Tommy and Raquel watched as the Rangers and Ninja's teamed up to defeat Photomere and Goldar. They were in conflict. Whenever Goldar and Photomere were winning they would be excited. Whenever Goldar got knocked down they would cheer. When the rangers were winning they were moody.
After a time Goldar and Photomere were defeated. It looked like the battle was over and the Rangers had ejected from their Zords.
"It is so good to be back." Aisha said as they ran over to the rangers.
"I wonder how Zedd managed to reverse time?" Raymond said "Wouldn't it take an enormous amount of energy?"
"He used magic." Jason said dismissively.
"Yeah, but how does magic work?" Raymond said "I mean, we've never seen a spell of this proportion. Its effected the entire world. Maybe he's got less magic now or will be weaker."
"Don't be ridiculous. Its magic, it doesn't get weaker or stronger." Zack laughed.
"Yeah, but it's a lot of energy. How much does he have?" Raymond asked.
They all shrugged.
Zack laughed "He always has more. That's what more means. Don't over complicate it. It'll just make your head hurt."
Raymond shrugged.
"What are we going to do about the world? My mom thinks I'm seven. It's going to be a shock to her when I come home tonight." Adam said.
" Zordon probably knows what to do." Jason said.
"Yeah, we should head back. We probably have a lot to do." Trini said.
"I'm really worried about-." Aisha said.
At that moment Finster attacked Raymond from behind. He didn't dodge in time and Finster got a half decent hold on him.
"Take me to the children or I'll hurt him." Finster growled.
The others got ready to attack but before they could Raymond had managed to knock Finster off and pin him to the ground.
"Whoa, whose this guy?" Adam asked.
"One of Zedd's goons," Zack said.
"I've conjunctured that he was employed as Rita's monster creator." Billy said.
"What's he doing here?" Trini said "He never fights us."
"What did you do with Tommy and Raquel?" Finster growled as he fought against Rocky and Adam who were helping Raymond hold him down. "If you've hurt them I'll... I demand that you release them."
"Whoa, simmer down. We don't have anybody." Zack said.
"Well actually-"Aisha started to say, but no one seemed to hear her.
"Gosh I feel kind of bad just taking him down like this," Jason said "but I'm Zedd will send him back up if we stun him or something, and we can't hold him down forever."
"Don't you dare! you little brats!" Finster said angrily.
Billy knocked Finster out with a stun gun he had in his arsenal. Then they stood there and waited a few minutes but nothing happened.
"Um, guys, nothing's happening." Aisha said.
"But Goldar always disappears when he's about to be defeated." Jason said.
"Maybe Zedd doesn't know this guys out here?" Rocky suggested.
"Well we can't leave him here." Trini said.
"I believe it is imperative we return to the command center.." Billy said.
"Um, guys." Aisha said.
"Right, Zordon will know what to do." Jason said picking Finster up.
A few minutes later they were back in the command center and Finster was trapped in a force field, still unconscious.
Tommy and Raquel immediately crawled over towards Finster.
"Whoa, is he dead?" Tommy asked in a worried voice.
Raquel turned red hot with anger.
"You hurt our friend!" she yelled as she jumped at the rangers. She couldn't pass the barrier but she banged on it and howled at them.
Tommy grabbed Raquel's arm pulling her back. "Raquel, causing a scene."
"I'm going to rip their freaking heads off!" Raquel screamed. Her eyes burnt with red hot fury as she tore out of Tommy's grip and hit the shield again.
"Raquel! Calm down!" Tommy yelled at her.
Raquel took deep breaths and started to cry. Tommy pulled her behind him, away from the Rangers and Zordon's sight, and glared at the rangers angrily. Tommy counted to ten in his mind and then spoke.
"Is he alright?" Tommy asked.
"He is alive." Zordon said calmly, "There is no reason to be so upset, Raquel."
"Leave her alone," Tommy growled, "your upsetting her more."
"There's nothing to be afraid of, Raquel." Trini said walking towards the two. She knelt down so that she was eye level with Tommy and Raquel, "No one is hurt. Everything is going to be alright."
"What are you going to do to him?" Tommy asked nervously "You're not going to, you know, kill him or something, right?"
"We will not." Zordon said to Tommy, "We do not kill."
