Power Rangers Cyber #17 the search for the chosen one chapter 3: nightmare child.
The explorer ship is entering a new system continuing its search for any more clues to the chosen one.
Zhane is sitting and looking at the hard copy of the picture that he received.
"Who are you and why do you seem so familiar?" Zhane asks.
The communication panel beeps in his room. Zhane goes over and pushes a button.
"This is Zhane." Zhane says.
"Please help me." A small voice comes over the speaker.
"Who is this?" Zhane asks.
"I need help. Come rescue me before it's too late." The small voice says.
A click signifies the end of the communication. Zhane pushes a button again.
"This is Zhane calling Rio. I need to talk to you immediately." Zhane says.
"This is Rio." Rio responds.
"I just received a strange call coming over the ship to ship communication panel. But it didn't sound like it
was coming from within the ship." Zhane says.
"But that's impossible. These things cannot pick up signals from outside the ship. Well what was the
message?" Rio asks.
"It sounded like a small child asking for help. It asked me to come get it before it's too late." Zhane
responds.
"Hum. Let me have my communication officer scan for any strange signals. So it happened about a
minute ago right?" Rio asks.
"Yeah. And it only lasted about a half a minute." Zhane answers.
"Okay. It may take a few minutes." Rio says.
"Okay Zhane out." Zhane says then sits back down pondering what he heard.
Zhane nearly jumps out of his skin when a vision of a boy appears in front of him.
"Please help me. I beg you." The boy says then disappears.
And now for episode 17…
Zhane quickly runs out of his room and heads towards the bridge. Rio seems surprised to see Zhane.
"Hey. We were just about finished with the scanning. What brings you here?" Rio asks.
"I just saw a apparition of what I think is the same boy that contacted me in my room." Zhane says shakily.
The scanning officer does a quick scan.
"I am not detecting any strange energy signatures in your room. Even if he isn't there anymore, he would
leave a signature at least." The officer says.
"I've found a strange communication source. It is fading fast but I believe that I can find its source." The
communication officer says.
"Do it." Rio says.
But before he says the order the officer has already started it. After a few minutes the officer shakes his
head.
"I got the general location but not the specific point. I think it maybe enough to find something." The
COM officer says.
"Send the coordinates to the NAV officer and get us there as quickly as possible." Rio says.
The COM officer nods his head. Soon the NAV officer comes to life and pushes some buttons on the
console. Outside the ship goes into motion and heads into the next system. When they arrive the ship
comes to a stop.
"The signal is sort of stronger here. I may be able to find out the exact location now." The COM officer
says.
After a few minutes the COM officer stops.
"Okay I found it. It seems to be coming from the planet that's the fourth from the sun." The COM officer
says.
"Head for that planet." Rio says.
The ship comes to life again and heads for the planet. When it reaches there it goes into orbit.
"Scan for any life forms." Rio says.
The scanning officer does some scans.
"That's strange. I am only picking up one life form. He's in a building. That may contain the technology
to communicate with us." The scanning officer says.
"Try to hail him." Rio says.
The COM officer messes with his console. Suddenly the screen comes to life with the face of the boy that
contacted Zhane.
"Thank god you are here. I need help to get off this planet." The boy says.
"We show that you are the only life form on this planet. What happened to the others?" Rio asks.
"It was terrible. We were all slaughtered by the planet's terrifying creature. We just landed here to explore
it and days later everybody but I died." The boy responds.
"Let us discuss this and we will get back to you." Rio says.
"Please hurry before it gets me." The boy says.
The screen goes blank and Rio turns towards Zhane.
"This looks suspicious. Why was he the only one that survived?" Rio asked.
"He did contact me in way that must have been telepathic. Perhaps he was the only one with these powers
and these powers helped him survive." Zhane responds.
"The question is should we trust him and bring him on board?" Rio asks.
"I think so. He seems like an innocent child." Zhane responds.
