"Can he do that?" Ziggy frowned, looking at all the other Rangers.
"Apparently," Flynn nodded. "He's turned our own mentor against us!"
Ziggy shook his head, "No, no, not that. I mean, isn't there something in the villain rulebook that says you can't recycle your own evil plans?"
"There's a rulebook?" Dustin frowned, looking over at Ronny. She just shrugged.
"I don't know, you were the villain, not me."
The RPM team looked up at Dustin. This was news to them, but they all knew it wasn't the time to bring it up.
Suddenly the alarm went off. Dr. K, Gem and Gemma ran to the monitors and turned it on.
"Hey, look, Kaylee's..."
"... safe and sound in the park!"
"She's coming home we have..."
"... nothing to worry about."
On the monitors, Kaylee summoned a bolt of lightning (powers she inherited from Leanne) and blew up a building.
"Never..."
"... mind."
Hayden and Dustin ran over to the screen to get a look. They saw Kaylee destroying buildings and putting people in danger and her body language showed that she was enjoying it.
But what they couldn't see was that behind the visor she wore, she was crying. In her head, she was Kaylee. She was Dustin's wife, Ronny's best friend, Summer and Mike's Aunt and Hayden's mother. She was forced to watch herself destroy what she worked so hard to protect.
Sam wrapped her arms around her baby sister and hugged her close she put her head on Hayden's shoulder and whispered in her ear.
"Mom would want you to do what's right. Don't let emotions stop you from saving the city."
Hayden nodded, wiping away the tears as Scott stepped up as leader.
"Are you guys ready?" he asked the team. "We go in there and we do what we can to save everyone!"
"Question is, do we save Kaylee from defeat, or from herself?" Dillon asked, hugging Summer close. Scott looked over at the Black Ranger, shaking his head sadly.
"I don't know."
Scott snuck a glance at Sam. He knew she was just as worried as her sister. She had finally been reunited with her mom and everything was going wrong.
"Guys, we do what we can and hope for the best."
-----RPM-----
Nine RPM Rangers stood before Kaylee as another building disappeared behind a wall of flames and smoke.
"Mom..." Hayden called. She knew she sounded weak and pathetic, but so far, this was the hardest battle she had to face. There was no way she could destroy her mother if the time came. Flynn immediately stepped in front of her protectively.
"Guys, kill me," Kaylee called as she started walking towards them. "Kill me now, before the battle starts. Take your guns, blasters, anything, shoot me, kill me!"
Hayden let out a sob and nearly dropped to the ground. She kept her posture though, no matter how hard this was on her.
"KILL ME!" Kaylee yelled as the metallic claws were drawn from her knuckles. Her arm went up, ready to bring the claws down in Scott's chest. Dillon stepped forward, grabbing Kaylee's wrists and matching her strength.
"I've never been in a decent battle before," he smirked, suddenly finding the strength to throw Kaylee down. "Finally someone gives me a challenge."
Kaylee looked up at Dillon, before becoming a green blur. Dillon frowned before hitting the pavement, hard.
The blur didn't stop there, it attacked all the Rangers, quickly knocking them down and slashing at each one until they powered down.
"Ninja streaking," Mike growled, pushing himself to his feet. "I've always hated that."
"You could never master it," Hayden coughed.
"Shut up."
Kaylee watched the Rangers help themselves up as she tried to fight every bone in her body telling her to go while they were down. She decided to offer them advice. It was the only way she could assist them in this battle.
"Guys, you aren't going to beat me in hand to hand combat," she called. "I'm a fucking Ninja with years of Rangering under my belt! Fight from far!"
The Rangers nodded, grabbing their morphers once more to morph. But Kaylee didn't let that happen. Before anyone knew it, she was back in the battle, kicking away the morphers.
"Move faster!" Kaylee screamed.
"This fight would be easier if you weren't kicking our asses!" Dillon yelled.
