Power Rangers In Retrograde - Mystic Force – Trick 28 When the Flower Blooms Part 2

'My hand trembled as I reached out reached out toward Vida's. The Cracks of energy were growing larger and wider by the second. I was dying and Nicole was offering me a second chance to live. All I had to do was betray everything I've fought for, everyone I've fought to protect.'

The shadow looked back to Solaris and Nick, the Red Mystic Ranger, "I-I'm sorry...I don't want to be destroyed."

'And that was at the crux of the issue wasn't it, refuse and I would die, either from my wounds or Solaris Knight's next attack. It was them or me, and I was afraid, I didn't want to die..Nobody wants to die.'

"Tick, tock," Nicole teases as the bands of energy growl wider, the shadow trembling as he stares down at his hand.

'At least if I went willingly maybe I could find a way to save Vida and Nicole in my own way.'

"I can't let this happen!" Solaris screams.

'I looked back the world slowing to a crawl as Jenji, cloaked in the light of the sun shot from the lamp, I saw my own fear reflected in the helmet's visor but so saw something else.'

"Shit!" Black and Rose say together as the battlefield is enveloped in a white light.

'I saw the fear in Vida and Nicole's eyes, real, human fear. The attack would destroy me for sure but with their guard down they both felt the same fear of death as I did. I know Daggeron he wouldn't try to destroy them but he wasn't worried about me, and in his panic to keep another rangers out of the clutches of The Master he didn't hold back as he launched Jenji at us. Normally Vida and Nicole, especially in ranger form, could survive such attack, they might be hurt but they would live, but this was no normal attack. In that moment they knew fear, I knew fear...and I knew what I had to do.'

The shadow slapped away Vida's hand as he forced himself to his feet and threw himself before the blast, and the world went white.

The Red Ranger gasped, holding his chest as the memories flooded in, the force of them in the instant dropping him to his knees. "Oh Man…."

"Damn it..." He barely had his breath back when he heard Solaris curse under his breath, "...they survived."

The blast had thrown Vida and Nicole back, knocking them out of Ranger form and to the ground, Vida was out cold, Nicole was struggling to breath, her voice raw as she visible trembled. Her brown eyes were stained red with tears, "T-This isn't over Rangers, not by a long shot."

A spell seal waved under her as she began to sink, the Red Ranger scrambling toward her, he knew full well how dangerous an unstable Dark Portal was, "Nicole wait!"

But she was gone before he ever reached her. His form wavered, shifted, as the power crashed as Female Nick cradled the pale, cold body of Vida, her hands trembled, "I'm not feeling a pulse, Awe man, come one V wake up!"

Kat scrambled toward them, tearing open Vida's mystic vest as she pressed her ear to her chest and began compressions, "No hear beat, no pulse. Come on Miss. Roca don't die on me now!"

Chris was behind her, he was still weak and could barely stand but he rose his Mystic Morpher only for it to tumble from his hands as they trembled.

"We need to jump start her heart! We need a shock of some kind!"

"But Chip isn't here, just us!" Nick pounded the heavens, "Damn it why did I let myself get distracted created the shadow, this is worse then…"

'Wait!'

"Now we're talking," Green smiles, "See, we don't need to be enemies. Now what is it you want?"

'The battle with Warmax surged back into Nick's mind, time slowing to a crawl and he felt that same helplessness as Warmax rose his blade. It seemed like forever in Nick's memory when in reality is was over in an instant.

"You head!" Warmax slaps away Green's hand as he swiftly draws his blade slashing Green with enough force for Xander's head to fly off, rolling along the ground several feet away.

"You monster!" Red shouts and he, Blue, and Yellow charge Warmax.

Solaris is about to join in when he hears Nicole's voice and turns to see her head resting on the shoulders of the Green Ranger's body, "Daggeron wait!"

Nick was back in the present but only for a moment before he was back at the pratice ground near Rootcore.

"Chip? Madison are you two all riiii-" Nick was pale with shock to see Chip female wearing little more then a loose shirt and sprawled out on the practice grounds staring up into space and rubbing her stomach through her shirt.

