The Corporation: Chapter 6

Author's Notes: Ugh, sorry about the long wait guys. My computer went kablooey about halfway through the original Chapter 6, leaving me with nothing. Now typing this on a new computer (Windows XP officially rocks, by the way), so hopefully we'll be devoid of further problems. Of course, if you REALLY want to motivate me to write more chapters faster, you can always REVIEW! And serious reviews that give me serious feedback, not "omg, u rule, go u". I already know that I rule, thank you very much. Anyway, enough ego-stroking, because Jeebus knows I do that enough already, and on with ze story!


" Dig, damnit!" Kat screamed as her BattleArmor-enhanced footsoldiers digged into the dirt outside.

Inside the cave, DrillBot alternated between using his huge, head-mounted drills and his smaller drills that replaced normal hands to dig into the solid rock. As of yet, he found nothing.

Certainly not the Mirai Crystal shard he serached for.

As they continued to search, suddenly the Green Astro Ranger and the Robotic Ranger teleported into the scene. Kat immeaditley tensed up.

"Should have figured the two of you would show up eventually." Kat growled. "Are you still playing the hero game? Because I can tell you, Kimberly is not a hero. Not anymore, at least. She's as bad as they get."

"We're not heroes." Tommy replied angrily. "We're here for revenge. Not to save the world."

"Once we have the Mirai Crystal, you'll see just how bad I can be." Kimberly spat.

Tommy pulled out his Green Astro Saber while Kimberly ran foward. They began cutting and slashing and punching and kicking into the BattleArmor-enchanced workers, taking them out one-by-one. Tommy used his sword, while Kimberly used her speed and enchanced strength, to put the BattleArmored men out of commission.

They stared down Kat, preparing to battle her, when suddenly the five other Astro Rangers leaped into battle, appearing on the other side of Kat.

"Go away." Tommy said quickly. "This isn't your fight."

"We're the protectors of the universe!" Andros said. "It will always be our fight!"

"Go protect somewhere else." Kimberly said. "We have a personal interest here."

"This is our sworn duty, not yours!" Cassie yelled back. "You gave it up!"

"I'd really love to stay and moderate this little debate.....actually, no I don't." Kat said.

She flew up into the air, as the Astro Rangers pulled out their blasters. Five laser shots went off, but all of them reflected off of the shield her headpiece projected, coming back and blasting them down to the ground.

Kat landed a few feet behind the five Astro Rangers, just as DrillBot emerged from the cave holding a glowing white crystal.

"The Miari Crystal shard!" Kat screamed.

"That is coming back with us." Tommy said.

"No way a pair of rogue Rangers are getting their hands on such great power." Andros said. "We're taking that shard!"

"Like hell you are!" Kimberly shouted.

DrillBot growled.

"I'll destroy all of you!"

He pocketed the shard and charged at them. The five Astro Rangers tried to fight back, but were easily knocked down one-by-one with the drills located on his hands, and a final blow with his head-based drill. With all five Astro Rangers down and out, he turned his head to the two rogue rangers.

"Your turn!" he bellowed.

Tommy and Kimberly grinned underneath their helmets. The useless brute really had no idea what he was getting into- and maybe it was time that the other five Astro Rangers learned what power the two rogue Rangers had.

"You go first." Kim said.

Tommy nodded, and leaped into the air in a sommersault, sword drawn, then out-stretched his body, catching DrillBot in the face with his sword. As he landed, he moved as fast as the wind, catching him with sword slash after sword slash, until finally the sword glowed green. With it glowing green, he slashed DrillBot across the chest, knocking him to the ground.

As he held the smoking metal, Tommy moved backwards, allowing Kim to take over. She pummeled him with rights and lefts, then kicks, and as he moved backwards, she concentrated her energies.

"ROBOTIC DARKNESS BLAST!" she screamed.

A huge blast of dark energy came from her hands, tearing through DrillBot and knocking him to the ground, making him nearly ready to explode, and the other five Astro Rangers- and Kat- began to realize just what power Tommy and Kimberly had.

They smirked as they came together, watching DrillBot tear himself off the ground.

"That was way too easy." Kimberly said.

"You didn't even make us break a sweat." Tommy added.

"This is impossiable!" DrillBot bellowed.

That robot tore through all five of us like we were nothing, and then those two tore into HIM like he was nothing. Andros realized. I don't know what will happen if we ever have to fight them both again, as they seem even more powerful than last time.

"DrillBot, use the Mirai Crystal shard to heal yourself and power up!" Kat screamed. "Use the power to destroy the Rangers, then bring the crystal shard back to me!"

With that, Kat teleported away.

"Right!" DrillBot said as he stood up and took out the Mirai Crystal shard.

After a brief moment, the crystal shard went into his stomach. Instantly, he glowed white, and white armor was all over his robotic body.

"I have become Mirai DrillBot!" Mirai DrillBot said.

He raised each of the drills on his hands and white energy came out from them, blasting Tommy and Kimberly to the ground.

"And now, I will show you my true power!" Mirai DrillBot said. "Mirai DrillBot Giant Mode!"

Mirai DrillBot glowed, and then grew into a giant. The other five Astro Rangers looked up in fear.