"I'm sorry, let me regain control of my body," Kaylee snapped, "Oh wait, I'm being controlled by the evil fucking villain set to destroy you guys!"
"Stop arguing!" Hayden yelled, "I think there's enough ass-kicking going on. I don't need my mom verbally beating you up as well!"
"Guys, scatter!" Kaylee yelled as her arm was raised and pointed at the Ranger. They stood frozen as a bright green light shone, powering up whatever was about to come at them.
Kaylee turned away as she felt the blast of energy rip away from her hand and hit the Rangers dead on. A giant explosion went off behind them, blasting Kaylee's ears.
When the noise died, she turned to look at the damage done. The last thing she saw before her body told her to turn and run was Hayden drop to her knees and land face down on the pavement like the other Rangers.
-----RPM-----
Gem and Gemma had arrived on the scene when the battle was over and helped the Rangers into the vehicles to take them home and get them fixed up.
Dustin turned to the wall and punched it with his fist. He was torn. He couldn't watch as the team attacked Kaylee, but he couldn't stand to see Kaylee hurting the Rangers. He had no idea what to do.
"We can't go out there," Dani frowned, shaking her head as the tear threatened to fall. "I can't fight Aunt Kaylee again! There's no way I can hurt her. And even if I could, she's outmatched all of us!"
"What if I found a way to reprogram the virus inside her?" Greg suggested.
"You idiot, she doesn't have a virus, she had robotic implants!" Dani screamed.
"Yeah, giving to her by the virus Venjix!"
"The virus you and your little buddies developed!"
Ronny and the twins pulled the Gold and Silver Rangers away from each other before the argument escalated. Ronny pushed Dani to the car and glared down at her daughter.
"You don't even bring that up again, got it?" she snapped. Dani nodded regretfully. She knew the Soup members had been hurt by that comment, especially Dr. K. She turned to the doctor and let out a small, apologetic smile.
K nodded at the silver Ranger.
"Look, there's no saving Kaylee from what's been done," K sighed, "But hopefully Gem, Gemma and I can work on stopping her."
"We need back up," Summer frowned, looking over at Dustin. "We're going to need a little more team than what we have! Kaylee's trained us! She knows all our moves. If we get another team, it might thrown her off and delay her ass-kicking reflexes. We might get the upper hand."
"Summer, do you have your mother's number?" Dustin asked.
"Yeah," Summer nodded.
"I need you to call her and tell her to get her ass down her with Leanne," Dustin ordered. Summer nodded and ran to the lab for the call.
Dustin turned to Ronny with a smile, "Ron, get Tori, Blake, Mack and Rose. We'll need a team of Rangers for a kick ass team-up, and they're the only ones still in Corinth. Oh, and get Kelly too, for another reason."
"Um, what are Leah and Kira doing then?" Ronny asked.
"They're with Kelly," Dustin smirked, "I figured, if RPM learned their moves from Kaylee, why not get the people who taught Kaylee her moves."
"Ooh!" Ronny giggled.
"Oh, and Ronny," Dustin called as the speedster was about to run off, "Do you still have your Tracker on you?"
Ronny nodded, pulling out her tracker from her pocket. She tossed it over to Dustin, who passed it along to K.
"Think you can get this, and my own working again?" he asked.
-----RPM-----
Assembled in the garage were the RPM Rangers and the recruits for the battle.
Mack, Rose, Ronny, Tori, Blake and Dustin stood side by side as Dr. K handed them their morphers, ready for use.
Kira, Leanne and Kelly stood on the sidelines and smirked.
"What a funny team," Kira giggled, tilting her head to the side to side to try and make sense of it. "One red, two yellows, two blues, different shades though, and a pink?"
"And two different teams joining up!" Kelly added.
"How did that happen?" Leanne asked.
Dustin shrugged, "I really don't know."
"Why aren't we joining?" Kelly asked, motioning to her and Kira. "We still have our morphers!"
Dustin shrugged, "You're not ninjas."
"Um, hello!" Leanne frowned.