"Chip! What are you doing!"

Chip looked over at Nick drunkenly, "Huh? Oh hi Nick," her voice flighty and not all there, "you have to try deep fusion, it's feels soooooo goooooood."

Nick ran over shaking Chip, "Maddie, where's Maddie!"

"Huh? I'm Maddie, she fused with me, remember," Chip says dazed.

"Well unfuse already!" Nick said slapping some sense into Chip.

Chip stayed dazed a moment, "Oh I think she drifted off somewhere a while ago."

Nick's eyes narrowed shaking Chip violently, mots of blue starting to rise out of her as motes of red swirled about them both, "I'm not loosing Maddie! Come back, come back!"

'Of course!' Nick whipped out her Mystic Morpher before the spell even shone to remind her and dialed in the code, her body dissolving into light that Vida's body absorbed like a sponge.

"Huh?" Vida was lost in a void, darkness everywhere, no light, no sound. She was curled up in a ball, she was tired, so tired and just wanted to go to sleep.

"V! Take my hand V!"

And then she heard his voice, "N-Nick?"

And she looked around confused.

"I'm here V, take my hand!"

"Where Nick Where? All I see is darkness!"

A pink shadow looked over at her, turning her head toward the light, "N-Nicole?"

And the it was gone, but she could see Nick now, reaching out his hand into the darkness. Reaching out from a hole in the darkness where there was endless light.

"It's so warm..."

The light was destroying the darkness, it made Vida feel light headed, made her heart race as color rushed into every part of her, She reached out for the hand.

"Unbelievable," Kat whispered, "She was cold, she was...gone."

Vida's cheeks were warm with life as her lips pressed firmly into Nick's, the two woman's bodies were pressed firmly together as their tongues wrestles with each other. At first Nick was on top, afraid to let go but soon Vida reversed their positions. It was several minutes before either came up for air.

"W-Wow," Nick flustered, rubbing her chest, "I had no idea deep fusion was like that...m-my entire body tingles."

Vida pulled her back in for a second round, "Just shut up and kiss me again."

With the battle people were starting to return. Daggeron punched a ticket and the Solar Streak quickly picked them up without disturbing Vida and Nick's embrace or Kat returning to Chris' side and she collapsed. It would be several hours before any of them were up to talking.

Nicole fell out of the spell seal unceremoniously deposited on an unfamiliar ground, shadows all around her, an endless wasteland. Blasted ruins of the city all around her. It was hard to breath, the air was toxic, she needed to find shelter but her body was battered, she could hardly stand. His vision blurred but in the distance she could see see figures approaching, and hear the sounds of mechanical gears turning.

'N-Need to find cover...find f-fresh air…'

She stumbled, forcing her body to move but darkness was clouding her vision but this was not the same darkness that coiled around her heart.

'Stay awake man, s-stay awake,' her chest burned, her heart ached, there was a fire in her chest that just would not go away, a fire that was burning away the darkness, but her body would not stand and just before the darkness enveloped her she saw something shining, a gold and silver brilliance.

Imperious gloated as he watched Nicole vanish into the portal and sat upon the throne, "Once again the Ranger's have destroyed another of your General's Master, you need me now more then ever."

Necrolai stormed off, sending her armor away as she fled the underworld, her dark mask falling away as her flesh grew soft, supple, human and Necrolai collapsed to the floor of some nameless tunnel, her hands trembling as she drew the photos from inside her shirt, photos of her, LeeLee, Vida, and Nicole.

"I've lost all of my children...I'm alone…again..."

"Not all of us..."

"...are lost..."

A chorus of voices greeter her from the shadows, eyes shining gold, fangs gleaming.

"Grand...mistress."

A dozen humans emerged from the darkness, and a dozen more dropped from the rafter, transforming from bats.

"You still have us."

Necrolai started to transform back to her monstrous form as her tears began to dry but stopped midway as her grandchildren started to collapse to the floor, their fans receding, their eyes returning to normal.

