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Demetrius growled in frustration. He had just gotten word from his second in command that his footmen had been defeated.

Jared sat back in his chair and waited for his mentor to speak.

"It seems I was right. The bitch is some how tied to those ninjas. And those ninja's are somehow tied to Ms. Hart and the Cranstons."

He glanced up from his chair and looked at his protégé. "What ever happened to that amber alert you put out?"

"My spy in the police department tells me that a man showed up with the red space ranger claiming to be their dad and cancelled the alert."

Demetrius scowled and blew out a breathe. "So, they are tied to the rangers." He was quiet for a minute are two. "I don't care if they are tied to the rangers. I will not be so thwarted by the overly glorified gay wads in spandex."

Jared was all the while putting the pieces together in his head. Ms. Hart was deeply rooted in the whole fiasco. None of the trouble had started until the night of the attack. Then everywhere they turned the strange ninjas had shown up. He had seen with his very eyes that Mrs. Cranston was one of the ninjas. She had transformed right in front of him.

As he sat in the chair an idea came to him.

"Sir, if I may be so bold to state the obvious. I believe that Miss Hart is a power ranger herself. Or she was. Ever since I lead the attack on her kids that night, we have been met with resistance at every turn. And if she is a ranger than I am willing to bet that the Cranstons and all those tied with them are also rangers. It's like we attack one ranger and revealed a whole nest of them."

Demetrius grinned at him. "I love how fast you have caught on. I believe you are right. Since they are rangers they would have an untold number of other rangers to help them. And more forces that we don't even know about. I am not so stupid to think that an outright attack on them would work. They could call in all their little friends and take me down in a heart beat."

The evil mastermind was quiet. " Let's see if they are stupid enough to drop their guard. They are not going to keep their guard up forever. Eventually they will get restless and will feel the need to leave their little nest…"

Their nest.

Demetrius stopped his little tirade. "That's it."

"Sir?"

Those little rangers will have some kind of base that they are operating from. Where they all go to plan. If we can find out where that is. We can attack them while they sleep. We can destroy them all at once."

He looked at his student. I think it is time for us to start tracking them. I want you to start keeping an eye out for any of them. The Cranston's will be our best bet."

The evil ninja was quiet again.

What ever happened to those dogs of theirs. Did you kill them that morning?

"I didn't stay around long enough to see. Once the house was up in flames I got out of there. I assumed they burned up with the house."

"I see. Normally I would lecture you about assuming anything like this. But I will let it slide this once. Those dogs are a thread we can follow. People can become obsessed with their animals quite easily. In this case that can be their downfall.

Your assignment will be to stake out all the veterinarian offices and shelters in town. You may take the best of our men and keep watch. When you see either of the Cranstons show up. Follow them. They have no house to go to. So naturally, they will have to head back to their base of operations."

"And when I discover where their hideout is, I will report back to you."

Demetrius grinned. "Excellent. I do believe I am starting to rub off on you."

"What the hell happened last night?" Adam demanded. He had only just heard of the incident a few minutes before.

"We almost got our butts handed to us. It's good thing we set up a guard last night." Rocky said stating the obvious.

"What is important at the moment is that we all are okay with no permanent damage done." Jason said. "Except to the ninja's that attacked last night." he added as an afterthought.

"What we need to focus on is what we have learned from the battle last night." Tommy said cutting to the chase. "The first thing being that we learned a lot about the enemy. In sending his foot men we know that he is not as gullible as we hoped he was."

"That whole sending the foot soldiers thing was overkill in the worst way." said Zack. "We have been so careful…how could he have suspected anything like that?"

"That's a valid point." said Billy. "But that only brings up more questions. Is it possible that he may know that we are rangers?"

"How," Rocky asked. "It's not like we walked around with T-Shirts say I am a power ranger."

"Yes." Adam agreed. "But could it be possible that he somehow tied the fight at the house to the girls?"

"Not even possible." denied Tommy. "My thought it that all of this was a lucky guess. After the fight at the house…he suddenly got really cautious."

"Which means that now, we are gonna have a hell of hard time bringing him down." Jason finished closing his eyes and leaning against the back of the chair.

Everyone was silent for a few minutes. Then Rocky gasped.

"I got it."

"The floors open. If you got a plan let it out." Tommy answered gesturing to the rest of the table.

Rocky's eyes were shining. "What are the chances that he will underestimate us. What if we make him think that we have gotten cocky. Let him think that we have dropped our guard and go out into the city. Let him sneak up on us like he did last night."

"And take him out when he tries to take us out." Billy finished. "That is very plausible. We may have to wait a few days to try anything again, but it could still work."

"Good plan Rocky." said Tommy approvingly. "I knew you had a brain in there somewhere."

Rocky smirked. "I have my moments."

"Okay, so, we will lay low for a few days. And then we will regroup and plan our next move." said Tommy. "I think it is best that we all relax for now. I suggest you all train when you have the time. I want all of us to be in top shape when the plan goes down. Dismissed."

Rocky mock saluted his leader and was the first to leave. Adam watched as they all left the room. Tommy was the only one to stay.

