Chapter 37

I arrived back at the Astro Mega Ship to a whole new set of problems.

"Let me get this straight." I said through gritted teeth.

"You guys just let Astronema take a couple of hundreds of hostages disappear into thin air along with the city that they were in, because all of you were too busy fighting a monster?" My voice level rose on the last part as I glared at my team mates.

"You guys could have split up, half of the team could have dealt with that monster and the other half could have gotten those people out of that city!"

"Well, began your pardon, O Mighty One, but we didn't think that Astronema would do something like that!" snapped Cassie. I shook my head in disbelief.

"Cassie, for god's sake….this is Astronema that we are talking about! If she can try to kill her own brother while she's brainwashed then it's more than likely that she will take a couple of thousand hostages and do who knows what to them okay?" Andros glared at me; I ignored him then turned back to the others.

"Okay, " I said taking a deep breath to calm myself down. "Where are we on locating this…uh…secret city…..as you call it?" Carlos shifted his weight and cleared his throat.

"We haven't found it yet." He said in a low voice. I scowled.

"Okay, we should search everywhere for that city and I do mean everywhere." There is no way that I'm going to let Astronema, a lackey, hurt the people of Angel Grove, not on my watch. I struggled to my feet, but then flopped back onto the chair that I was sitting in. "Shoot. Still weak." All of them heard me mutter.

"We are not weak!" shouted Cassie, eyes flashing.

"I'm not talking about you genius, I'm talking about me!" I shot back.

"That fight with Goldar….." Carlos turned his head sharply toward me.

"Goldar?"

"Yes. Goldar." I said with sarcasm. "Big dude wearing black armor, with a lot of power at his fingertips?"

"What was he doing there?" I gave a start. What was Goldar doing there anyway? And how did he seem to know about where the monster had taken the people? He couldn't be in league with Astronema, he told me that he was working for himself in this war. I thought about it. Could someone on Astronema's team be passing on information to Goldar? But why?

"Amy?" Queried Cassie; taking a step toward me. I snapped out of my thoughts and shook my head.

"He knew about the monster and what its power was, my guess was that he only showed up both as a distraction and as a way to severely weaken me." I saw the others stiffen, Carlos's eyes widen.

"Goldar is working for Astronema?" He whispered. I shook my head.

"No, but he seemed to know about where the people were being taken plus the fact that once you guys were captured; you couldn't morph."

"Where is he getting this information?" asked Andros.

"I don't know." I said truthfully. I thought for a minute.

"He could be following Astronema around, checking out her plans and making sure that I'm not there to help you guys by picking a fight with me and making me use up most of my powers while we fight."

"How do you know?" asked TJ.

"It's something that I would do." I said flatly. I struggled to my feet and leaned heavily against the console.

"You guys start searching for the city; call me when you've found it." I limped toward the door.

"Where do you think you're going?" demanded A6. Putting out a hand to steady myself and wobbled a bit as I turned my head to give him an exasperated look.

"I'm going to get something to eat and try to get some sleep A6! Goldar is probably going to be waiting for us down at that city and I need to recharge my powers, I barely managed to survive this battle, if he's there and I'm not at half strength, then I'm good as dead, and there is no way that I'm going to die at the hands of that…..that…..mutant!" I glared at him. He continued to look right at me. Finally he nodded, and turned away. I turned back to the hallway as I stepped out, I heard Cassie mutter something and I heard Carlos reply. I didn't even turn back, I was too tired plus my stomach felt like an empty cave. Holding onto the wall to steady myself, I limped slowly toward the mess hall.

It seemed that only a few minutes had passed when I was shaken roughly awake by Cassie.

"Wake up! Come on! We found it!" she said excitedly. I sat up groggily, rubbing one eye and squinting at the bright light.

"F-f-found what?" I asked struggling to stifle a yawn. She looked at me in amazement.

"The city! The city! Where Astronema is keeping all of those people. Come on! The others are waiting." And she darted out the door. She poked her head back in just as I was standing up and stretching.