"No! Noooooo! I don't want to be alone again!" she collapsed into tears, reverting to human once more as the people started to stand, confused.

"W-Where are we?"

"H-how do we get home?"

Necrolai continued to cry, she didn't have the strength left to sire them all over again and pointed to a side tunnel.

"Are you going to be alright?"

"Here let help you."

"Just go!" Necrolai hissed.

"We cant leave you here alone.

Her eyes flashed red as her face transformed back, "I SAID GO! LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Terrified the people did just that, scrambling over each other screaming 'monster' as they tried to escape. With them gone Necrolai reverted back to human as she continued to cry over her loose, 'I am a monster...and I deserve to be alone.'

"It's all fuzzy," Vida was still trembling even as she drank the tea, Chris has recovered though as had Nick, he was even male once again. "But just before I came too I remember hearing your voice Nick." She explains holding her heart as she kisses his cheek, "And this warmth in my heart. But I count see you, all I could see was darkness."

"What snapped you out of it?" Chris wondered.

Vida smiled, "Nicole."

"M-My brother was there?"

"I think," she hold her heart, "She was jest next to me, and guided my vision toward the light, toward Nick. And then she was gone."

Chris smiled, "Yup that's my brother. Always did find a way to help others stand even when his own knees would drop him to the floor."

Vida, Nick and Kat laugh, it was a warm, hearty laugh. One full of life, and hope, something Vida didn't even realized how much she missed until she heard it...was a part of it again.

Daggeron reached across the table to Vida's Mystic Morpher, "I suspect this is the source. Nicole passed her powers to you, restoring your own and leaving some part of herself with them."

Vida shook her head, "No Nicole and I have always shared a bond, like sisters, only deeper."

Daggeron nods, "Of course. I feel the same way toward Christopher."

"You do? Why didn't you ever mention it?"

"Because I know it comes from our powers we both wield the power of the sun. The Tribunal of Magic would call you my Backup but in reality is is more like we are two halves of a greater whole," Daggeron pauses a moment breathing deeply. "Before the great war, before magic retreated into shadows, when magic was practiced openly there could be dozens, hundreds of wizards and witches share the same elements, training together, eating together, Making love. In the old days that was how magic survived from generation to generation, a man and a woman both carrying the same spark would conceive a child and that child would be leagues more powerful then their parents and grand parents. Eventually though that power lead to corruption...to war...the elemental children battle each other to prove who was superior and the Master lured some to his side and then...well I'm sure you can guess how it all ends."

"S-So my parents were witches? Is that how it works, are Nickki and I from mixed blood that's why he's wind and I'm the sun?"

Daggeron shook his head, "That was how it work in ancient days, now the Mystic Mother decides, she grants power to the next generation. Even if you, Nicole, Vida, Nick, Xander, everyone were to have a thousand children each maybe one would become a Ranger, or none. It is no longer part of the blood but the whims of the Mystic Mother."

"Oh...I see."

"Were you alive before the great war? How do you know all this?" Kat wondered.

Daggeron laughs, "How old do you think I am? No I was alive during the Great War but I am not that old. I simple have the benefit of old tomes and wise mentors like Leinbow and the Snow Prince."

Kat shrugs, "I'm 128 so to me it would not seem strange to be alive during the ancient times."

"You don't look a day over 80," Chris jokes kissing Kat's cheek.

"Thanks," she laughs returning the kiss.

"I suppose so but even if I was as old as you I wound not have seen the ancient day, those were ten thousand years ago, during the heyday of the Morphin' Masters. And when the Mystic Mother served the forces of darkness as the Empress of Evil Rita Repulsa."

Nick whistles, "That's quite a career change from Empress of Evil to source of all Good Magic."

The others laugh, Vida smiles, it felt so good to be alive, to be with friends.

Maddie purred softly stretching as as she sat up on the ocean floor, flexing her tail as she works out the kinks in her body, her stomach rumbling as she stretches, 'Thanks was a nice nap.'

Looking around a moment she smiles, 'The others are probably as staving as I am, I should see if I can find some food before I head back.'

