"When they drug you in here, one of them mentioned something about trying to infect you but it didn't work. Why didn't it?" Sheldon asked.
"I'm half Ethros demon, my immune system must have filtered it out,"
"If that's true, we should be able to come up with an anti toxin for the Harvenger's infection by using your DNA,"
"Even if we did manage to escape, we'd still need a lab of some kind to work on an anti toxin. Then, assuming we did come up with the anti toxin, how would we treat all of the Harvengers at once?"
She sighed. "You're right, we're doomed, and it's all my fault,"
"This isn't the time to be blaming one another, or ourselves. First thing we should be is find a way out of here," Katie told her.
"I told you, this chains are specially reinforced with steel. No human alive can break them," she reminded her.
"And I told you, I'm not exactly human," Katie wrapped the chains around her wrists, getting a firm grip on them, then snatched them forward. It took a few times, but she managed to snatch one of the out the wall. From there, she put her feet up against the wall and pulled again, this time breaking the second chain. "Now to get out of this holding cell,"
"But how, it's protected by a force field,"
"Only the exit points, the walls are another story," she said, picking up a bench sitting inside the cell. She cocked back with it, ramming it up against the wall. The first few shots were enough to dent the cell, but the last one made it through. Katie pulled the bench back, then opened up the hole as much as she could, making her way into KJ's cell.
KJ was chained to a wall as well, and from the looks of it, had been there for weeks. Her clothes were a mess, and her honey blonde hair was covering most of her face.
"You did it," she said eagerly.
"Hold still," Katie told her, grabbing hold of the chains and snatching them out the wall. "We'll be out of here in a second,"
"Katie, do you read me?""What was that?" KJ asked.
"Its my friends. They're looking for me," she said, reaching for her Morpher. " Tommy, is that you?" she responded.
"Sure is, are you okay?""I'm trapped in a holding cell, but I'm fine. Did you get the sphere?"
'Yeah, and we're outside the building. We're going to teleport you out of there,' he said.
"Make that two for teleportation," 'Two? Who's the other one?'"Someone that I think can help us," she said.
'You got it Katie. Stand by,'"You're a Power Ranger?" KJ asked in amazement.
She nodded. "So much for the secret identity aspect of it, huh?"
"I always thought the yellow ranger was a guy,"
She paused. "A guy?"
"Yeah, the girl rangers usually have the little skirt things on their ranger uniforms. The yellow ranger uniform doesn't have one, so I always thought it was a guy," she said.
"Common misconception,"
"Oh, sorry,"
'I've got a lock on them,' another voice said."Do it," Katie said.
KJ watched on as a sort of light seemed to surround them. Within moments, the two of them disappeared, and then reappeared inside the Time Shadow Megazord.
"I know you, you're from Chryo Tech," Alex said, reaching for his phaser and aiming it at KJ.
Katie grabbed the phaser, forcing him to put it down. "KJ is okay with me, and we may have a plan to stop the Harvengers," Katie told them.
"What's the plan? Come up with another unstoppable race of beings to come in fight the Harvengers for us? Chryo Tech has done enough damage as it is," Tommy snapped.
KJ took a step forward. "We've been able to determine that Katie is immune to the Harvenger virus. If we can get to a laboratory of some kind, I believe that we can formulate some kind of anti toxin to cure all the infected humans," she explained.
"And why should we trust you?"
"Because I'm the best chance you have to stop them. Period," she snapped.
It was Alex who took a step forward, standing in-between Tommy and KJ, and then turned to Camille. "Do you think you can get to your lab without being detected?" he asked her.
"We could go through the service crawlways, then go up the matinense ladders to deck 14. From there, it would be a piece of cake," she said.
"Good. You and Trip take Katie and KJ with you to watch your backs just in case. Contact me when you've got something," Alex ordered.
"We're on it chief," Trip said as the four of them headed for the service crawlways.
"Our next priority should be to find Jen and Nadira. They have to be out there somewhere," Tommy brought up.
"Agreed. Adam, have you been able to track down anything?"
"No. Either they're somewhere where we can't scan for them, or…" he paused. "…they've been changed," he sighed.
"Could they be cloaked?"
"If they are, we won't be able to track them,"
"Try scanning for Jen's Morpher. We should be able to get a lock on it and…" he was cut short.
"Jen doesn't have a Morpher," Alex sighed.
"What do you mean?"
"When Admiral Logan gave the order to have your shuttle shot out of orbit, she quit. She took her Morpher off," he told them.
"Great. Just great," Tommy sighed.
"What I can do is scan for anything that may be cloaked. If something is cloaked, it stands to reason that Jen will be there," Adam said.
"Do it,"
"It's going to take a while, I still have to determine the right frequency of the cloak, then scan the entire building for that signature. I'm not exactly a rocket scientist, so you'll have to give me a minute," he said.
"Just do your best,"
*
"Remind me to have a talk with whoever designed these damn crawlways. This is ridiculous," Camille complained as the four of them crawled as quietly as they could. Behind her was Katie, followed by KJ and Trip.
"How close are we to your lab?"
"We're still on deck 1. This crawlway will only take us to the matience ladder that will lead to deck 14. This is going to take some time," she said.
