The Corporation: Chapter 7

Author's Notes: I'd like to see some more reviews this time, please! And try and make it actual feedback, rather than just "please continue". Thanks. And now, here's chapter 7!


A siren went off in Kat's strategic battleroom in the Darkhaven Corpopration building. This siren signaled that the second Mirai Crystal shard had been located.

"Kat, the second Mirai Crystal shard is located at this lake outside of Angel Grove." a female working at a computer said, pointing to a place on the computer map.

"Perfect!" Kat said. "We'll send out HydroBot. HydroBot can turn herself into water itself, and she'll be able to head down into the lake and get the crystal shard without the Rangers even knowing it!"

The female staffer nodded and pressed a few buttons on her computer. After a short moment, a splash of water appeared in the room, which eventually took shape to become HydroBot.

She was a shapely female robot in an almost silver-coated substance, as if she was made out of water that was sparkling with silver glitter.

"I am ready to complete your mission!" she said.

"Good, they will fill you in." Kat replied.

She then turned and stepped through a door into her private chambers- where Andrew Darkhaven, now an old man again, was waiting.

"Andrew." she said, a bit surprised. "What's wrong? Why aren't you still young?"

"The potion wore off." he said as he used his walker to make his way around her bed. "I need your help to retirve the missing component in order for the youth potion to remain stable."

"Where is it?" Kat asked him. "I'll be more than willing to help."

"Well, to be more specific, we'll need the Rangers' help." Andrew told her. "It's heavily guarded and the Power Rangers might be the only ones who can get it."

"How will we get the Rangers to help us?" Kat wondered.

"You'd better come up with something soon!" Andrew said. "I'm not getting any younger!"

Kat nodded as she sat down on her bed and Andrew left through the automatic door.

What can I do to make the Rangers help me? Kat wondered for a moment. That's it! I've got it!

She stood up and rushed out of her room to prepare.


Meanwhile, Tommy and Kimberly were in Angel Grove Park. Tommy was dressed in a green shirt and blue jeans, while Kimberly was wearing a black shirt that exposed her mid-riff and black leather pants. The two of them were standing in the center of the grassy area, and were stretching out with some kind of karate-like pose.

"Okay, Kim, this is a techinique that the Phantom Ranger taught me." Tommy told her. "It's a techinique mastered on his home planet of Eltare that's designed to increase one's inner strength and help them release their emotions. Hopefully, it can help you deal with your emotional pain."

Kimberly nodded, and began to stretch her left arm outward. Tommy stood behind her and adjusted it, placing it higher.

"A bit higher, Kim." Tommy said. "Like this."

He stretched outward behind her- and then realized he was still holding Kimberly's hand. He turned her around, and the two drew closer to each other.....

But suddenly, their tender moment was interrupted by a bunch of BattleArmor workers send by Kat teleporting in, forming a circle around them.

"Great timing, guys." Kimberly muttered.

"I guess Kat sends her love." Tommy said. "Let's take them out."

Tommy and Kimberly rushed foward, fighting off the BattleArmor-enchanced warriors. Tommy blocked a punch from one on his left, then kicked him backwards to the ground. He then blocked a kick from one in front and leaped foward with a flying kick to his chest. He was momentairly stunned by a punch from behind, but then turned and blocked another kick, then kicked the third warrior to the ground.

Kimberly, meanwhile, grabbed a punch by another warrior and sent him down to the ground with a Judo throw. She then sweep-kicked another one to the ground, and finally finished it off with a dropkick to the third warrior she fought, sending him down to the ground as well. All six BattleArmor-enchanced warriors disappered.

"Too easy." Tommy said.

But then, a message came in through their morphers, from the DECA system on Tommy's Green Astro Battleship.

"Tommy, Kimberly, there are readings of robotic activity at a lake nearby Angel Grove." DECA said.

"Of course, this attack was just a distraction while Kat went for the second Mirai Crystal shard!" Kimberly said. "Sly, I'll give her that."

"Let's get over there." Tommy said. "Let's Rocket!"

"Robotic Ranger Power!"


The morphed Tommy and Kimberly teleported off the shore of the lake.

"I don't see anything here." Tommy said.

"Maybe she's in the water." Kimberly said.

Just then, the other five Astro Rangers teleported into the area, and seeing Tommy and Kimberly there, were immeaditley suspicious.

"What are you two doing here?" Andros asked them.

"That's pretty damn simple." Tommy snapped. "We're doing the exact same thing you are."

