Chapter 34

Betrayal

Goldar growled as he patrolled through the caverns of the Lunar Palace. A light breeze blew as he walked and for the first time in a while, he hadn't been able to feel the breeze in his wings. They had been taken away, again, all because Rita and Zedd had come down on him after having lost the Healiodore.

Zedd had been furious, even more so than usual and had tortured Goldar for his incompetence. Using his Z-staff he had beaten and struck the golden monster until he fell to his knees, then blasted him with electricity before taking away his wings.

Again.

This was the second time he had lost his wings. The first having been after his humiliating defeat by the Power Rangers shortly after their creation. Rita had been so disgusted with him and his defeat that she had taken them away from him. Zedd had given the back as an incentive to destroy the rangers, but this had been his last straw.

Goldar reached out and punched the rock wall beside him. If only he'd been able to kill the red ranger the year before. When he had him in the Dark Dimension at his mercy. All he had to do was stab the tip of his sword down at the right time and Jason's head would've been knocked clear off his shoulders. He would've been seen as the right hand man that anyone that ruled the Lunar Palace needed.

But no.

He continued to fail and after losing the Healiodore was grateful that Zedd hadn't gone as far as to kill him, even though he definitely deserved it.

Goldar walked up to a cell that had putties guarding it. Inside was just what he needed at a time like this. The golden monster walked over to the putties and pulled out his sword, pointing it at them. "Get out of my way!" His gravelly voice snarled. Despite their orders from Rita and Zedd to stay there, they were also aware of the sort of power that Goldar could exhibit on them and they scattered like ants, waving their arms as they ran off down the cavernous hallway.

Turning around, Goldar lifted the ring of keys off of the wall behind him and took the right one out. He placed it in the lock and swung open the door to the cell. Walking inside, he could hear the sound of chains moving together as the captive whipped around to face him. Goldar smirked at his captive, one of the captives from Edenoi. She shrank away from Goldar, not able to get far as she was chained to the floor. Goldar walked over to the female and brought his sword up, gently pressing the tip into her neck. Through the weapon he could feel her shuddering, though she did her best not to make it apparent to him.

"That's right," he growled. "Squirm! Squirm for me you little maggot!"

He pressed the tip of the sword in harder, allowing a drip of blood to paint the end. Bringing his sword back away from her, he tossed it to the ground, the sudden clattering causing the female to wince, jerking backwards. She cried out in pain as the chains jerked back against her movement. Goldar moved in front of the woman and brought his hands up to the gold plate that covered his front, starting to unbuckle it. He let it slide to the floor and it created a metallic clang that caused the female to wine once more.

"Take it!" Goldar growled, shuffling closer to her.

The female whimpered and raised her hands to wrap around him.

"Wouldn't you rather have a real woman pleasure you?" Scorpina's voice sounded from behind Goldar. The golden monster turned to take in the scorpion monster, but didn't make a move to cover himself. The female in front of him dropped her hands and inched backwards away from Goldar. "It'd be a better overall experience."

With a growling sigh, Goldar grabbed his golden plate and replaced it, tying it back around his hips. "Scorpina, shouldn't you be out doing Zedd's bidding?"

"No," Scorpina replied shortly. She pouted as she came up to Goldar's side. She glanced down at the female captive, tilting her head to the side, looking through her rather than looking at her. "They sent out Sagittaria again. One of these days he's going to get himself killed. He isn't doing much for Rita and Zedd. The rangers keep defeating him quicker and quicker." A malicious smile slid across her face. "He needs to be taken care of."

Goldar recognized the dark tone to her voice. "Taken care of?" He repeated.

"If Sagittaria is out of the picture, then Rita and Zedd will know that their pesky horoscope monsters aren't helping them at all," she said. Goldar gave her a harsh stare. "I'm so much more than that," she reminded him. "I'm the best. I've been around before the others were created and I'll continue to be here when they're gone." She reached out a hand and stroked the side of Goldar's cheek. "We'll be here when they're gone."

