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"We have to go now," Mesogogg said as Zeltrax merely looked at him. He did not think it wise to agree or disagree with him at this point. There was far too much at stake for him if he did the wrong thing at this moment. Mesogogg was on a vengeful streak that made it nearly impossible to talk him out of anything that might be remotely suicidal. Zeltrax knew that they were probably going to walk into their own death, but there was no way to talk him out of it without being killed right now. "The rangers are far too powerful."
"Maybe it would be wise to wait, let some of that power wane," Zeltrax tried to reason, as Mesogogg shook his head no. The time for waiting had passed, Kimberly and Tommy were weak and with any luck that would be spread to their rangers. Their rangers did not know nearly enough about certain vehicles and it would be exceedingly easy to overtake them that way. This was their one chance to push their hand and if they waited, Kim and Tommy would be ready and waiting for them.
"The time is now. Kimberly and Tommy are absorbed in their own problems, the rangers are vulnerable and we can overtake them easily. We must go now," Mesogogg said as Zeltrax just shook his head. He was not sure that this was wise, no matter what Mesogogg thought. He was sure that Kimberly and Tommy could come at any time and destroy everything that they had worked so hard to achieve.
"They still may come after us," Zeltrax said as Mesogogg looked over at him. He did not need that pointed out, although it was the truth. He doubted that Kimberly and Tommy had let down all their defenses.
"Ben is gone and if I am right about him, he ran straight to them, to try to save what little credibility he has left. He knows too much and if we let things go too long, then he will have told them everything that he knows. We must act while we still have a little bit of an advantage," Mesogogg said as Zeltrax could only nod. He really did not have much of a choice about that now. They had allowed Ben to leave alive and pass on everything that he knew about the situation at hand.
"Then let's go," Zeltrax said as Mesogogg leered. He was finally going to get the revenge that he had plotted against Kimberly for all of these years.
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"How are you feeling?" Conner asked, as he looked over at Kira. He could see that she was tired, but he was afraid that it was more than being tired today. The last night had about killed them, but he knew that things would get better, eventually. They had to get better, otherwise the rangers would cease to exist.
"I just don't like knowing that they've lost…" Kira trailed off as she looked over at him, pleading for him to understand without her going into great detail about it. It was just too painful to say and she was not even the one that it had happened to.
"No one likes to know that, but they'll get through it, as long as they can keep Mr. Hart from killing Tommy they should be all right," Conner said, with a half hearted smile as Kira merely nodded.
She understood a father wanting to protect their child, but Kim had long been out from under his roof and the fact was she was married to Tommy, who no one believed could actually hurt her. They all knew that he loved her far too much and even if he was mad at her, he knew that there were times to just walk away. His anger would never boil down to hitting her, that was just the fact of the matter. He knew what he could do and unless he was evil he would never strike her, that was something that he had learned long ago.
"How long do you think it will be?" Kira asked as Conner shook his head. He didn't know how long it would be before they had to battle Mesogogg again, but he hoped that it would be a little while from now. They were going to need Kim and Tommy's help to truly bring the man down.
"Not nearly long enough. I don't think that they're going to really have enough time to recover and I hate that for them. The two of them deserve some sort of break from this," Conner said as Kira nodded her head in agreement. She knew that it had been horrible for them lately, but hopefully they would be able to pull it all together in time for one last battle.
"Yeah, if any one does it's them," Kira said as Conner pulled into her driveway and looked over at her. He knew that her parents were going to be concerned by her condition, but as he did not look any better, maybe they would just take it as a very long day.
"Call me if you need anything," Conner said as he walked her to the door and gave her a kiss. That was when they heard an explosion and felt the ground quake.
"You've got to be kidding me," Kira said as Conner just shook his head as he pulled her back out into the open. "They won't even give them a damn day."
"It's actually a good strategy, don't give them a chance to recover and you risk a lot less problems of your own," Conner said as Kira just looked over at him. She did not like that he was thinking like these stupid creatures that continued to come after them. It showed that they had been in the ranger world far too long, if he was able to understand what they were thinking.
"You better contact them," Kira said as she looked up into the sky and saw her zord flying over head as Conner just looked over at her in dismay. This could not be good for their zords to be out without any of their knowledge that they had been called.
"Yeah, you go on and get the others and I'll be there in a few minutes," Conner said as Kira nodded and then sprinted off until she was out of the sight of most people and teleported away. "Kim…Kim come in."
"What's going on Conner?" Kim asked as she heard an explosion in the background.
"We need some help, Mesogogg is attacking," Conner managed to say as Kim looked between Ben and Jason, before she gathered her gown closed and then walked out into the hall, looking for Tommy.
"Shouldn't we go help," Ben said as Jason grabbed him and threw him back down in the bed. He was not going anywhere because if he was lying, he wanted to make sure that he was where he could get his hands on him. "I guess not."
"You're right, we're not going anywhere right now. This is their job," Jason said as Kim came running back in with Tommy, who seemed rather confused.
"You're telling me that they are under attack right now?" Tommy asked, skeptically. He was sure that Kim had just imagined it because of everything else that was happening.
"No, I just thought that I'd run you down, tell you there was an attack and then get you back in here just to kiss you senseless," Kim said, sarcastically, as Tommy looked over at her, semi-hopeful, before he caught her glare. "Of course I'm serious Tommy! I wouldn't joke about something like this."