"Sight can be very deceptive." Rio says.
"I say we take the chance but be very cautious." Zhane says.
"Okay. Put him back on the screen." Rio says.
The boy comes back on the screen.
"Have you decided to save me?" The boy asks.
"Yes. We are gonna beam you up. It's just a simple matter of transferring matter between two points.
Please don't be afraid." Rio says.
The boy nods.
"This is Rio to the transporter room. One to transport at these coordinates." Rio says entering in
coordinates.
On screen the boy disappears. Seconds later the officer in the transporter room verifies his arrival safely.
"Zhane, take two security officers to meet the boy and escort him to guest quarters. Be careful.
Something seems strange about this kid." Rio says.
Zhane and two officers exit and head into the transporter room. When they enter the room Zhane walks up
to the boy while the two officers take positions near the door.
"Why are they armed?" The boy asks.
"Just protocol for safety. Nothing against you." Zhane says.
"I'm tired." The boy says.
"Follow us and we will take you to some quarters." Zhane says.
The boy follows Zhane and the two officers to the area with a guest quarters and enters the room.
"If you need anything than use the intercom near the door. But please don't use it until it's really
important." Zhane says.
"I'm hungry. Mom used to give me a snack before I'd go to sleep." The boy says.
"There's a food replicator over there. On using that also please do not use it too much." Zhane says.
The boy sits down on the bed.
"Please leave me now." The boy says.
Zhane and the others leave the room. The boy takes out a picture of a woman that probably is his mom.
"Why did you leave me. I need a mother and you left me." The boy says.
He crushes the picture until it breaks. Back on the bridge Zhane enters.
"I am not gonna be able to rest unless we send a team down to the planet to check on the boys story." Rio
says.
"But what if his story is true. Then that monster will kill us all." An officer says.
"Zhane will join you with his ranger powers and you can bring our most sophisticated scanning device.
Perhaps they didn't have the proper technology to see it." Rio says.
"Okay I will do it." Zhane says.
Zhane and three other officers head to the transporter room and transport down to the planet. Immediately
Zhane takes out his scanning device.
"I am not picking up any energy sources that appear to be from a life-form. But I am picking up a lot of a
strange kind of energy reading." Zhane says frowning.
"There's a building over there. I think maybe we should go check it out and see if we can find any answers
to this mystery." An officer says.
Zhane agrees and they all enter the building. They begin a search for anything like journals or data storage
devices. Nothing is found until one officer bumps into a pile of clothes and knocks it over. That exposes a
device. Zhane picks it up and scans it.
"I think this is what we are looking for." Zhane says.
Zhane opens it up and pushes a button on the front. The screen comes to life. On the screen a woman is
cleaning up house. A young boy comes in. Zhane does a double take when he realizes that the boy is the
same one that is on their ship.
"I want to go play." The boy says.
"I told you that you are grounded. You must learn to control your anger. You destroyed that person's
house." The mother says.
Zhane dreads what he thinks is gonna happen next.
"I said I want to play mother." The boy says.
Suddenly things start flying around the room.
"Stop it! Please." The mother pleads.
"No! I want to play." The boy yells.
The mother gets flung against the wall and gets buried by an avalanche of heavy utensils. The boy turns his
attention to the recording device and the screen turns white then goes black.
"It appears that the monster that destroyed this colony is on our ship." Zhane says.
Meanwhile on the ship the boy calls on the intercom.
"I need help." The boy says.
An officer comes in the room in response.
"I am bored. I want to play." The boy says.
"Well there really isn't anything you can play with on this ship." The officer says.
"I said I want to play." The boy yells.
The boy stares at the officer and suddenly the officer starts bleeding from the nose.
"Uh this is Mark, I need help in the boys quarters." The officer struggles to say.
"You're no fun." The boy says.