"For all the wrong reasons." Andros replied. "Go back to your little ship and leave the fighting to the good guys!"

"How about instead of fighting Kat's little robot, we fight YOU?" Kimberly asked them, smashing her fists together.

"Sounds fine to us!" Cassie yelled back.

But before anything could hapen, a huge explosion of energy came from the lake, knocking all seven of the Rangers down. When the dust had settled, HydroBot floated in mid-air, holding the second Mirai Crystal shard.

"Rogue Rangers and Astro Rangers, it doesn't matter!" HydroBot screeched. "I'll eliminate you all now!"

HydroBot threw out her arms and flashes of blue energy came out, hitting into the Rangers and sending them back down to the ground. As they laid there, she flew down, still hovering over the ground, and then rushed foward. She easily made her way through the five Astro Rangers, compleltey wrecking them in hand-to-hand combat, but then came to the Robotic and Green Rangers. Tommy, with the Green Astro Saber drawn, and Kimberly stood side-by-side.

"Robotic Darkness Blast!" Kimberly screamed, and seperated her arms.

A huge blast of dark energy came out and nailed HydroBot, knocking her to the ground. As she stood up, woozy, Tommy leaped into the air, and his Green Astro Saber glowed with green energy.

"Green Astro Slash!" he yelled, and slashed into HydroBot with the glowing saber.

She fell to the ground once again, smoke coming out of the areas where she was blased and slashed.

"You Rogue Rangers are strong....but now I'll be stronger!" she bellowed, and picked up the Mirai Crystal shard.

As the crystal shard glowed white, she pushed it into her body. Her body glowed white also and white armor appeared all over it.

"Feel the power of Mirai HydroBot!" she yelled, and then released more blue energy from her hands, blasting Tommy and Kimberly to the ground.

She then turned around, where the five Astro Rangers were back to their feet.

"You don't scare us!" Carlos yelled.

"Yeah, we'll destroy you just like we destroyed Mirai DrillBot!" T.J. added.

Mirai HydroBot simply laughed.

"You.....or the Rogue Power Rangers?" she said with another laugh. "Pathetic Astro Rangers have become obsolete."

"We'll show you who's obsolete!" the Rangers said. "Rogue Power Rangers, get out of this fight, this is OUR fight!"

Tommy and Kimberly looked at each other from behind Mirai HydroBot, then simply shrugged.

"If you want to be killed, be our guests." Kimberly said. "We'll be back to pick up the pieces and get the crystal shard anyway, you arragoant fools."

With that, Kimberly and Tommy teleported out.

"They're right, you know!" Mirai HydroBot said, and then she raised her arms into the air.

After glowing all white, she grew into a giant.

"You're all fools!" she bellowed.

"We'll see who the fools are!" Andros yelled back. "Astro Megazord power!"'

With that, the Astro Megaship flew down from the atmosphere, transforming into the Astro Megazord, as the five Astro Rangers teleported into the Megazord.

"Come on!" Mirai HydroBot screamed, and then charged foward.

The Astro Megazord attempted to grab her, but she pushed them backwards, then jumped upwards and kicked the zord across the shoulder, sparks flying and send it stumbling backwards a bit. She then released more blue energy from her hands, sending the Astro Megazord to the ground in a flurry of sparks and explosions.

"We need more power to beat her!" Cassie pointed out.

"Alright guys, transfer more power to the Megazord weaponry system!" Andros said. "We'll take her out with one big shot!"


Elsewhere, the Mega Winger flew through space. Inside the cockpit were Zhane and Karone, demorphed and relaxing as the ship was on autopilot.

"Another succesfull mission." Zhane said, leaning back in his chair. "We managed to help the Chinar race of warrios and the Androkan race of androids on the Exokian planet work out a new peace treaty, ending their long war."

"It was a good idea to send an Astro Ranger along to mediate the discussions." Karone said. "Since the Astro Rangers have a lot of respect among both races, one of the few things they have in common. I'm just glad you let me come- Exokian is such a beautiful planet!"

"Anytime." Zhane said, and Karone leaned her head down onto his shoulder, smiling.

Suddenly, however, the ship began to shake, knocking Zhane and Karone from their chairs.

"What was that?" Karone exclaimed.

"I don't know, but I'll bring up a visual." Zhane said. He got over to the control panel and pressed a button, as instantly a screen came down from the ship's roof. The screen showed five silver fighterships surronding the Mega Winger, and latching onto it with some kind of glowing black wire.

"Those are Androkan fighters!" Karone said, shocked. "And they've incapacitated this ship!"

