Chapter Eight
Dustin continued to struggle but the restraints were too heavy and refused to budge. Electro brought down his whip and Dustin cried out as he felt it go into his neck. Searing pain unlike anything he had ever known before coursed though him.
He felt a sharp pain throughout his head, like his brain would cave in on him or explode whichever came first. "What did you do to me?"
Lother smiled in a way that made Dustin's heart constrict even more than it already was. "I put an organism into your brain, it doesn't have a name but it packs one hell of a punch. Causes terrible agony but it doesn't kill you. Oh no its better it amplifies everything one thousand times, sound, pain, you name it".
"You won't get away with this Lother, my friends will find me".
"Oh really Yellow Ranger? Did you tell them where you're going? Because I don't think you did".
Dustin realized Lother was right, he hadn't told anyone but someone would realize it. But would they realize it in time? Dustin looked at Lother trying to look him in the eyes. "I am a Power Ranger, I won't be defeated".
"Oh I'm shaking in my boots we'll see how cocky you are in a few hours" Lother motioned to Electro and the hook on his hand came to life, blazing with electricity. All the light came on in the room blinding Dustin causing him to cry out in pain.
Damn Lother really did mean it, his eyes felt like they were being poked and prodded. He cried out as a searing pain came into his stomach Electro was obviously moving to other areas of his body.
In Ninja Ops, Cam sat at the computer the others crowded close around him. He ran scans of Lother's ship but couldn't find any visible weakness. Lother had thought ahead that place was like a fortress. Blake and Hunter tried to help but Lother had obviously changed his entrances and even the exit points.
Tori paced the worst along with Shane, "damn it we should have left Marah to die by Lother's hands, and then Dustin wouldn't be in this predicament".
Shane took Tori by the shoulders, "if we had stood by and let her die we'd be no better off than them, but we don't know what the future will bring".
Tori began to sob, "He's my best friend, I've known him almost as long as you have, and I don't want to lose him".
Shane made Tori look into his eyes, "we don't lose our own we will get him back to us, I believe that and you have to believe that" the two friends embraced praying for their lost friend.
Dustin was roughly shoved into a cell thrown onto the floor, it was hard and cold but it didn't make any difference. He was in pain like he had never known before. He had been whipped and burned in everyplace Electro and Lother could think of. Lother stared at his prisoner in triumph.
"Comfortable yellow ranger? I hope not I have much more planned for you, you will tell me the location of Marah and destroying Ninja Ops and you're friends will be a bonus".
A force field came up enclosing Dustin in the brig. "Try to rest prisoner while I come up with no torture methods". Laughing Lother walked off leaving Dustin alone.
Now I have a chance he thought to himself. He raised his wrist that held his morpher, "Tori, Shane, anybody I need help". But there was nothing but silence but Dustin felt groggy and soon darkness closed in.
Blake ran into the main area of Ninja Ops. "I think Marah might be waking up".
The rangers crowded around her; if anyone knew how to get onto Lother's ship it would be her. Marah opened her eyes, "where am I?"
Shane spoke, "in a safe place what's the last thing you remember?"
"Being tortured and beaten by Electro, Lother's favorite enforcer. I escaped to Earth and the last image I remember was Lother standing over me".
"I can fill in the rest" Tori replied driven by the desire to find Dustin. "Dustin soon came on the scene along with me and Blake; we rescued you and brought you to where you are now. Dustin kept watch over you until Cam found something in your brain. We were going to try to come up with a plan to try and save you, but Dustin decided to take manners into his own hands".
Marah's eyes filled with terror, "Dustin where is he?"
"On Lother's ship we're sure of it" Shane replied.
"It's my fault he's there please let me help find him".
"Though you'd never ask, Cam bring her the computer readings go over everything with her". Just then an alarm sounded and Cam's eyes went wide.
"Lother just created some kind of force field around his ship, something I've never seen before, I don't know anything about it, and I can't even scan it".
"No weaknesses at all?" Shane was going pale.
"Not that I can see at the moment".
"Get to work with Marah immediately we don't have a moment to lose".
Lother was growing frustrated. For six days he had done everything to that yellow ranger but his love for his friends kept him strong. Lother secretly wondered if Marah was playing a part in his captive's strength. Lother had even tried starving him but even that hadn't worked, although that new method had been in effect for one day.