Taking in a lungful of water Maddie looks around, 'Humm I remember passing some kelp a little while ago though should work, and maybe there's some berries or fruits on that island I passed before that.'

LeeLee yawns as she swings open the beautifully crafted wood door in the side and up onto the warm sea side and into a beautiful garden, giggles as she digs her toes into the soft soil as she cups an apple hanging from a small tree and takes a bite as she looks out over the beautiful morning sun and the ocean.

"Mmmm delicious," she purrs, closing her eyes as she savors the flavor kneeling by small patch of roses of different colors and gently caresses a green one. "You are amazing Xander, this garden is breath taking. But you know..." her voice growing softer, "it would be nice to see your face again."

a soft feminine voice resonated from the foliage all around them. "I just need a little more time."

LeeLee knelt by the rose patch as the dirt under her began to sparkle, "You really didn't need to do all...this...you know."

LeeLee stood to do a small circle with her arms outstretched, what was once a sandy beach on the sea side had transformed overnight into a vibrant, thriving, seaside garden. With a cavern leading underground with an intricately carved and designed wooden door.

"We are going to be here a while, might as well be comfortable."

"Well I suppose."

"Besides you didn't need to carve an underground version of Rootcore, I could have made a nice grove for you to sleep in."

"Don't change the subject!" LeeLee laughs, "Your stretched thin as it is making this garden besides it was a good way to practice my magic."

She purrs softly as she traces the designs on the door, "But the door was a nice touch."

"No telling what kind of weather could hit at any time."

LeeLee collects some of the growing fruits and vegetables and moves to a patio table and law chairs made of a mix of stone and wood and begins to eat.

"We do work well together though," LeeLee smiles as she traces some of the designs of the table as she sighs gazing out at the ocean. "I'm getting worried Xander, it's been a day since Maddie and Chip swam off, and half that since Vida flew after them. I'm tempted to swim out after them but as a human I know I'd never get far."

"And as a Golum you'd sink to the bottom. But if we maintain our camp I'm sure they will be able to find us," Xander laughs, "Not to many gardens on the edge of the sea."

LeeLee laughs, "It does kind of stand out doesn't it."

Xander's soft laugh emanated from every blade of grass, leaf, and plant surrendering LeeLee in a soft chorus.

LeeLee sighs as she at her arm, "There is one other option."

"You're not thinking..."

"Everyone else is missing, what if their lost, hurt? I can't do nothing."

Xander grunts, the female moan resonating around her makes LeeLee's skin craw as a small pot blooms between the cracks of the table, "P-Put this in the w-water...I can go searching."

LeeLee shivers as she plucks the pod and hold it close to her chest as she drops to the ground pouring her magic into the soil, "No, your already stretched to thin!"

LeeLee gasps as she feels a sharp pain in her chest, looking down she notices the pod digging into her flesh, taking root, vines spreading across her flesh she grunted in pain earth and stone replacing flesh as she shifts to her golem form as the vines continues to dig in and out of her flesh.

"Mmmmm so delicious."

"X-Xander stop, I-it hurts."

"Huh? What hurts?" Xander says distracted as LeeLee's body begins to come apart at the seams.

"Xander stooooooop!" LeeLee howls in pain.

"Looks like someone..."

"...Is waking up."

Nicole groans, as two voices alternate in her ears, "Where? Who?"

She tried to sit up but her body still ached, the burning in her chest having spread to her shoulders and stomach. Her vision still blurry but not from pain, as he fingers could confirm as the traced the controls of a gas mask over her face.

"You're in Briarwood…

"...silly..."

"G-Gas Mask?"

"The air..."

"...it's toxic."

Nicole groaned, her head was pounding and the silver and gold blurs in front of her's speaking patern and super cheerful tones weren't helping."

"M-My n-name I-is."

"Just..."

"...rest."

"O-Okay."

"More Grinders..."

"...are coming."

The blurs quickly moved away as Nicole laid back down and shut her eyes.