"What do they want?" Zhane wondered.

Suddenly, his screen changed from the view outside to the silver metallic head of an Androkan. The Androkan basically looked like a silver version of the Blue Centariuan, without the police-inspired extra things on top. It looked humanoid in shape but was obviously an android.

"Greetings, Mega Winger." the Androkan stated in its robotic, gravely voice. "I am RXN-09."

Zhane suddenly realized who that was.

"You're the leader of that Androkan criminal group, the Andro-xens!"

"That's right." RXN-09 confirmed. "And I have orders from one of our top clients to restrain you and return you to our base on Exokian."

"You can't do this to us!" Karone said. "The Astro Rangers will come and rescue us!"

RXN-09 laughed.

"Not if we threaten to kill the both of you!"


Meanwhile, back in Angel Grover, the Astro Megazord stood up, its Astro Blaster glowing with a great deal of the Megazord's power.

"The Astro Blaster has almost all of the Megazord's energy now!" T.J. said. "We need to attack now before she does and takes advantage of our weakened defenses!"

"Right!" Andros said. "Fire the Astro Blaster!"

A white blast of energy came from the Blaster and hit into Mirai HydroBot. However, she was not destroyed, but she did fall to the ground, smoke coming from her wounds.

"She's weakened, we should have enough energy to finish her off!" Ashley said.

"Alright!" Andros said. "Let's do it-"

But suddenly, all of their monitors changed from whatever they were displaying......to the face of Kat.

"Huh?" Carlos said, surprised. "How did you do that?"

"Don't underestimate what millions of dollars can do, Black Ranger." Kat said with a slight laugh. "I'd like all of you to retreat, now, transform back into the Astro Megaship, and head back into orbit."

Andros crossed his arms, surprised that Kat would request such a thing but also slightly amused.

"And why exactly would we do that, Kat?" Andros asked her.

"Yeah, in case you've forgotten, you're the enemy." Cassie said. "We don't take orders from you."

"Now you do." Kat said with a smirk.

"And why is that?" T.J. asked her.

"This is why." she replied.

And after saying that, the view on their monitors changed from her face- to an empty room. Well, empty except for Zhane and Karone, sitting on the floor while tied together uncomftorably. Suddenly, RXN-09 walked onto the screen, holding an Androkan Rifle, and then turned to the camera.

"Listen to Kat's orders, or you can say goodbye to these two." RXN-09 said.

And then, the image changed back to Kat.

"Well?" Kat asked them. "Retreat already! If I don't see the Astro Megazord back in orbit in five minutes, I'll instruct my android friend to dispose of Zhane and Karone!"

Kat laughed as the picture faded, just as Mirai HydroBot was starting to pull herself to her feet.

"Well....what do we do?" Carlos asked the others. "We can't just let Mirai HydroBot trash the city."

"We have to listen to Kat." Andros replied. "Until we can find where they have Zhane and my sister, we don't have any other choice."

The others all silently nodded. They pressed a few buttons and the Astro Megazord ascended into the air, transforming back into the Megaship as it did.


From the Green Astro Battleship, Tommy and Kimberly watched the events unfold, from the perspective of inside the Astro Megazord thanks to their hack inside of its systems.

"Those are some pathetic Power Rangers." Tommy remarked. "Letting Mirai HydroBot have the city to herself, possiably risking thousands of innocent lives, over two people."

"Hypocrisy at its finest." Kimberly muttered. "So, shall we save the day?"

"There's nothing good on TV, so why not?" Tommy said sarcastically. "And let's get that second Mirai Crystal shard while we're at it. Activate the Green Astro Battlezord transformation sequence!"

The Green Astro Battleship descended from orbit while transforming into the Battlezord, then landed in the city just as Mirai HydroBot was back up and blasting the buildings around her with her blue hydro energy. Tommy sat in the cockpit, while Kimberly was below in the other areas of the transformed zord.

"Time to get that second shard." Tommy said, and then the Battlezord rushed foward. However, Mirai HydroBot blasted it with blue hydro energy, sending it falling backward.

"Nothing to worry about." Tommy said.

But then, there was something to worry about. The Battlezord suddenly transformed back into the Battleship, flying above the city.

"What the hell?" Tommy said, but then was rocked out of his seat by another hydro energy blast.

"A virus sent from the Darkhaven Corporation headquaters has entered our system, and disabled the ability to transform into the Green Astro Battlezord." DECA said.

"Great." Tommy muttered. "Mirai HydroBot is going to destroy the city, and Kat is going to get the second Mirai Crystal shard!"

