A/N Power Ranger Zeo Settings and Characters all belong to Haim Saban and Toei Company and the Fox. Any original characters and this story are copyright © 2011-2018 to Hopelessromanticgurl, all rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

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Inside the Command Center, Tommy was working with Alpha when he suddenly stopped and turned to Zordon.

"Zordon, I know you've told me this a million times, but I have to ask it once more. Are you sure there is no way to break the connection between the Falcon and Crane?"

"I am positive, Tommy. The connection you two share is completely unbreakable."

"Is it possible Kimberly turned it off or something?"

"The connection cannot be turned off, Tommy. It can only be muted. Why are you asking?"

Tommy sighed. "When I reached out to Kim she just said she was surprised, or maybe even confused. She didn't understand how she was hearing me and not seeing me. She tried to play it off as a joke, but I knew she wasn't joking. I'm worried King Mondo might be trying to break our connection."

"Impossible. No-one is able to break your connection. However…if King Mondo is doing something with Kimberly's mind, to cause her to question things, it might be possible that Kim is starting to doubt the connection."

Tommy gulped. "Zordon, we have to find her."

"We will. As long as you can still feel Kimberly, she hasn't given up."

Tommy nodded and went back to helping Alpha.


Back inside the cell, Kimberly hadn't moved. However, her mind was running a mile a minute. She couldn't think. She shook her head. "No." she spoke out loud. "He's lying to me. I know that for a fact. He's lying."

"Let me go! When I get out of here, you're going to pay!"

Kimberly jumped startled by the sudden scream. Was that Kat? That was Kat! She must have gotten her reward…but why would they bring her back? Why was she screaming at them? She was on their side. Unless…they wanted to use Kat to torment her more. That had to be the reason. Kat was still being used as part of their plan. They wanted to trick her that Kat was nice again so Kat could help to break her later. She wasn't going to fall for it.

One of King Mondo's helpers came into view dragging Kat. He opened the cell door and threw Kat roughly inside and then slammed the cell door and locked it once more. Then he walked away.

Kimberly expected Kat to stand up and start yelling some more. Instead, she just laid on the floor where she thrown and panted. Slowly she stood up and looked to Kim. "Are you ok?"

Kimberly's eyes went wide. Why was she suddenly being so nice to her? "Do you actually care or do you just want to play on my fears and use them against me?"

"No, I care. They broke the spell, Kim. I'm me again."

"I don't believe you. You were under a spell for months and acted kind to us before. I won't let you trick me again."

"Kim, I'm telling you the truth. I was no longer useful to them, so they broke the spell. That was my reward. I'm free. You don't understand, Kim." Kat sighed. "When they first grabbed me they thought I was you. When they realized they had grabbed the wrong Crane they used me as a weapon until they found the real one. Since they've officially captured you they undid the spell because I was no longer useful to them."

"Good for you. Then leave."

"I can't. I'm stuck in here, just like you are. They had promised me a reward, lots of it, money, gold…spend forever with Tommy. Instead they undid the spell but then they said I had to stay in here with you because they didn't want me to go and tell the others where you were. They know I would. I would and will always protect you, Kim."

"Stop being so nice to me!" Kimberly groaned. "I know it's an act."

"It's not, Kim. I promise."

Kimberly inhaled and exhaled a deep, shaky breath. Kat was good now, after months of being bullied by Kat, now she was good. How did that happen? Was this even real? Or could this be like her Coach had said and it's actually her mind playing tricks on her to protect her from the truth?

Kimberly curled up even tighter on her little bed. A soft whimper escaped her lips. What was going on?

Kat sighed. "I'm sorry, Kim. I'm really sorry for everything. I know you don't believe me, but it's true. I'm going to prove it to you. From this moment on I'm going to protect. I will do everything in my power to protect you from these monsters."

Kat sat down on the second bed and just looked down on the floor. She didn't blame Kim for not trusting her. She knew if she could get Kim to trust her, they could find a way out of this together, but she didn't think that was going to happen any time soon.


A few minutes later King Mondo walked in with Kim's Coach. Her Coach was carrying a bucket full of ice water.

Kat looked to Kim who hadn't moved from her seat. Kat had bad feeling she wasn't going to. She jumped from her seat and ran over to Kim and stood in front of her.

King Mondo and Kim's Coach walked over to her. "This doesn't concern you anymore, move out of our way."

"No! You're not going to touch her!" Kat said again. "You've tormented her enough! Leave her alone!"

"Stupid Girl, you should know better than to defy us!" King Mondo growled.