"You don't have a morpher!" Dustin reminded her. Leanne crossed her arms and pouted.
"Stupid Cam never made one for me," she muttered under her breath.
"Well, the Overdrives aren't ninjas," Kira pointed out.
"Um... okay... well then you guys didn't drive cool vehicle Zords!" Ronny tried.
"Ninja storm had animals," Leanne smirked, "they didn't have cars or planes or boats!"
Tori raised her hand slightly, "In my defence, my dolphin was disguised as a boat."
"Not helping," Kira frowned.
"Okay then... um... let's see," Mack looked at the team and frowned. "Something we all have in common..."
"You're not a primary colour!" Dustin grinned.
Leanne looked over at Kira and Kelly, "Pink and navy aren't primaries," she told the team.
"DAMMIT!" Dustin growled.
"OH!" Blake smirked, "You guys aren't cool."
Hayden blew a raspberry at her uncle.
"Shut up," Blake grinned.
"Alright then, cool team, what are you going to call yourselves?" Kira asked, crossing her arms.
The makeshift team of Rangers exchanged looks and all shrugged.
"Um..."
"What does a makeshift team name themselves?" Kelly asked.
"OH, Makeshift Rangers!" Dustin smirked.
"Ohh," the red and navy Rangers agreed, high-fiving Dustin.
"Nevermind," Kelly sighed.
While the Makeshift Rangers tried to come up with a role call (either Makeshift Storm, Ranger form or Makeshift Accelerate), the older sisters walked to the team to brief them on Kaylee's fighting style.
Tori wasn't involved in the roll call battle and decided to join the other sisters. She sat down beside Mike and looked him in the eye.
"Water ninja's weakness?"she asked him, hoping he could figure this one out on his own.
"Um... umm... I got this... we fight like..."
"It's your own element you idiot," Karly snapped, hopping up behind the couch. Kira, Kelly and Leanne were frozen in shock, waiting for an explanation. Sadly, everyone else was used to it by now and forgot that Kira and Leanne were new to the talking cat deal.
"We fight like the water!" Mike smirked.
"No duh," Karly rolled her eyes, but Hayden swatted her off the couch.
"No, I mean, depending on the environment, we fight either aggressively or calmly. If the battle has drama or anger or high emotions, it's like the ocean in a storm. It'll fight back just as hard. If the battle is calm and relaxed, the ocean will be calm as well. Kaylee won't feel the instinct to kill."
As Mike explained this, Kira nudged the red heads beside her and pointed to Karly, who was glaring at Hayden.
Tori smiled at her son and hugged him, "Kaylee will fight the same way. If you guys keep the battle calm, then no matter how much pressure Venjix puts on her to fight, she'll keep the battle calm. It'll slow down and you guys can evaluate her moves and your own."
"And," Leanne added, still distracted by the talking cat, "Kaylee never really got weapons for long distance, minus Dino Thunder. She fights in hand to hand combat. If you keep your distance, then you'll throw her off."
Karly sat up suddenly and looked at Hayden.
"Human, don't you have that brain switch power?"
"OH!" Hayden smirked. "If two Rangers zwoop places, then that'll throw mom off two! She'll get a warrior from a chicken!"
"Right," Karly nodded, "Which means you should zwoop the light green human with the black one!"
"HEY!" Ziggy frowned.
"She's right, Ziguardo," Dillon smirked.
"Oh, and one last thing," Kelly finished, but she was also focused on the cat, "listen to Kaylee's advice. Dustin told me she was trying to help you."
"Yes," Karly added, "When she tells you to scatter, don't stand still as a group!"
"Yeah," Flynn nodded nervously.
"Alright," Dustin smiled as he and the Makeshifts walked over to the RPM team, "are you ready for this?"
"Wait," Hayden said, grabbing Dillon and Ziggy's arms before switching them. When she was done, she looked up at her father. "As ready as I'll ever be."
"Have you guys settled on a roll call?" Tori asked.