Goldar made a low humming sound listening to what Scorpina was saying to her. Getting rid of the horoscope monsters, starting with Sagittaria. They had done nothing but get destroyed one by one; Arieselle, Piscessen, Gemma, Nie, Libranian, the Aquarius monster, they had all been defeated. There weren't many left and who knew how strong or weak they'd be. Once they were out of the way, they could focus more on destroying Eltar and Edenoi from the inside out. The toxic gasses were slowly starting to work, but they needed to move faster or else Rita's and Zedd's master plan for domination against the rangers would fall apart before they could even get it off the ground.

She had a point.

Goldar turned to face Scorpina, his red eyes looking deep into her dark brown ones. "I'm listening," he growled.

"Great class today, guys," Tommy said to the students that stood in front of him, hands at their sides as they patiently waited for his instruction. "You'll be testing for your belts soon, so I want you all to practice as much as you can." He smiled at the group then bowed towards them. They bowed back and he waved before going over to his bag to get his towel.

Bailey bounced over to him, getting her own towel. "Am I really going to be testing for my belt soon? You and Jason said that before and it never happened?" She looked up at him with earnest eyes and he chuckled before reaching out and ruffling her hair.

"As you can imagine, some power rangers stuff got in the way," he said to her. She suddenly became serious and nodded, though the excitement was still in her eyes. He could see her quivering, doing her best not to let her constant excitement burst through. "But, yes, you're going to be tested for the next belt soon. Not that you have anything to worry about, you've been greatly improving." He glanced over his shoulder, watching as the kids met up with their parents and left the Youth Center. "It's too bad that Fred couldn't come today, he really missed some god stuff."

"I know," Bailey agreed. "But he went to visit his grandparents today." She then grinned and started to punch the air in front of her. "So now I'm ahead and I can show him some things this time." Taking a step back, she spun on her heel and did a high side kick.

Tommy clapped appreciatively causing the purple ranger to beam. "Great job, Bay. You've really got it down. Soon you're going to be teaching me a thing or two." He picked up his gym bag. "Do you have a way to get home?"

Bailey nodded. "Yeah, Av's coming to get me. She's still looking for a job, so if you see something on the way home, please let her know." She leaned forward and placed a hand by her mouth, speaking in a stage whisper. "She's not great with people so anything where she's like a hermit will be best."

"I'll keep that in mind." The white ranger laughed and held out his hand, accepting a high-five from the purple ranger. He ruffled her hair once more, causing her to let out a shriek and start to fix her hair. She swung a small fist towards the white ranger, but he backed out of the way, hurrying towards the doorway. He waved to Ernie as he went, though the owner of the Youth Center appeared to be too preoccupied cleaning the picture of the power rangers that he kept behind the counter. I didn't realize he appreciated what we did so much, he thought.

Walking out of the Youth Center, Tommy had made it halfway home before he had a nagging thought that he was forgetting something. Slowing to a stop, Tommy brought a hand up to his chin as he tried to remember what it was. Was he supposed to hang out with Kim? No, she had an extra gymnastics practice as well as having to do homework. Did his mother want him to pick up something from the store? No, she had gone grocery shopping over the weekend. Maybe his Dad needed something. He vaguely remembered him saying something to him this morning, but he had been so busy trying to find his misplaced homework and textbooks to get to school on time that he could hardly remember.

"You look like someone just showed you a massive math problem, man."

Tommy whirled around at the familiar sounding voice and grinned when he spotted Zack standing behind him, hands shoved into the pockets of his black jeans. His ever present friendly smile was on his face, but it appeared to be tinged with nervousness this time around.

"Zack!" Tommy cried. "What are you doing here?"

Zack's smile widened and he reached out his hand. Tommy grabbed onto it and the two came together in a man hug before stepping back once more. Zack shrugged, replacing his hands into his jeans pockets as his eyes shifted back and forth for a few moments.