Kat got into her fighting stance. "I'll fight you both."

"Bring it on, Human girl." Kim's Coach laughed. He went to attack, but Kat blocked him, but when she tried to fight him back it didn't have any effect.

"Oh, that kind of tickles." He said.

"This next one won't," Kat said. She threw another kick his way, but he just laughed. "Oh, you're right. That really tickled."

Kat growled. Suddenly Kimberly screamed. Kat looked over at Kim to see her soaking wet and the bucket full of ice water was now empty.

While Kat was distracted Kim's Coach back handed Kat across the face sending her to the floor un-conscience. "Finally, that blond was starting to annoy me."

"Let me go!" Kimberly screamed as King Mondo grabbed her.

"Now, now, calm down. We're just going to play another game."

Kimberly was dragged out of her cell kicking and screaming.


In the Command Center, Tommy was working with Billy as Alpha took some time to recharge. Suddenly Tommy screamed. He rubbed his hands up and down his arms as if he was freezing. He felt like he was soaked. He could feel his clothes sticking to his skin, water droplet sliding down the back of the neck. But when he looked down he was completely dry.

"Kimberly," he whispered. "But why would they throw cold water on her?"

"I don't know. But let's not focus on that."

Tommy nodded. "Please hang on, Kimberly. I promise I'm going to find you."


Kimberly kicked and screaming the entire time until they arrived at another room. King Mondo dragged her inside. The room was cold and drafty. There wasn't much in the room except for a mop and bucket. There were spider webs everywhere and on everything.

Kimberly wrapped her arms tighter around herself as she became colder. She was freezing now, to the point she was shaking.

"Wha-what i-is this?" she stuttered through her trembling body.

"We are going to play another game."

"Wha-what ki-kind?"

"We're going to see how long you can survive in this freezing cold room before you beg for us to let you out. If you can survive until tomorrow night, that will be a full 24 hours, then we will return you to your cell, and you will be left alone for a few hours. If not…well you'll just have to wait and see."

King Mondo threw Kim onto the floor and walked away locking the door behind him.

Kimberly inhaled and exhaled a deep breath, not surprised when she could see her breath from the cold.

She rubbed her arms up and down trying to create some warmth, but it didn't work. There wasn't even a chair in there. So she was forced to sit on the cold hard floor.

"Tommy please hurry." She whispered.


Tommy was laying in bed at home, not by choice. Zordon had teleported him home to get some rest. But he wouldn't be able to rest until Kimberly was home safe and sound.

He pulled his blankets over his body as he suddenly become cold. "What are they doing to you, Beautiful?"

"Tommy, please hurry." he heard her whimper.

He sighed softly and closed his eyes. "Where are you, Beautiful?"


Tommy opened his eyes, and he was in a freezing cold, dimly lit, small, room. In the center of that room was Kimberly shivering.

"Kim!" He rushed over to her and knelt down in front of her. "Hey, Beautiful." he greeted softly.

Kimberly looked up at him. "Did you find me?"

"We're working on it. I promise. Just hang on a little longer."

"Then how are you here?" She asked.

"Kimberly now is not the time for jokes," Tommy said.

"I'm not joking," Kimberly said. "If you haven't found me how can I see you?"

"Kim…" Tommy started. He looked at the color of her pure white skin and noticed her lips were turning blue. "These freaks are going to give you hypothermia!"

"What freaks?" She asked. "Where am I? How can I see you?"

"It's ok, you're safe." Tommy soothed. He sat next to her and pulled her into his arms. She was as cold as ice. "I've got you. You're safe." Tommy closed his eyes and a white glow formed around them.


When he opened his eyes, they were in a sauna, filled with heat. Kimberly relaxed as she felt her cold body start to warm up. "Thank you," she whispered.

"I love you, Beautiful. I promise I'm going to find you."

Kimberly nodded as she leaned against him. Tommy kissed her forehead, happy to see her body temperature was back to normal.

"Keep fighting. I promise I'm going to find you." He gave her one last kiss and closed his eyes again.


Kimberly opened her eyes to see herself back in the cold room. Tommy was sitting next to her.

"You're still weak. When was the last time you ate?" Tommy wondered.

Kimberly shrugged. "Picnic at the park."

Tommy sighed. "That was a few days ago. You've got to eat something to keep your strength up."

"Why? They're just going to poison it." Kim sighed.

"They need you alive and healthy for whatever they have planned. They won't let you starve yourself. It's better you eat by yourself otherwise they may force you."