Maddie, still in Mermaid form but with her tail spit into legs tied up the large leaves as she looked over her collection of fruits and vegetables before slipping back into the water with it tied into a makeshift satchel across her back as she took in a deep breath of water and looked around the horizon.

"Now which was was Xander's gard-Ohhhh is that some dolphins? There are dolphins in this strange world? The guys won't mind me exploring for a couple more hours."

With a bright smile Madison swap toward the horizon, forgetting the shoreline once again."

Chip sighed as she hovered over the ocean, the sun high in the sky, "Come on Maddie where the hell did you vanish off to!"

Taking a deep breath Chip flipped over as she dove toward the water, shifting into her own mermaid form as she scanned the horizon under water, "Where would I go if I was..."

Before she could react there was an excited squeal as a pair of arms wrapped themselves around her chest, "Oh wow! Wow! Wait until I tell the other I met another mermaid! You just fell out of the sky too! Where did you come from? What's your name?"

"Huh?" Chip says confused as Maddie releases her hold and swims around to face her, Chips eyes going wide, "M-Maddie? Where the hell have you been?!"

Maddie tilts her head confused, "Do I know you?"

"It's me Charlotte...Chip, I've been looking for you since yesterday! Where were you?"

"Yesterday?" Maddie laughs, "Stop playing around it's been 3 maybe four hours max. You look great as a mermaid by the way."

Taking Chip's hand Maddie behind to swim off, "Come on I found this amazing ship wreck not that far from her, you'd love it!"

Chip pulls her hand free as she swims around in front of Maddie cutting her and grabbing her shoulder locking eyes, "Focus Maddie. You left yesterday morning, since thin night has fallen and I've had to go mermaid to bed for the night. Wake up, had breakfast, and then continued my search."

Maddie shakes her head laughing, "N-no that's silly, I had a nap sure but it wasn't all night."

"Maddie would I joke about something like this..." Chip's voice was low and serious as she took Maddie wrist firmly and begins to swim back. "We are heading back."

"No!" Maddie pulls away, "just another couple hours! I'm having to much fun!"

"Madison focus!"

But she was already swimming off again, Chip hot on her tail. They didn't get far before there was the loud whistle of a train and bright lights broke the surface.

"Maddie! Maddie! That you?"

Th mermaids stopped, breaking the surface as they gasped looking up at the Solar Streak to see Vida and Nick reaching out from the door.

"V-Vida?" Madison's voice cracked, tears running down her face as she reverted to human form, "I-Is that really you V?"

"It's really me sis," She held back her own tears as she and Nick pulled her into the solar streak as Kat wrapped her in a towel before helping Chris pull up Chip who reverted to her human form, left speechless as she watched the sisters embrace.

"Is that..."

"It is," Chris nods, "Sorry we took so long. Ran into some trouble back home."

Kat closes the door as Chris lead Chip to an empty booth in the solar streak as the whistle blue and started to move back out, tears running down her own face as the sister's embraced as Chips voice trembled, "I almost gave up hope…"

Vida smiled as she slipped away from Madison to pull Chip into a new hug, "I'm back Chip..."

"I'm so glad."

"And I'm not a vampire any more!"

"Thank goodness," Chip's voice trembled, "Nicole will be so happy."

The mood immediately souring as Nicks voice became low, shaking, "About Nicole…"

"Here..."

"...Eat up!"

The Twins powered down as they pulled the mask from Nicole's face and she got her first clear look at where she was, from the cramped spaces of the cockpit of some aircraft. Her hands still trembled, the burning having crept up the edges of her throat into her biceps and into her loins which made her sweat as he legs brushed against each other. Feeling was starting to return and she noticed she was still wearing her corset and cloak from when she was the Empress of Evil.

"She doesn't seem..."

"...strong enough to hold any thing."

Before Nicole could speak a lemony square was pressed to her lips.

"Eat..."

"...this."

Nicole coughed as she tried to force the food down while the girl fed her some water from a bottle.

"MRE?"

The Girl nodded as the boy checked the consoles, "No signs of Grinders yet Gemma."