Suddenly Kapri came to him with an idea. Now a perfect little servant after he had installed that mind chip into her. He had done the same to Marah before the yellow ranger had rescued her. Well she still wasn't on his ship, so either she was dead or it hadn't worked. But then his plans hardly ever went the way he wanted.
"Yes Kapri what do you want?"
Uncle I have an idea why don't you sexually abuse him?"
"I don't want the information that badly, I may be an evil genius but even I have limits, shocking I know".
"Well have somebody do it. I will do it for you uncle".
"And why should I let you?"
"Because it'll show you how devoted I am to you and your empire".
Lother smiled, "go for it and please don't hesitate to do anything to him, try not to become shy or hesitate".
"Of course not uncle you can count on me".
Marah stood with the Green Samurai Ranger. "God it's been six days we should've figured out something by now".
Cam looked at her, the only ranger to look at her with compassion, the others hadn't said it but Marah knew they blamed her for whatever Dustin was going through, if he was still alive.
"We'll find him, there's always an answer if you look long enough. Whatever your uncle can do we'll defeat him".
"That thing is not my uncle, when Dustin is back I'll make everything up a thousand fold".
Dustin slowly sat up emotionally and physically drained. Only the satisfaction of ticking of Lother kept him going. He couldn't let his friends be destroyed or Earth. Marah he resented a lot at times. Part of him longed to have just let Lother finish her off.
But then he would be no good just like Lother. I will never become like him. Suddenly his thoughts were disrupted and the force field was dropped. Probably Lother or Electro trying to break him.
But instead Kapri walked in but, she wasn't dressed in her usual pink outfit but a red gown that clung to her and left nothing to his imagination. She walked to him as he used the wall to stand himself up.
"What.why are you here?" his voice was hoarse from his ordeal that and because much to his dismay he was turned on.
Kapri smiled seductively at her prey, "just here to find out why you appealed to my sister, it's your fault she left. Everything was fine until we sent BEEVIL down".
"Nothing is my fault, and I've never done anything with Marah".
A devilish look came into Kapri's eyes, "well then I'll get the honor".
"You sicken me Kapri". Dustin tried not to look into her eyes. He didn't want to look at her at all.
"Don't you like me even a little ranger? Don't I look even the slightest bit appealing?"
Far too much, Dustin thought to himself. Suddenly he found himself looking into Kapri's eyes. "You are beautiful" Dustin was losing himself in her; it was like he was on autopilot.
Kapri stroked his cheek, "do you want me? We can be together I sense your desire".
Kapri kissed him but instead of turning him to putty in her hands, Dustin heard Sensei's voice in his head. Use you inner ninja in times like these, fight with all your strength, the strength that is with you always.
Dustin visualized his mental energy to the very core of his body, and with every fiber of his being willed the control of his body back to him. Kapri cried out as she was thrown across the room. He hadn't even laid a hand on her!
"What have you done?"
Dustin stared coolly at her, "defeated you as I have defeated Electro and your uncle".
Kapri stood up, "very well Yellow Ranger you have chosen to defy us, you'll regret but not for long. It's a shame to we could've been great together" she walked out putting the force field back in place.
In Ninja Ops Marah gasped. "Rangers get over here quick!"
Shane and Tori were the first to get there, "the force field is losing strength".
"Wouldn't Lother be careful about that?" Hunter asked.
"It means Dustin's alive but not for much longer. I think Lother might be trying to kill him". Suddenly an image came to her from her time being unconscious. "Cam didn't you say there was something in my brain?"
"Yeah a disease of some sort".
"No it's probably a device implanted by Lother, if I ever survived he could put me under mind control, I'm sure that's what he's done to Kapri".
"What are you trying to say?" Tori asked.
"It might get me, get us onto the ship. The shield can read me and identify me; it might be able to let me in. You'll have to teleport quickly though it, but if it works you'll be able to save Dustin".
Shane turned to Sensei, "what do you think?"
"We have run out of options. Be careful rangers on your mission".
"We will" Shane replied, determination making his eyes glow. "Ready guys?"
They looked at their morphers and nodded, soon their transformation into the suits followed. Led by Marah they transformed into balls of light and went up into space.
On the ship Lother turned to Electro, "he's useless to us now, he's resisted all our attempts to break him".
"What do you want me to do now?" Electro asked.