"Good news for us, huh?" Raquel muttered.
"He was just worried about us. He's our friend." Tommy explained more to the rangers then to Zordon.
"Why'd you have to shoot him with the lazar thing?" Raquel said putting her hands on her hips and glaring at Jason, her tears had dried up a bit, "You shouldn't play with guns."
"Listen, Tommy, Raquel," Trini said, "this- this, thing is not your friend. It's one of Zedd's monsters. That makes it bad. It is helping Zedd keep you as a slave."
"He's got a name you know." Raquel said angrily, "It's Finster."
"I don't have to listen to you if I don't want to, and I don't want to. " Tommy said defiantly and stuck his fingers in his ears, " You all are lying. I'm not a slave or a minion or anything like that. I don't even know any Zedds." he took a deep breath as though trying to calm down, " I'm Tommy Oliver, I'm seven years old, and this is my next door neighbor and best friend, Raquel Rivera. We don't do monsters and stuff, we do karate. I think you've got this all wrong. I don't care what the giant blue head says."
Raquel nodded her head "Ditto for me." She covered her own ears and turned away from Trini defiantly.
Jason turned to Zordon, "Can we release them from Zedd's hold now? I mean there kids, we could take the swords from them now and destroy it."
"I'm afraid that is impossible. They do not currently posses the sword nor the dagger." Zordon said.
"We can't concentrate on them anyway, Jason, we've got to figure out what to do with ugly over there." Zack pointed at Finster, "and we've got to fix time somehow."
"Couldn't we just zap everything with Alpha's molecular descrambler?" Rocky asked.
"Do you have any idea how long that would take?' Aisha asked him.
Rocky shrugged.
Adam suddenly spoke up, "Hey, he's waking up again."
"Oh dear, oh dear," Finster muttered "Where am I? Why does my head hurt so much?" he sat up and looked around a moment. He immediately discovered he was caged. He looked up and saw the Rangers crowding around him. He jumped up and started calling out, "Raquel! Tommy! Are you here? Are you alright?"
"We're over here!" Tommy yelled.
"He's ok!" Raquel said excitedly. They ran to the edge of their cell. Finster ran towards the edge of his. They could just see each other.
"Are you two alright?" Finster asked them. It shocked the rangers how racked with worry his voice sounded.
"They are unharmed." Zordon said.
"We're just trapped like you." Tommy yelled over to him.
"They haven't done anything to you, have they?" Finster asked them nervously.
Tommy and Raquel shook their heads, "Just locked us up and told us a bunch of weird stories." Tommy said.
"You've been crying, Raquel." Finster said.
Raquel blushed, "No I haven't."
"Liar, liar, pants on fire." Tommy muttered.
Raquel stomped on his foot, "Only a little."
"She was totally scared." Tommy said.
"It's alright, no one's going to hurt you." Finster said, in his most reassuring voice.
"If they were, I think we'd be hurt already." Tommy said.
"They said bad things about you." Raquel said quietly.
Finster glared at Zordon, "Yes, I knew they would."
The Rangers felt a little awkward standing next to the awkward reunion. Suddenly Adam spoke up. "Well at any rate, we should go fix Ninjor and Kimberly, right?"
Rocky and Raymond nodded, "Come on Aisha." Rocky called.
Aisha went with them, and they teleported to the edge of Ninjor's temple, leaving Jason, Billy, Trini, and Zack with the evil rangers and Finster.
"Um, Zordon?" Jason said looking up at their mentor while Raquel and Tommy were telling Finster about how they didn't believe the big blue head one bit.
"Just a minute." Billy said, "Don't say anything."
A second later Tommy and Raquel couldn't hear anyone outside of the cage. They banged on the wall and screamed, but it didn't do much.
"Now we can talk in private." Jason said gravely.
Billy nodded.
Trini turned on Finster, her face suddenly showing fury, "Why in the world were you of all monsters looking for them? Can't you guys leave them alone for a minute? Their little kids! The last thing they needed to see was this." she spun to Zordon "Why didn't you tell us they were here? We shouldn't have let them see this at all. Their heads are messed up enough already. They thought he was dead."
"Would you rather hide things from them?" Zack asked Trini.
"If it was for their own good." Trini growled.
The two glared at each other angrily.
