Power Rangers Thunder Force #12: the savant.

"Karone?" Carlos asks surprised.

"Yeah it's me. You like?" Karone responds pointing to her leather outfit.

"Uh no comment." Carlos responds.

"Oh you're so cute." Karone says.

"So you think you can take T.J.'s place on the team?" Zanek asks.

"I know I can." Karone says.

"I don't know about this. Just about a year ago she was evil. She was known as Astronema." Ashley says.

"Everybody deserves another chance." Zanek says.

"Hey where's Andros and Zhane?" Carlos asks.

Meanwhile Andros is on a vessel flying through space. His dream is still sharp in his mind. In his dream
he is floating through a black void. Suddenly a familiar face appears.

"Zordon?" Andros asks.

"Yes it is I." Zordon says.

"But you're dead. I destroyed your tube." Andros says.

"You only destroyed the link I had to this world and most of my power. I am now in a jam so to speak. I
am trapped between dimensions with not enough energy to cross over to the next dimension and my new
existence." Zordon says.

"What can I do to help?" Andros asks.

"There is a place somewhere in this galaxy where the point between your dimension and the one I am in
comes the closest. If you can find that place than we can interact and I can take enough energy from you to
break free." Zordon says.

"I will do anything for you." Andros says.

Zordon starts to disappear.

"Zordon wait. Thank you for everything." Andros rushes out just before Zordon disappears completely.

He wakes up suddenly in his bed. He notices that something is in his lap. He picks it up and it appears to
be some sort of a scanning device. When he turns it on it shows a certain part of space.

"Could this be telling me where that point is?" Andros wonders.


And now for episode 12…

"I am aching to take on my first victim. Do you have a plan on picking them this time?" Xtlc asks.

"Yes. I already have one with a strong immune system. I want to find someone with a powerful brain."
Astayanax responds.

"I will begin searching." Thunder says.

The scanning officer begins to search. Meanwhile on the planet a quiet boy is sitting still on a bench.
Janus comes and sits next to him.

"Hey Billy." Janus says.

"Hi." Billy says simply.

"Let's see if you are still in shape." Janus says.

She fires off hard math questions and he answers quickly.

"No matter how many times you do that, it still amazes me." Janus says.

They stand up and walk away. A boy sees them and walks over. He trips up Billy. Billy just sits on the
ground after he fell.

"Hey idiot. What's wrong? Can't get up?" The boy says mockingly.

"Hey leave him alone brain master." Janus says.

"What did you call me?" The boy asks angrily.

"Oh just get out of here before I call your parents. Aren't you supposed to be in school or something?"
Janus asks.

The boy takes off. Janus helps Billy up.

"Are you okay?" Janus asks.

"Yeah." Billy responds.

"Don't mind jerks like them. You're much more smarter than they are." Janus says smiling.

"Yeah." Billy says.

"Hey Janus." Carlos says smiling.

Janus spins around and sees Carlos walking towards her. She can barely suppress a school girlish smile.

"Hi Carlos. Meet Billy. I am helping him as a tutor. But he's teaching me some things. He's what they
call an idiot savant." Janus says.

"Cool. Yeah I've heard of them." Carlos says smiling.

Janus and Carlos look and smile at each other.

"I was wondering… Uh could you maybe?" Carlos starts to say.

"What are you asking?" Janus asks.

They are interrupted by the appearance of a couple of pods that become the virii.

"Oh oh. Janus take Billy get out of here." Carlos says.

"Normally I want to help you fight but I need to protect Billy." Janus says.

She helps Billy get up and they run away. When Carlos sees that Janus is gone, he takes out a sword.

"Force ranger, green." Carlos yells.

While he fights Xtlc separates Janus and Billy.

"Hey Billy." Xtlc says.

Billy doesn't say anything.

"Come on. I am here to help you. I can give you any wish you want." Xtlc says.

"Wish." Billy says.

"What is your wish? I hear you are a savant. But nobody likes you. You don't have any friends." Xtlc
says.

"Janus." Billy says.

"Nah. She's just there cause she is amazed with your ability. She's not your friend." Xtlc says.

"No. Janus friend." Billy says.

