Adam ran to the command center control room as fast as he could when he heard the alarm go off. Not sure what to do, Raymond followed him. When they arrived it was chaos.
Rocky and Aisha were trying to fight Zack without hurting him. Alpha was trying to put locks on the control center to prevent damage. Zordon was trying to calm Zack down, but Zack didn't seem to even seem to notice anything.
"Adam!" Aisha yelled "We need a hand!"
Adam ran to help his friends, but Raymond knew his fighting skills were not up to par to tangle with a ranger, so he went over to Alpha "What's wrong with him?" he asked
"Zedd's done something to him." Alpha yelled "Ai, ai, ai! We've got to contain him, but Blue Ranger programmed the force field to only attack Red and Green Ranger. I've got to put the command center security up first though, to prevent any more surprises, and then reprogram the field."
Raymond went to the console "I'll put up the force field!" A few minutes later, Zack was inside a force field. He was freaking out and lashing out still, but he could hurt anyone. Alpha finished locking down the command center. "That was a very good job, Raymond." Alpha said.
Raymond couldn't hide that he felt pleased with himself. Alien computers are not the easiest to understand. He joined the other three teens. "Are you guys alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, we're fine." Aisha said.
"What's wrong with him, Zordon? What'd Zedd do to him?" Rocky asked.
"I fear that Zedd has done something to his mind. He is caught in some sort of waking nightmare. He is confused and irrational right now." Zordon said.
"But what about Ja- I mean White Ranger?" Rocky asked "He had them both, why did he only send Black Ranger back to us?"
"I fear that Zedd sent Black Ranger back throw us into despair. Zedd has incapacitated all the rangers." Zordon said.
"Wait, Zedd's taken down the power rangers?" Raymond asked "All of them? What are we going to do when another monster attack comes? Angel Grove will be toasted!"
"I fear, Raymond, all the world is in peril with the rangers gone." Zordon said gravely. "We must continue our search for the White Ranger."
"Is the Pink Ranger better yet?" Aisha asked.
"Ninjor has not contacted me, and I cannot contact him, so I assume she is still in recovery." Zordon said.
"Ninjor, that's it, he could help us." Rocky said excitedly.
"We can't contact him." Aisha reminded him, "Besides he's busy healing the Pink Ranger."
"She might not need him every second, and he might just not be answering because he doesn't want the Pink Ranger to go back on duty or something. We could go and ask him for help." Rocky said "It's worth a shot."
"I'm not sure if that's such a good idea." Adam said "What if it just annoys Ninjor? He doesn't know us. I mean he made the ranger powers, wouldn't he know what was going on with them?"
"All the more reason to visit him," Rocky argued "he might be able to undo whatever Zedd's done."
"Be careful before you make this decision." Zordon warned "It is a very dangerous one. I will not stop you, but I fear it would be unwise. You have no power to protect you."
The three were quiet looking at the viewing globe. Everything was calm. "It won't stay like that for long." Rocky said quietly "We need to prepare for what is coming." They turned to Zordon and Rocky said "We don't need power to protect us. We'll protect each other."
"Well we can't go without supplies." Raymond said. The three turned around. They had almost forgtotten that Raymond was still there.
"Sorry Ray, not you. We can't let you get hurt." Aisha said.
"That's not up for debate. You need help and I can help you." Raymond said "Let's see what supplies we can dig up."
Jason took a step into the room and instantly knew he was in danger. A chill ran up his spine.
He could see moving pictures on the wall, sort of like flat TV screens, and in the pictures he could see each of his friends. H could see the day the Green Ranger had trounced their Zords, rushing through the jungle to rescue Kimberly, their parents being kidnapped, Trini and Billy being taken down by the Green and Red Ranger, Kimberly being crushed in her Zord, Trini and Billy locked in a cell of some sort, Zack being separated from Jason, and then he saw the last picture. Zack had gone crazy in this one. He was being tortured mentally somehow.