"Adam, I thought you would be eager to get back to your son and Tanya. Is something on your mind?" Asked the white ninja.

"Yes, it's something my son asked me last night."

Tommy shot his friend a questioning look. "Shoot."

"He asked me about the Ninjetti powers. He wanted to know if the powers could be used to heal TJ. He remembers how his sickness was miraculously gone when I gave him a blood transfusion after he was hit by that car. It's a concept I never thought about."

Tommy was silent as he mulled the question in his head.

"It is plausible." Said Billy as he entered the room again, having heard the question. "If we successfully used it to restore Zordon to his time warp and restored the command center so easily why couldn't it be used to fix TJ's foot?"

Tommy smiled. "That would be awesome. I know TJ hates being laid up like that. I think it is worth a shot."

"Do you think it will take all of us? Or just you two.?" asked Adam as he stood up.

"We'll never know till we try it. Come on let's go find Andros.

Not much later, Tommy arrived with Billy, Adam and Andros in the engine room. All the other space rangers except for Ashley had stayed behind at the condo.

Tommy smiled as Kim all but ran up to him and greeted him with a deeply searing kiss. "I could get used to this." Kim was too happy to see him and didn't bother saying anything back.

"Dad!" exclaimed Terra as she walked up to her dad and hugged him. Tommy hugged his daughter and saw his son approached smiling. "Hey TJ. How's the leg?"

Terra backed away making room for her brother. The boy shrugged. "It's okay I guess. I just wish I could walk around without these crutches."

At the last admission, the four rangers shared a look. "What's going on? Asked Kim. "That's one of the reason's we are here. I don't want to get his hopes up. But there is something we want to try."

"And what's that?" Kim asked looking at the father of her children.

Billy looked at his best friend. "I think it would be better explained in the medical bay."

TJ laid back on the bed with his foot propped up and watched as Andros ran a weird looking scanner over his foot. Andros looked at the results and handed it to Adam.

"That's weird." Adam said looking at Tommy. According to this, the bone is healing at an accelerated pace. If my suspicions are correct. All he would need is a little boost from us and the bone could be healed within the hour."

"Huh?" asked TJ looking at the black ranger.

Tommy smiled at his son. "I am sure your mom or sister told you the story of how we got our Ninjetti power?"

"Yes. They told me."

"Well, we think we may be able to use our power to heal your foot." said Adam handing the scanner back to Andros. "It worked on Tyler when he was hit by a car. We want to see if we can do the same thing for you."

"You mean I can get rid of this cast?"

"If this works. Yes." replied Tommy as he stepped back next to Kim.

TJ watched in amazement as his parents went through the motions.

"White Falcon!'

"Pink Crane!"

In the next second he saw for the first time both of his parents morphed.. "Cool."

Kim laughed as she pulled down her hood and face mask. "If you think that was cool. You should have seen your dad in action. We made quite a team back in the old days."

Tommy smiled as he kissed her. "We still make a great team. Look what we created together." He said smiling at his son.

Adam coughed. "There's time for that later. We have more important business to take care of."

Tommy smiled as he saw Adam and Andros looking a bit uncomfortable. "Sorry."

Andros just laughed and shook his head. "Other than the leg. He's perfectly healthy. It's up to you guys now."

The pink and white ninja's looked at each other. "Let's see if this works."

Billy, Adam, and Andros watched as the two joined hands palm to palm and closed their eyes in concentration. In mere seconds there was faint pinkish glow emitting from their hands. Several seconds later. It vanished. Adam and Billy exchanged a glance and quickly morphed. Then they joined in the tight circle and added their power to the glow that once again was emitting from the white and pink rangers. This time the added power from the blue and black ninjas joined the pink and white ninjas and this time, the glow stretched out and encompassed the boy.

TJ closed his eyes as he felt warmth surround him and felt his foot tingle as the concentrated power of the Ninjetti surrounded it. He could almost feel the power mending his foot.

The warmth surrounded him and flowed into him…filling him with strength and he could feel the love from his parents touch him in a way he never expected and deep within him he could feel part of him react. As if their power had awakened a dormant power inside of him.

About a minute had passed and then the ninja's power left him and the glow diminished. TJ opened his eyes to see his parents smiling at him."

"How do you feel honey?" asked Kim smiling at her son.

"I feel fine mom. What about my foot?"

Andros picked up the scanner and ran it over him. He smiled. "It worked. The scanner says there is nothing wrong with his foot. It not broken anymore. What do ya say we get this cast off?"

TJ grinned and hugged his parents. " I can't wait to walk again!"

"TJ, you may be a little stiff. I think that just to be on the safe side we should get that foot soaked as soon as the cast is off." his mom said.

"And then we can work start working on getting you back into shape."

"But dad, What about fighting the bad guy?" asked TJ looking at his dad.

"Well, to put it lightly," Tommy sighed. "The plan failed. We are going to lay low for a few days and then try again." Tommy walked around the bed and put an arm around Kim. "But for now I want to spend some time with you guys…as a family."

TJ grinned. This was what he and his sister had waited so long for!

There you have it!

up next, some R&R for the rangers...some major fluff ahead!

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