Kimberly sighed. "You're right. Next time they bring me food I promise I'll eat."

"Good girl. Now…"

Before either of them could answer they heard the sound of the door opening.

Her Coach came back inside. "How do you feel?"

"I'm freezing how do you think I feel?" She growled. "What is the point of this?"

Tommy smiled at her bravery.

"You'll see. The Master just asked me to come give you another dosage. Oh and he told me to mentioned we upped the dosage by half…or was it double? I don't remember. Either way it's stronger than last time.

"No! Not again! Please!" Kimberly gasped.

"Just a small pinch." Her Coach said.

"No!"

Tommy stood up and went in front of him. He punched his hand out but it was like punching air. It we right through the Coach. He didn't feel anything.

"What? No!" He continued to try and block the Coach from reaching Kimberly but he was just a Ghost and he couldn't stop it.

Tommy was forced to watch as Kimberly fought her Coach and lost.

Kimberly did her best to fight him, but it wasn't enough, and he ended up injecting her again. It took effect almost instantly. Kimberly dropped to the floor panting.

"Now, for your second dose." Her Coach took another bucket filled with ice water and threw it at her.

Kimberly whimpered as the freezing water bit her skin, mixing with the freezing cold air of the room. It was actually painful. "Please stop!"

"See you tomorrow."

Her Coach left, and Kim laid there panting. Thanks to the injection she was too weak to move. Now she was laying on the cold hard floor as the water on her body dripped off onto the floor.

Tommy growled slightly. "We're going to get you out of here, Beautiful. I promise."

He gave her a kiss on the head, and helped her sit up in his arms. He whispered soothing words in her ear as he gently rocked her side to side. There was no way to stop the effects of the injections but he could help keep her comfortable and feeling safe until they wore off. He also made sure to bring her back into the sauna again to warm her up.


When the next night finally arrived, and her sentence came to a close, Kimberly found she had managed to survive the 24 hours in the freezing cold room. She wasn't sure exactly how, but she knew she did it. She had a feeling it had been with Tommy's help, but she wasn't sure. She could remember Tommy being there but it felt more like a dream than reality.

"I'm impressed." King Mondo said as he walked into the room. "I didn't think you'd make it."

Kimberly didn't respond. A few hours a go hypothermia had set in, and she was very confused and had no idea what was going on, or even where she was anymore.

"How do you feel?" Her Coach asked.

"Who are you? Where am I? Where is Tommy?" she asked.

"Yes!" King Mondo cheered. "It worked. Let's take you back to your friend."

"My friend?" Kimberly asked.

"Yes."

Kimberly nodded and slowly stood up. King Mondo grabbed her arm and dragged her out of her room.


Kim was thrown roughly back into the cell where Kat was and then left alone.

"Kim! You're ok! I'm so happy to see you're ok. When they didn't bring you back, I got so worried." Kat said. She ran over to give Kim a hug.

Kimberly pulled away. "No! Stop! Don't touch me!"

"Kim..I…"

"NO! You're evil! You're just going to hurt me! Stay away from me." Kimberly cried.

"I'm not. They took the spell off me. I promise." Kat said.

"No. I don't believe you! Just leave me alone!" Kim cried.

"Kim I…"

"Just stop, please just stop." Kimberly started to cry. All she wanted was Tommy, and she had no idea where he was or even how to get to him."

Kat sighed softly and nodded. She was only upsetting Kim worse, and she didn't want to do that.


A few minutes later her Coach and King Mondo walked in.

"Leave her alone!" Kat said instantly.

"I'll take you out, easily." Kim's Coach said. "Don't get in our way."

"I will not let you hurt Kim," Kat said.

With one swipe of his metal hand, Kat was knocked out again.

King Mondo walked over to Kim. "Ready to play another game?"

"Game? Kimberly sniffed softly.

"Yes, a game. You'll get to see Tommy if you do."

"Yes, I want to play." Kimberly nodded.

"Good. Now here is what I want you to do. I'm going to show you some flashes of you and Tommy. I want you to tell me if it really happened or if it was pretend."

Kimberly nodded. King Mondo placed his hand on Kimberly's head again.


Kimberly was suddenly back in her old High School. She saw her younger self-walk over to Tommy at his locker. She smiled at the memory.

Suddenly she heard Tommy yell "News flash Kimberly, it's not always about you!"

"Excuse me for living!" she heard herself say back.

Kimberly gasped. She remembered this. This was when he was the evil green ranger.