"Is there a fate worse than death, White Ranger?" Green Ranger came out of nowhere laughing, "He's ruined for life now. He's never going to be alright. Don't worry, Jason, my master is being much more merciful to you. You are to die, painfully, but at least you will not live like that." Jason could feel his anger rushing at the sight of the pictures.
"You are angry." Green Ranger commented "You should know better. Anger clouds your mind, Jason."
Jason stood his ground; his fists were clenched.
"Your friends counted on you. They looked up to you. They needed you, and you let them down. The world needed you, and you let it down." Green Ranger said "You are a failure; you know that right? You have lost everything."
Jason turned away and saw another picture. It was them getting their powers.
They had been teleported to the command center and were all confused. Jason normally would have smiled seeing Billy's excitement. He was a kid in a candy shop when he first went to the command center.
"They didn't want this," Green Ranger pointed out. Jason looked and saw Zack and Kimberly doubting all of this power Zordon had offered them. Trini seemed nervous. Only Billy was excited by the prospect.
"Do you feel so bold and powerful now?" Green Ranger asked.
"Power Morphers, Mega zords, nu huh, this is just too weird for me. I'll tell you what? It's been real but I got to go." Zack said
"Yeah see you." Kimberly said following him out quickly.
"You all coming?" Zack called. Trini left and Billy followed her reluctantly. "Jason, let's go!" Zack called.
"You were the only one who believed the big blue head." Green Ranger said quietly "You were the reason they turned on those morphers. You encouraged them to do this. They trusted you, but you led them down the path to destruction."
"I'm not sure we're all up to this? I mean, we were pretty lucky this time." Zack said.
The words echoed in Jason's mind as he heard his past self say "Alright I'm in." and everyone following his lead.
"You did this to them." Green Ranger said pointing to the other pictures, "It is your fault. You lead them to their deaths."
"Ai, ai, ai." Alpha said "I still don't think this is such a good idea."
"We can do this." Rocky said confidently as he took the pack Raymond gave him "We totally look like rainbow commandoes."
The others laughed. They kind of did look like that. They had found some emergency backpacs for the rangers. Raymond shifted the blue one on his back. It was full of tech he had picked up to help with. The four teens were all geared up with water and food as well as some side arms and other useful weaponry. They were wearing bright colored, novelty looking, camaflodge looking outfits that had been experimental outfits suited for extreme conditions. They were as prepared as they could possibly be.
Aisha looked sadly at Zack still screaming in his force field. He was yelling something about being out of control and asking where he was going to. "Don't worry, we'll find a way to help you." She whispered.
"Alpha, teleport us down please," Rocky said.
Less than a minute later, the four teens were in the desert following Trini's instructions to Ninjor's temple.
Jason took deep breaths to calm down. He refused to let Green Ranger make him loose his cool, "I couldn't help it. I did the best I could."
"Jason!" Raquel called "Get over here."
"Raquel what are you doing?" Tommy yelled
"Tommy, listen, I have some of myself back. Jason can save the world. He can save the other rangers." Raquel hissed "He can save us. We could be free."
"What do you mean?" Tommy said angrily "You mean you want to be a traitor?"
"We're already traitors, traitors to our world. Tommy, we're worse than that. We've betrayed our world, we've betrayed our families, and we've betrayed ourselves. We've become slaves and we didn't even realize it." Raquel whispered desperately.
"Raquel, just back away from the teleporter. Maybe lord Zedd hasn't heard you. Maybe he didn't sense disloyalty." Tommy said stepping towards her. His voice was racked with worry. Jason started to walk her way as well.
"Could she be breaking free on her own?" Jason wondered.
"Life as a slave is no life at all. Living in the cage they put me in was better than this." Raquel said pushing some buttons "Hurry up Jas."
Jason walked forward and then his eyes grew twice their size in horror. "Look out!" he started to yell, but before he could Zedd had blasted Raquel with his staff.