"We had some more stuff that we had to get from the house," Zack explained. Now he was shifting back and forth from foot to foot. "Mom insisted that we come back and get some stuff and I couldn't pass up the chance to see Angel Grove again."

"How long have you been here?" Tommy asked. His excitement had started to wane, getting the feeling that something was really wrong.

"A couple of days," Zack admitted. Tommy's mouth dropped open before he could stop himself. A couple of days? He's been back in Angel Grove for a couple of days and hasn't said anything? He thought. Why would he need to hide it from us? Zack must've noticed the surprise on the white ranger's face for he quickly backtracked. "I was going to get in contact with you guys, but there wasn't enough time. As soon as everything is packed up again, we're heading back out."

"Well, what's your new address?" Tommy pressed. "We need to keep in touch."

Zack gave him a knowing smile. "We're rangers, Tommy," his eyes darkened as he turned his gaze to his feet. "Or I was as the case may be. Either way there's always going to be a way to get in contact with someone if we ever need to." He scratched his wrist where his communicator had been. "Besides, we haven't been there long, I don't know it yet. But once I do, I'll be sure to send it to you guys."

Tommy nodded. "Well, do you have time to—"

"Excuse me, but loitering is not warranted around here," Bulk said as he walked up, in uniform. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Tommy was annoyed and couldn't help but let it show. He and Zack were just talking; there was nothing wrong with that. But then Bulk turned and looked at Zack, giving him a stern look and Zack nodded, taking a step back away from the junior police academy candidate.

"Sorry about that, man," Zack apologized. He turned to Tommy and gave him a half smile. "Tell the others I said 'hi'." He started to back away from the two. "And that I'll definitely get in touch with you guys again when I get the chance. I promise."

He turned on his heel and walked away without a backwards glance.

Tommy watched him leave before turning to Bulk with a frown. "What'd you do that for?" He demanded. "We weren't doing anything wrong and we're not loitering. We were just talking."

"I'm sorry, sir, but I must ask you to move along," Bulk said. He started to walk off down the street once more. Tommy followed after him. "Sir, if you don't move along I'm going to have to write you up."

"Bulk, what was that look that you gave Zack?" Tommy tried a different tactic. He knew that he hadn't mistaken it. As soon as the two had locked eyes, Zack had been quick to leave, just when they were starting to talk. And he had been acting strangely. There had to be something between the two of them that he didn't know. "You ran him off faster than you repel girls." He laughed lightly, hoping to diffuse the situation.

"I can't dispose of that classified information," Bulk replied. But he had hesitated before he spoke, letting Tommy know that there was, indeed, something he was hiding.

"Classified?" Tommy repeated. "Zack just moved, what's so classified about that?"

Bulk came to a stop and turned to the white ranger, raising an eyebrow. "I could ask you the same thing…power ranger," he said. Tommy's eyes widened and his heart dropped to his feet. He knew Bulk and Skull had always been running around, trying to figure out the identities of the rangers and had even become bit obsessed with the idea before having tried out for the police force. Tommy started to stammer out an answer but Bulk raised a hand in front of his face. "I know you're a power ranger," he insisted. "Skull and I both know." He paused. "We've known for a while."

Swallowing hard, Tommy couldn't deny it. He knew Bulk knew. "How did you find out?"

"That's not important, Tommy," Bulk said to him. "What's important is that we know and we're not going to tell your secret. It couldn't have been a coincidence that once Jason, Trini, and Zack all left that Rocky, Adam, and Aisha suddenly came to Angel Grove High." He raised an eyebrow. "And that you dweebs are the only ones that I know that wear the same colors every day."

Tommy had to admit, that would've been a good giveaway to anyone that would've paid attention to it. "What does that have to do with Zack moving?"

Bulk's eyes shifted the same way Zack's had. "Once he lost his powers or gave them over or whatever like Trini and Jason, they weren't needed. Why stay?"