"Makeshift Storm, Accelerate!" Ronny grinned. Tori rolled her eyes and looked at Rose. The poor Pink ranger nodded her head slowly. She had listened to the discussion between the boys and Ronny and was the one who suggested combing the two. The others thought the idea was awesome and that Rose was a genius, but the pink Ranger simply used common sense and her will to escape the argument as fast as possible.
-----RPM-----
The two teams of Rangers ran through the city in search of Kaylee as the former green Ranger destroyed everything in her path. When they finally met up with her, Kaylee stopped and turned to them.
"Guys?" she asked, seeing her husband, sister and friend standing alongside the RPM team. "What are you doing here?"
"We're here to help them," Tori smiled.
"They don't need help!" Kaylee frowned, "Just kill me!"
"We can't kill you!" Dustin yelled back, looking over at his wife sadly. "We couldn't possibly do that."
Kaylee's arm was raised as she turned away from her friends. It was happening again. She was powering up.
Ronny nudged Dani and smirked, before the two turned into yellow and silver blurs. Kaylee saw this and suddenly she felt her arm being kicked upwards just as the blast was fired. The energy from the blast was shot up in the sky, sparing the Ranger's lives.
Kaylee's body knew she had to fight on the level of the two speedsters so she Ninja streaked, catching them on their level. Blurs of light collided with each other until Ronny and Dani were thrown to the grounds, powered down and squirming in pain.
Mack, Rose and Greg wouldn't stand for this as they all stepped forward.
"HEY!" Greg yelled to Kaylee, taking the charge, "No on picks on Dani like that but me!"
Mack placed his hand on his son's and Rose's shoulder and nodded. Suddenly, the pink and gold Rangers disappeared. Mack ran forward, towards Kaylee to engage her in a battle.
His super strength aided him in the fight against Kaylee, allowing him to match up against her enhanced abilities, but his refusal to hurt Kaylee brought him down. Kaylee grabbed his arms and jumped in the air. She kicked her legs up, hitting him square in the chest as he flew backwards.
By this time, Rose and Greg had been able to get in close enough to grab Kaylee. The blonde felt the two grabbing her arms. They tried to hold her still, but Kaylee swung her arms forward. The two crashed into each other and fell to the ground.
Kaylee aimed her blaster at them, ready to fire. Rose started to place herself over her son, fearing the worst, until a beam of sparking water knocked Kaylee backwards. Rose and Greg knew there was no time to waste and got to their feet, running over beside Mack as Tori, Blake and Mike took over.
Kaylee looked up at her sister and shook her head.
"Kill me, Tori," she whispered. "Kill me before I kill you."
Tori looked into Kaylee's eyes and shook her head sadly.
"Blake," she whispered as her gaze turned to her husband. "Get her."
Blake nodded sadly as he called upon the power of Thunder. Lightning hit the ground around the Bradley moments before shooting at Kaylee.
The wires and machine parts inside Kaylee reacted to the sudden blast of electricity, causing Kaylee to scream in pain. However, it wasn't enough. Kaylee still managed to take a step forward.
Ziggy ran over to Tori, "Dude, I don't think Blake's strong enough to take her down! You'll need more power!"
"How?" Tori frowned.
"Doesn't water conduct electricity?" Ziggy smirked. Tori smiled back at him then turned to her son.
"Ready for this?" she asked him.
Mike nodded, taking his place beside his father on the left as Tori stood on his right. Together they lifted their arms, combining their water beams with Blake's power.
The lightning began to grow and Kaylee screamed louder. She dropped to her knees, finally feeling weak.
She looked up at Tori and the older Hanson saw the weak and scared face. She couldn't do it anymore. She couldn't hurt Kaylee, even if it was for the better of everyone.
"Mom, I'm losing you!" Mike yelled, trying to help. Tori just shook her head as her powers began to fade. Kaylee's body was now back in power. She held her hands up, absorbing the blast and redirecting it.
