Part 2
Kari led Tara through Angel Grove park and towards the neighborhood she lived in.
Tara hadn't spent much time in the city since they had freed it from the Vandairre instead she had opted to stay in the Power Chamber working on all sorts of little projects. 'I should have quit while I was ahead.' she thought to herself.
"Why are you in such a hurry to find Kimberly?" Kari asked.
"I need to talk to her about something important."
There was a scream that stopped Tara and Kari dead in their tracks. 'Damn what is it now?' Tara asked herself as she looked around for the source of the scream. Off in the distance she saw what looked like a group of Vandiarre soldiers. "Kari I need to you go to get Kimberly and tell her that somethings going on. I'm going to see what's going on over there."
"Those are soldiers, you could get hurt. We should wait for the Power Rangers." Kari pleaded. The young girl been through more than her fair share of run ins with Vandairre soldiers. She knew what they could de and was very wary of them.
"Some one over there needs help. You go get Kimberly I'll see what I can do here. If I get in over my head I'll get out." Tara promised.
"Okay." Kari said, turning her head over her shoulder as she ran off.
Another scream came from the direction of the soldiers and Tara started to move off in their direction. When she saw that Kari was out of sight she pulled out her morpher. "Dragon!!!" The young ranger called as she held her morpher out in front of her.
In a flash of purple light Tara Scott disappeared and the Purple Ranger was now running towards the attacking Vandairre.
The lights began to dim in the Power Chamber and a split second later they were replaced by the red lights and blaring buzzer of the alarm system.
"Ayiii, Ayiii, Ayiii, what is it now?" Alpha said as he moved frantically from panel to panel on the instrument console. Finally he activated the viewing globe. The Rangers all stood and watched as what looked like a Vandairre attack was taking place.
"Alpha where is that?" Jarrold asked.
"It is in a city known as Los Angeles." Alpha looked around almost helplessly. Normally he would have called in the Power Rangers, but in this case all he had were these other teenagers trapped behind a force field claiming to be the Rangers.
The teens looked on as the Vandairre terrorized the place. People were running in fear as soldiers marched through Los Angeles and destroyed the place.
"You have to let us out of here." Ashlyn demanded.
"I'm sorry but I can't do that." Alpha said as he turned to face them.
"Look" exclaimed Jason, "Those soldiers are tearing the place apart. We need to get out there and help them.
"Yeah you animated scrap pile. We have a job to do and you're not making it any easier." Bryan yelled towards the little robot
"Bryan this isn't helping." Mark said calmly.
Jarrold stepped closer to the edge of the force field. "Alpha I know that you're programmed to protect the Power Rangers and humans in general. Why don't you let us go help the people in the city. We'll leave our morphers here and when my sister gets back with Kimberly you can send them to us."
Alpha thought for a few moments. 'What if they are telling the truth?' he asked himself. 'then I would be responsible for all lot of people being hurt.' Alpha turned around and walked over to the instrument panel. "Okay place your Power Morphers at the edge of the force field."
The Rangers all did as told and Alpha teleported the Morphers out of the field and onto a table protected by yet another force field at the other end of the room.
"Hey what are you doing?" Aron asked.
"Just a precaution. I have to lower the force field in order to teleport all of you such a long distance." Alpha said, remembering the limitations of the device.
The Purple Ranger ran towards the Vandairre soldiers with almost blinding speed and as she approached she could see that they were moving in towards a group of teenagers. There were only about a dozen or so soldiers, nothing that a Power Ranger had to really worry about, but to these regular humans they were like some brutal unstoppable force.
A few of the soldiers saw her approaching and broke off to move towards her. One of them drew his weapon and took aim but before he could squeeze off a shot Purple Ranger was on top of him. With a swift kick to the side of his head she sent him crashing into a soldier that was moving into position next to him.
Another soldier tried to come from behind to grab her, but the Purple Ranger was a lot faster and swept back with her left leg, taking the shoulder off balance. Before he could land she executed a backflip, ending up behind her target and then hit him with a side kick to the temple.
The soldier stumbled around for a moment and then crumbled into dust as his helmet began to fragment. Tara immediately turned her attention to the other soldiers and moved in to attack. The remaining soldiers scattered to engage her from different directions. "Plasma Bow!!!" Tara called out as she held her hand out to summon her power weapon.
The weapon appeared in her hand and she took aim at the first soldier. A bolt of energy shot out and completely incinerated the invader. The next soldier ducked under the shot and continued to run towards her. Purple released her bow and it disappeared back into the dimensional portal that it came from. Just as she soldier was on top of her she pulled out her Dragon Dagger, stepped to the side, tripped him and plunged the dagger into the back of his helmet.
