Disclaimer: I do not own the Power Rangers or any of its characters. I only own Tristan, JJ, and Delilah. Any of the story line that seems familiar, I most likely do not own.

AN: At some point in writing this chapter, I realized that it wasn't the Thalmax megazord, but the Valvemax megazord. Since I'm lazy, we're just gonna go with Thalmax! Sorry for the confusion!

JJ POV

Summer had gone up to the Ranger room to talk to Dr K. We were waiting on her to debrief us. Earlier I had walked by and had heard her playing the violin. I knew the sound of her rhythm, desperate and rushed. She was either thinking or trying to shut something out. I was extremely familiar with the type of behavior, I did the same thing with my guitar.

I was in Ziggy's embrace. He was leaning against the wall and I was leaning against him. K quickly came into the Garage, discreetly hiding her pain behind a mask of calm. Another thing I had done before. Ziggy and I straightened so we could see the screen. I hooked pinky's with him as K pulled up a screen with the Colonel on it.

"What we're looking at is a dramatic spike in the current levels of the Venjix technology. And to the areas of theoretical molecular innovation, inverse physics, and energy transfer." K informed.

My brain just gave up trying to process her words.

"Excuse me Doctor K, but uh, what are you trying to say exactly?" the Colonel asked.

"What I'm trying to say is that Venjix technology has surpassed our own Ranger biotechnology hardware capabilities." K walked away.

"Hold up," Ziggy began, "No wait a second, there stuff can't be better than our stuff, can it? We're the good guys right?"

We followed behind K as she walked, "Venjix just keeps getting stronger. Our Ranger fire power has plateaued since the introduction of the Crock Carrier."

"No wait, Doctor. What about the new megazord configuration?" Scott questioned, "You said that if we merged all of the zords then-"

K cut him off, "I can't get it to work. The energy required to make the multizord dispersal viable will require an additional flux overthruster."

I could feel the hopelessness radiating off of her in waves. Tristan could feel it too. I watched as he tensed up. He wanted to help her. He just didn't know how.

"Wait, another one? Where are we supposed to get another one of those things?" Dillon asked in disbelief.

"We're not." K muttered.

"We cannot build one of those?" Flynn exclaimed.

"We aren't."

"So are you telling us to just give up Doctor?" Summer scoffed.

"I'm telling you I don't have the answers."

We all started talking at once.

"Enough!" Tristan snapped.

We turned to look at him.

"We don't have the answers yet. But we shouldn't give up!"

"In times like these," Ziggy started, "There's one question that needs to be answered. Are we, or are we not the good guys?"

"Love, that's probably the most intelligent thing I've ever heard you say." I complimented in awe.

"Tell me," K looked back in forth from Ziggy and I, "What's it like?"

"What's what like?" Ziggy and I asked at the same time.

"Being stupid your whole life."

I scoffed in disbelief. And I actually felt pity for her earlier.

"Is it as wonderful as it seems?"

I looked at her in utter, complete surprise. The alarm began to blare a few minutes later.

"Looks like it's passing the viaduct, heading south." Summer informed.

"Okay Doc, time to find out how much stronger Venjix really is." I heard Scott say as I ran out of the room behind Ziggy.

"RPM, Get in Gear!" we all called.

"We have a visual on that new Venjix attack bot."

"Rangers, prep for megazord sequencing." K instructed.

We all combined our zords to form the two megazords.

"Hey Doc, I don't see anything special about this tin can." Dillon announced.

"Rangers, my sensors are indicating that the attack bot is equipped with a molecular mirroring system." K informed.

"Whatever this thing's equipped with, kiss it all bye bye."

"Rangers, beware. The mirror allows the attack bot to materially reproduce any solid object captured in its optics."

The bot opened its mirror and copied one of the cannons on the Thalmax megazord.

"Oh, right. I, uh. I guess that explains why we have our own blaster pointed at us right now." Ziggy pointed out.

The thing shot our copied weapon and Ziggy, Dillon, and I all cried out.

It copied our other weapon and attacked us with it as well. We were forced out of our zords. Dillon, Ziggy, and I landed on the ground.

"Looks like Doctor K was right." Ziggy stated, helping me up.

"Yeah, we're in trouble." Dillon added.

