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"What do you MEAN you can't find Kimberly?"
Kat screamed at her Corporation-assigned male staffer who was supposed to be in charge of locating Kim with the tracking system stole from Astronema's ship.
"IDIOTS!" Kat yelled as she walked away and down the corporate building's long hallway. "I'm surronded by complete and total MORONS!"
Another male staffer walked up to her.
"Well, uh, what should we do now?" he asked her meekly.
"Find Kimberly before Tommy gets to her, you moron!" Kat yelled. "And launch another attack on the city, to draw out the Rangers!"
"Well, with what?"
"I have a shitload of robots that you can send out!" Kat yelled. "Send one of them out to keep the Rangers busy while I conduct my search! They must not be allowed to find my Robotic Ranger before I do!"
"Yes, m'am."
Kat growled and walked back into the room where the large tracking computer was located. The male staffer walked into the robotics room and turned to a female staffer.
"Launch the FlameBot!" the female staffer yelled. "That will burn the Rangers to a crisp!"
"Evil cliches...." the male staffer muttered. "Why does everyone around here have to use evil cliches?"
"Shut up, you don't understand it because you're just a wishy-washy evil-doer!"
From the Green Astro Battleship, Tommy sat silently in one of the center seats
on the bridge of his ship, a cold expression on his face. He turned his head
to see the DECA camera- pretty much the same model used on the Astro Megaship-
then turned back to the monitors.
"DECA, bring up a view of my private chambers, please." Tommy said out-loud.
In a few moments, Tommy's monitors changed view from various points in Angel Grove to his private chambers- where Kimberly was now up and about, fully-dressed in a metallic-gray Astro Uniform Tommy had laid out for her (it was the only color he could find onboard the ship, besides his own green one). She was stretching against the chair next to her bed.
Preparing for battle. Tommy thought. I don't really know if I can do this....attack other Astro Rangers. It's just....it's not me.
Tommy sighed and lowered his head, as if he was ashamed of his own thoughts.
I do realize what is right, and what is wrong, but my love for Kimberly transcends right and wrong- and good and evil. Tommy thought. It is settled. I shall fight the Astro Rangers for my love- if I have to kill all five of them to get my Kimberly back, than I will. She shall not suffer because of me, and if I have to deal with the cruel hand this world has dealt me- well, I refuse! I shall defy fate, and I shall pass off this cruel hand onto the other Rangers if I must in order to defy it.
Suddenly, the alarm system of the Battleship went off, jarring Tommy out of his deep thoughts.
"DECA, what is it?" Tommy wondered.
"A fight has broke out in Angel Grove Park between the Rangers and Kat's FlameBot." DECA responded.
Kimberly emerged from Tommy's private chambers, the cold look of death evident on her face as she entered the bridge.
"I heard the alarm system going off." Kimberly said. "What's going on?"
"The Rangers are engaging one of Kat's robots in the park." Tommy answered.
"The perfect ambush opprutunity." Kimberly said, her cold expression twisting into a very un-Kim-like devilish grin. "So, Green Ran-.....Tommy, shall we engage them?"
"If it is what we must do for me to gain your trust, than this is the best opprtunity." said Tommy. "LET'S ROCKET!"
The Rangers jumped out of the way of a huge blast of super-hot fire, courtsey
of FlameBot.
"Rangers must be burned to death!" the FlameBot spat out in its robotic voice.
"I'm starting to long for Astronema's evil minions- at least they had personality." Ashley said.
"Come on, everyone, draw your weapons!" Andros yelled to them.
Everyone drew their weapons.
"Ashley, Cassie, fire!" Andros told them.
They nodded and jumped over the others, following the Satellite Stunner and Star Slinger at the same time, temporarily distracting FlameBot.
"T.J., Carlos, your turn!" Andros told them.
T.J. and Carlos jumped over him, and slashed FlameBot at the same time with their Astro Axe and Lunar Lance, slashing him at the same time.
"My turn!" Andros yelled out, as FlameBot slowly moved backward.
He charged foward, Spiral Saber drawn, and it glowed with powerful red energy. He slashed FlameBot across the chest and stomach, sending him down to the ground hard.
"Now to finish you off, FlameBot!" Andros yelled, raising his Spiral Saber in the air.
But suddenly, the Spiral Saber was shot out of his hand by an Astro Blaster shot.
Courtsey of the Robotic Ranger.
"You again!" T.J. said as he and the other rangers came to Andros' aide- not noticing that FlameBot teleported out behind them to recieve repairs.
"Who are you?" Carols sternly asked.
"In this state, they call me the Robotic Ranger, Black Ranger." Kimberly responded. "You don't have any reason to know my other name."