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"I never thought that you would have to fight in that," Tommy remarked as they landed in the middle of the battle, still in the clothes that they left the hospital in. There had been times when he thought Kim was going to have to fight in a hospital gown, but this was not one of those times. He had expected for her to be able to heal before they had to go running into another damn battle.
"I'm not," Kim said as she morphed and Tommy just shook his head as he did the same thing. It had never really occurred to him that they would be brought in for this, but now he understood it better. Kimberly was the only one that could bring Mesogogg down, so it made sense that she would have to be here. To at least see it happen, if not participate in it as well. "Come on, let's go."
"We've got a problem. Our zords aren't responding to us anymore and the monster is now…" Conner motioned to the sky as Tommy and Kimberly just shook their heads. They had thought that it might come down to this, but this was something that they didn't really like to have to deal with.
"Take care of everything that is on the ground, ours should still work," Tommy said as Kim started calling their zords back from the past. They had never thought that they would be flying again, especially Tommy after he had been in every other ground bound zord known to man.
"Let's go flying," Kim said as Tommy smiled and the both of them jumped into the air.
"Their zords," Kira muttered as they all looked up into the sky to see the crane and falcon soar past them with a war cry as even the tryannadrones quit fighting for a moment to watch them pass, side by side. The crane and the falcon, brought back to life when no one thought that it was even possible. "They're beautiful."
"I'm sure that Tommy and Kim want to hear that their zords are beautiful," Conner whispered as Kira just looked over at him, mad that he would even attempt to bring that up. There was no other word to describe their zords and Conner would just have to deal with it.
"Guys, don't argue about that, we have to fight, otherwise everything will be hell for us," Meagan reminded them as they looked at each other and then went into the fight as they heard the zords swoop overhead.
"I'd do anything for a megazord right now," Tommy said as he began blasting the zord that he had helped make with his own.
"Yeah, I know, but we're just going to have to deal with what we have," Kim said as Tommy smiled under his mask. It was not like her to say that, considering the fact that she was now spinning around in the air to avoid being hit.
"I hate doing this," Tommy muttered as Kim fired upon the zord. She understood Tommy wanting to be slightly sympathetic, but they couldn't do that right now. They had to destroy everything that stood in front of them right now.
"Oh, you do?" Mesogogg asked as he landed in Tommy's zord and Tommy just looked back at the man. How had he been able to get into their zords?
"Kim bail. Set your crane on self-destruct and bail," Tommy said as he could almost hear her questioning him, but she did what he said and set the crane on self-destruct and bailed. That, however, sent her flying to the ground and it had been years since that had happened with her and she forgot how much it actually hurt.
"Oh god," Kim said as she rolled over and looked up at the sky and saw that Tommy had not yet abandoned his zord. He seemed to be waiting until the last moment and she did not appreciate that. She was not sure if she could live through this sort of suspense again. "Come on, Tommy, get out of there. Don't try to be a hero, get out of there, now."
"You know he wants to make you suffer," Zeltrax said as he landed in front of Kimberly, who merely looked at him with the greatest disgust that she could have right now. Tommy knew better than to do something like that, but even as she was thinking that, both the falcon and the crane zords exploded, taking the other zords with them.
"Tommy…" Kim whispered as she looked up at the sky and sunk to her knees. She didn't have to will to fight anymore, the will to live, the will to do much of anything. She felt that there was no way that he could have made it out of that. He would have had to bail early enough that she would be able to see him.
"Get her out of here," Conner whispered to Kira and she couldn't help but nod. There was no need to keep Kimberly here if she was not going to be able to help them at all.
"She has to stay," Tommy said as he emerged from the rubble and Kim managed to look over at him before she passed out.
"Dr. O, you're all right!" Kira yelled as she gave him an excited hug, but Tommy just shook his head no. He was not all right, but it seemed that Kim was still trying to heal him. He didn't know if she would be able to pull it off this time.
"We've got to get rid of Zeltrax," Tommy said as the young rangers looked at each other, they weren't sure how they could do that. "Mesogogg is gone, pool your powers and kill the bastard."
"Okay," Conner barely said as he felt the others pooling their energy into the weapon that he held in front of them. That was when they saw Mesogogg walk out and the rangers looked back at Tommy, who had collapsed next to Kimberly. "What are we supposed to do now?"
"What he said, Conner. It's the only thing that will work. We don't have a choice but to listen to them, they know how to deal with this better than we do," Kira said as Conner barely nodded his head and then fired the weapon, which caused Mesogogg and his henchman to dematerialize in front of them. The rangers, then felt something be extracted from their bodies, as they collapsed from the pain as well.
"This helped them none," Jason muttered as he landed there with the others to help get them back to a safe place. They had heard about the explosion and had started up there to help pick up the pieces. Jason had never thought that he would be picking up rangers instead. "I think that they are still going to kill you."
"I told them how to defeat him," Ben said, as he couldn't quite understand why they would not be all right with him.
"And they are still over there, passed out. If they don't wake up, hell will have no fury like all of us," Jason threatened as Ben merely managed to nod. He didn't think that he trusted himself to say anything, considering how things looked right now.