Suddenly she was pulled out of the memory and back in the cell.

"Now, Little Crane, tell me. Was that real or fake?" King Mondo asked.

"Real, but it wasn't really Tommy. He was under a spell." She felt a burning pain in her arm, and she cried out. She looked over to see her Coach standing there was a piece of hot coal again.

"Tommy wasn't under a spell. He doesn't love you. He hates you and thinks you're selfish." King Mondo said.

Kimberly actually laughed. "Oh please, you're going to have to try a lot harder than that. I know you're lying. Tommy and I love each other. Our love is so strong we are able to do things that most couples can't. You'll never be able to break that."

"We aren't going to stop trying. Let's try another memory…" King Mondo touched her head again.


After about hour of trying King Mondo growled. No matter how many times he tried, no matter how many memories he showed her of him being evil her faith in Tommy remained strong. If the memories were doing anything, it was making her stronger.

He had to find a way to break her. If he could break her, she'd be less willing to put up a fight when it was time for his final plan. But how?

He heard Kimberly whimper and turned around to look at her. Her Coach, his Minon was stalking toward her. King Mondo smirked. "Bingo."

Kimberly looked at him and smirked. "Was his nameo."

"Shut up!" King Mondo growled. "You know what, Crane, you're right. I can't break your connection with Tommy. However, I know someone who can. I'll just let you two talk."

King Mondo left the cell leaving Kim alone inside with her Coach.

Kimberly gasped and looked to her Coach.

"Alone at last." her Coach said. "Now we can finally finish what we started the day you left me."

"No!" Kimberly screamed.

"But first…" Her Coach grabbed her and dragged her out of her cell and threw her back inside the freezing cold room. "You're going to spend a little more time in here. I like my woman cold, you're too warm."

He slammed the door leaving Kim alone.

Kimberly stood up and looked around. They had thought they could break by showing her memories of when Tommy was the evil green ranger. But they were wrong. All that did was give her back her strength. Tommy had fought so hard to break free of the spell, and even harder afterward to make up for what he had done. It inspired her and gave her strength.

Now that she was back and ready to fight she had to find a way out of here. There had to be a window or trap door or something, anything that could be used to free her.

She jumped when the door opened. Her Coach walked back inside. "I almost forgot…" He threw another bucket of ice water on her and then held up an injection.

"No," Kimberly growled. "It's too soon!"

"Not really, this will help." Her Coach said.

"I'm not scared of you!" She said, but inside she was terrified. "I will not let you inject me again."

"We've been down this road before, and you always end up being injected. Can't you just hold still and be a good little girl and let me give you this shot?" Her Coach sighed.

"No. Never. I will always fight you, I will never willingly let you inject me." Kimberly growled.

"Bring it on!"

Kimberly was freezing, the water was sticking to her skin, and her wet hair was turning to ice. But she wasn't going down without a fight.


Tommy was back at work in the Command Center hard at work when he all of a sudden smiled.

"Tommy…you ok? You're a little too happy over there." Jason said.

"I'm fine. In fact so is Kim. She's kicking some serious butt." Tommy said proudly.

"How can you tell?" Adam asked.

"I can just feel it," Tommy answered. He turned back to the control panel. "That's my girl."


Kimberly's strength didn't last long. His metal, robotic body, had once again brought her to her knees. From there he pinned her to the ground and injected her again.

"There, now I'll be back in a few minutes to continue our fun." Her Coach said. He left the room and Kimberly whimpered.

She wasn't sure what he meant by that, but she really didn't want to figure it out.


In the main room, King Mondo and Kim's Coach were talking.

"We need a new plan, my plan of getting the Crane to doubt her connection with the Falcon is not working. If she's not doubting him, she'll fight to stop us from using that Connection to turn them both evil!" King Mondo growled.

"What if it's not about breaking the connection, but breaking her." Kim's Coach suggested.

"What do you mean?"

"We can't break her connection with Tom…I mean the Falcon. But that doesn't mean we can't break her. If we break her and get her to give up and stop fighting us, we might still be able to turn them both evil using their connection."

"You make a good point, faithful Servant. Please tell me how do you plan on breaking her?"

"Same way we did before. We almost had her, she was questioning everything and everyone. She was weak and tired. She was close. Then she saw the memories of her Falcon, and it gave her back her strength."

"So we just continue to mess with her mind, trick her into believing things happened when they didn't?"

"Exactly. I've also learned that when a human's body temperature gets below a certain level, they go into what is called hypothermia. That causes memory loss and confusion. So if we keep her freezing with the ice water and keep her in the freezing cold room, it will help make it easier to trick her."