The officer gets flung against the wall and slumps down on the floor. The boy walks towards the door and
touches the keypad, shorting it out. The door opens and the boy steps out into the hallway. A couple of
more officers come running and point their weapons at the boy. The boy looks at them and their weapons
explode in their hands. In the transporter room Zhane and the officers get beamed up. Zhane rushes out of
the room and finds the boy standing over a couple of officers that are laying on the floor with burned hands.
"Now please calm down. There is no need for this violence. I know what you did to your colony." Zhane
says softly.
"My mom left me. When I needed her." The boy says angrily.
"You killed her. I saw a replay of it caught on a recording device." Zhane says.
"No! She left me." The boy screams.
The ship begins to shake violently.
"Zhane what's going on down there?" Rio asks over the communicator.
"The boy is out of control. He appears to be in denial over what really happened to his mother. I really
think that he truly believes that a monster destroyed his colony. But not that he is that monster." Zhane
responds.
The boy is lying on the floor in a fetal position as the tremors get more and more violent as if the whole
ship is tearing itself apart.
"My mom left me. A monster killed her." The boy says.
"It's okay. We want to help you deal with what happened. I believe that it wasn't your help. They didn't
know about your powers so they couldn't help you until it was too late." Zhane says softly kneeling next to
the boy.
"Zhane whatever you are trying to do, you'd better do fast. The ship can't take much more of this." Rio
yells.
"I killed my mom?" The boy asks weakly.
"Yes but you didn't mean to." Zhane responds.
The tremors slowly die down until there are none.
"That's it. I want to help you." Zhane says softly.
"No! You can't help me. I need to be punished." The boy says loudly.
Zhane gets flung against the wall and stays still as the boy walks towards the transporter room.
"No!" Zhane yells and runs after him.
He is flung back by a force field around the door leading to the transporter room. He is forced to watch as
the boy sets some things on the console and gets on the pad. Shortly he disappears. The force field
disappears and Zhane rushes into the room and finds out where the boy transported.
"This is Zhane. The boy has transported himself down to the planet." Zhane says into his communicator.
"Do you think I should send someone down after him?" Rio asks.
"I don't think so. I think there is nobody that can help him deal but himself." Zhane responds.
"Then return to the bridge. Maybe we can monitor what he is doing on the planet." Rio says.
Zhane returns to the bridge and sits down.
"Sir we are getting a communication from the planet. It's the boy." The communication officer says.
"Put it on screen." Rio says.
"Leave me now. I need to deal with this myself. Thank you for helping me do this." The boy says.
"Let us help you come to terms with your powers. You seem to have incredible powers that can be great if
used for good." Rio says.
"No!" The boy yells.
The screen goes on the fritz and the ship rocks violently. After a few moments the ship comes to a
standstill.
"What happened?" Rio asks.
"We are no longer anywhere near the planet. It appears that he sent the ship away from the planet." The
navigation officer responds.
Rio shakes his head.
"Should we go back?" The navigation officer asks.
"No. We cannot help him if he doesn't want help." Rio responds.
"Sir the boy left something in the transporter room." The transporter officer says over the communication
system.
"Is it a weapon?" Rio asks.
"I don't think so. We scanned it thoroughly although it has it's own strange power reading." The officer
responds.
"Zhane why don't you go and check it out." Rio says.
Zhane leaves and goes into the transporter room. The officer hands him over an object that looks like a
key.
"What do you think it is?" The officer asks.
"I don't know. But I think it has something to do with the chosen one." Zhane says.
Later Zhane is resting in his quarters. He is startled when the boy appears once more in front of him.
"Thank you for your help. You helped me come to terms with what really happened." The boy says.
"I wish I could do more." Zhane says.
"There is nobody that can help me but myself. Goodbye." The boy says than disappears.
"Goodbye and good-luck." Zhane says to empty air.
The end…
In ten weeks the final 2 chapters of the search for the chosen one saga.
Zhane and the explorers meet a couple of beings that claim to know where the chosen one is but can they
be trusted?