It had to be some sort of guess that Bulk knew so much about the ways that the three had left. Then again, he had a point. Why stick around if their powers would essentially be useless after their replacements had come in? Still, there had to be something else that his former tormenter had to know. His information couldn't all have come from being a power ranger. In fact, Zack's sudden moving away was strange. Maybe he had only just found out about it and they had to get out quickly.

But for what reason?

All of a sudden the ground started to shake and he could hear the distinct sound of Angel Grove residents screaming. Tommy instantly felt himself steel up in preparation for whatever fight was going to come out of it. He glanced over at Bulk, who looked off in the direction the screams were coming from.

"Go," he said to Tommy.

Tommy nodded and brought his communicator up. Pressing a button on the side, he teleported to the Command Center seconds before the rest of the rangers all gathered together.

"What's going on?" Avalon asked, bringing her hair up into a ponytail.

"It seems that Rita and Zedd have sent out Sagittaria once more," Zordon said. "Behold the viewing globe." The rangers all turned and watched as Sagittaria held out his hands, sending arrows out towards the residents that ran away from him. They watched as the ones that were struck in the back pitched forward and fell to the ground, not moving.

"Oh, not again," Kimberly moaned.

"What's it going to take for this guy to go away?" Rocky asked. He punched his fist into his open hand. "We're going to have to work extra hard to get rid of this guy."

"Is it safe though?" Aisha asked. She shook her head, watching as Sagittaria continued to shoot out arrow after arrow, face set in intense concentration. "The last time we faced this guy he really hurt Trini. And even without his bow, he still managed to defeat the team."

"It's going to be a tough one to face," Billy agreed. "It's going to take a lot of strategy to figure out a way to defeat him."

"Do you have any ideas?" Adam questioned. He winced as a blast on screen caused a car to blow up, sending flaming shrapnel around the streets of Angel Grove.

"Yeah, I mean, Sagittaria nearly went ballistic last time," Bailey added. "There was something mentally wrong with him the way he was attacking." She twirled a finger by her head in the crazy sign to further prove her point.

Billy rubbed his chin as he started to pace back and forth. "I believe that he best thing to do is to do long range attacks," he said. "Sagittaria appears to be the sort of monster that only attacks up close and the harder it is for him to get close, the better off we'd be." He placed his hands on his hips, looking at the rangers in turn. "But then again, it would make it harder of us to get a good shot on him unless you have a long ranged weapon, which would put Aisha, Rocky, and Tommy at a severe disadvantage."

"Then maybe we can save her for last," Avalon pointed out, stepping up to Billy's side. "Use long ranged attacks until we're sure that we have Sagittaria's guard down and send the other three in to finish him off at the end."

Billy mulled it over. "I can't guarantee it'll work, but it's something we can try."

"We can't wait much longer," Kimberly interrupted, backing away from the viewing globe. She glanced at her friends, gently chewing her lower lip. "The people of Angel Grove can't take much more. We have to help them now." She clenched her hands into fists. "Even if we're destroyed in the process. We have to do something."

"Kim's right," Tommy agreed. "We have to do something now or else more innocent people are going to be hurt." The rangers nodded at him. "It's morphin' time! Tiger Zord!"

"Ankylosaurus!"

"Stegosaurus!"

"Mastodon!"

"Pterodactyl!"

"Triceratops!"

"Saber Tooth Tiger!"

"Tyrannosaurus!"

The rangers teleported to the streets of Angel Grove and started to attack the putties that arrived as soon as they touched down. The putties were either stronger than they always had been or they were working their hardest to keep the rangers from Sagittaria as it took them longer than usual to defeat the last putty before turning to the horoscope monster.

"You've come back to play, huh?" Sagittaria's right eye twitched rapidly as he turned to face the rangers. His face was dark with fury, a scar down his cheek. "This is the last time I'm going to deal with you pukes! You keep getting in my way and no matter how many times I destroy you, you keep coming back!"

"And we're going to keep coming back so long as our city is in danger," Tommy declared.

"Because we care about everyone in it," Kimberly added.

