Chapter 38

A very subdued group of Rangers returned to the Astro Mega Ship still in shock over what they had witnessed. Carlos had slumped over in his chair with his head in his hands; his entire body shaking. Cassie, who had tears still streaming down her face walked over to him; knelt and put her arms around him. He gave a little jerk at her touch then laid his head on her shoulder. Andros was not too far away, leaning against one of the computer consoles and staring at the floor. He felt sadness stir inside of him and was a bit surprised that he could be affected by what he had just seen, considering that he had seen enough death throughout his life as a Ranger. He let out a sigh and lifted up his head. Glancing at Zhane, he saw that Zhane, who was staring his hands, too was also affected. Why? He thought to himself. Why are Zhane and I affected so much by this, when we have seen death happen a thousand times. Why? Zhane glanced up at him and their eyes locked for a second, he was the first to look away. Andros looked outside the nearest window and replayed the events that led up to Silvy's death in his head for the hundredth time.

"Andros?" Cassie's voice startled him so that he jumped; he turned to her and saw that she was standing in front of him.

"Andros don't. Don't think that you could have been able to do anything different; because in reality you couldn't, no mater how many times you replay in your head. It still doesn't change the fact that she's…." Tears swam at the bottom of her eyes and her voice broke, she buried her face in her hands. Andros reached out, put his arms around her and held her close. Oh Cassie. TJ was staring out the window anger coursing through him. Why? Why did he kill her? She wasn't a Ranger, she didn't know about our mission. She had never even seen the inside of the Astro Mega Ship! So why? She was just an innocent; she had no reason to die. He clenched his fistsangrily at his sides. He furiously blinked back tears. Why couldn't we save her? We could have saved her! We were only feet away! Why didn't Amy warn us of the attack? Why didn't DECA? Why didn't anybody? He raised his head and glared at one of the computer consoles, he fought the urge to smash it into a million pieces, to smash the entire ship into bits…..and yet it wouldn't be enough to abate his anger. He wanted to track down Goldar and beat the living crap out of him…over and over again. He wanted to track down Goldar and make him pay a thousand fold for what he did to Silvy and her mom, but he wanted to make him pay for taking the life of a friend. She was a friend, we're supposed to be able to protect our friends and we weren't able to…..

He slammed his fist against the wall behind him. He bowed his head, and the tears flowed freely. Carlos lifted his head up and stared at the ceiling through tear filled eyes. His mind was replaying the scene over and over again, he kept hearing Silvy's screams, felt his own shock and horror as he watched Silvy being ripped from her mother's arms, he saw Goldar's sword flashing, saw the blood appear on Silvy's chest. Saw her drop to the ground; he saw her look up at him, felt his own anger and sadness, but most of all he felt his helplessness that he hadn't been able to do a damn thing to save her. Memories of what they shared passed through his mind. He covered his ears and shut his eyes tight, he wanted the memories to stop playing in his head, he wanted Silvy to be alive, he didn't want her to be buried in some remote location in Angel Grove. She should be alive; she should be alive and be with her mother. Not-not…... He tossed back his head and uttered a shout of pain and frustration, he stood up spun, picked up his chair and flung it with all of his might toward the wall, everyone jumped and stared at the dent that the chair had made, now on the floor. Everyone turned to Carlos, who had an angry look on his face and kept pulling on his hair, looking quite demented.

"This wasn't supposed to happen! THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN! WE ARE THE FREAKING POWER RANGERS AND YET…..and yet….we couldn't save her…..we couldn't save her…." His last words came out in a whimper and he fell to his knees crying and calling out Silvy's name over and over again. Andros and the others took several steps toward him, surrounded him knelt and put their arms around him, A-6 stood not too far of watching, remembering the time when Kat and Justin were having a heart to heart talk right in front of him and Dimiteria. He had felt sick when they had hugged each other, but now, he only felt their shock and grief.

All of them looked up when they heard the sounds of someone teleporting; I appeared in the middle of the room in a flash of yellow. I looked down at my team mates, not at all surprised that they were all on the ground comforting each other. Carlos must have had a break down. I thought to myself as I glanced at the fallen chair and the dent in the wall. I let out a soft grunt as I turned toward the hallway, thinking that I should leave them alone for a while. Until then I was going to sleep, and regain my strength for the next battle.