The other soldiers thought twice about attacking and began to scatter but the Purple Ranger was not about to let them escape after their attack on these teens. "Oh no boys, you're not getting away that easily." she told them. Once again she summoned her bow and began to fire. Within a few moments the soldiers were nothing more than piles of dust. "Next time try picking on someone your own size."
The Purple Ranger began to move towards the teens and saw that most of them were shaken but otherwise okay. One of them approached her "Wow your awesome." the boy said.
"Thanks, but those guys are a joke. Now be careful, I'm outta here." Purple said as she turned around to try and find Kari.
The Rangers appeared in the middle of a crowd rushing away from a big disturbance. Jason grabbed the arm of an old lady as she ran past. "What's going on?" he asked.
The lady began to scream in terror then realized that it wasn't one of the soldiers that were grabbing her and calmed down. "Their attacking." she old woman said in a panicked voice.
Jason could see that she desperately wanted to run so he let her go. "We'll try to keep them away long enough for you to get away."
The old woman ran off and Jarrold stepped closer to and looked his team over. "Things are pretty bad here guys. There are at least a hundred soldiers here and their ripping the place to shreds." he said.
"We need to get these people out of here." Mark commented.
"Why don't we split up. Some of us can fight off the Vandairre while the others can try to get the people out of here." Aron suggested.
"Okay Aron, Bryan and Ashlyn come with me." Jarrold said. "We're going to run interference. Jason, Leslie and Mark I want you to try to gather as many people as you can and get them to the edge of the city. I want as few people as possible around when we bring this a head."
"Alright!" the others exclaimed as the nodded their head in unison and then seperated into their different groups.
Jarrolds group moved towards the center of the attack and immediately spotted soldiers grabbing people and forcing them into what seemed to be some type of transport. There were already dozens of people loaded in there was a line with dozens more bring formed.
"Hey why don't you let those people go." demanded Jarrold as he approached the Vandairre.
The largest of the soldiers stepped forward and looked at them then began to laugh. "And what my small friend are you going to do about it?" he scoffed.
"Why don't you come over here and find out?" Jarrold taunted.
The soldier decided that the challenge was not worth his time and pointed towards some of the other soldiers. "Go handle this nuissance." he directed them.
Three soldiers moved off and started towards Jarrolds group. The unmorphed Green Ranger moved his head, indicating positions that he wanted them to take.
Ashlyn moved to the left and engaged one of the soldiers, with a swift side kick to the side of the head she sent him flying back into a building.
Aron ran towards another soldier and lept at him with a flying kick that nearly took the soldiers head off. The soldier fell over unconcious.
Bryan stepped forward and stood in place until the soldier was almost on top of him. Just as the soldier was about to grab him, he brought his leg up and around with a roundhouse that caught the attacker on the side of his helmet and caused him to cartwheel back towards the transport.
The large soldiers laughter stopped and he pointed out another group of soldiers, this time numbering about 15 and led them into an attack against the teenagers.
Jarrold moved to the head of the group and rushed at the large soldier.
Jason and the others had gathered a small group of civilians and were moving with them to the out skirts of town when the ground began to rumble.
A large caravan of transports surrounded them and soldiers began to pour out.
"I think that we're in trouble guys." Leslie said, stating the obvious.
"Leslie I want you to get these people out of here." Jason ordered. "Mark and I will punch and hole through these guys. Don't look back." Jason said.
Mark and Jason took up offensive stances while Leslie started to direct the people behind them.
The soldiers began to move in cutting off Leslies escape route. "You're going nowhere human." a soldier snarled at them.
"Damn this isn't good." said Mark, while moving toward a soldier to attack.
Tara had unmorphed and had just passed the place where she had left Kari. "Okay which way did she go?" Tara asked out loud. She knew that she had to hurry and find Kimberly becuase the Rangers were trappped in the Power Chamber by her creation and the longer it took her the more of a chance that something would happen.
Tara looked around for a while and then saw Kari off in the distance. "Kari" she called out.
The girl stopped and turned around. When she saw Tara running towards her she smiled and waved. "That was fast." Kari said as Tara approached.
"Yeah it was pretty cool. The Purple Ranger showed up and cleaned their clocks." Tara gloated with a cocky half smile.
"Wow really?" Kari asked excitedly. "What was she like?"
"She's an awesome fighter, took out the soldiers like they were nothing." bragged Tara while trying to hide the fact that she was doing so.
"Yeah Purple Ranger is cool but Red is my favorite." Kari said matter of factly.
Taras smile turned into a slight frown "Let's go kid." she said as she grabbed Karis hand.