"And the threats that come our way," Billy said.

"We won't give up," Avalon agreed.

"We won't give in to evil," Bailey said.

"We're going to do all it takes to stop you," Rocky said.

"And everything you stand for," Aisha said.

"So be prepared to be destroyed!" Adam continued.

"Power Rangers!" The eight declared.

Sagittaria scowled, bringing his hands up above his head. The sky darkened and arrows appeared above his head. They shot towards the ground as if fired out of a machine gun and blasted the rangers. With cries of pain, they threw up their hands and arms to protect their faces before diving off to the side.

"Power Lance!"

"Power Bow!"

"Stegorang!"

"Ankylo Charger!"

Billy, Kimberly, Avalon, and Bailey all summoned their weapons in a blink of an eye to start their plan. The long range attacks were going to go first, and then the others would go in right afterwards to catch Sagittaria off guard. Avalon took a step back and let out a grunt of effort as she swung her spiked boomerang forward. Kimberly pulled back her bow and fired a set of arrows back at the archer, and Bailey's gun let out a large blast of spikes towards him as well. The blasts all shot towards Sagittaria and Billy readied his power lance to do the same.

"Aqua strike!" He cried. There was a moment of silence and then nothing came out of the front of his Power Lance as it had done many times before. "What?" He brought the staff up and tried one more. "Aqua strike!" Worried, he looked up, watching as the strikes from the power bow, Ankylo charger, and the stegorang struck Sagittaria.

"Go!" Tommy withdrew Saba from his sheath and charged forward, holding it high over his head. Rocky, Adam, and Aisha summoned their Power Sword, Power Axe, and Power Daggers and charged after him.

"What's going on?" Bailey asked the blue ranger.

"For some reason, I can't come into contact with my water powers," Billy explained. "I should've been able to use my Aqua Strike attack, which would've soaked Sagittaria and causing him to become susceptible to currents of electricity, but it's not working."

He looked up as there was a cry of pain and he watched Aisha get knocked to the ground.

Tommy, who was up close and personal with Sagittaria, didn't miss the pure evil intent in the monster's eyes as he blasted Aisha to the ground. Tommy ducked out of the way as Sagittaria tried to rocket a spear-like arrow at him then brought Saba around and slashed Sagittaria's shoulder before using the forward momentum to deliver a high kick that struck the human-monster in the jaw. Rocky and Adam followed up with critical blows from the power sword and power axe before getting knocked back by an invisible force as well.

Sagittaria then swung around and struck Tommy in the stomach with his fist. Tommy felt himself get lifted off his feet and fly back onto the ground, the wind immediately knocked out of him. He black out for a moment, the next thing he knew he was waking up, watching as his friends had encircled Sagittaria and were attacking all at once. Sagittaria's eyes glowed a bright yellow and a force field of arrow appeared around him. With a loud cry he extended his arms, shooting the arrows out in an arc. The shockwave caught the rangers and sent them flying backwards on the ground.

Tommy was swept up in the shockwave and crashed into Billy as the two landed back on the ground. Groaning, Tommy pushed himself up, clenching his eyes shut, struggling hard to keep from demorphing. According to the groans around him, Tommy could tell his friends were having the same struggle.

Sagittaria laughed as he started to walk over towards them. Bending down as he went, he picked up Kimberly's power bow and tested the bow as he pulled it back. "This should be fun," he said. "I wonder what sort of power I can deal out with this."

"My power bow," Kimberly whimpered.

"We have to get it back," Bailey groaned.

"Who knows what astounding power he will be able to disengage with the use of her Power Bow," Billy added. He stumbled to his feet, swaying with the effort. "Let's try the Power Cannon. It may be our only chance."

"Right." Tommy and the rangers stood up. Tommy moved in front of the rest of his friends. He thrust a hand into the air. "Prepare to receive power canon." The rangers all held out their hands and the power cannon appeared on their shoulders. "Brace. Lock and Load." Holding out their free hands, a colorful ball appeared in each of the ranger's hands.

