring that maybe Karone and Jason needed some time she headed down to the basement with the others. She practically dragged Xander with her. Once they were out of ear shot of Karone and Jason she turned to Xander. "I think those two need sometime alone." She told Xander quietly.
Karone lay her hand on her chin and thought bout what Jason had said. Like they did not have enough problems already! Now more monsters and a past enemy and Tommy turning all evil and such. It was a lot to take in.
Kat blushed. "Tommy are you asking me to marry you?" She asked her eyes not leaving Tommy's. She was a bit in shock but she had somehow known that question would be coming. She had not realized it would be so soon. She knew she would say yes but then what would happen after wards? Where would they even get married?
Andros looked at the three younger rangers.
"I know them; the Time Force rangers. I never knew most of them but the two from our time, Wes and Alex I did meet a few years ago."
"Hey." Jason took Karones hand in his. "We'll pull through, no matter what advisory we face the rangers always pull through."
"Yeah I guess so." He turned around. "Lets go down and see if they have figured anything out downstairs."
Tommys eyes were locked on Kats. "Yes, yes I am."
Tommy rolled around Kat and got on the floor next to the bed, he stood on one knee. "Katherine Hillard will you be my wife?"
"Can you find them again and ask for their help?" Tori asked as she lay her hand on Dustins.
Chip looked up as Xander and Madison came down. "Guess what we may have an answer to one of our problems." He told them.
Madison sighed. "Thats good. We need a lot of answers but one is a start."
Karone looked into Jason's eyes. "Yes but before we did not have a powerful ranger fighting on the opposite side of us." She said quietly. "I'm scared we may not be able to pull through this." She told Jason truthfully.
Kat felt tears begin at the corner of her eyes. Though this time they weren't sad tears. She thought bout the question for a few seconds before she gave Tommy a smile. "Yes Tommy." She said sincerely. "I will be your wife." Kat could not believe she had actual just said yes to that question! The other rangers would be shocked but at the moment she did not care. Besides right now she did not even think the other rangers could be trusted.
"I can try, but I dont know if there is much they can do about it. It was their comrades that knew about time travel, but they went back to thier own time years ago."
"Then what good could that do us?" Dustin said as he put and hand on Tori's. "Really? Im not sure they can, but its better than nothing."
"It doesnt matter what the opposition is. We will pull through." He flexed his leg muscles a bit. "There I think Im ready to move around a bit now."
For the few seconds that Kat did not answer, it seemed to Tommy that an eternity passed when she finally did answer a smile crossed his face. Tommy slowly stood up with a look of pure happiness on his face. He wiped Kats tears away. He sat next to her on the bed and brought his lips to hers for a few seconds.
"I really dont know how we'll get this done but I dont care. Oh how could I forget."
He uttered a few words and a small ring box appeared in his hands he opened it up and showed it to Kat.
Tori sighed. "We need to do something." She said quietly. "It is better then nothing." She added as she lightly squeezed Dustin's shoulder.
"Udonna could still find some way to help!" Chip said sighing. "We have whatever she finds out for us."
Karone sighed. "If you want to try moving a bit. I will help you but you have to be careful." She said with true concern in her voice.
Kat blushed as she looked at the ring. It was heart shaped and the dimond was not big but she did not care. "It is beautiful Tommy." She said as she kissed him. She still could not believe this had happened! She did not care if she ever went back to the other rangers. Her future was with Tommy and that was when she really realized her true destiny.
(end part fourteen)