"You are brilliant, you will be greatly rewarded for this." King Mondo said.

"I trust you will."

They both shared a smirk. "This time we're going to break the Crane for good."

That's exactly what they did. Every few hours Kim's Coach would go into the freezing room and splash more cold water on Kim and give her another injection. Then once she was weak King Mondo would come in and mess with her mind. He'd show her things that really happened just changing a few small details to make Kim question if they were real or not. Then they would drag her back into her cell and leave her alone.

They had no idea that while in the cell the confusion only continued by Kat trying to convince Kim that she was good again. But it was only making things worse.


It had been a few days and Tommy growing more and more angry by the minute. He could feel Kim slipping away, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. He had tried to get inside her head again, but the further she slipped away the harder it was getting.

Tommy was at the Youth Center sparring with Jason. He needed a release for his anger, and this was the only way he knew how without hurting someone.

Jason threw a punch in Tommy's direction and he just barely dodged it.

"Whoa, I just almost took your head off. You can normally block that easy, what's going on?" Jason asked.

Tommy sighed. "I feel what she feels," he whispered. "She's slipping away, she's getting weaker, and tired. I can feel it too."

Jason sighed. "What are they doing to her?"

"I have no idea. I used to be able to feel it, but the more she slips away, the less I feel."

"Is Alpha any closer to locating her?"

"No," Tommy answered. He looked down to the floor.

"Tommy…"

Tommy kept his head down and looked away.

Jason walked over to face Tommy. "Hey, Tommy…"

Tommy acted as if he didn't hear him.

"Look at me, Tommy," Jason said. "Now."

Tommy slowly looked up at Jason.

Jason was saddened, but not surprised when he saw tears in Tommy's eyes. His eyes were red and puffy, and Jason knew it was taking everything inside Tommy not to start crying hysterically. He also knew ever since Kim was taken Tommy had only ever shown his anger, he never showed his guilt, fear, sadness, or his pain.

Jason put on his best leader voice and grabbed Tommy by the shoulders. "We're going to find her. I know that for a fact."

"Yeah. You're right." Tommy choked out, his voice cracking. "We will find her. But that doesn't mean she's going to be the same Kimberly she used to be."

"Then we help her find her way back," Jason said. "We've done it before, we can do it again."

"This is different Jase, I can just feel it."

"What do you mean?"

Tommy inhaled and exhaled a deep, shaky breath. "I…" Tommy shook his head. "I can't. I just…I can't." With Tommy pulled away and rushed out of the Youth Center.

Jason went after him.


He found him in the park, he was back at the very top of the hill where they had last seen Kim. Jason knew he was there because it was empty and he could be alone.

"Tommy, Man, do you want to be alone?" Jason asked.

Tommy had his back to him and didn't respond.

"I can leave if you want, or I can stay. I just need you to tell me."

Slowly Tommy turned to face Jason. Jason wasn't surprised to see tears streaming down Tommy's cheeks and his cheeks wet with previous tears.

Not saying anything else Jason pulled Tommy into a hug and let him cry. Tommy went up there for a reason so nobody would see their 'fearless leader' crying. But Jason knew deep down Tommy needed to do this. He was just as scared, if not more than they were. They all knew they would find Kim. But it was the condition she would be when they did that scared them the most.


Kimberly was inside the cell. She sat on her bed curled up in ball. Her knees were pulled to her chest, and her face was buried in her knees. She had her hands up to cover her ears. Kat was once again trying to convince her that she was broken from the spell, and she was nice again, but Kim couldn't believe her. In fact, she couldn't believe anything or anyone anymore. She was so confused on what was real and what was fake. Her arm ached from all the injections. She was weak and tired and confused. All she wanted was to be with Tommy and have him hold her and promise her everything would be ok again.

Even though her ears were covered, she heard the cell door open.

"Time for another game, Crane." King Mondo said. "This time is going to be fun. All your memories will be about the fun times you've had with your Coach."

Kimberly squeezed her eyes shut. She couldn't take this anymore. Not knowing what else to do she let herself drift into a place where nobody else could reach her. She went so deep into her mind she wasn't going to be able to hear, see, or feel anything that was going on in the real world.


Back at the park, Tommy dropped to his knees. "NO! Kimberly!" He cried harder. "She's gone, Jase."

Jason sighed and bowed his head. It was official now, the Kimberly Hart they knew and love was gone. This time they were sure they'd never get her back.


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