"Well, we can't let you cause any more harm to this planet, no matter who you are!" Andros yelled. "Come on, Rangers, let's destroy her!"
Kim lowered her head and laughed a cold, mocking laugh.
"I wouldn't be so cocky, Astro Rangers." Kimberly told them. "Even if I did come alone, I would be more than a challenge for all five of you- but I did not come alone. I have brought someone with me with power rivaling that of my own!"
"Who?" Andros asked her.
"I believe she would be referring to me."
The Rangers turned around to where FlameBot had been before teleporting away, and there they saw the Green Astro Ranger.
"Tommy?" T.J. asked in disbelief. "This can't be right. She's lying, right Tommy?"
T.J. walked towards him, but Tommy turned his head away.
"I wouldn't go any closer, T.J." Andros said, putting his hand on his comrade's shoulder. "I think this Tommy has become another traitor!"
"Not him!" T.J. said, jerking his shoulder away from Andros. "Not Tommy, no way man! It could never be true!"
Tommy turned his head back to them and laughed a cold, almost self-pitying laugh.
"But it is, T.J." Tommy responded. "I hate to disappoint you, but when fate has handed me such a cruel destiny, I have no other choice but to become what I hate the most."
"Quit all the philosphical talking!" Andros said. "I don't care why you've turned on us- if you're a traitor, you're going to lose your life just like Kat and her other Ranger!"
Again, Tommy laughed.
"I'm not Kat's Ranger." Tommy laughed. "I don't serve anyone, only my own emotion."
If he's not serving Kat, why is he teaming with the Robotic Ranger? T.J. wondered. There's something here we're missing.....
"Come on guys!" Andros yelled to them. "The four of you against the Robotic Ranger.....I want Tommy, the traitor, to myself!"
"Andros, don't do anything irrational." T.J. said. "There's something here we're missing."
Andros ignored T.J. as he ran towards Tommy, while T.J. shrugged and went with the others against Kimberly.
Meanwhile, Kat watched all of this unfold from the Darkhaven Corporation Building.
"This is just TOO good!" Kat laughed as she watched on one of her monitors. "That fool Tommy is actually HELPING Kimberly destroy the other Astro Rangers! Once they're done, I'll have Kim bring Tommy here so I can make him into my brainwashed slave too, and then nothing will stop us!"
"But what if Tommy got to her while they were away together?" a male staffer asked her.
"Well, you moron, if he got to her why are they working together to destroy the other Rangers?" she snapped.
"Well....ummm....good point." the male staffer responded meekly. "I guess you're right, boss, I shouldn't have questioned you."
"Damn right you shouldn't have!" Kat snapped again. "In any case, make sure our Robotic Enlargement System is completed in time for FlameBot's repairs. I want to see if that Astro Megazord is really all that powerful."
"FlameBot can burn it to a crisp!" a female staffer butted in, using the same cliche she used earlier.
"Because that worked SO well against the rangers." the male staffer muttered.
"WHAT WAS THAT?" Kat screamed out.
"Nothing." the male staffer responded.
"That's what I thought." Kat said matter-of-factly.
Carlos, T.J., Ashley, and Cassie tried desperatley to hang with Kimberly, but
her highly-advanced Robotic Ranger powers combined with her tons of experience
(memory was deleted, but not natural experience) as a Ranger was too much for
them to handle. As all four of them tried to surround her after she had beat
on them hand-to-hand for a while, she rasied her arms in the air, and powerful
black lightning bolts struck each Ranger, sending them down to the ground in
a smoking heap.
"Well, this was easier then I thought it would be." Kimberly said. "Prepare to meet your end, Rangers!"
Andros charged at Tommy, Sprial Saber drawn, and Tommy nonchalantly pulled out
his Green Astro Saber. The two engaged in a swordfight that Tommy seemed to
be easily winning, taking down Andros with his superior fighting skills, and
then placed the blade at Andros' throat.
"I wasn't expecting much, but you've given me even less, Red Ranger." Tommy told him. "Perhaps I should kill you right now. It's what Kimberly wants."
"Go ahead and kill me, you traitor!" Andros screamed at him. "I'm not going to beg for mercy to a traitor!"
"I'm glad." Tommy responded. "That wouldn't be very fitting of a Red Ranger."
Tommy removed the sword from Andros' throat and turned away from him.
"Go and help your Rangers." Tommy told him.
"I don't understand."
"I'm not evil, and I can't kill another Red Ranger." Tommy said. "Go and help your Rangers, or else Kim will kill them."
Kim? Andros wondered. That must be the Robotic Ranger.
"Uh, right." Andros said, and he ran over to where Kimberly was standing in the center of the knocked-out Rangers.
