Kendall made her way through the ship, having found C-block. It did look a lot more secure than a lot of the other blocks, which made sense since she was sure they weren't taking any chances with Keeper. She passed by a door, with some very obvious "Danger" markings, that it seemed would withstand the Hiroshima Bomb unscathed! She kept on going, deciding to come back if she didn't find Keeper elsewhere. If they were taking that many precautions and it WASN'T Keeper, she really didn't want to meet whatever was in that cell!
As she continued on her way, she heard a conversation coming from a little further down. It was accompanied by some loud banging. It didn't sound like a beating, more like the clash of metal on metal. As she got closer, she looked around the corner of a corridor, finding a Spikeball standing by a barred door. It smashed its club against the bars.
"EAT IT!" The Spikeball yelled, smashing its club into the bars.
"I am very selective about the company I eat with." She heard a familiar voice responding. "I am NOT hungry!"
In his cell, Keeper was sitting cross-legged, calmly resisting as much as he could. Without his staff, he was largely powerless. His was a long-lived race, but even he had to admit that without his magic, he was getting on a bit, even for his kind. Physically, without his magic to back him up, taking on an army was a fruitless endeavour. That didn't mean he was going to just sit by and accept his predicament. He pushed the bowl of stew away from himself.
"Sledge wants you at full strength so you can appreciate it when we put you in the incinerator!" The Spikeball screamed at him. "EAT!"
Keeper didn't respond, just crossing his arms in defiance. Kendall had now confirmed that she knew where Keeper was, all she needed to do now was get rid of the guard. She made her way towards the guard, prodding him...WAS it a "him"?...She couldn't really tell with Spikeballs or Viviks. The guard swung around, seeing what he presumed was a Vivik in a Haz-Mat suit standing before him.
"What do YOU want?" He asked. Kendall suddenly realised this was where her plan fell apart. She should have thought that it would expect some kind of instruction. Making a sound with her tongue to do her best impression of a Vivik, she just started gesturing wildly to the door.
"Who wants me? Sledge? Wrench? Fury?" The Spikeball asked. Kendall continued with her rather demented and desperate game of charades, not really knowing what else to do. "Never mind, I'll find out myself! What's the point in sending you useless mush-heads as messengers? Fury knows we can never understand you...?"
As the Spikeball was about to leave, a thought occurred to him. Kendall saw him pausing, and realised what was coming. Looking around, she found a large monkey-wrench, and a cell with the door open. She started sneaking up behind him.
"Wait a minute." The Spikeball mused. "Why are you wearing a Haz-Mat suit down here?"
Kendall brought the Wrench down across the back of his head, and shoved him into the open cell, slamming the door behind him. She was fortunate that the lock triggered, since her blow wasn't enough to knock the Spikeball out, only stun him.
"What is going on?" Keeper asked as she returned to his cell. She took out the bottle of acid.
"Your parole just came through." She told him, beginning to pour the acid onto the lock. Keeper just stared at her.
"Kendall?" He asked. "Where are the Rangers?"
"Yeah, it's just me." Kendall told him, watching the lock dissolving. "Please, spare the lecture...it's a long story and...can we just focus on getting out of here?"
"KENDALL, LOOK OUT!" Keeper yelled, just in time. Kendall ducked, feeling the breeze as Wrench's axe grazed close enough to take the hood off her, along with a bit of her pony-tail and slammed into the bars. Kendall staggered away, looking up at the Cyborg.
"Wrench!" She rushed out. "Oh...this isn't good!"
"It looks like it's just you and me human!" Wrench said, yanking his axe out of the bars. Kendall gulped as he started to make his way over towards her.
"Look, we're both reasonable here, why don't we..."
Wrench came at her, aiming to split her in half like a log with his axe. Kendall managed to deflect the blow with the monkey-wrench.
"Ha! I'm more than just a science..." She said as she swung for him. The wrench rebounded off his head with an ominous clang...and not much else. "...nerd. Oh, that isn't good!"
Wrench grabbed her and threw her across the room, before starting to make his way towards her, gripping his axe tightly.
"You have no idea how long I've waited for this!" He told her as he came towards her. She started to back away.
"Um...Keeper...?"
"I cannot help." He told her, stepping out of his cell. "I am still shackled."