"Hold it." I stopped and turned; Carlos had stood up and was glaring at me. Wasn't at all surprised when his voice, which had turned low and gravely and filled with anger and grief asked me.

"Why didn't you do anything?" I stared back at him; I shoved my hands into my pockets and looked at each and every one of them. I gave a sigh. Wishing that they wouldn't blame me for what had happened.

"Well?" spat Cassie. I opened my mouth.

"You, all of you knew full well that I was on my last legs, what with that all out battle with Goldar earlier in the day and the battle with the resurrected Psycho Rangers. When Goldar locked us in those force fields, there wasn't much I could do. I was barely able to stand as it was." Even to my own ears, it sounded lame but it was the truth. There hadn't been anything that I could have done, my own friends could have seen that and have forgiven me. My team mates didn't see it that way though.

"No! The real reason you didn't do anything, is because you didn't want to do anything." Cassie's face was twisted in rage. It was that same look that she had given me when they found out I used to work for Lord Zedd, this time though, my friends weren't there to defend me or back me up; I was all alone on this one.

"Cassie, seriously…not that tired old excuse again…." I said in a weary voice. She stared at me with a shocked expression her face, uttering a shout, she ran toward me with her fist cocked back. I dodged her punch, she preformed a tornado kick I ducked low and dodged that as well.

"Carlos! No!" I heard Andros shout. With a quick glance upward I saw Carlos's fist coming toward me and heard rather then saw Cassie behind me. I hit the floor and both of their fists and kicks missed me by inches. Summoning everything that I had left, I jumped up and began to move backward while both of them continued to attack me, ignoring the others shouts. I was exhausted I was hungry, I had just finished rebuilding downtown Angel Grove, erasing the memories of a loving daughter from a mother's mind, buried that same daughter…I do not need this now! I knew that they were mad at themselves, for not preventing this from happening. They were the freaking Power Rangers and yet…..they had stood by helpless and watched a little girl get killed.

I saw an opening that I had to take; if I didn't then…..Cassie and Carlos would take all of their rage out on me and then some; Goldar wasn't here, they couldn't punish him so I was the second most obvious choice. Lucky me. I thought sourly as my fist shot out and caught Cassie hard in the stomach. Her eyes widen in surprise as she dropped to her knees in front of me. Carlos jumped over her, uttering a shout. I reached out a hand, grabbed his wrist spun and shoved him hard against the wall.

"Listen to me, both of you." I had grabbed Cassie also and had slammed her against the wall alongside Carlos, both of them were struggling and continued to kick and punch at me, I winced and let out grunts as they connected every now and then.

"It's a tough lesson, believe me I know, but we can't let the guilt and the grief entirely consume us, or we will be useless in battle. If we do then other innocent people will get hurt in fact they will end up like Silvy. We do not want that to happen, we pick ourselves up and we move on, we use our pain and rage and grief as our main weapons when we met up with the people that we want to punish. Both of you will get your chance to avenge Silvy." Both of them still had the fire of rage in their eyes, but I could see it beginning to cool down, I released them and allowed their feet to touch the floor, taking a step away from them I looked both of them over.

"Don't worry; you'll get your chance. If Goldar shows himself I'll let you have first crack at him….." I paused and closed my eyes briefly as the room spun. I shook my head to clear it Andros and Zhane had shocked expressions on their faces. Never in their life time have they seen such a thing, Rangers attacking each other. Steadying myself as I made my way to the door wondering if I was even going to make it to my room, it seemed so far away.

"Listen I'm going to rest, I tell you where I buried her afterward, I promise." As I stumbled down the hallway hugging the wall for support the only thing I could think about was closing my eyes and sleeping and hoping, actually wishing, that the death of that one little girl, was all just a bad dream.