"No offense, but I don't want to crawl through these dirty spaces staring at your ass for another 13 decks," Katie said.
"I'll be happy to trade spots with you," Trip said.
"Shut up!" the two of them snapped in unison.
"Do all of you usually get along like this?" KJ inquired.
"No, sometimes we argue," Katie said sarcastically.
"Okay, here we are," she quietly pulled a panel off the bottom of the crawlway, then slowly stuck her head out. "This is our stop," she said, rolling into a flip and falling to the floor, landing on her feet. She stood aside as Katie jumped as well, followed by KJ. Trip was the last to come out, but fell out the hole and landed on his back.
"That's the last time I crawl around in the ceiling you with," he groaned.
Katie quickly helped him up, and the three of them followed Camille down the hall and around the corner. "It looks like none of the Harvengers are on this deck," she said.
"They're probably working on a way to get the force fields down,"
She pointed to the end of the hall. "There it is, the ladder we need to use," she said, heading for the ladder.
"Great, another 14 decks of checking out your ass," Katie said.
"So you admit it, you were checking out my ass," she giggled.
"Ya know, I could always trade spots with you and…" again, he was cut short.
"Shut up," they said in unison.
"I'm afraid I do not understand. If all of you are a team, how do you function as a unit if you constantly make jokes and belittle each other?" KJ asked them.
"Its just the way we talk to one another, it doesn't mean anything. We work better together when everyone is relaxed and comfortable with one another," Trip said.
"That is… unusual. In Chryo Tech, there is a chain of command. There are those who lead, and those who follow. There is no level of comfort, only the chain of command," she brought up as they all started up the ladder.
"We're all learned that you can't just follow orders blindly. Sometimes the chain of command doesn't work, and you have to go with your instincts," he said.
"Instincts? I do not understand,"
"Hang around long enough, you'll get it," he told her.
*
"I think I've got something," Adam said, double-checking the readings on the control panel.
Tommy rushed over to him, staring over his shoulder. "Did you find them?" he asked.
"I found a cloaked ship in the shuttle bay, but I can't scan the interior so I don't know if there are any life signs inside," he said.
"Can you open a channel?"
"No,"
Alex walked over to them. "Tommy, which shuttle did you and Adam take on Omara?" he asked them.
"Shuttle seven, why?"
"Adam, can you tell me which shuttles are in the shuttle bay and accounted for?" he asked.
Adam turned back to the controls. "According to this, only two shuttles are missing. Shuttle seven, which is one we used, and shuttle thirteen. I checked the departure dates, and our shuttle was the only one to leave in the past 36 hours," he said.
"So that means shuttle thirteen is there and cloaked," Tommy said.
"Now that we know which shuttle it is, you should be able to open a channel to the shuttle by using the interface subroutines," he said.
"I'm on it," he paused. "I've got something. Channel open," Adam said.
"Jennifer. This is Alex, come in," he said.
For a moment, there was silence.
'Alexander. Boy am I glad to hear from you. Whats going on out there?'
"We've come up with a way to stop the Harvengers, but we're going to need all the man power we can get," he said.
'I've lost track of Nadira, and Lucas was killed,' she told him.
"Oh God," Adam sighed.
'I'm here with Ensign Claw,'"You mean Leo Claw?" he asked.
'Yeah,'
"We're going to teleport the two of you here to the Time Shadow, we'll fill you in when you get here," he told her.
'Understood,'
"Stand by,"
"I've got a lock on them. It's the two of them, and I'm also detected another body," he paused. "Its Lucas," Adam said.
"Teleport him too, we'll use the sphere to bring him back," he said.
"Beginning teleportation sequence… now," he said.
Within seconds, Jen, Ensign Claw and Lucas materiazlied in the zord. The light faded, and Ensign Claw glanced around. "Whoa, this is fuckin' awesome," he said.
"Jen," Tommy sighed.
Jen turned around. "Oh my God, Tommy," she rushed over to him, wrapping her arms around him. "I thought I would never see you again," she cried.
"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated," he told her.
"What about Trip? And Camille?"
"They're fine. They're with Katie working on a way to stop the Harvengers," he said.
"I'm going to go use the sphere to revive Lucas. Adam, you wanna give me a hand?" Alex asked him, realizing that Tommy and Jen wanted a few minutes alone.
"Yeah, sure. Come on Ensign,"
"Naw, I'm good here," Leo insisted.
"That's an order ensign, lets go," Adam snapped as the three of them picked Lucas up, pulling him into the cargo hold.
"So, I heard you quit Time Force," Tommy brought up.
"Admiral Logan gave the order to have you killed, I didn't want anything else to do with Time Force. I thought it was the right thing to do," she sighed. "Hey, where is Carmen?"
"After we saved Camille and Trip, the time line shifted and she disappeared," he sighed.
"Was she really our…"
"Yes, she was. Without her, we wouldn't have been able to save the others. We owe her our lives," Tommy said.
"Speaking of our lives, I have something to tell you," she said.
He shook his head. "No, wait until this is over. Once we get through this, then tell me what you have to say," he said.
"But we might not get the chance to…"
"We will get the chance, now lets get to work," he said.
She smiled.