"Maybe not."

Tommy suddenly looked down, and standing in the center of the park was Kimberly, fully morphed.

"Kim, what are you doing down there?" he asked her through his communicator.

"While you're taking care of that virus, I'll have to take care of Mirai HydroBot." Kimberly said.

"But how?" he asked her.

"Kat included a second mode in the Robotic Ranger powers." Kimberly explained. "Robotic Ranger Super Mode- the power is incredible. However, it requires that I tap into a great deal more of the dark energy that was used to build these powers, and I don't know if I can handle it without losing control. It is a risk that I'll have to take."

Kimberly parted her arms, then looked up into the air.

"ROBOTIC RANGER SUPER MODE!" she screamed.

Her arms began to shake from the sheer amount of power growing inside of her. She glowed with an eeriy dark light, and suddenly grew into a giant. Her entire body seemed to have energy running through it.

"I'll eliminate you!" Mirai HydroBot screamed as she lunged foward towards her.

Kimberly simply raised her huge right hand, and Mirai HydroBot went flying backwards, falling to the ground.

"Hey! That's not fair!" Mirai HydroBot whined as she got back to her feet.

Kimberly, who had her head looking down at the ground since growing in size, suddenly raised it. The eyes underneath her helmet glowed with dark energy.

"You've just pissed me off." she said simply. "That's not a good thing to do when I'm like this."

Her entire body began to glow with dark energy, which she began concentrating in a ball of it in-between her hands.

"SUPER DARK ENERGY BEAM!" she screamed, and released her arms out, sending out a concentrated beam of dark energy. The beam went right through Mirai HydroBot, and she fell to the ground, exploding.

Kimberly looked around her, and formed an evil smile.

"Kimberly?" Tommy asked, trying to communiate with her. "Kimberly?"

She didn't reply. Instead, she raised her arms, releasing dark electricity that made all of the buildings around her explode.

Oh no, she's losing control! Tommy thought. There has to be something I can do to help her regain it!

Tommy pressed a button on the Green Astro Battlezord, and a green energy beam hit into Kimberly. After falling on her giant butt, crushing a few more cars and people, she stood up, shaking her head to release the cobwebs.

".....Power Down." she muttered, and shrunk back to her normal size, out of Super Mode.

Tommy, still morphed, leaped down to greet her as she shrunk back down.

"Are you alright?" he asked her.

Kimberly simply shook her head.

"I killed....hunderds more people. Hundreds more. I'm no better than any of Kat's robots."

"It wasn't really you!" Tommy said, embracing Kimberly. "It was the evil inside of those powers."

Kimberly nodded as Tommy hugged her.

"Touching."

Tommy and Kimberly turned to see Kat holding the second Mirai Crystal shard. While Tommy was trying to help Kimberly regain control, Kat had already teleported in and grabbed it!

"I think I'll take that home as a Kodak moment, along with my nice new crystal shard." she laughed. "Be seeing you soon, lover."

With that, Kat disappered in a flash of black.

"It's okay." Tommy told her. "We still have the first crystal shard.

"No, it's not." Kimberly said, walking away from him. "If you hadn't had to help me get back under control, she wouldn't have that second shard, we would. It's all my fault."

With that, Kimberly teleported out, leaving a distraught Tommy in her wake.


Meanwhile, back on the Astro Megaship, the five demorphed Rangers entered the bridge to await Kat's message. Her face soon appeared on the main screen.

"Hello, Astro Rangers." Kat said, greeting them. "I'm sure you want to know what I want."

"No, we don't care what you want." Cassie said. "We want to know where our friends are!"

"All in due time, Pink Ranger." Kat said. "But first, let me ask you something. Do you know of the planet Exokian?"

"Sure." Andros replied. "That's the planet that's inhibited by two sentinet races- the Chinar and Androkan. Zhane and Karone went to help them with a peace treaty. What's your point?"

"Well, I need the five of you to go there and retrieve something for me." she said. "The Royal Gem of the Chinar. It is located on the Great Moutains in the Chinar territory of the planet, and is heavily guarded by the Chinar Royal Guard, lead by the undefeated Chinar warrior prince Deconin. If you retrieve the Gem, I'll order the release of Zhane and Karone."

"How do we know that we can trust you?" Ashley asked her.

"Simple- you can't." Kat said. "But you have no other choice. If you don't retrieve the Gem in three days, Zhane and Karone will be killed."

And with that, Kat's face disappered from the screen of the Astro Megaship.


To Be Continued....