"Oh, you might want to change, you look a mess." I let out another yawn as it took my sleep fogged brain to register what she meant. I looked down at myself. My pants and shirt had been burned away in many places. I ran my fingers through my hair and could also feel that parts of it had been burned away also. Shaking my head to clear it, I limped to my closet, opened it and pulled out a fresh pair of jeans and a shirt. No time to take a bath. I thought to myself as I stripped down to my underwear and bra (luckily those hadn't been touched), flung my old clothes away and struggled into my new clothes. As I hopped around on one foot struggling to put one leg in I asked DECA.

"DECA, why are my light so bright?" The lights were immediately dimmed.

"Andros was calling you but you were asleep, I have tried to wake you numerous times with noises and bright lights to no avail, Andros had told Cassie to come and in and wake you." A worried frown crossed my face as I studied my reflection, while I ran a brush through my hair. If that's true then, that battle must have drained more of my power than I realized. I dropped the brush and bent down to get my shoes, only to realize that I already had them on. Hmmm...must have fallen asleep with them on. I thought as I limped out of the room, down the wall and onto the bridge.

"So, where's the city?" was my greeting. TJ turned toward me.

"It's in the ocean, explains why we couldn't find it the first time." I blinked in surprise. The ocean? Well, least it's not in some other dimension; we should be lucky that Astronema doesn't have that kind of power. Cassie, who was at the controls, was scanning the entire area for a way in. She frowned.

"There's a force field around the city…but it looks as if it doesn't extend all the way to the bottom."

"Then that's our ticket in!" said Carlos. I glanced at Cassie, and then I walked over to her console and looked at the readings. A force field that doesn't extend all the way around its area? That can't be right. I glanced around at the others and a flash of irritation went through me. Why am I the only to pick up on something like this? I shook my head as I followed my team mates to the Mega Tank, a vehicle that could move over rough terrain and could move under the water. I didn't like it, too bulky and slow; if anyone spotted us while we were in it we would be sitting ducks. But I had to go with them on this one, with me at barely half strength; I would definitely be one dead Ranger at the hands of Astronema or Goldar. As the Mega Tank dropped us off not too far away from the location of the Secret City; I kept expecting for our presence to be noticed. But thankfully, as we crossed the bumpy terrain that was the ocean's floor, no enemies spotted us. I was a bit uneasy about this but I was too tired to really think it through. Thinking that it would be a while until we reached the city; I settled back in my seat and lightly dozed. I had to get as much sleep as I could, a lot of things could go wrong here, and even though Astronema's monsters and henchmen were easy to beat; if Goldar showed up, I would need all the power that I could muster. Until then, I would use diversion tactics and try to wear any opponents down; even though I felt like I would fall flat any minute. We arrived underneath the surface of the city and carefully drilled a hole small enough for it to be undetected but big enough for us to squeeze into. I looked around as bright sunlight slammed into my face; the others were just scrambling out of their seats and through the hatch. Carlos, who was the last one to go out, turned back to me.

"Are you coming?" I nodded.

"Yeah, I'm coming." I said, stifling another yawn. Struggling out of my seat and following the others, I clambered up out of the hole that the Mega Tank had made and looked around.

Secret City had all the appearances of a plaza, complete with buildings, a small clearing with trees and grass; and a tower. But….there was something about this place that sent goose bumps up and down my arms. The sooner we save the people and get out of here, the better. Limping after my team mates to the tower; where Andros had said was where the people were being held, the place felt empty. If it's one thing I don't like, it's places that feel empty but are not really empty. Surely Astronema knows that we're coming to save the people, surely she knows that we are inside the City at this very moment. I looked around. All seemed quiet, I was suddenly reminded of the time when Kat and I had walked into that trap while trying to recover the Pink and Yellow Power Coins. Like the castle, there had been no guards patrolling the corridors and hallways, no alarms had gone off to alert Zedd that his two captives had escaped….it's just the same right now. We reached the building, Andros had opened the door and gone inside with the others following him, I stopped and studied the outside. No video cameras, no sirens that I could see, certainly to alarms that we could trip over….we are definitely expected. I limped rapidly inside the building after the others, hoping that I would be able to warn them. Following the sound of their footsteps which led me down a hallway, I took out my computer and began to try to see what was in this place; the people might be in the basement. My head jerked up when I heard Cassie shriek; limping rapidly into the room, I stopped as I saw my team mates encased in some sort of red beam. Looking up I saw what looked like a laser, shining the beam down on my team mates.