Opening my eyes after getting a few good hours sleep, I stared up at the ceiling. I thought about all that had happened and began to wonder whether or not the team will be able to bounce back after this tragedy. I'm pretty sure that they are now realizing it that this all could have been prevented if they had only allowed me to erase Silvy's memory. Then she would still be alive. I rolled over onto my side and stared at the wall before me. Come on Karmer, who are you kidding? Goldar would have targeted her just the same because….she was a friend of ours. Because she knew us and we cared about her. He knew that the only way to really hurt us and to cause friction in the team was to hurt someone that we all cared about but were unable to protect. I paused in my thinking as pain rose within my chest. Weakness. My family was my weakness and so were my sisters, and Justin. Silvy was my team mate's weakness. But even they didn't deserve the horror of watching Silvy die like that. Especially not Carlos. Carlos and Silvy had developed a strong bond, in fact, from my observations; Silvy had regarded Carlos as something close to a big brother. I thought of Kimberly and how I would often think of her as a sister, even calling her "Sis" from time to time. I still think of her that way. I rolled onto my back. I felt sorry for Carlos, TJ and Cassie. It's a hard lesson, losing someone you care about….it'll take time, but they'll move on and thy will get past the guilt and the pain. I hope.

A little while later, my rumbling stomach got me out of bed. I had washed the blood (can blood really be washed off?) from my hands and was heading toward the Mess Hall. Ahead of me, I saw Cassie, I started to call out to her but thinking abut it, I was pretty sure that I was probably the last person she wanted to see. She must have sensed me behind her for she turned, our eyes met for a few seconds then unexpectedly she made a gesture for me to join her. I hesitated but….she did look sincere. I limped over to her and we continued on down the hall. The moments of silence stretched between us and I began to wonder which one of us was going to break it, or even if it should be broken there was still tension in the air. It still amazed and shocked me that my team mates would actually attack me. A while ago, when Justin had revealed to the others that I had once been an agent for evil I was so sure that all of them were going to jump me, but they never did. Could it have been because back then I was at full power and that they were afraid of me? I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye. Heh, I'm amazed that I actually defended myself against those two. Cassie was still looking straight ahead and at first I thought that the reason she wouldn't even glance my way was because she was ashamed for her actions earlier.

"So you really couldn't have done anything to save Silvy?" I glanced at her surprised to hear no anger in her tone. I matched her tone but kept my voice low.

"Unfortunately no, I had used up most of my power in the earlier battle with Goldar and was nearly out of power when the Psycho Rangers showed up. I had to take some of Psycho Yellow's power just to beat her. After that," I paused for a moment, as we entered the Mess Hall and I was busy pressing the buttons on Synthetron and figure out what I wanted to eat. Choosing a plate of spaghetti, I waited until it had materialized in front of me, grabbed it and began eating while I limped over to one of the tables and sat down. Cassie had sat down across from me and was watching as I ate. After finishing half the plate and feeling full and strengthen for the first time in hours, I lifted up my head.

"After the battle with Psycho Yellow, I was all tapped out. I could barley stand." I paused as I twirled the last of the spaghetti onto my fork and inserted it into my mouth.

"And yet, you had enough strength to turn those people back into their original forms with that machine." said Cassie in a toneless voice.

"Not an easy thing to do; I just about collapsed after I had teleported the last person back to Angel Grove."

"I'll bet." I glanced up at her tone. She folded her arms and placed them on the table and continued to look at me for a full minute, finally she opened her mouth and said.

"What I don't get is, that you had the strength to undo Astronema's work on those people, you had the strength to teleport them back to Angel Grove and you had the strength to fight off the Psycho Ranger."

"I had to dig deep down Cassie…" I started bewildered.

"You had the strength for all of these things and yet you "didn't" have the strength to save Silvy." Setting down my fork, I pushed my plate away and stared back at her.

"Just what are you accusing me of?" I asked coldly.

"I'm not accusing you of anything, except the fact that your "strength" seemed to disappear at the exact moment when Goldar showed up." I glared her angrily.

"There wasn't any way that I could take on Goldar in the state that I was in, I couldn't even break through that force field that he had me in."

"Couldn't or wouldn't?" snapped Cassie.

"What's that supposed to mean?" My fingers had found my fork and had curled themselves around it tightly.

"Here's what I think, I think that you purposely allowed Silvy to die right in front of us!" I stared her in shock.

"How can you accuse me of such a thing?" She stared back at me coldly; something close to hate was in her eyes.

"You are supposed to have this incredible power, power that has saved thousands of lives and yet….you couldn't save this one life, just like you couldn't save Justin from being tortured or your parents from getting killed!" I shot out of my chair and glared at her while tears blurred my vision.