"Kill him of course".
Dustin continued to struggle but the restraints were too heavy and refused to budge. Electro brought down his whip and Dustin cried out as he felt it go into his neck. Searing pain unlike anything he had ever known before coursed though him.
He felt a sharp pain throughout his head, like his brain would cave in on him or explode whichever came first. "What did you do to me?"
Lother smiled in a way that made Dustin's heart constrict even more than it already was. "I put an organism into your brain, it doesn't have a name but it packs one hell of a punch. Causes terrible agony but it doesn't kill you. Oh no its better it amplifies everything one thousand times, sound, pain, you name it".
"You won't get away with this Lother, my friends will find me".
"Oh really Yellow Ranger? Did you tell them where you're going? Because I don't think you did".
Dustin realized Lother was right, he hadn't told anyone but someone would realize it. But would they realize it in time? Dustin looked at Lother trying to look him in the eyes. "I am a Power Ranger, I won't be defeated".
"Oh I'm shaking in my boots we'll see how cocky you are in a few hours" Lother motioned to Electro and the hook on his hand came to life, blazing with electricity. All the light came on in the room blinding Dustin causing him to cry out in pain.
Damn Lother really did mean it, his eyes felt like they were being poked and prodded. He cried out as a searing pain came into his stomach Electro was obviously moving to other areas of his body.
In Ninja Ops, Cam sat at the computer the others crowded close around him. He ran scans of Lother's ship but couldn't find any visible weakness. Lother had thought ahead that place was like a fortress. Blake and Hunter tried to help but Lother had obviously changed his entrances and even the exit points.
Tori paced the worst along with Shane, "damn it we should have left Marah to die by Lother's hands, and then Dustin wouldn't be in this predicament".
Shane took Tori by the shoulders, "if we had stood by and let her die we'd be no better off than them, but we don't know what the future will bring".
Tori began to sob, "He's my best friend, I've known him almost as long as you have, and I don't want to lose him".
Shane made Tori look into his eyes, "we don't lose our own we will get him back to us, I believe that and you have to believe that" the two friends embraced praying for their lost friend.
Dustin was roughly shoved into a cell thrown onto the floor, it was hard and cold but it didn't make any difference. He was in pain like he had never known before. He had been whipped and burned in everyplace Electro and Lother could think of. Lother stared at his prisoner in triumph.
"Comfortable yellow ranger? I hope not I have much more planned for you, you will tell me the location of Marah and destroying Ninja Ops and you're friends will be a bonus".
A force field came up enclosing Dustin in the brig. "Try to rest prisoner while I come up with no torture methods". Laughing Lother walked off leaving Dustin alone.
Now I have a chance he thought to himself. He raised his wrist that held his morpher, "Tori, Shane, anybody I need help". But there was nothing but silence but Dustin felt groggy and soon darkness closed in.
Blake ran into the main area of Ninja Ops. "I think Marah might be waking up".
The rangers crowded around her; if anyone knew how to get onto Lother's ship it would be her. Marah opened her eyes, "where am I?"
Shane spoke, "in a safe place what's the last thing you remember?"
"Being tortured and beaten by Electro, Lother's favorite enforcer. I escaped to Earth and the last image I remember was Lother standing over me".
"I can fill in the rest" Tori replied driven by the desire to find Dustin. "Dustin soon came on the scene along with me and Blake; we rescued you and brought you to where you are now. Dustin kept watch over you until Cam found something in your brain. We were going to try to come up with a plan to try and save you, but Dustin decided to take manners into his own hands".
Marah's eyes filled with terror, "Dustin where is he?"
"On Lother's ship we're sure of it" Shane replied.
"It's my fault he's there please let me help find him".
"Though you'd never ask, Cam bring her the computer readings go over everything with her". Just then an alarm sounded and Cam's eyes went wide.
"Lother just created some kind of force field around his ship, something I've never seen before, I don't know anything about it, and I can't even scan it".
"No weaknesses at all?" Shane was going pale.
"Not that I can see at the moment".
"Get to work with Marah immediately we don't have a moment to lose".
Lother was growing frustrated. For six days he had done everything to that yellow ranger but his love for his friends kept him strong. Lother secretly wondered if Marah was playing a part in his captive's strength. Lother had even tried starving him but even that hadn't worked, although that new method had been in effect for one day.