Next week the rangers face their greatest threat ever, amnesia.
The explorer ship is entering a new system continuing its search for any more clues to the chosen one.
Zhane is sitting and looking at the hard copy of the picture that he received.
"Who are you and why do you seem so familiar?" Zhane asks.
The communication panel beeps in his room. Zhane goes over and pushes a button.
"This is Zhane." Zhane says.
"Please help me." A small voice comes over the speaker.
"Who is this?" Zhane asks.
"I need help. Come rescue me before it's too late." The small voice says.
A click signifies the end of the communication. Zhane pushes a button again.
"This is Zhane calling Rio. I need to talk to you immediately." Zhane says.
"This is Rio." Rio responds.
"I just received a strange call coming over the ship to ship communication panel. But it didn't sound like it
was coming from within the ship." Zhane says.
"But that's impossible. These things cannot pick up signals from outside the ship. Well what was the
message?" Rio asks.
"It sounded like a small child asking for help. It asked me to come get it before it's too late." Zhane
responds.
"Hum. Let me have my communication officer scan for any strange signals. So it happened about a
minute ago right?" Rio asks.
"Yeah. And it only lasted about a half a minute." Zhane answers.
"Okay. It may take a few minutes." Rio says.
"Okay Zhane out." Zhane says then sits back down pondering what he heard.
Zhane nearly jumps out of his skin when a vision of a boy appears in front of him.
"Please help me. I beg you." The boy says then disappears.
And now for episode 17…
Zhane quickly runs out of his room and heads towards the bridge. Rio seems surprised to see Zhane.
"Hey. We were just about finished with the scanning. What brings you here?" Rio asks.
"I just saw a apparition of what I think is the same boy that contacted me in my room." Zhane says shakily.
The scanning officer does a quick scan.
"I am not detecting any strange energy signatures in your room. Even if he isn't there anymore, he would
leave a signature at least." The officer says.
"I've found a strange communication source. It is fading fast but I believe that I can find its source." The
communication officer says.
"Do it." Rio says.
But before he says the order the officer has already started it. After a few minutes the officer shakes his
head.
"I got the general location but not the specific point. I think it maybe enough to find something." The
COM officer says.
"Send the coordinates to the NAV officer and get us there as quickly as possible." Rio says.
The COM officer nods his head. Soon the NAV officer comes to life and pushes some buttons on the
console. Outside the ship goes into motion and heads into the next system. When they arrive the ship
comes to a stop.
"The signal is sort of stronger here. I may be able to find out the exact location now." The COM officer
says.
After a few minutes the COM officer stops.
"Okay I found it. It seems to be coming from the planet that's the fourth from the sun." The COM officer
says.
"Head for that planet." Rio says.
The ship comes to life again and heads for the planet. When it reaches there it goes into orbit.
"Scan for any life forms." Rio says.
The scanning officer does some scans.
"That's strange. I am only picking up one life form. He's in a building. That may contain the technology
to communicate with us." The scanning officer says.
"Try to hail him." Rio says.
The COM officer messes with his console. Suddenly the screen comes to life with the face of the boy that
contacted Zhane.
"Thank god you are here. I need help to get off this planet." The boy says.
"We show that you are the only life form on this planet. What happened to the others?" Rio asks.
"It was terrible. We were all slaughtered by the planet's terrifying creature. We just landed here to explore
it and days later everybody but I died." The boy responds.
"Let us discuss this and we will get back to you." Rio says.
"Please hurry before it gets me." The boy says.
The screen goes blank and Rio turns towards Zhane.
"This looks suspicious. Why was he the only one that survived?" Rio asked.
"He did contact me in way that must have been telepathic. Perhaps he was the only one with these powers
and these powers helped him survive." Zhane responds.
"The question is should we trust him and bring him on board?" Rio asks.
"I think so. He seems like an innocent child." Zhane responds.
"Sight can be very deceptive." Rio says.