"Karone!" begged Andros. "Stop it!" Looking to the left I wasn't at all surprised to see Astronema with Ecliptor behind her, manning what appeared to be the controls. I gave an inward sigh. Can't these guys ever look before they leap? I thought as I quickly began to type on my computer. I glanced up at Astronema, her face slowly began to register surprise, as she began to realize that something was wrong on her end, then it turned into anger. She whipped her head to Ecliptor and barked an order at him. The red beam, was slowly receding, my teammates noticed and were looking at me.

"Amy, what?" started TJ, but Ecliptor had appeared and was charging at me, sword raised; turning my mini computer toward him and pressing a button; I stopped Ecliptor in his tracks.

"What the?" He looked around perplexed for a moment, then he turned his head toward me and tried to take a step forward but was stopped by the force field that I had erected around him. He glared at me.

"Why you….!" He began to use his fists and his sword to try to break the force field, but to no avail. I turned back to the others, who had crowded around me.

"That was amazing!" said Cassie. I glanced at all of them, then without another word teleported myself to the control room where Astronema was. A look of surprise came on her face, before she could raise her staff however; I had grabbed her by the front of her suit and shoved her against a wall.

"Amy! Stop!" I heard Andros shout. Oh, for the love of God Andros! I didn't take my eyes off of Astronema; who to my slight surprise looked impressed with me.

"You never cease to amaze me Yellow Ranger." She said with a slight smile.

"Cut the crap!" I snarled angrily. "What have you done to the people? Where are they?" She smiled even wider.

"I thought you were smarter than your fellow Rangers, why don't you take a look around and see what this room contains." I stared at her for a moment. What's she playing at? Before I could make a move however, the others had joined me and Andros was busily trying to wrestle me away from her. I took a step back as Andros grabbed Astronema by the shoulders, she slapped his hands away. Cassie turned to me.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" she demanded angrily.

"It's Karone!"

"Cassie! Wake up! Does that look like Karone to you? That is not Karone! That is Astronema, the woman that has sent countless monsters after us to try to kill us…..who went back to the other side and….." Andros turned back toward me angrily.

"She may have done all that stuff, but she is still my sister and I'm going to save her!"

"Saving her could also get you killed! Andros, you are blinded by your belief that your sister is still in there, what if she's not Andros? What if you find out that Karone is really dead and gone, to be replaced by this…this….woman? You will have spent the majority of your life trying to save someone who cannot be saved, or worse yet, who doesn't want to be saved, not after all the horrible things that she's done!"

"How dare you!" snarled Andros taking a step toward me, I stood my ground. I was struggling to bring him to reality, to the fact that maybe, she didn't want to be saved, that maybe she didn't want to face the full brunt of what she had done to the galaxy as Astronema, She would rather die than live with the guilt and the blood of the innocent people that she had killed.