"No!" Tommy yelled jumping forwards. He received part of the after wave and fell back next to Jason severely burned.
"You!" Tommy screamed in rage "You got her killed! You did something to her!" Tommy yelled "I should have known, you destroy everything you touch!"
"Rangers are such a pain." Zedd said aiming his staff for Jason. Before Zedd could blast him Jason felt something pulling him out of the dark dimension.
It didn't take Rocky, Adam, Aisha, and Raymond long to find Ninjor's temple. Trini's directions were very precise. They went in and saw a room with two vases. One that looked like Trini's description of Ninjor's vase and one that was pink and very ornament looking.
The four were silent for a few minutes. Finally Aisha asked aloud "Is anyone here?"
"Go away!" Ninjor yelled "I don't have time to deal with children!"
The two were surprised that the voice came not from the blue vase but the pink.
"I'm ok," came a girls voice from inside "Really Ninjor, you ought to see who's out there."
"Alright, Kimberly, but I shall be back soon." Ninjor said and suddenly he appeared in front of them. "Who are you?"
The four stared at each other and finally Adam said "Excuse me, sir, but we're friends of the Black and White Power Rangers. White Ranger's been captured and Black Ranger, well, we don't know what Zedd did to him, but something's really wrong with him. They really, really need help."
"Great story, I am really busy. Go on your way!" Ninjor said turning away from them.
"Please, we have to do something." Aisha said.
"Then do something." Ninjor said "I'm already busy."
"What are we going to do?" Adam asked the others quietly.
"Go back, search for Ja-White Ranger." Rocky said.
"Try to fix Black Ranger." Aisha said.
"And when the monsters come out?" Adam asked.
"We make them know that we don't give up, even when were out gunned." Raymond said adamantly.
"Ninjor," called Kimberly from the bottle "I've got to help them!"
"You will do no such thing." Ninjor said "You are still too weak to leave your bottle for more than an hour."
"But we can help," Kimberly said "and I might be able to reach Zack. I've only known him all my life."
"Zack's the Black power ranger?" Raymond muttered in astonishment.
Adam shook his head "Cat's out of the bag." He muttered.
Ninjor sighed "They're hearts are full of the spirit of the ninja. We shall aid you." Ninjor picked up the pink vase.
"Alright!" Rocky said.
Jason looked up and saw he was in the command center. "Must have been teleported out." He thought. He looked around wildly and saw Zordon.
"Zordon! Zack's still captured somewhere! Billy and Trini are in space! Zedd killed Raquel!" Jason said quickly in an almost panic. Suddenly Zordon began to laugh.
"Zordon?" Jason said in surprise, "What's so funny Zordon?"
"I can't believe what a pathetic failure you are. Never, in the history of the universe, has there been such a bad team leader as you." Zordon laughed "I can't believe I chose you. Return to your civilian life."
"No, Zordon, we've got to save them! We have to save them!" Jason yelled as he now was out in the middle of the desert "We have to save them!"
Tommy knelt at the presence of his emperor. "I believe he has had enough. I don't think he can stand anymore. Honestly, I don't think Red Ranger can take much more either."
Indeed Raquel was being examined by Finster. "I told you to take more breaks. Much longer and you'd have no grip on reality."
"Pretty ponies," Rauqel sang as she morphed on and off "Pretty flying ponies. Now we kill the ponies. Death to all the ponies" Her insane laughter echoed through the chambers.
"Get her out of here." Zedd growled, as he turned away from the pathetic scene.
Finster grabbed Raquel's arm and pulled her out as she started talking about cars driven by ponies going out of control.
Zedd sighed, he'd have to deal with that later, but this made it all worthwhile. He made the monster disappear. Jason looked at Zedd and started to pull away.
"I have to save them." Jason said desperately "I have to stop you."
Zedd laughed wickedly, this was going to be fun.