"I say we take the chance but be very cautious." Zhane says.
"Okay. Put him back on the screen." Rio says.
The boy comes back on the screen.
"Have you decided to save me?" The boy asks.
"Yes. We are gonna beam you up. It's just a simple matter of transferring matter between two points.
Please don't be afraid." Rio says.
The boy nods.
"This is Rio to the transporter room. One to transport at these coordinates." Rio says entering in
coordinates.
On screen the boy disappears. Seconds later the officer in the transporter room verifies his arrival safely.
"Zhane, take two security officers to meet the boy and escort him to guest quarters. Be careful.
Something seems strange about this kid." Rio says.
Zhane and two officers exit and head into the transporter room. When they enter the room Zhane walks up
to the boy while the two officers take positions near the door.
"Why are they armed?" The boy asks.
"Just protocol for safety. Nothing against you." Zhane says.
"I'm tired." The boy says.
"Follow us and we will take you to some quarters." Zhane says.
The boy follows Zhane and the two officers to the area with a guest quarters and enters the room.
"If you need anything than use the intercom near the door. But please don't use it until it's really
important." Zhane says.
"I'm hungry. Mom used to give me a snack before I'd go to sleep." The boy says.
"There's a food replicator over there. On using that also please do not use it too much." Zhane says.
The boy sits down on the bed.
"Please leave me now." The boy says.
Zhane and the others leave the room. The boy takes out a picture of a woman that probably is his mom.
"Why did you leave me. I need a mother and you left me." The boy says.
He crushes the picture until it breaks. Back on the bridge Zhane enters.
"I am not gonna be able to rest unless we send a team down to the planet to check on the boys story." Rio
says.
"But what if his story is true. Then that monster will kill us all." An officer says.
"Zhane will join you with his ranger powers and you can bring our most sophisticated scanning device.
Perhaps they didn't have the proper technology to see it." Rio says.
"Okay I will do it." Zhane says.
Zhane and three other officers head to the transporter room and transport down to the planet. Immediately
Zhane takes out his scanning device.
"I am not picking up any energy sources that appear to be from a life-form. But I am picking up a lot of a
strange kind of energy reading." Zhane says frowning.
"There's a building over there. I think maybe we should go check it out and see if we can find any answers
to this mystery." An officer says.
Zhane agrees and they all enter the building. They begin a search for anything like journals or data storage
devices. Nothing is found until one officer bumps into a pile of clothes and knocks it over. That exposes a
device. Zhane picks it up and scans it.
"I think this is what we are looking for." Zhane says.
Zhane opens it up and pushes a button on the front. The screen comes to life. On the screen a woman is
cleaning up house. A young boy comes in. Zhane does a double take when he realizes that the boy is the
same one that is on their ship.
"I want to go play." The boy says.
"I told you that you are grounded. You must learn to control your anger. You destroyed that person's
house." The mother says.
Zhane dreads what he thinks is gonna happen next.
"I said I want to play mother." The boy says.
Suddenly things start flying around the room.
"Stop it! Please." The mother pleads.
"No! I want to play." The boy yells.
The mother gets flung against the wall and gets buried by an avalanche of heavy utensils. The boy turns his
attention to the recording device and the screen turns white then goes black.
"It appears that the monster that destroyed this colony is on our ship." Zhane says.
Meanwhile on the ship the boy calls on the intercom.
"I need help." The boy says.
An officer comes in the room in response.
"I am bored. I want to play." The boy says.
"Well there really isn't anything you can play with on this ship." The officer says.
"I said I want to play." The boy yells.
The boy stares at the officer and suddenly the officer starts bleeding from the nose.
"Uh this is Mark, I need help in the boys quarters." The officer struggles to say.
"You're no fun." The boy says.