"Andros…" I started but the appearance of Ecliptor brought us all back to the reality of the situation; he shimmered into the room and charged at all of us. Andros released Astronema and turned to face the charging Ecliptor, they traded blows but Andros was shoved aside; the others leapt forward as well to intercept him but they were brushed aside as if they were nothing! The force field! I thought to myself as I unsheathed my sword and launched myself at Ecliptor. My force field, he got out but….how? My computer was still open and in my hand and the urge to take a look at it almost cost me my neck, but I managed to fight the urge and closed my computer and adjust my grip on my sword. Swiping at him in a high arc, I forced him to turn his head to the left and punched him hard with my right fist. He staggered back a few steps and cried out as Carlos nailed him across the back. Growling Ecliptor turned to face him. I turned away from the battle and limped over to some of the controls and inspected them. Andros, Cassie and Carlos were all fighting Astronema and trying to talk some sense into her; I rolled my eyes, approached one of the machines, pulled out my computer again and began to scan the entire thing. As I stood there and tried to figure out what this thing was, I kept sensing a faint power source, but every time I tried to really focus on it, it would vanish; performing a quick scan of the entire building didn't reveal anything, so I went back to my scanning of the control panel.

"Amy! What the hell are you doing? Don't just stand there! Help us out!" shouted Cassie angrily.

"I am helping!" I snapped back. "I'm trying to find out what this thing is and where the people are!" God! No respect. I turned back to my computer. Hmmm, the readings show that the people are in this building, but it also says that they're in right in the room with us. Odd. A few moments later the scan was complete and I stared in surprise and shock. Key Cards. This thing turns people into Key Cards! Surprising; yet weird. Let's see if I can turn this thing on. I began to fiddle with a few of the buttons, following the schematics that shown themselves on my computer. There, that should do it. Now all I have to do is load the Key Cards in this slot and the people will be returned back to their original form. Easy enough. I was about to look for the Key Cards when I felt that faint power source again, only this time it was getting stronger. I glanced down at my computer, half expecting to see that Goldar was in the building; but no, instead it shown five sources gathered around the beam that was below us. What the? Limping over to the window(while dodging Astronema as she battled Andros) I looked down, the ray gun that had turn the people into Key Cards was on, in fact it was shining it's beam down…but onto something that was slowly taking on form. Slowly the appearances of ten legs began to take form, then waists, legs, arms, torsos and finally heads. I stepped away from the window in shock, the battle that was going to around me; momentarily forgotten.

The Psycho Rangers were returning! Panic began to rise within me. How? A moment later, the Psycho Rangers appeared in the room with us, everyone froze and stared in shock. Psycho Red locked onto Andros and flung himself onto him, Astronema scrambled out of the way and stood back as she watched the two Rangers go at it. The other Psychos followed suit, and soon Ecliptor had joined Astronema and was watching the battle. Slowly, the look of surprise on Astronema's face turned to glee.

"We'll let them destroy each other." She murmurred before both of them vanished.

"Hey! Astonema! You coward!" I shouted. Andros looked sharply in my direction and received a punch to the jaw. I so do not have the time for this. Wish I could go all out on these guys but I'm basically running on fumes here. Psycho Yellow blasted me back, letting out a shout as I slammed into the wall; I looked up to see Psycho Yellow getting ready to blast me again. The ball of energy flew at me; Have to concentrate. I focused hard on my remaining power and what little strength I had gained from those short naps that I had taken.

Putting out both of my hands and catching the blast, I had the energy I needed in order to take Psycho Yellow fast. I raised my head to face her; her body language told me that she was surprised and shocked.

"How did you….?" I gave a chuckle.

"You'd be surprised." I said as I transferred the power to my fist and feet. Limping rapidly toward her, I managed to catch her under the jaw, swopping low; I swiped at her feet, she jumped up; in a split second I had brought my leg up in a low arc catching her off balance. She cried out, with a punch to her chest I sent her flying. Right into Psycho Blue, who barely scrambled out of the way at the last second. Psycho Yellow struggled to her feet and with a growl charged. Have to hold out until help arrives. I thought as I whipped out my computer and began to type rapidly to the Astro Mega Ship, while at the same time dodging the Psycho Ranger's fists and feet, next I switched to Psycho Yellow. Typing rapidly into my computer; I leapt back as she took out her weapon but before she could use it, I had pointed my mini computer at her and pressed a button. It began to glow a blue color as though it was powering up. The Psycho Ranger leapt up and brought her weapon down on me, I went down on my knees and raised my computer, they collided in a shower of sparks, both of us began to strain against each other. I looked at the Psycho Ranger and began laughing.