How could she remind me now that I have failed to save another person from the forces of evil? I had made a vow that it would never happen again. And yet it did happen. Self loathing began to rise within me. What good is this power if I'm not able to save the people that that I care about? What good am I? But I shook my head forcing myself to remember how I had saved the lives of my friends time and again, had earned their faith and trust, have began to finally fill in the shoes of Aisha, the Ranger that I had murdered. Taking a deep breath to calm myself, I looked at Cassie but at the same time I was speaking to myself.

"Look, I'm only human. I have human faults. This power has limits. If I go all out then I can't do much else…." A sudden thought occurred to me.

"I'm pretty sure that was Goldar's plan all along. I would be so weaken that I wouldn't have been able to break through that force field of his and save Silvy." Cassie blinked, rendered speechless for a minute then her eyes narrowed.

"Why didn't you think of that before huh?" she asked sarcastically.

"Hey, I was busy fighting him off and trying to hold my own against the Yellow Psycho Ranger with what little energy I had left. So excuse me if my mind was a little preoccupied." I shot back.

"I thought you were supposed to know your enemy!"

"I was busy thinking about you guys and trying to figure out how to kill the Yellow Psycho Ranger; I didn't know that Goldar was going to go after Silvy!" Cassie eyes flashed fire; she walked around the table and shoved the chairs that were between us out of the way, so hard that they toppled over. I braced myself for a fight. She was in front of me.

"What about all those times where you told us to keep an eye on her when you felt for sure that Goldar was going to attack her and didn't? What about all of those times that you made the team split up so that one part of the team dealt with one of Astronomer's monsters while the others kept an eye on Silvy and he didn't attack her then? You took all the necessary precautions back then to ensure her safety but not this time! What made this time so different? Huh?" I refused to drop my eyes and feel guilty; I was reminded of those times when I had asked dad and the others to keep an eye on mom with nothing whatsoever happening. But then….the day of that stupid make up test… I looked at Cassie; I was tired of all this guilt that was on my shoulders of not being able to save people and having the strength of my powers questioned. Even I….with my power at full strength…. I fought back my sadness and guilt. It was not your fault. You didn't even think about Silvy, your mind was on your ungrateful teammate's lives and the people of Angel Grove's. A sudden thought occurred to me. What that was what Goldar was banking on? That my mind would be too distracted so that I didn't even think about Silvy? Is that why he told me of Astronema's plan and Secret City?

I jumped that I heard Cassie call my name. Shaking my head to clear it, I started to open my mouth to tell her but closed it again. She could never understand. So instead all I said was,

"My mind was full of getting to you guys and the people that the monster of Astronema's had kidnapped." To my own ears that sounded lame, and apparently Cassie thought so too.

"I really wish you would stop thinking that we have to be rescued every time we get into trouble. We can handle Astromena's monster's ourselves." I gritted my teeth and struggled to control my anger.I knew that she was mad at herself for not doing more to protect Silvy, for not being able to save her, even though she had the powers of advanced technology on her side, in the end it didn't amount too much, it even couldn't stand up to Goldar's power. But I was angry as well, I was angry at Cassie for even suggesting that I had allowed Goldar to kill Silvy. If I could do it over again….If I could change things….But I can't…..not even I, with my powers at full strength, can turn back time. Not even I can bring back the dead.

A few days later we received an emergency call for help from the planet Forza, I welcomed the distraction; the atmosphere in the Astro Mega Ship was thicker than custard and Cassie and Carlos seemed bent on making me feel responsible for Silvy's death. Suiting up and taking the Astro Gliders, we went to the planet and began searching for the people that had sent the distress signal; it only took was a few moments for us to realize that something was wrong.

"I don't see anything." said TJ looking around.

"My computer's not picking up anything." I chimed in as well. Something's not right here. Could that SOS have been a fake to lure us into a trap? I looked around, keeping my eyes and ears open for any sign of my enemies. Suddenly our suits began to glow.

"What the?" started Andros.