The Bradleys and Ziggy were caught in the explosion as their attack backfired. Blake and Ziggy landed a few feet away from Dani and Ronny, while Tori and Mike landed and rolled close to Summer
The yellow Ranger growled. She was tired of seeing her family get their ass kicked by the robot controlling her aunt. Dillon senses her anger and stood by her.
"I'm with you Sunshine," he smiled.
Summer nodded before opening her mouth to scream. She knew Kaylee's circuitry must have been weakened by the lightning and figured now was as good as ever to try and destroy her from the inside out. Her sound waves ripped through the air, causing everyone to cover their ears.
Dillon could feel something happening to his robotic parts and he looked over to Kaylee. She held her head in pain, waiting for the scream to stop.
He knew she was hurting, and because she was more of a robot than him, he knew he had the advantage. He jumped forward and swung her arm around, connecting with the side of her face. Kaylee fell to the ground, unmoving.
Summer's screams stopped as she looked down at her aunt.
"I've played dead before," Kaylee yelled before her body jumped up, hitting Dillon under the chin, snapping his head back. His robot parts saved his from death, but not from unconsciousness as he fell backwards onto the ground.
Kaylee turned to Summer, "I hope your mother's watching," she said.
"Why?" Summer frowned, getting ready for the worst.
"Because if I hurt you, she will kick my ass!" Kaylee yelled. A cloud of green smoke appeared just as Kaylee disappeared. Summer knew this wasn't good. She remembered her mother telling her of the pranks Kaylee used to pull with the Zwop. She knew that Kaylee could surprise anyone with the teleportation.
Suddenly, Summer felt someone grabbed her arms from behind, pining them behind her back and running her into a wall.
"Aunt Kaylee," Summer muttered, pressed between the wall and her aunt. "You have to fight this."
Kaylee shook her head as one hand moved to the back of Summer's.
"I'm sorry," she whispered, slamming Summer's head into the hard wall. The yellow Ranger blacked out immediately and fell into Kaylee's arms.
"Let her go!" Scott and Flynn yelled, running over to their mentor. They didn't care who she was anymore. She had done enough damage to their friends. She had to be stopped.
Scott grabbed Summer, pulling her away as Flynn picked up his turbo cannon.
"FIRE!" Scott yelled when he and Summer were out of the way. Flynn hesitated slightly. After all, he was trying to date Kaylee's daughter. He wouldn't be making the right first impression by blasting Kaylee to bits.
But he knew that he had to do what was best and the shot was fired. Kaylee's body knew this was too easy. She jumped up and out of the way, letting the blast hit the wall.
On contact, the side of the building was destroyed, and the building started to sway.
"Flynn!" Hayden yelled as the building started toppling over on the blue and Red Rangers.
The two boys thought they were done for, until a light appeared before them, and suddenly Samantha was standing over them. She looked angelic as she created a shield to protect the boys.
Scott looked up at her pained expression before the three were caved in by the debris. He knew she had to hold up all that weight and that it had to be hard on her. He stood up and took her hands, offering her support.
Hayden and Dustin were the only two left who were still able to fight. Kaylee looked at them as her body turned to face them.
"Mom?" Hayden called out painfully as her mother stepped forward slowly. Dustin pulled Hayden behind him. He had no idea if Kaylee would be able to stop herself from hurting Hayden.
"Kaylee, please, you have to try!" he begged
"I've been trying!" Kaylee yelled. "I can't do anything. He's controlling every part of me!"
"He can't be," Dustin tried, "Kaylee, you can do this."
"No," Kaylee shook her head as her feet began their run. Her claws came out from her knuckles, ready to go in for the kill.
Dustin stepped back, pushing Hayden with him. He couldn't fight Kaylee, no matter how bad this got. All he could do was try to get through to her. He found himself with his back to a tree, and Hayden behind him, slightly off to the side.
Kaylee was now right in front of him, with her claws over his chest, ready to go in. Her visor was keeping his from seeing her eyes, but he could see the tears dripping from her chin.