"A sling shot! Seriously? You expect to beat me with a dinky sling shot?" She let out an angry grunt as she began to force her way toward me. She is getting closer.

"I'll not only beat you, but I'll make sure that you feel every ounce of pain that you have given me and then some." I cocked my head to one side.

"Uh, no thanks. I'm in enough pian as it is, but thanks for the offer though. Oh, and another thing; you are not the only Ranger that can take something from another Ranger."

"What?" she snarled. She looked down and saw that her entire body was glowing; in fact a stream of dark yellow was flowing from her straight into my computer.

"How can you….? You can't…?" she sputtered.

"I can and I did. But I wouldn't want to touch it, bet it feels all slimy and stuff." With difficulty, even though everything in my body was shouting stop! I took my right hand off of my computer and with an open palm took aim. I sank to my other knee but at least it gave me a small opening.

"Energy Blast!" the Psycho Ranger cried out as she was blasted back, I immediately scrambled to my feet and letting my computer fire away with short but powerful blasts, the Psycho Ranger kept staggering back; her armor was cracking; finally with one final blast it fell away to reveal the monster underneath. She began laughing herself.

"You have to do better than that to defeat me, you pathetic little….." she started, but she had stopped when she saw that I was charging at her, I leapt, preformed a flip and brought my right leg down on her shoulder, she gave a yell as energy crackled down her entire body. I charged once again and leapt, performing a cork screw kick that connected with her chest; I continued to beat her back and weaken her with the power that I had stolen from her and Goldar; even though it was next to nothing; I prayed that it would work. Smoke was rising from her chest and face. Angry; she fired at me, like before; I caught it and slid back a few feet; that girl's still has some fight left in her. Good. Bending the power with my will and transferring it to my left hand, I presumed the pose of a pitcher and threw it with all my might, right back at her, she dodged and when looked up; my feet her heading right toward her; the blast made a U Turn and was absorbed into me. My entire body glowed.

"Yellow Ranger Power Blast and Ranger Kick!" My feet connected; Psycho Yellow let out a scream as she felt her own power turn against her. I landed and unleashed the Power Blast! She gave another scream and exploded. When the smoke cleared, she was nothing but a scorch mark on the wall. That takes care of her. I turned back to the other Psycho Rangers, who didn't even seem to notice that one of their own had been killed. Psycho Blue suddenly leapt away from TJ and charged t me, I'm pretty sure out of thinking that he himself could destroy me instead of to avenge his fallen comrade. I slipped to one side s he brought his axe down on me. I jumped into the air as he tried to swipe t my feet in low kick. I landed, but I stumbled back as I lost my footing for a moment; which unfortunately gave him an opening. I cried out as he brought his axe in an upward arc and struck me. Struggling to focus and to push away my dizziness I was shoved against one on the panels, I caught the axe just as it nearly reached my head. The Psycho Ranger began to put all of his weight on the axe! My arms were trembling and my knees were beginning to bend under the full weight of the Psycho Ranger. I struggled to push back but no matter how much I pushed, I might as well not have doing nothing at all.

Just as the axe had finally reached my helmet and the Psycho Ranger was applying pressure to it, an arm suddenly came out of nowhere and wrapped itself around Psycho Blue's neck and yanked him back. I slid to the floor while Psycho Blue turned to face my savior.

"Zhane!" I called happily. He only turned to me and nodded as he released Psycho Blue and took a few steps back so that the both of them were facing each other, they began to battle.

"We'll take care of these guys; you try to figure out how to bring the people back." He called to me as Psycho Blue charged at him. I nodded and opened up my computer.