"No need to state the obvious." I nervously joked.

"Thalmax megazord is down!" Scott called.

"I don't see how that's possible!" Summer exclaimed.

"It's very possible Sum." I replied through the comm.

The bot copied the standing megazord's sword.

"Well, did you see that?" Flynn added.

"Heads up, I think I know what's coming." Summer informed.

"Hitting a man with his own super saber, now that's low!"

The bot attacked them with the saber, causing enough damage to eject them from their megazord as well. Dillon, Ziggy, and I went over to help them up.

"Doc, energy levels are down!" Scott called.

"We've lost the megazord." Summer continued.

The creature laughed and got ready to attack us again, when it groaned and began to seize up.

"Hey, what's happening?" Scott asked.

"Stand by." K announced, "The Venjix attack bot is experiencing catastrophic system failure."

"That's good right?" I asked hopefully.

"Not sure yet Ranger Purple."

"Why?" Scott questioned.

"It's completely shutting down."

"Well, that's weird." Flynn commented.

The Corporal had brought the Venjix bot into K. We waited outside and I groaned, looking into the distance.

"Airborne Venjix drones are incoming!"

"That reflects bot mirror must have duplicated shield breaches! I'm picking up Venjix drones heading towards quadrant E-3." K finally announced.

"We're on it!" Summer assured.

"We have Venjix bandits dead ahead!" Scott informed.

The air troops shot at us as we drove into battle.

"Down morphing standard megazord replacement." K called.

"We need something!" Scott yelled.

"Doc!" Flynn grunted.

"Ziggy, JJ, hard left!" Dillon instructed.

"Greetings Rangers, you are now traveling with Tenaya 7. Enjoy the rest of your trip." we suddenly heard over the comm.

"Dammit." I groaned.

"Ah! I can't control my zord!" Scott cried out.

"Reconfiguring your zords!" K was back, "This could take awhile."

"I don't think my zord can wait awhile Doc!" Dillon called.

"I can't control it! Ahh!" Ziggy announced.

"I can't control mine either!" I informed.

"Hold on guys!" Summer barked.

"I'm trying!" Flynn snapped back.

"Megazord download at 70%." K called out.

"Well, 70%. That'll do." Scott reassured.

We all began to attack the troops as we gradually gained control over our zords.

"Going somewhere?" Summer smirked as she attacked more of the troops.

"Fire!" Flynn added to our joy of attacking.

"Tailspin!" Ziggy grinned, pulling an attack of his own.

"Come on!" Dillon yelled.

"Yeah!" I cat called.

Another mirror bot thing suddenly appeared.

"Oh great." Scott groaned.

"Things were just starting to get fun!" I whined.

"Rangers, downloading original megazord configurations!" K announced.

Flynn, Scott, and Summer formed the High Octane Megazord. The mirror bot thing turned itself into a similar copy of the zord. It started to attack the megazord.

"We're loosing power!" Flynn informed, "I don't think she can take much more of this."

After being hit a few more times, Scott spoke up.

"Alright, punch it!"

The megazord went forward to attack the bot.

"Super saber!"

The bot turned around and attacked them. The megazord fell apart.

"No." I whispered.

We didn't know what to do. Then, we heard K's voice.

"Rangers, you are go for Zenith Megazord Configuration. I repeat, you are go for Zenith Megazord."

"Nice!" I complimented.

"Now that's what I like to hear!" Ziggy added.

"Right behind you!" Dillon agreed.

We all were able to make the Zenith Megazord. The attack not tried to attack us again. But with our added power, we were able to defend ourselves. The attack bot opened it's mirrors to try and gain an advantage. We were able to jump out of the way. Coming down, we managed to kick the attack bot's mirror and shatter it.

Finally, the attack bot was no more.

After we had demorphed and made it back to the garage, I headed towards the kitchen to get a bottle of water. Ziggy came up from behind me and kissed my cheek.

"Aw!" Summer cooed.

"Get a room!" Flynn teased.

Rolling my eyes, I grabbed Ziggy's shirt and pulled him down to kiss me. He instantly rested his hands on my waist. I vaguely heard one of the cuts catcall. Flipping them off, I sighed in content.

Oh yeah, today definitely got better.