The officer gets flung against the wall and slumps down on the floor. The boy walks towards the door and
touches the keypad, shorting it out. The door opens and the boy steps out into the hallway. A couple of
more officers come running and point their weapons at the boy. The boy looks at them and their weapons
explode in their hands. In the transporter room Zhane and the officers get beamed up. Zhane rushes out of
the room and finds the boy standing over a couple of officers that are laying on the floor with burned hands.
"Now please calm down. There is no need for this violence. I know what you did to your colony." Zhane
says softly.
"My mom left me. When I needed her." The boy says angrily.
"You killed her. I saw a replay of it caught on a recording device." Zhane says.
"No! She left me." The boy screams.
The ship begins to shake violently.
"Zhane what's going on down there?" Rio asks over the communicator.
"The boy is out of control. He appears to be in denial over what really happened to his mother. I really
think that he truly believes that a monster destroyed his colony. But not that he is that monster." Zhane
responds.
The boy is lying on the floor in a fetal position as the tremors get more and more violent as if the whole
ship is tearing itself apart.
"My mom left me. A monster killed her." The boy says.
"It's okay. We want to help you deal with what happened. I believe that it wasn't your help. They didn't
know about your powers so they couldn't help you until it was too late." Zhane says softly kneeling next to
the boy.
"Zhane whatever you are trying to do, you'd better do fast. The ship can't take much more of this." Rio
yells.
"I killed my mom?" The boy asks weakly.
"Yes but you didn't mean to." Zhane responds.
The tremors slowly die down until there are none.
"That's it. I want to help you." Zhane says softly.
"No! You can't help me. I need to be punished." The boy says loudly.
Zhane gets flung against the wall and stays still as the boy walks towards the transporter room.
"No!" Zhane yells and runs after him.
He is flung back by a force field around the door leading to the transporter room. He is forced to watch as
the boy sets some things on the console and gets on the pad. Shortly he disappears. The force field
disappears and Zhane rushes into the room and finds out where the boy transported.
"This is Zhane. The boy has transported himself down to the planet." Zhane says into his communicator.
"Do you think I should send someone down after him?" Rio asks.
"I don't think so. I think there is nobody that can help him deal but himself." Zhane responds.
"Then return to the bridge. Maybe we can monitor what he is doing on the planet." Rio says.
Zhane returns to the bridge and sits down.
"Sir we are getting a communication from the planet. It's the boy." The communication officer says.
"Put it on screen." Rio says.
"Leave me now. I need to deal with this myself. Thank you for helping me do this." The boy says.
"Let us help you come to terms with your powers. You seem to have incredible powers that can be great if
used for good." Rio says.
"No!" The boy yells.
The screen goes on the fritz and the ship rocks violently. After a few moments the ship comes to a
standstill.
"What happened?" Rio asks.
"We are no longer anywhere near the planet. It appears that he sent the ship away from the planet." The
navigation officer responds.
Rio shakes his head.
"Should we go back?" The navigation officer asks.
"No. We cannot help him if he doesn't want help." Rio responds.
"Sir the boy left something in the transporter room." The transporter officer says over the communication
system.
"Is it a weapon?" Rio asks.
"I don't think so. We scanned it thoroughly although it has it's own strange power reading." The officer
responds.
"Zhane why don't you go and check it out." Rio says.
Zhane leaves and goes into the transporter room. The officer hands him over an object that looks like a
key.
"What do you think it is?" The officer asks.
"I don't know. But I think it has something to do with the chosen one." Zhane says.
Later Zhane is resting in his quarters. He is startled when the boy appears once more in front of him.
"Thank you for your help. You helped me come to terms with what really happened." The boy says.
"I wish I could do more." Zhane says.
"There is nobody that can help me but myself. Goodbye." The boy says than disappears.
"Goodbye and good-luck." Zhane says to empty air.
The end…
In ten weeks the final 2 chapters of the search for the chosen one saga.
Zhane and the explorers meet a couple of beings that claim to know where the chosen one is but can they
be trusted?
Next week the rangers face their greatest threat ever, amnesia.