"I'm teleporting you guys to the outside, this place is too small." Performing a quick scan of my team mates and the remaining Psycho Rangers and punching in the location where I wanted to send them; they vanished. I breathed out a sigh as I leaned my head back. After resting for a moment, I turned slowly and laboriously pulled myself up to a kneeling position, then to a standing position. Leaning against the panel and struggling not to collapse again; and praying that Astronema, Ecliptor or even Goldar wouldn't show themselves to attack me; I limped slowly to a file and opened one of its drawers. About a dozen yellow Key Cards where there, for a spilt second I worried that my friends had been caught in the cross fire and had been turned as well; then I shook my head. Don't be ridiculous, you would have sensed something. Getting a handful and on shaky legs, I went over to the controls once again; and began inserting the key cards one by one into the slot. Watching from the window as the ray began to shine its red beam down and brought the people back, I teleported all of them back to Angel Grove with a feeling of relief that nothing serious had happened to them. Once again, I began to wish that this was all over. The people of Angel Grove have been through enough.

An hour or so later I inserted the last key card and was surprised when Silvy appeared with a couple of other people. Silvy looked around in confusion for a few moments then she looked up and saw me. She waved to me, I waved back; scanned her and her group and teleported them to Angel Grove. There, that's the last of them. Punching in the location of my team mates, I saw with relief that they had managed to destroy the remaining Psycho Rangers. Good and I hope they stay dead this time. Contacting Carlos and telling him the good news the others let out cheers. Teleporting my team mates back to Angel Grove, I heaved myself of off the control panel and looked around. This place should definitely be destroyed. I thought, unfortunately I didn't have enough strength for anything right now. All I wanted to do right now was eat a hot meal and collapse into bed. But first…. Teleporting myself down to Angel Grove and after making sure that the other people were okay, I limped slowly to where I saw Silvy and her mother were hugging each other, the others were standing not too far away observing with looks of relief and happiness on their faces. I began to limp over to them smiling; but my steps began to slow, something tingled at the back of my mind and a feeling of horror went through me. Oh no!

"SILVY!" I screamed. "RUN!" The others turned to look at me with confusion; Silvy and her mom were also looking at me as I limped rapidly toward them. Before I could reach them, we all heard them before we saw them. Tengu Warriors! Cackling they swooped down right on top of Silvy and her mom and grabbing the both of them and yanked both of the away from each other. Silvy screamed as she struggled in the Tengus grip, but couldn't free herself. Silvy's mom was struggling to reach her daughter.

"Silvy!"

"Silvy!" shouted my team mates, they all leapt forward but something forced them back as though a giant hand had given them a shove, they collapsed on the ground but they scrambled to their feet and charged forward only to be stopped a few feet. A force filed! Andros and the others were pounding on it, trying to get through. I was about to reach them, but I felt more then saw another force field close around me.

"No! Goldar stop! Please!" I begged as I pounded on the wall of the force field. I wanted to cover my ears to shut out their screams but I could hear them, both outside and in the inside of my mind. Mom! I heard myself screaming as I struggled to get past the police officer who was holding me back. Dad! Goldar appeared in front of me.

"Notice anything familiar?" he asked mockingly. The Tengus were now holding the little girl and her mother a few feet apart, laughing as mother and daughter struggled their hardest.

"Goldar! If you so much as touch them I swear I'll…." I snarled, my horror giving away to anger.

"You are in no position to make demands traitor." He snarled, as he took a step back turned and began to walk toward Silvy, she began to struggle even harder and shouted for Carlos, which made the Tengus laugh even harder. Her mother was too panic stricken to even wonder why her daughter was calling on her friend for help. Goldar turned to all of us; the Tengus turned themselves around so that Silvy was also facing us. Tears were streaming down her face and a look of stark terror was in her eyes.

"Let's look at all of your records shall we?" He turned toward me.

"Amy Karmer, since you have become a Ranger, though you have saved the people of Angel Grove a thousand times over, you have failed multiple times to save the people that you care about. You have failed to save your mother and step father." I covered my ears to block him out, but I could still hear him.

"You have failed to save your adopted sister, Kimberly Hart from being captured, drained of her power, and being replaced by Katherine Hillard as the Pink Ranger. You have failed in protecting your father Zordon of Eltar, from being captured by the most powerful warlord in the galaxy. You should know, he isn't doing too well." He added as an after thought. The Tengu Warriors cackled some more.