"No. Nobody is your friend. Truly." Xtlc says.

"Nobody." Billy says bowing his head.

"Yeah that's right. Now wouldn't you like to be able to make friends and get back at them all?" Xtlc asks.

"Get back." Billy responds looking back up.

"Yeah that's it. Just say I wish I could get back at them and it will all be done." Xtlc says grinning in
expectation of his first victim.

"Wish get back." Billy says.

"Hah hah. Your wish is my command." Xtlc says.

Xtlc snaps his fingers and then he disappears. Janus rushes in to find Billy.

"Billy. So there you are." Janus rushes.

"Janus not Billy's friend." Billy yells.

He shoves Janus back and takes off.

"Billy wait." Janus yells then takes off after him.

The spore appears and enters Billy's body. Billy begins to scream and change.

"The square root of 9 is 3." Billy says very fast.

He begins firing off more and more questions and answers faster and faster until his sentences are
impossible to understand. Janus catches up to him and gasps when she sees him. She backs away and
watches him. Ashley shows up running and sees the Billy monster. She looks around and doesn't see
Janus. She then morphs to Janus's shock.

"Ashley is a power ranger?" Janus says to herself.

"Guys. I have a monster in angel Grove Park. Don't know the victim though." Ashley says into a
communicator.

The other rangers appear already morphed. The monster turns towards them and fires off a math question
really fast.

"Uh what?" Carlos asks.

"Wrong!" Billy yells.

Billy shoots out a big fist of glob that strikes and encloses Carlos. Then it hardens and makes it impossible
for him to move. Billy turns towards T.J. and does the same thing.

"Say what?" T.J. asks.

"(Makes a buzzer sound). Oh I'm sorry but that is incorrect. Tell him what he walks away with Johnny."
Billy says like a game show host.

Billy's face changes.

"He gets a big glob of hardened goo around him." Billy says in an announcer voice.

Another fist of glob strikes and encircles T.J. After that one by one the fists of globs entrap the rangers.
Janus stands back wondering what she can do. Suddenly something comes over her and she screams. Her
whole body begins to glow with energy and her skin change color. After the transformation concludes, she
is the gray warrior.

"Okay. That's enough. Just cause they don't know the answer, shouldn't mean that they should be
punished." Grey says.

Billy fires off a question and Janus answers it.

"What? You weren't supposed to be able to answer it." Billy says frowning.

Billy's face becomes dark.

"I don't like people that don't play the game right." Billy says angrily.

Billy fires a constant stream of goo that Grey easily kicks and punches away long before it reaches her.
Billy throws her off guard by making part of the goo very hard. That knocks her down and the goo covers
her up to her head.

"Hah. You all lose." Billy yells.

Meanwhile nearby Xtlc is watching with glee.

"I know you still have some humanity in you. You have fight this." Carlos says.

"(Makes buzzer sound again). Oh I'm so sorry but you have to say your answers in the form of a
question." Billy says in the game show host voice again.

Billy's face changes again.

"Oh that had to hurt. And the power rangers lose and I win." Billy says in his own voice.

Meanwhile Zanek is struggling to free himself and he's succeeding with his alien strength. Every time
Billy looks his way, he stops. He activates the scanner.

"Computer. Look for a anti viral cure." Zanek whispers.

After a few seconds the computer stops and quietly verifies that it's ready. Zanek finishes freeing himself
and pulls out the needle gun.

"Game over." Zanek says.

"Hey no fair. No cheating allowed." Billy says.

The needle punctures Billy's skin and he returns to normal. Later on Janus finds Billy in the park.

"I'm sorry you had to go through that. I am your friend. Don't let any imp or anything make you believe
otherwise." Janus says.

"Janus friend?" Billy asks.

Janus answers by hugging him.

"You have failed me!" Thunder yells.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know that the one guy was so strong." Xtlc says cowering.

"Excuses excuses. If you keep on failing me, then you will end up like the last guy." Thunder says meanly.

"Don't worry. I have just the plan to make sure that guy isn't there to help them next time." Xtlc says.

The end…

Next week Xtlc targets someone with tremendous telekinetic powers. It's a battle royal. Grey vs. Telezor.