"I can keep an eye on our new friend Gem."

Nicole smiled, "G-Gem and Gemma?"

The girl/Gemma nodded, "N-Nic...ole…B-Blecker."

"A pleasure to meet you Nicole!" Gemma laughs.

Necrolai's sobs echoed off the cave walls, her clothes soaked through with tears, 'Why does it hurt so much...why wont the tears stop.'

"M-Mom?"

Necrolai knew that voice, her red eyes and face peering intothe darkness as a figure approached, "L-LeeLee?"

"I heard rumors of a crying monster..."

"Come to destroy me?" Necrolai's voice was horse as LeeLee's Shadow closed the distance, letting her mother cry into her chest.

"N-No mom...I'm here because you're my mother and I still love you."

"We're enemies..."

"We don't have to be you know...if you would just..."

"I-I don't…I'm not that strong."

LeeLee gently strokes her mother's hair, "You're the strongest woman I know, with a huge heart."

"How can you say that after everything I've done...to you...to Briarwood."

LeeLee's shadow smiles as she brushes Necrolai's hair out of her eyes, "Because Your my mother and..."

"A-And?"

"I love you."

"I-I love you two."

"Daggeron? Sir?" Chip pokes his head into the engine room as Solaris Knight mans the controls and Jenji feeds the furnace.

"What is it Chip?" Solaris answers calmly.

"Well I was just wondering...I mean...it's just...HOW did you find Maddie and I? How are we gonna find Vi…Koragg?"

"There is still much for you to learn young Knight. The Elements of Magic resonate with a signature energy, with enough experience that energy can be tracked. It is how the forces of the Master are able to find you so easily and why we came to this realm to train. Beyond the scope of their forces The Master would have to have an agent here to track our movements."

"I-I guess that makes sense," Chip flusters as the Solar Streak suddenly banks.

"She's close," Solaris notes as they start to circle a large land mass, "signal's weak, she might be hurt or just in sprite form. Gather the others Chip and fan out."

"R-Right!"

Nicole tried to sit up again, her saviors had left her alone but the fire spreading inside her had spread to fill her head, making thinking painful, and into her arms and legs making them numb. Her fingers and toes were unaffected at the moment and her heart had stopped burning, whatever was effecting her seemed to be fading now that it had reached her extremities. A sudden explosion sent tremble through her entire body.

'Stand up girl, STAND UP!'

Her legs trembled as she got her feet under her and she stumbled toward the controls of the craft, some factory in the distance was smoking and the Gold and Silver Rangers were engaged in a fight with meta men who had survived the attack. A shot of pain dropped her to her knees as she felt a new pain in her heart…

'Someone's trapped, hurt.'

She didn't even think as she lifted the Black Morpher which now had a soft red glow. "Magical Source, Mystic Force.'

Instinct took over as the Black Morticon Ranger shot from the ship into the rubble. Throwing aside debris, her head still burned, it was impossible to think but her body was moving on it's own. Nicole merely watching as she said and did that that were strangely rewarding, summoning black lighting to blast some grinders that were trying to sneak up on her as she pulled a woman from the debris.

"Don't worry, I've got you."

"T-Thank you..." she manages before passing out into the Black Ranger's arms.

'I'm the Empress of Evil, w-why am I helping some random civilian?' a shock of pain in her head dropped her to her knees but she pushed past it. Or rather her body did, stumbling out of the factory with the woman in her arm.

'Power Rangers protect people,' her mind whispered back before her morph crashed and she collapsed, the world fading back into darkness.

"G-Gem...Gemmma," her voice cracked and pleaded, "H-Help."

And then the Darkness returned.

Darkness enveloped Nicole as she sat upon her throne, a void of nothing all around her. Only the Pit of the Master at her feet and Morticon behind her offered any company.

"You can't give up here," Morticon growled, "You are my legacy."

Nicole held her head as she looked back to Morticon, "W-Why is is so c-cold, F-father?"

There was a flash, a blinding light that was eating away at the darkness, and a soft vice came from that light, "N-Nick?"