"Looks as if your record isn't as spotless after all." He said with a smirk. He turned to my team mates.

"Now for theirs. The new Rangers, the ones chosen to protect the people of Angel Grove after the former Rangers have gone into retirement. So far your record is cleaner than hers, but what's this? Ah, yes. Justin Blake." My team mates froze. Silvy had stopped struggling and was watching with wide eyes.

"Ah, Justin, the first new Ranger that fell victim to the dark forces." The Tengus cackled.

"You should know that, that little incident counts against you, all of you since, being the youngest Ranger on the team and….the least experienced, you were given the task of not only protecting the people of Angel Grove but also protecting your team mates. And yet….you failed to do even that." I saw that Carlos, TJ and Cassie all flinch.

"Goldar….you can't…." I started angrily. But he ignored me.

"Since all of you have failed to protect the people that you care about this court shall see fit that you, once again, fail to save another person that you care about." He turned toward Silvy and drew his sword. Silvy shrieked and began to struggle frantically. The others resumed their pounding on their prison walls but I….I had my head bowed. My shoulders were shaking and tears were streaming down my face as I heard Silvy's mom call her daughter's name over and over again. I heard the others shout to Goldar to stop. Then a moment of shocked silence, I heard Silvy's last gasp of air and the screams of my team mates.

"SILVY!" screamed the mother. The others were still pounding on the walls of their prison screaming anger and hatred on Goldar and the Tengu Warriors. A few moments later, I heard a whoosh as he vanished and the Tengu Warriors had taken to the skies. A moment later the force fields had vanished and all of us stumbled forward. Silvy's mom had reached her first and was holding her daughter's head in her lap; telling Silvy to hang on please hang on. The others were around her; Carlos had fallen to his knees and was holding her hand. Cassie was trying to stop the blood flow from the wound in Silvy's chest. I limped slowly toward them until I was looked down at Silvy; she still had the look of stark terror in her eyes.

I knew what going through her mind right now; she had been convinced that nothing bad would happen to her, that nothing would hurt her; not when she was friends with the Power Rangers. But she was learning the hard lesson that I had learned on the day of my parents' death, the lesson that Justin learned when he was captured and tortured. The Power Rangers can not save everybody. Now, here was Silvy facing that same lesson and at the same time….dying because of it.

"Amy! Do something damn you! Heal her!" sobbed Carlos. I continued to stand silent knowing that I couldn't heal her because…..because I had used up most of my power in that fight with Goldar and Psycho Yellow. Cassie suddenly looked up at me with angry tear streaked eyes; she grabbed my hand and roughly pulled me down to my knees. She put both of my hands on Silvy's wound. But nothing happened. There was no yellow glow, no healing of the wound. Nothing.

"Heal her! Heal her! Use your powers!" Cassie shouted at me angrily. I looked up at her and shook my head.

"I can't." I said in a dull voice. Cassie's eyes widen in disbelief, but it was Carlos that acted. He released Silvy's hand and slapped me hard across the face.

"YOU CAN! YOU CAN HEAL HER! USE YOU P OWERS!" he began to scream. "You're like them! If they can kill then you can heal! Why aren't you using you powers?" he continued to slap me and I took it. In a way I thought that I deserved it. Having done nothing to save her in the first place, instead of worrying what my team mates were going to think of me, I might as well have inserted that sword into Silvy's chest myself. She could have been saved. Both of us turned when Silvy called out softly to Carlos. Carlos went toward her and dropped to his knees gripping her hand once again.

"I'm here Silvy, I'm here." He said in a soft voice that was choked with tears, he stroked the top of her head. She was smiling up at him.

"You're here. I'm glad." Her smile slowly faded and her eyes continued to stare upward. Silvy's mom, who was crying into Zhane's shoulder, cried harder still. Silvy was gone.