"What's happening?" cried Cassie. Leaping off the Astro Gliders because the glowing interfered with our steering, we landed on the sand and watched as our suits gave a final glow then vanished all together. My heart began to pound double time; panic began to settle in the pit of my stomach though I struggled to push it away. Oh no! The Astro Mega Ship! It can't be gone! We still need it, we haven't even found dad yet! Nor have we taken out Dark Specter, Astromena or Ecliptor! What are we going to do? How are the others going to fight if one of our enemies show up? Worse yet, what if Goldar shows up? TJ, brought his communicator to his mouth and began to contact the Ship, I began to dread hearing the silence that was going to greet us on the other side of the call but imagine my relief when we heard A6 respond. Oh, thank god! It's still there! I nearly sank to my knees in the sand but I forced myself to continue to stand upright. If anything had happened to the Astro Mega Ship…..

"Alpha what's going on?" The reply was one that I did not want to hear, especially after all that my team mates had gone through.

"Astronema's here, she cast some sort of electric web around the Ship."

"What!" I shouted. TJ's eyes widen in surprise then he said in a determined voice.

"Fire at the web, maybe you can break free of it." A6 powered up the phasers to full and fired.

"Nothing." There was note of panic in his voice. "The web is still around us." Carlos looked toward the rest of us.

"What are we going to do? What if they can't break out of that web?"

I spoke up.

"Maybe it can be destroyed from the outside." The others turned toward me.

"There have been force fields that can be destroyed from the outside, if just enough power is applied. If I can just get to the Ship and deliver a powerful enough Power Blast to break through the web, I might be able to free it." Andros looked at me for a second, then he nodded.

"Worth a shot, will you need help?" I was about to reply when who should show up but the Quantrons and Darkonda. Oh, it's only these guys. I thought in relief as I preformed a back flip mixed with well aimed kick to a chin that sent the Quantron slamming into the ground. For a minute I was sure that Goldar and his Tengu would show up, then we'd be in real trouble. All too soon though, that was what exactly happened to my team mates. TJ was punched hard in the stomach, while a Quantron slammed down both of his fists onto TJ's back; he fell to his knees only to be kicked in the face. Cassie's feet were swept from underneath her, she fell and at the same time the blade of one Quantron came down and slashed her in the face. She yelped. Carlos took down two Quantrons but a third on leapt onto his shoulders and slammed him down face first into the sand. Andros's arms were grabbed by two Quantrons, a third began to savagely punch him in the stomach. Andros went down Darkonda leapt in front of me before I could go to their aid. I took a step back and at the same time he brought down his sword. Instinctively I reached for my own, unsheathed it and blocked his blow, shoving him away, I spun to my left, Darkonda slashed empty air on my right, growling in frustration he shot out his hand and grabbed my wrist and yanked me back. I stumbled back and fell into the sand Darkonda loomed over me.

"After Astronema has finished with you and your friends, I'm going to see what makes you tick Yellow Ranger." I smiled up at him.

"Sorry to disappoint but, no." Placing both of my hands behind me, palms on the ground, I concentrated. Darkonda grabbed me by the front of my shirt and had lifted me off several inches when he turned.

Behind him the Quantrons were all lying on the ground while my team mates were struggling to their feet. You would think that by now, instead of attacking us with a small army of Quantrons, they would have brought the entire squadron. Darkonda turned back to me, I grinned at him, with his other hand he raised his sword above my head; but before he could bring it down, he cried out as he was blasted back. I landed on my butt and turned the upper half of my power toward the source, already knowing who it is. Yep, it's Zhane. I was surprised to see him coming towards at top speed while riding… a dune buggy? I stared at the vehicle for a few minutes as Darkonda, uttering a yell, began to actually charge it. The dune buggy wasn't like any I had ever seen on Earth. For one thing its head lights shot a blue energy blast at the charging Darkonda. I shrugged my shoulders as I got to my feet. The Quantrons were all blasted back by Zhane and with a quick Power Blast had already vanished. I shook my head. Man these guys aren't even a challenge, even the Tengu Warriors put up a better fight. Ignoring the yells issuing from Darkonda, I limped over to my team mates and helped them up. The others watched with shouts of victory as Darkonda finally took off. The others ran past me to thank Zhane and marvel over his ride. Zhane hopped out and introduced them to his "Galactic Rover"

"Great thanks Zhane." I said rather dismissively with barely a glance at the vehicle. Cassie frowned slightly. But then she began to nod along with me as I explained the situation to him, I was about to finish when A6 called again. Ecliptor was heading toward the hiding place of the Mega Vehicles, with the intent on destroying them. The others eyes widen in shock and in fear.