Nicole tried to stand but the Master bellow and Morticon set her back in her chair.

"This isn't the real you." A familiar male voice whispered, somewhere in the shadows close by.

"Another infiltrator?" Morticon growled as Nicole tried to stand, "No I will handle this!"

Morticon drew his sword and advanced into darkness vanishing, the sound of combat ringing in Nicole's ears.

"F-Father! I'm coming!" She tried to stand again but the Master bellowed, shadows gathering around her ankles and wrists bound her to the chair as tears rolled down her cheeks. "Master please! Let me go!"

A figure, overweight, male, confident, Everything Nicole Was not pushed out of the shadows, even though he was unmorphed and had no weapons he was matching Morticon move for move, "They don't want you to stand, because they know if you do you will stand against them. Even if it's to defend Morticon they knew if you leave the throne you will remember who you really are."

"W-Who I really am? I'm Nicole Pimvare, Daughter of Necrolai and Empress of the Underworld."

"That is not who you really are," the figure counter knocking Morticon back and for a brief moment Nicole saw the figure change, take the form of a Ranger in pink, a male ranger in pink.

"R-Rose Ranger? But I..." She said confused as she looked down at her hand and her black gloves formed, as she took the form of the Morticon Ranger, "No I'm the Black Ranger."

"You know that not to be true," Blecker kicked Morticon back and seized the moment to charge the throne, reaching out for Nicole. Her heart skipped a beast as he head swam with voices, laughter, as their fingers touched. But it was all ripped away as Morticon knocked Blecker back into the shadows.

"Noooo! Come back!" Nicole struggled in the throne as chain shot from the seat and back to further secure her. "I want to laugh, I want to feel warm again! Let me go!"

The Master bellowed as Nicole struggled, Morticon laughing as Blecker slid to her feet battered and broken.

"Good is always so weak," Morticon laughed as she stalked over and lifted up Blecker by his neck, "don't worry my daughter this interloper will be gone soon enough."

"You're strong then this," Blecker coughed, "Prove it."

"I'm not! I'm not!" Nicole shook her head in protest, tears streaming. "I'm the opposite of strong! I can't even leave this throne!"

"You know that isn't true," Blecker coughed.

Morticon scoffed and got ready to snap Blecker's neck, "Enough of this!"

Crack

Koragg felt light headed, she was surrounded by bees, soaking in a strange viscous pool in sprite form, "What was I looking for again?"

her wings fluttered as one of the worker bee began to kneed the jelly into her scalp, antenna sprouting from her forehead.

"Thank you my child," she purred as she gently stroked the bees head, its form shifting becoming more humanoid as he used his new fingers to massage the jelly into Koragg's back.

"You highness," another worker bee fluttered over to her, "we have an invader at the gates, another Queen."

"Another Queen?" Koragg hissed as he eyes became compound and she pulled herself from the pool, a second set of arms sprouting from her abdomen, "Show me to this outsider."

"Yes your highness!" the worker buzzed as he head Koragg to the entrance where another Sprite floated.

"K-Koragg? Is that really you?"

Koragg's body had continued to shift and change and by the time she saw Vida she had become something different, still womanly but more bee then human, even her sprite nature had been consumed.

"You wish to rule my hive," Koragg buzzed, "who do you think you are?"

"Koragg, it's me, Vida, remember you stole my magic, my memories."

"I have stolen nothing!" Koragg lugged but Vida hovered to the side causing Koragg to exit the hive, her body starting to swell, a large egg sac taking shape.

Vida sighs, "Wow you are really los-"

She was cut short as a swarm of soldier ant flew from from the hive, Koragg glowing with pink motes causing the soldier Ants to become more human as Vida dodged their stingers.

Vida sighed, "Looks like there is no other way."

Transforming into a large mason jar Vida enveloped Koragg as the Solder ants and Koragg tried to sting the glass, "We have more pressing concerns at the moment," Vida!Bottle argued as the bottom of the bottle opened up and Koragg's egg sack started to fall though, "I'm really sorry about this but we still have to get back to Xander and LeeLee before thing get worse!"

