Heroes and villains part 3
Kat found herself in a room she recognised, it was in Rita and Zedd's palace, she had been there back when she first arrived in Angel Grove. It was here that Rita empowered the poor girl the first time she broke the spell that had been put on her. She was alone in the room, she had not been taken prisoner, she knew she could just walk out into the main castle, she was even confident that she could find her way round it. As she headed to the door she realised what the sensation was she had been feeling since she had become aware of where she was, she felt like she had awoke from a dream. She reached behind her back for her morpher but it was gone, she began to suspect that it had never really been there. Shaking off her doubts she left the room and began looking for a way to get back to Earth, it didn't take long before she was in the throne room. She heard a noise behind her as she moved through the room, turned and gasped as the throne turned to face her and Rita Repulsa was revealed to be sat on it.
"So you're up and about are you my Kitty," she says her voice full of glee, "it's about time, I've got a mission for you."
"A mission," Kat mumbled finding her voice, she wanted to tell her to stick the mission where the sun doesn't shine but all she could manage was "what mission, mistress."
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Adam was in a friendly familiar place, the juice bar. He was sat on at a table with a pretty girl, they were just talking and having a good time together, Adam was enjoying the quest for these new powers much more then he did the previous one. He suddenly thought he heard a noise behind him, turned around but nothing was there. A few moments later the same thing happened, by the third time Adam was certain that something was going on that he wasn't party to and went to find out what it was.
Adam moved into the side room where he was sure the sound was coming from and he found he wasn't imagining things there was a figure in there, in the shadows. He told Adam that he was a Shadow Panther Ninja, calling him the Black Ranger, and he threatened the girl that was sat at his table and then he was gone into the darkness. Adam thought for a moment then heard the door click, the ninja was after the girl, Adam reached straight for his power coin, but it was gone. He rushed out to try and stop the ninja with out his powers if he could, but he was clearly too late. The ninja was there, holding the girl between Adam and himself with a knife to her throat, Adam knew he couldn't stop him before he cut her throat and he froze.
The ninja laughed and dropped the girl, she was unharmed, "you're not ready yet," he mocked before vanishing into the either. Adam rushed across to the girl to make sure she was okay.
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Tommy attacked the stone monster without his powers, he knew it was dangerous but some one had to stop it. He tried a frontal assault but that was no use, so he set traps for the monster, the monster just breezed through them. It took everything Tommy could throw at it and didn't even slow down, Tommy's frustration was clear and he backed off believing he could not win. He sat in one of the buildings and began to weep.
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Rocky moved away as what he had seen began to sink in, he was no longer needed, surplice to requirements. He has always thought of himself as being the weak link in terms of the team, he was not the greatest fighter, he was not the smartest, he didn't even keep the spirits of the team high. It realised that it was just a matter of time before he was going to be replaced, better that it was someone like Jason rather then a stranger that the others didn't know was better then him. It was in this dark hour that the stranger appeared to him, he offered him the very thing that would prove to the others that he was still an important and needed part of the group. The stranger said that he could unleash a monster that would defeat the Red Ranger and then Rocky could arrive and trap the beast. Rocky began to consider the options.
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Back on Earth, in the command centre the Uberputty sneaked in, it has gone straight for the storage room, it teleports many containers of many different shapes and sizes to Lord Zedd's palace before Alpha discovers it's presence. Alpha's first instinct is to cower away from the creature, but he knows better then that, he attacks the Putty. Rather then get into a confrontation with the android the enhanced creature backs away and disappears. Alpha begins to check what's missing, but he can't tell for sure as the only inventory they have for the stores was from before the Power Rangers gained there powers.
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Billy was on the run from the gladiators, he was aware that he no match for them in any aspect of the physicality of this contest. He managed to hide from them every now and again, but never for long enough to escape or even formulate a plan of action. At the moment though he has managed to avoid the creatures for long enough for him to consider what is going on. Finally it dawns on him why he has been so afraid, the fact that he was told that his intelligence made no difference, he had just excepted that and gave them the advantage. Suddenly he remembered something that he had been told by Trini's uncle, "they will try to make you feel that your intelligence is worthless, but the only time it is, is when you believe that as well." A smile began to sprout on his lips and he knew how to defeat his foes. Suddenly safe in this knowledge, his morpher reappeared in his hand, just in the nick of time as well, the trio had found him. He rolled away from them jumped into the middle of the trio, and let them attack, flipping away at the last second, they trapped each other. Billy then morphed and he disappeared.
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Aisha was released from the monsters grip and began taking huge gulps of oxygen, she kicked out at the monster as it moved closer to her, but the attack is clumsy and leads to her going under once again. It's then that she realises that the only way she'll beat the creature is to use the full space she has been given, and that means fighting it underwater. She knees it in the groin area making it let her go, she took a big gulp of air and dived under again where she hit a fierce attack using her fists and feet. When she came up for air her morpher appeared in her hand, she didn't even think she morphed and disappeared from the fight.
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Adam had separated himself off from the poor girl that had been attacked simply because she knew him. Adam was beginning to withdraw himself from the people around him, he had been afraid that this might happen ever since he took over as the Black Ranger. Now he knew that his only hope was to stay away from everyone that wasn't able to deal with the threats around them. Any time the girl came close to him he moved away, but the more he moved away the harder she tried. Suddenly she was attacked by the ninja once again and Adam flew into a rage. He was staying away from her, he thought as he kicked the ninja in the face, so this wouldn't happen. After the ninja went down he realised that she was not in danger because of him, it was because she was alive, one of the few things that helped to let her keep on doing that was because of him. On realising the true nature of his responsibility his morpher appeared, he morphed and disappeared.
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Rocky made his choice, "maybe I'm not the man that they need as the Red Ranger," he told the stranger, "but that doesn't make it right to do this."
With that the stranger transformed into the Red Ranger who gave him his morpher back, telling him that he deserved the power. He morphed and was gone. Somewhere in the either Jason smiled.
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Kat appeared in Angel Grove Park, a glass case in her hand that contained a moth, Rita had told her to release the creature in the park. It would put everyone in the city to sleep and then it would be theirs for the taking. Even though she didn't want to she was unable to refuse, it was like she was Rita slave once again. She was about to release the creature but managed to stop herself at the last second. She managed to activate a moment of crisis, she knew that if she released the moth she would have given in to the spell totally and had no way back, but if she refused she would be free. The easiest thing would have been to give in, and a certain part of her was telling her to do that, she began to tell herself that if she fights it she will lose anyway so why make it harder then it needs to be. She pushes this thought from her head and begins to fight it, she tries to push away images of Rita and Zedd and bring in images of her friends. She begins thinking of what freed her the first time and remembers that Kim gave her these powers for a reason. This faith gave her the focus to break the spell and she refused to free the moth, which transformed, carry case and all, into her morpher. She morphed and vanished like the others.
Tommy however seems to be having a much more difficult time.