"How were they able to find them after all this time?" asked Carlos in a whisper. My guess is that that since they saw how powerful it was, they've must have been searching for it for a while now; with plans to destroy it. This could tilt the balance in their favor. I lifted up my head.

"Right." I turned to Zhane, and at the same time began to locate Ecliptor and punch in his coordinates.

"Zhane will go and take care of Ecliptor. I'll teleport you to the location of the Mega Vehicles myself, for all we know, he could already be there." Zhane nodded.

"But what about the Astro Mega Ship?" asked Cassie with a worried look on her face. Andros chimed in saying that by using his battle armor and the weaponry it contained it should be enough to destroy the web that surrounded the Ship.

"I'll come with you Andros, Astronema might be there herself."

"Thanks Amy." I only nodded and turning to Zhane; wished him luck and teleported him away. Andros pressed two buttons on the side of his Astro Morpher and his suit came flashing on. Yech, does it have to look painful? I thought to myself as I watched. The new armor made him look buffer and had wings in the back plus on the sides it had phasers. It may have looked powerful and cool compared to his regular suit but…does he really have to yell whenever he puts it on? Andros noticed that I was staring at him with a weird expression on my face.

"What?"

"Andros, don't take this the wrong way, but…..if I had to choose, I would rather keep my powers than acquire a suit like that." He stared at me for a few moments while the others were giving me weird looks.

"Whatever. Let's go!" Firing up a rocket that was underneath his wings he took off into the sky. I turned back to the others.

"We'll keep you posted." Was all I said before following Andros.

We arrived at the location of the Astro Mega Ship and to my great surprise, it was quite alone. I looked around; half expecting to see Astronema's ship and an entire army ready and waiting for us, but there wasn't anybody. Either she's super confident, that destroying the Mega Vehicles will weaken us greatly and make us easier to kill(yeah right) or she thinks that we won't be able to break through that web of hers and give up, that girl seriously needs a head check. Still the fact that she found the location of both the Astro Mega Ship and the Mega Vehicles disturbed me greatly. If she could find out where those two things were and send one of her henchmen to destroy than that could only mean one thing: She's done fooling around. I swallowed hard. My mind suddenly filled with my friends and the people of Angel Grove. I hope that when the time comes I have the strength and power to protect them. I turned to Andros, he turned toward me. The web glowed brightly and to my initial surprise wasn't really doing anything to the Ship. No power was being drained nor was it damaging the Ship in any way.

"Andros, this thing doesn't show any weak points, we're gonna have to fire on two sides of it to get it off the Ship." I said. He nodded.

"Okay, you take the left side, I'll take the right." Taking off in two different directions until we came floating on opposite sides of the Ship, I told Andros that we should fire at the same time with everything that we've got. I also kept a sharp lookout for Goldar and the Tengu Warriors. Hey, you never know.

"Right Amy."

"Okay. One…"

"Two…"

"Three!" I pulled out my sword, powered it up and flung it as hard as I could toward the Ship, controlling my sword while it bounced off and around the web, sending up sparks and causing the entire thing to wobble weirdly, I sent Power Blast after Power Blast into my sword and on the web. On the other side, I could hear explosions (huh, look at that sound does carry in space) which signified that Andros was doing his part. Pulling back my hands, with the heels of my palms touching I formed a ball of energy, that kept on growing as I kept adding to it. Mustn't add too much, trouble for all we know could be just around the corner. As soon as my Power Blast was roughly the same size as my body, I fired, on the other side Andros fired his own weapons, there was a crackle and a boom and the web disintegrated in front of our eyes, freeing the Astro Mega Ship.