"Another one for me to defeat?" Kim said cockily.
But then, she suddenly wondered what happened between him and Tommy.
If I defeated those four easily, Tommy should have killed this one, there's no way he was beaten by him. Kimberly thought.
She looked over, and saw Tommy with his back turned away from them.
"TOMMY!" she screamed to him, her natural voice returning.
Tommy turned around to face her.
"I thought you said you loved me, Tommy?"
Tommy walked over to her, removing his own helmet as he did, and took off her helmet.
"Her?" Cassie wondered.
She had seen pictures- that was definitley Kimberly, the original Pink Ranger.
The other former-Turbo Rangers recognized the face as well.
"The original Pink Ranger is the Robotic Ranger?" T.J. said. "But how, and why?"
"She must have been brainwashed by Kat." Carlos said.
"And Tommy was trying to get her memory back by agreeing to help her fight us!" Ashley exclaimed. "It's so romantic."
The other Rangers started at her.
"Well, at least it would be if it wasn't all evil and everything."
Tommy pulled Kimberly in and kissed her, holding the embrace for a while.
"Ugh! I think I'm going to be sick!"
Tommy and Kim finally broke the embrace as they- and the other five Rangers- looked over to see Kat standing there, with a repaired FlameBot next to her.
"Emperess Kat." Kimberly said.
"Don't Emperess Kat me!" Kat said angrily. "I find you here kissing the enemy? Bah!"
"But....my Emperess.....Tommy loves me, and I love him!"
"And that's the problem!" Kat said. "You can't love him and serve me at the same time!"
"I can't?"
"NO!"
"C'mon, Kim, let's get you out of here." Tommy said.
Kimberly nodded as Tommy grabbed hold of her hand.
"Hey, wait a second Tommy, we might need your help defeating FlameBot and Kat!" T.J. called after them as they walked off into the distance.
"Do it yourself."
The two disappered in a flash of green and black in the distance.
"Funny how he has a habit of abandoing people, isn't it?" Kat asked them with an almost sad grin.
But she soon snapped out of that, and pulled out a small black orb.
"I think it's about time to see what that Megazord of yours can do." she said with an evil laugh, and let go of the orb.
It went into FlameBot's back, somehow pushing its way into metal, and FlameBot instantly grew as Kat teleported out.
"NOW I'LL BURN DOWN THIS WHOLE CITY!!!" FlameBot said with evil glee.
"We need Astro Megazord power!"
Meanwhile, as this fight began, Tommy and Kimberly appeared, helmets back on,
inside Kat's research lab in the Darkhaven Corporation Building.
"Are you sure this is where Kat's kept you?" Tommy asked her, and Kimberly nodded.
"What are we going to do, Tommy?" Kim asked him.
"We're here to get your memories back."
Meanwhile, the Astro Megaship transformed into the Astro Megazord, which drew
its blaster, ready to engage FlameBot.
"Let's hope this old thing can make it through the battle!" Andros told them.
It blasted FlameBot a few times, but FlameBot got out of the way of the last few and sent a spray of fire at the Astro Megazord, sending it to the ground in a heap.
"We need a plan!" T.J. yelled to the others.
"Let's try bringing out the shield and using it to deflect the fire!" Ashley suggested.
"Great idea!" Andros replied.
As the Astro Megaship got back up, it pulled out its shield just as FlameBot sprayed the MegaZord with fire again. And indeed, the shield reflected the fire back at him, knocking him to the ground.
"Let's finish this!" Andros yelled out, and pulled out the Megazord's saber.
It glowed with awesome power before slicing into FlameBot, then the MegaZord turned and posed as FlameBot exploded into firey ashes.
"Yeah, we did it!" Carlos yelled out.
But, I wonder what happened to Tommy and Kimberly.... Cassie thought to herself.
Tommy hooked Kim up to the two wires Kat would use to put Kimberly into a state
of stasis, in place of normal sleep.
"Hold on a second, Kim." Tommy told her as he typed away on a nearby computer. "I think I've got it."
After a few moments, electricity began running through the two wires and into Kimberly's helmet. Kimberly screamed out in pure agony and pain.
"KIMBERLY!" Tommy yelled out, but it was too late to stop the process.
After five agonizing minutes, the wires came out and Kimberly collapsed onto the floor, demorphing. Tommy kneeled down beside her, helping her sit up.
"Kimberly, do you remember?" Tommy asked her.
"I do." Kimberly said, sobbing into his shoulder. "I do, Tommy, and God help me, I've killed! I killed....innocent people....Oh God I can see their faces! It's too much!"
Kimberly buried her head into Tommy's shoulder further as she continued to cry, and the two teleported out.
To Be Continued....