He moved his hands to her visor and gently lifted it. Kaylee's eyes seemed to be drenched in tears as she tried to keep herself from killing Dustin. Her entire body was shaking for control. She wanted to stop, but she couldn't. Dustin cupped her face in his hands and whispered softly.
"I believe in you, Kaylee. I know you can beat this. After all, if I can't tell you what to do, nobody else can, right?"
"I can't do it," Kaylee sobbed, breaking down as fresh tears slid down her face.
Dustin pulled Kaylee in, wrapping his arms around her.
"Yes, you can."
Another sob escaped Kaylee's lips as her hand prepared itself to impale Dustin in the stomach. Hayden saw this from the corner of her eyes as she watched her parents and quickly jumped between them.
The only thing anyone heard in that moment was Hayden's piercing scream as Kaylee's claws dug into her stomach, opening a huge wound as the blood spilled from her body. The young girl dropped into the arms of her father and her mother looked at her sadly.
Kaylee's mothering instincts finally allowed her to override the controls on her body as she dropped down with her husband and daughter. She held Hayden's hand in hers and her other hand cupped Hayden's cheek.
"I'll be okay," Hayden assured her parents as the wound tried to close before she lost too much blood.
"I don't care," Kaylee cried, "I'm so sorry... Hayden, I..."
Dustin pulled Kaylee in closer to the family huddle.
"Well," Ziggy coughed, turning to Blake. "They wanted close family bonding time."
Hayden's wound finally closed up and she looked up at her mother and father. She wrapped her arms around both of them, smiling brightly as she heard Ziggy's comment.
"We are together now," she said. "All it took was a little Venjix."
"Remind me to thank that jackass in person," Kaylee growled, pulling away from her family as the virus and his allies appeared. He had seen Kaylee turn on him and was here to finish the job she started.
Kaylee stood up, clenching her fists. She looked around at her family, sprawled on the ground around her. She knew she was going to need a little help facing Venjix, seeing as they had all weakened her.
RPM was in no condition to battle again after the ass-kicking they got, so Kaylee chose the other team.
"Hey, Ninja and Ove... Overdr... did you guys come up with a team name? You're two different teams! Who the hell do I call you when I need help?"
Dustin laughed, getting to his feet, "Makeshift Rangers," he smiled. "We're a bunch of retired old Rangers put together to make a temporary team."
"Alright you losers," Kaylee giggled, "mind leading a hand to chase the big bad virus home?"
Dustin nodded, popping the disk out of his morpher and handing it to Kaylee. Tori and Blake followed suit.
The Overdrive Rangers powered down and gave their Trackers to the blonde. Kaylee smirked, dropping all the items on the ground and smashing it.
Once broken, the energy was released from the equipment and faded into Kaylee's body. She began to glow as she ran over to Venjix.
"You gave me an upgrade," she smirked. "Let's see just how powerfully I can get now."
Kaylee pulled her arm back and let it go on Venjix' chest. With combined power from her friends and the implants, Kaylee sent Venjix flying over the horizon.
"NEXT!" Kaylee yelled, looking at the allies. Even Tenaya turned to flee after seeing the all powerful Venjix fail with his own creation.
Kaylee smiled as the power faded and she looked down at her hands.
That's when she saw the knuckles were torn up from the battle. Her flesh was gone and underneath was all robotic. She knew that her powers would get rid of it in due time but it was still painful to see. And even though she had overthrown Venjix and his control on her body, she knew he still had that power and he could still cause her to turn on her family at any time.
"I'm a danger..."
"Of course you are," Hayden nodded, coming up behind her mom and hugging her, "You're my mom. I'm scared of doing something bad and you kicking my ass for it!"
Kaylee chuckled wrapped her arms around Hayden.
"It's my job," she smiled, "After all, I did raise you. You're the one daughter no one's taken from me. And no one, not even me, can change that. I love you, Hayden."
"Love you too, mom."