Suddenly Kapri came to him with an idea. Now a perfect little servant after he had installed that mind chip into her. He had done the same to Marah before the yellow ranger had rescued her. Well she still wasn't on his ship, so either she was dead or it hadn't worked. But then his plans hardly ever went the way he wanted.
"Yes Kapri what do you want?"
Uncle I have an idea why don't you sexually abuse him?"
"I don't want the information that badly, I may be an evil genius but even I have limits, shocking I know".
"Well have somebody do it. I will do it for you uncle".
"And why should I let you?"
"Because it'll show you how devoted I am to you and your empire".
Lother smiled, "go for it and please don't hesitate to do anything to him, try not to become shy or hesitate".
"Of course not uncle you can count on me".
Marah stood with the Green Samurai Ranger. "God it's been six days we should've figured out something by now".
Cam looked at her, the only ranger to look at her with compassion, the others hadn't said it but Marah knew they blamed her for whatever Dustin was going through, if he was still alive.
"We'll find him, there's always an answer if you look long enough. Whatever your uncle can do we'll defeat him".
"That thing is not my uncle, when Dustin is back I'll make everything up a thousand fold".
Dustin slowly sat up emotionally and physically drained. Only the satisfaction of ticking of Lother kept him going. He couldn't let his friends be destroyed or Earth. Marah he resented a lot at times. Part of him longed to have just let Lother finish her off.
But then he would be no good just like Lother. I will never become like him. Suddenly his thoughts were disrupted and the force field was dropped. Probably Lother or Electro trying to break him.
But instead Kapri walked in but, she wasn't dressed in her usual pink outfit but a red gown that clung to her and left nothing to his imagination. She walked to him as he used the wall to stand himself up.
"What.why are you here?" his voice was hoarse from his ordeal that and because much to his dismay he was turned on.
Kapri smiled seductively at her prey, "just here to find out why you appealed to my sister, it's your fault she left. Everything was fine until we sent BEEVIL down".
"Nothing is my fault, and I've never done anything with Marah".
A devilish look came into Kapri's eyes, "well then I'll get the honor".
"You sicken me Kapri". Dustin tried not to look into her eyes. He didn't want to look at her at all.
"Don't you like me even a little ranger? Don't I look even the slightest bit appealing?"
Far too much, Dustin thought to himself. Suddenly he found himself looking into Kapri's eyes. "You are beautiful" Dustin was losing himself in her; it was like he was on autopilot.
Kapri stroked his cheek, "do you want me? We can be together I sense your desire".
Kapri kissed him but instead of turning him to putty in her hands, Dustin heard Sensei's voice in his head. Use you inner ninja in times like these, fight with all your strength, the strength that is with you always.
Dustin visualized his mental energy to the very core of his body, and with every fiber of his being willed the control of his body back to him. Kapri cried out as she was thrown across the room. He hadn't even laid a hand on her!
"What have you done?"
Dustin stared coolly at her, "defeated you as I have defeated Electro and your uncle".
Kapri stood up, "very well Yellow Ranger you have chosen to defy us, you'll regret but not for long. It's a shame to we could've been great together" she walked out putting the force field back in place.
In Ninja Ops Marah gasped. "Rangers get over here quick!"
Shane and Tori were the first to get there, "the force field is losing strength".
"Wouldn't Lother be careful about that?" Hunter asked.
"It means Dustin's alive but not for much longer. I think Lother might be trying to kill him". Suddenly an image came to her from her time being unconscious. "Cam didn't you say there was something in my brain?"
"Yeah a disease of some sort".
"No it's probably a device implanted by Lother, if I ever survived he could put me under mind control, I'm sure that's what he's done to Kapri".
"What are you trying to say?" Tori asked.
"It might get me, get us onto the ship. The shield can read me and identify me; it might be able to let me in. You'll have to teleport quickly though it, but if it works you'll be able to save Dustin".
Shane turned to Sensei, "what do you think?"
"We have run out of options. Be careful rangers on your mission".
"We will" Shane replied, determination making his eyes glow. "Ready guys?"
They looked at their morphers and nodded, soon their transformation into the suits followed. Led by Marah they transformed into balls of light and went up into space.
On the ship Lother turned to Electro, "he's useless to us now, he's resisted all our attempts to break him".
"What do you want me to do now?" Electro asked.
"Kill him of course".