Koragg howled as the bottle sealed shut on her severing her egg sack from her body as she flew off with Koragg!Bee still inside.

"Our queen!" the soldier cried out.

"Better hurry and get those eggs to the breeding room. You can still save them," Vida!Bottle called as she flew faster, toward a waiting Solar Streak high above them.

With the egg sack still falling the solder reacted on instinct flying down to catch it, by the time they had Vida and Koragg were gone the Solar Streak speeding off faster then any of them could fly.

Daggeron appologized, his voice soft as he held Vida!Bottle and Koragg!Bee in his hand. "I really am sorry for abandoning you as long as I did...I knew none of you were ready for the power of Ancient Mystic Mode but I got distracted."

"I know Koragg isn't really V but," Maddie flustered, "Isn't there something we can do to help her without...you know...destroying her."

"I understand your concerns but once Vida takes back her magic all you have experienced with Koragg with pass to her, all her experiences, her emotions..."

"But then she'll return to being our enemy," Nick injects looking at Vida!Bottle with worry, "I know it has to be weird but she was making some real breakthroughs in figuring out who she really was..."

Koragg!Bee continued to attack the bottle and curse the Rangers.

"It's alright, I'm in no hurry, besides right now I'm more concerned how to break her out of this weird bee state, Daggeron, any ideas."

"Yes, but you will need to open your lid."

"I can do that just give me the word."

Daggeron nods, looking to Chip, "Chip I need you to hit Koragg with a shock, shouldn't need to much at her size, just enough to knock her out."

"O-Okay, I can do that."

"Anything we can do to help?" Chris wonders.

"that the next step, once she is out cold I need all of you to focus your magic with me, together we should be able to reverse the damage to her mind and body, returning it to normal. And we are going to have to move quickly as I fear for the state LeeLee and Xander are in, we could very well need Koragg's magic as well to fix their problems."

"Alright!"

"It's so quiet," female Xander's voice reflects, echoing from the flora all around the beach, as LeeLee's rock form stand motionless in the dirt, vines and flowers weaving in and out of her. "But my garden is so beautiful."

The pod in LeeLee's chest begins to bloom as a daintily green faerie spreads her wings, stretching as she takes in the sun and lifts into the air.

Looking back over the shore and to the main land the faerie smiles.

"Such a beautiful canvas," the voice of the garden was gone, now only the green faerie spoke.

Fluttering her wings a moment the green faerie flew toward the lands horizon, trailing glittering dust in her wake That made the grass flourish and flowers bloom as she giggled, "Everything will be so lovely when I'm through!"

Morticon stumbles backward, as his armor continued to crack and crumble around him, "N-Nicole."

She was standing, Blecker supported by her shoulder as she glared death at Morticon, her fist still outstretched from her punch, "Are you alright?"

Blecker smiled as he started to glow softly fading, "I am now."

Nicole took a soft breath as as she closed her eyes, Blecker become an enegy that permiated her as her back straightened and she slowly turned toward the light, "Time to go."

The Master howled, wrapping chains of smoke around Nicole, dragging her toward the pit.

"Keep your tentacles OFF OF ME!"

A bright red and pink light radiated from Nicole blowing away the tentacles as feathered wings erupted from her back as she flew toward the light.

Gem and Gemma froze as the more Grinders closed in on them.

"We might have..."

"...bitten of more then we can chew."

"RPM, Get in Gear!"

Suddenly explosions decimated the Grinders as a pink and white Unicorn Tank charged toward them.

"Who..."

"...are you?"

"Nicole Blecker," the new Pink Ranger and the Unicorn Tank said in unison.

"Nice..."

"...to meet you."

The moment was broken as fighter jets fired on their position as Gold and Silver broke for their Zords.

"Jet Mode!" The Tank announced as the pilot let her hands off the controls confused as the Unicorn Tank transformed into a Pegasus Jet and engaged the fliers as the silver and gold Zords joined them.