"Pink charge!" Kimberly placed her ball into the chamber.

"Yellow charge."

"White charge."

"Red charge."

"Blue charge."

"Black charge."

"Purple charge."

"Orange charge."

The rangers held the power cannon once more and Billy and Rocky pushed the plunger at the back of the cannon into position. "Fire!" Tommy called and pulled the trigger. The rangers stumbled backwards at the force of the cannon going off, sending the eight balls forward in a charged blast towards Sagittaria.

Sagittaria summoned an arrow and placed it into Kimberly's power bow. He pulled back on the bow and shot it towards the blast that headed is way. The arrow sliced through the blast, knocking away half of blast, but still getting stuck with the other half. He screamed in rage as he fell to the ground. His hand tightened around the Power Bow, causing it to crack and he got to his feet.

"YOU'RE GOING TO PAY ONCE AND FOR ALL!" He shouted.

A bolt of lightning came from the sky and Sagittaria grew to a larger size.

"Should've seen that one coming," Avalon murmured.

"You can say that again," Tommy agreed.

The rangers thrust their hands into the air. "We need Thunderzord power now!"

"Stegosaurus, Phoenix ,Thunderzord Power!"

"Mastodon, Lion, Thunderzord Power!"

"Pterodactyl, Firebird, Thunderzord Power!"

"Triceratops, Unicorn, Thunderzord Power!"

"Saber tooth Tiger, Gryphon, Thunderzord Power!"

"Tyrannosaurus, Red Dragon, Thunderzord Power!"

"Tigerzord, Power Up!"

Bailey leapt up into the cockpit of her Ankylosaurus zord. "Bailey here, I'm ready to roll!"

The zords came together to create the Thunder Megazord and the Tiger Thunder Zord with Bailey's Ankylosaurus zord being used as an attachment as a sword. The rangers and Sagittaria battled against each other trading blows and critical hits as the fights went on. There was a time where The Tiger Thunder Zord used the Ankylosaurus sword and struck a mighty blow against Sagittaria, knocking him to the ground. The Thunder Megazord then followed it up with a charged up blow from their Power Sword.

Sagittaria got back to his feet and sent out a harsh wave of arrows with Kimberly's Power Bow. The power being used back against them had become stronger due to the evil that coursed through Sagittaria as well as utilizing the power of goodness that was already residing in the bow due to it belonging to Kimberly.

The warring powers of light and darkness increased the power of the bow, causing whoever to hold it to have the utmost power and it was dealing a heavy blow to the rangers as the seconds passed. As the battle raged on, Goldar and Scorpina arrived on scene and watched as Sagittaria continued to fend off both Zords with little to no difficulty. He continued to create arrows as the seconds passed and when he had enough, he combined all of the arrows together into one giant one.

"Oh no!" Aisha gasped.

"This doesn't look good," Rocky added.

"Everybody hang on!" Tommy shouted.

"Take this, rangers!" Sagittaria pulled the massive arrow back in the bow and let go, sending it flying forward at astonishing speeds.

The Thunder Megazord and Tiger Thunder Zord took the devastating blow with a direct hit. The sensors overloaded, there was too much power for the protective shields and the zord crumbled apart. The rangers were ejected from the zord and with loud, terrified screams, fell to the ground where they crash landed, demorphing as soon as they hit the ground.

Scorpina and Goldar exchanged a look.

Now was their chance.

Sagittaria returned to his normal size and Goldar and Scorpina flanked his sides as they headed over towards the power rangers. It was finally time for them to become victorious against those that had continued to beat them over and over again.

Tommy curled up in a ball as his body absorbed the crushing pain. It was the worst pain he had ever felt, every nerve of his body screaming. He squinted his eyes open, the groans and moans from his friends alluding that they were feeling the same. Beside him, he could see Kimberly holding her arm to her chest, her face screwed up in pain. Tears streaked through her dust covered face and she cringed as another wave of pain wracked through her body.