"We need Astro Megazord power, now!" Andros said.

The Astro Megaship came down from the atmosphere, transforming into the Astro Megazord.

Meanwhile, Tommy and Kimberly teleported out.

"Those two are gone." T.J. said. "Probably went back to Tommy's ship."

"Good, then we'll defeat Mirai DrillBot and collect the crystal shard from him." Andros said.

The Astro Megazord lunged foward to intercept Mirai DrillBot, but he drilled into its fists with his hand-based drills, causing the Megazord to stumble backwards a bit, then zapped the Megazord with white energy out of his hand drills, followed by a huge beam with his head drill. The Megazord fell to the ground in a heap.

"We're losing power!" Carlos yelled.

"If this doesn't stop the Mirai DrillBot will destroy us!" Ashley added.


Meanwhile, from the Green Astro Battleship, Tommy and Kimberly watched the fight transpire.

"We cannot allow Kat to have possession of the Mirai Crystal shard, Tommy." Kimberly said. "Perhaps it is time-"

"Assist the Rangers?" Tommy asked her. "I'm not sure we can beat the Mirai DrillBot."

"We have to try." Kimberly said.

Tommy nodded, then turned to DECA.

"Activate Green Astro Battlezord transformation!" Tommy yelled out.

"Activating now." DECA responded.


The Mirai DrillBot stood over the Astro Megazord, preparing to finish it off, when another form began to descend from the sky.

"What is that?" Andros wondered.

The Green Astro Battlezord landed in the city.

(Author's Note: Picture somewhere in between Tommy's Red Zeo Battlezord from Zeo and Zhane's Mega Winger from Space, and you've got it, only green of course.)

"We've come to destroy the Mirai DrillBot, and claim the Mirai Crystal shard!" Tommy shouted. "Don't try and stop us, because we are the Rogue Power Rangers, and we will extract our VENGEANCE, no matter what the cost!"

The Green Astro Battlezord charged foward, doding some attempted shots with Mirai DrillBot's hand-mounted drills, and punched him in the face, staggering back, then gave him a kick to the sternum. As he staggered backwards, Tommy pressed a green button inside the cockpit.

"Activate the Green Astro Energy Blast!" Tommy yelled.

A small hatch in the center of the Battlezord opened, revealing a green crystal. It glowed, and then sent out a powerful green energy beam. It cut into Mirai DrillBot, and he fell to the ground and exploded. Aftert a brief moment, the Mirai Crystal shard appeared where he once was, and Tommy and Kimberly leaped out of the Green Astro Battlezord.

"They're going for it, come on!" Andros shouted.

"What are we going to do when we get down there?" Carlos asked him.

"Yeah, you saw what those two did to DrillBot." Ashley pointed out.

"We'll figure it out when we get down there, we just can't let them have that shard!" Andros said.

The five Astro Rangers leaped out of the Astro Megazord just as Tommy picked up the Mirai Crystal shard from the ground.

"Stop!" Andros yelled out.

Tommy and Kimberly looked at them.

"Does that ever work?" Kim asked them.

With a slight laugh, the two Rogue Power Rangers teleported back into the Green Astro Battlezord, which transformed back into the Green Astro Battleship as it flew out of the atmosphere.

"Great." Andros said. "They have the first crystal shard. Who knows what they're planning to do with the completed crystal."


" They have the first shard!" Kat screamed. "This is completley unacceptable!"

She was inside her command center in the Darkhaven Corporation building, computer monitors and busy workers surronding her.

"Find me that second shard before the Rangers- Rogue or Astro- find it!" Kat screamed. "We must get it first!"


Meanwhile, the five Astro Rangers, demorphed, met on the bridge of the Astro Megaship, trying to decide what to do next.

"The Rogue Power Rangers now possess the first of five Mirai Crystal Shards." Andros said to them.

"And Kat still wants the other four." Ashley added.

"Plus, we still have no idea what the Rogue Rangers or Kat want with the completed Mirai Crystal." Carlos added.

"This seems hopeless." Cassie sighed.

"We can't give up." Andros said. "We have to stop both Kat and the Rogue Power Rangers, no matter what they are planning. It's our duty, and unlike Tommy and Kimberly, we're not going to turn our backs on it."

The other Rangers nodded in agreement.


In the Green Astro Battleship, Kimberly exited the bathroom in Tommy's bedroom, wearing only a black bathrobe. She laid down on his bed, stretching her legs, as she looked around for Tommy. He was still in his Ranger uniform as he entered his bathroom. Bored, Kimberly began flicking through the channels on his bedroom TV.

"Few things give me any pleasure anymore." Kimberly muttered to herself. "Not since....."

"I don't give you pleasure?" Tommy called from the bathroom.

Perhaps that was a tad loud. Kimberly thought.

"You're the exception to the rule." Kimberly said with a wicked grin.

Tommy emerged from his bathroom dressed only in his boxer shorts.

"I certainly hope so." Tommy said.

With a wicked grin, Kimberly pulled Tommy in towards him.

Maybe they had crossed the line to evil. Maybe they hadn't. But evil or not, they could still find plenty of ways to pass the time.


To Be Continued.....