Breathing a sigh of relief, I contacted the others and told them what had happened. Teleporting all of them to the bridge Andros and I joined them, we were about to check the ship from top to bottom when a distress signal from Zhane came through. Morphing and flying to Angel Grove, we all received a bit of a shock to see Ecliptor completely changed. He looked like he was covered in some sort of red body suit which unfortunately made him stronger and faster than all of us. Not to mention he was already twenty four feet tall, Zhane's Mega Winger looked pretty damaged once we arrived, along with the Delta Mega Zord, at the Jovian moon base where the Mega Vehicles were kept. Even with all three Zords, Ecliptor proved more than a match for us. After launching several fireballs at us and at the other two Zords, I began to have a sense of how powerful Ecliptor had become. How did he get so freaking powerful, he could easily be a match for Goldar. My computer began beeping. Oh no! Not now! I scanned the area for Goldar, but the scanner wasn't picking him up, he could be anywhere! Fireball after fire ball shot towards us, coming from Ecliptor's sword. Worse yet, another set of fireballs came raining down on us from all sides; we had no idea where they were coming from.

We watched in horror as the Delta Mega Zord was slammed once, twice, three times….its arms appeared to go slack, then it fell onto to the ground.

"I can't believe it! The Delta Mega Zord!" cried TJ. Glancing at my computer, it gave me the schematics of the Delta Mega Zord. It was heavily damaged and wouldn't be able to take any more attacks.

"LOOK OUT!" screamed Cassie. I turned my head and saw several fireballs coming in from the left and right, they were heading straight for us!

"SHIELD!" I shouted throwing one up two of them bounced off and I managed to send them straight back at Ecliptor, he dodged them of course and sent another one toward the Mega Winger!

"Zhane! Get out of there!" shouted Andros. Before I could aid Zhane though, I was shoved back into my chair. What the? I looked around but couldn't see anything I was aware of Zhane screaming and yelling and of the others shouting as they watched Zhane's Mega Winger go down. Andros leapt out of his chair to go to his friend's aid.

"Zhane! Hang on! I'm coming!" I started to call out to Andros, when my computer beeped again. We all screamed as a shot of electricity came out of nowhere and engulfed both the outside and the inside of the Mega Ship! My mind seemed to be filling up with a bright yellow light and I was somehow, transported to the engine room of the Astro Mega Ship. Goldar! He was inside!

"EVERYONE GET OUT! HURRY! HE'S HERE!" I heard myself scream. I started to follow the others as they leapt out of their chairs but once again I was slammed back into my chair.

"Amy! What's wrong?" asked Cassie, she grabbed my shoulder but then leapt back as I began to jerk and twist in my seat. Jerking my head toward her I let out a grunt and rasped.

"Get out." Letting out a yell and sending a wave of power that sent Cassie hurtling out of the Ship and Ecliptor reeling, I flopped back into the chair. Panting and swallowing hard I lurched forward and saw that Ecliptor was on the ground reverted back to his normal size. The others were on the ground also. I sat back for a minute, catching my breath and letting the others deal with Ecliptor. You can do it you guys, he's pretty weak now. I closed my eyes briefly and somehow saw, my teammates attacking Ecliptor. Even though he put up a pretty good fight, he wasn't any match for their teamwork; Ecliptor's color returned back to green, and even though he vowed vengeance against them, he took off. I smiled, looks like Tommy and the others chose right after all.

A while later we traveled back to the Jovian planet and confronted the damage that Ecliptor had inflicted, the hanger where the Vehicles' were kept had collapsed. There was a gigantic hole in the ceiling and parts of the walls and beams littered the ground, the vehicles themselves looked undamaged amazingly enough…..but they had the air of having lost the will to fight and looked like shells of their former selves, empty and lifeless. The victory that my team mates had won suddenly seemed hollow in comparison. Everyone stared around with shocked looks on their faces and I was reminded of the day when the Command Center was destroyed, my friends and I had always thought that Lord Zedd would never find it, not in a million years….and yet….he did find it. The expressions on my team mates faces matched those of my friends' faces as we had gone through the debris that had once been the home of Zordon and Alpha Five and the headquarters of the Power Rangers. We still don't know how he found it. None of us had ever asked that question, I guess….I guess…..we were afraid of finding out the answer. Zhane had approached a console and his eyes widened in amazement.

"Hey, the main systems! Their still online, we can still fix up the Mega Vehicles." I turned to him and smiled sadly, I gazed around at the broken hanger and Zords. It would take too much time to get them fixed and at this rate, at the extent of damage that Ecliptor had done, I began to wonder if we were even going to win this war.