"Alright brain, if you're going to come up with some genius plan, now would be a perfect time!" Kendall yelled as she dove out the way as Wrench threw his axe right for her, embedding it into the wall.
On the Plesio Zord, Shelby and Tyler were heading for Sledge's ship. Shelby had used it the most out of the team, and was most familiar with its systems. She punched in a few commands.
"Alright, the cloaking is working, so they shouldn't be able to see us on scanners." Shelby told him. "But we can't do much about the fact a one hundred foot purple Zord is flying around...we just have to hope no one is paying too much attention to any windows."
"Come up on this side." Tyler told her, gesturing to the ship. "We should avoid most of the windows. Maybe we can get in unnoticed."
"Tyler, when we get in...I want you to stay behind me." She told him. Tyler just looked to her.
"Shelby, I..."
"Tyler, you don't have your Energem, you can't morph." She reminded him.
"I have this!" He reminded her, holding up Keeper's staff.
"Tyler, only he can use its magic!" Shelby reminded him. "To you, it's just a big stick!"
"You think I don't know that?" Tyler asked her. "I only need to get my Energem..."
"When you get your Energem, fine, you can fight all the creatures you want!" Shelby replied. "Until then, shelve your pride and stay behind me!"
"Fine." Tyler answered as he conceded the point. He even managed a little smile. While he was always an adventurous, and slightly reckless guy, he couldn't help feeling good about the fact that Shelby wanted to be there to protect him. "Thanks."
"Hey, you have to make it out of this alive right?" She asked him. "That way we can keep looking for your dad."
"We?" Tyler asked her. She just nodded.
"We." She confirmed, turning her attention back to what she was doing as they pulled in closer to the ship. "We should be able to board soon."
"Do you think they've seen us?" Tyler asked her.
"Well, they haven't started blasting us yet." Shelby reminded him. "We can only take that as a good sign."
"Well, here goes nothing I guess." He answered. "Ready for one more adventure?"
Meanwhile, down on Earth, Chase and the others arrived back at the restaurant, finding it a mess. Chase could see that it had been attacked. He had seen attack so many attack sites by that time; he could tell them a mile away.
"Allison?" He called out, beginning to freak out as he saw that he couldn't see her or Leanne. "ALLISON!"
"It's fine...we're both here." Leanne told them as she came in from the kitchen. "We got a visit from some of Sledge's goons. I just needed to get Allison checked out."
"What happened? Are you...?"
"I'm fine, really." Allison assured him as he grabbed her, hugging her tightly. "I just got a bump on the head. I'll be fine, really."
"Are you alright?" Riley asked Leanne. She just nodded.
"They barely got a chance to touch me." She assured him.
"Really?" Phillipe asked. "Because it looks like they did a real number on this place."
"They certainly did." Ivan said, rubbing his fingers on some green goop that had at one time been a Vivik. They all knew the signs. "Though it seems that they met a rather sticky end."
"What happened?" Chase asked. "How did...?"
"We were saved!" Leanne rushed out. "It was a Ranger! The...uh...Aqua Ranger!"
"The Aqua Ranger? He was here?" Ivan yelled. "He was here?"
"Why he not help us?" Koda asked.
"Well, yeah, he was here!" Leanne responded. "He came, kicked everyone's ass...then he left!"
"You saw the Aqua Ranger?" Chase asked his girlfriend. Allison just looked to him.
"Well, not really, I was kind of busy with the whole passing out and blurry vision." She responded as she held him. "But he definitely saved our butts."
"Maybe there's some video footage." Riley suggested. "If we check back, maybe we can see where..."
"There's no footage!" Leanne rushed out. They all looked to her. "I...uh...checked. I thought you might want to know where he went, so I checked. I guess they must have done something that blitzed the cameras."
"Well, at least we know the Aqua Ranger is here at long last." Ivan responded.
"Yes, though I would like to find him." Phillipe agreed. "We may well need his help...or her help...in the near future."
"Not to mention to thank him." Chase replied, holding his girlfriend. "I don't know what I'd have done if anything had happened to you."
"Well, here's hoping you won't have to find out." She answered. "So...where are Shelby and Tyler?"
"They're probably on Sledge's ship by now." Riley answered. "They're going after Ms. Morgan."