"C'mon guys," he could hear Rocky say behind him. "We have to keep fighting."

Slowly pushing himself up, Tommy turned to face the direction the red ranger was staring in. He felt his heart sink to his stomach, then to his feet, then all the way through the ground when he spotted Sagittaria, Scorpina, and Goldar had reverted back to his smaller size and was slowly walking towards them, all laughing evilly as they approached the rangers.

"What can we do?" Kimberly asked. "They're too strong for us."

"There's always something we can do," Avalon insisted. "We just,"—she paused, wincing as she wrapped an arm around her ribs—"We just need to think of it."

"Can you think faster?" Adam grimaced.

The rangers shrank back as the three monsters continued to advance upon them. They were too injured to get out of the way and could only watch helplessly as their inevitable doom descended upon them. Then something implausible happened.

It looked like an accident. Goldar and Scorpina slowed down slightly, enough so that Sagittaria could get ahead of them. Quick as a flash, the two golden monsters adjusted their grips on their swords, pulled their arms back and surged them forward.

A startled cry hung in the air.

Sagittaria stopped in his tracks; the menacing expression that had been on his face didn't change. Frozen, he could only shift his eyes downward to see the tips of the two swords sticking out of his chest. Blood pooled around the tip, sending a steady stream splashing against the ground, making a dull padding sound as each drip hit the dust. There was the distinct sound of metal scraping against metal as Scorpina and Goldar pulled their swords back out of the monster's body, leaving cavernous wounds. Sagittaria breathed in a wet, sucking sound that resembled squishing fruit, causing the rangers to moan in disgust.

Sagittaria's mouth cracked open and blood rolled down his chin. He sucked in another nauseating breath, his eyes rolled up, and he pitched forward onto the ground. To finish him off, Goldar walked around to the front of Sagittaria and made one fell swing with his sword. Sagittaria's head rolled away, coming to a stop with its eyes pointed over towards Scorpina and Goldar.

Tommy reached out and grabbed Kimberly and Bailey, shielding their eyes against his chest.

Aisha tucked her head, lowering her gaze to the ground, Avalon and Adam closed their eyes, Rocky and Billy turned away, bringing up a hand to shield their eyes.

Scorpina chuckled to herself as she brought her sword up to her mouth. She lightly pressed the tip against her lips and reached out her tongue, slowly licking the blood off the front. Bringing her tongue back into her mouth, she licked the excess blood off of her lips before lovingly stroking her blade. Then she moved her eyes over to Goldar and looked at him with adulation in her eyes.

She reached out and looped her arms through his, gently stroking his forearm. "Mission accomplished," she cooed.

Goldar let out a roar of satisfaction, thrusting his sword high into the air. His red eyes gleamed in triumph. He let out another horrendous cheer, this time Scorpina's wicked laugh joined in with his. "We'll see you again, Power Rangers!"

The two gold monsters disappeared in a flash of flames leaving the rangers to come to terms with what they had just seen.

A/N: I bet you all didn't expect that, that Goldar and Scorpina would kill Sagittaria like that. As the story goes on I wanted to move more towards the darker/more mature side as I had done with the earlier chapters with Sagittaria. And as it will appear, some things may become more gruesome, so that's just a warning. I don't think I'd need it to bring up to an 'M' rating anytime soon, but it might.

So for those that don't know, if a story is an 'M' rating, it won't appear in the Power Rangers section on the site unless you specifically filter it to show 'M' stories. So you'd either need to do that, alert me, or alert the story to be sure you still get updates if the rating changes.

It's not always going to be a dark story; I'm still going to have the lighter moments as I had been writing before. Plus, it's not the last time you see Zack and I still have to bring in Trini as well.

Thanks to heartpunker123, XoxMountainGirlxoX, I love power rangers7135, DragonKing19, Ashley, brankel1, Son of Whitebeard, Rose Specktor, TerraHart, Keren Olivero, and ZoeyBoey224 for reviewing.

~Avalon