"Ms. Morgan is on that ship?" Allison yelled. "SHE WENT TO HIS SHIP?"
"Yeah...that's kind of a long story." Riley said as they started to straighten out the restaurant.
Back up on Sledge's ship, Kendall was trying desperately to keep one step ahead of Wrench. She fought where she could, but she was quickly realising that physically at least, she was at a severe disadvantage. Wrench had fought against fully powered Rangers several times. Against a human with no powers, her wrench was of no use against his armour. He back-fisted her into a wall, before snatching his axe out of the wall, beginning to advance on her as she tried to regain her bearings.
"I can't believe you're the one that's been thwarting all my plans and destroying all my weapons." He taunted her as he came towards her, scraping his axe along the floor. "Just a pathetic, weak little human."
She rolled aside as he brought it down, but now found herself cornered. He turned towards her, blocking her way out. She now had nowhere left to go.
"You probably laughed at me, thought you were so great when you hacked me and when you destroyed my masterpieces!" Wrench said as he brought his axe up overhead. "I'm not normally into this kind of thing, a little low tech...but taking that pretty little head off your shoulders will be satisfying!"
He brought the axe down, but Kendall blocked it. She struggled against his strength as he started driving the blade down closer and closer to her face. Her eyes crossed, and she could only focus on the edge as it inched slowly closer and closer to her face.
"You're only delaying the inevitable." He told her. "Hope you enjoyed your little victories...right now...I'M winning the WAR!"
Just then, Kendall started to push upwards, a new strength suddenly surging through her. Wrench seemed just as alarmed as her as she started to move him away from her. She saw purple energy starting to flow up her arms as she pushed him up, before with one last huge push, she threw him off her completely.
She got up, and stared down at herself; purple energy was starting to engulf her. Instinctively, she reached her hand into her pocket and pulled out the Purple Energem which was glowing brightly.
"What in the world?" She asked, before there was a flash of images in her mind, and she saw the Plesiosaurus. As a huge flash of bright light dissipated, she saw her hands, though now they were covered with white gloves, and purple running up her arms. Reaching up, her hand met the smooth surface of a helmet. In her other hand, the monkey wrench had been replaced with a Dino Sabre. "I'm...I'M THE PUPLE RANGER?"
"You're a Ranger now?" Wrench yelled, before running for him. Before he got there though, Kendall smashed the axe aside with her Dino Sabre. Powering it up, she sliced his arm from his body, sending it and the axe spinning away. "NO! Please! We're reasonable people...!"
Kendall put all the power she had into her swing, charging up the blade as she came forward, slicing off his other arm, before spinning around and cutting off both his legs at the knees with a huge yell. As Wrench crashed to the floor, completely helpless, she placed the Dino Sabre across her shoulders.
"You want to know what the funny thing about our rivalry is Wrench?" Kendall asked him. "I wasn't even aware we HAD a rivalry! You just lost a game only you were playing! Think about that as we walk right on out of here!"
"The Purple Energem has chosen a new bearer! A wise choice indeed!" Keeper congratulated her.
"Stay behind me!" She told Keeper as she heard some movement, and turned to the door, only to see Tyler and Shelby arriving. They skidded to a stop as they saw the Purple Ranger before them.
"Whoa!" Tyler said as he saw what was happening before him. "The...Purple Ranger?"
"Kendall?" Shelby asked, seeing that the Purple Ranger before them was clearly female. Kendall just nodded.
"Yes, it's me!" She told them, swinging around and slashing out for Keeper's shackles. "And it's MS. MORGAN!"
The pieces of his broken shackles hit the floor, freeing him. As Kendall turned around to face her team once more, Tyler and Shelby both just nodded in understanding.
"Um...yeah, that's what I meant." Shelby answered. "Ms. Morgan."
"Alright, they're hooking up the Red Energem to the Magna Beam to make a laser cannon." Kendall told them. "We still need to get it back and then we can get the hell out of here!"
"That sounds like a plan." Tyler answered as he threw Keeper his staff.
As they ran from the room, Kendall was glad she had the helmet on, because underneath the helmet, she was beaming brightly. This was everything she had ever dreamed of! Just like her idol, just like her Aunt, she was a Ranger! The Purple Ranger, and it was everything she ever hoped for!