Part 3
The two assailiants fought hard but realized that they were quickly becoming overmatched. The stranger had told White Ranger that they would be up against but he had hardly believed there would be this many soldiers. Even morphed he was having trouble keeping up with the amount of Vandairre warriors. Jason was sweating beneath his helmet and wished that he could call the others in for backup. When he looked over at the stranger that had brought him here he saw that the man was fighting like an animal but was still starting to give in himself.
He also noticed that for the first time the mans hood had come off and he could finally see his facial features. The stranger had long dark hair and almost shaped eyes donoting that he was a least partially asian. "You okay back there kid?" the stranger asked between kicks.
"I'll be fine as soon as we get these jerks taken care of." White panted out.
"Just hold up a little longer we have to push back into the control room." stranger told them.
"And then what?" White asked.
"You'll see when the time comes." stranger said with a smile.
'Sheesh why can't this guy ever give me a straight answer?' Jason thought the himself.
Laran led Tommy through the maze of cooridors that made up the interior of the Keldehan Royal Castle. The handmaiden turned sabotuer found herself disgusted by what the Vandairre had done to the only home that she had known in her life. The castle was a nightmare image of its former self. 'I can't wait until we get these creatures out of here.' she thought.
Tommy looked at his companion and even though he couldn't see her face the former leader of the Power Rangers could tell that she was hurting on the inside by the way that she moved. He sympathized with her and wanted to reach out to her but they had a mission to complete and he had never been good at that type of thing anyway.
The two made their way through the castle halls trying to move as fast as possible but also not draw attention to themselves. Laran heard a voice and froze. Tommy stopped beside her trying to figure out why she had stopped then he saw two soldiers walking by and then his own muscles clenched when he saw who was walking with them. There not more than a few feet away from him was Goldar. He felt the urge to leap at his old nemesis and attack. For a split second he considered doing it but regained his composure and thought better of it.
Tommy could see that Laran was now trembling noticable so he placed a hand on her to reassure her that everything was going to be okay. The danger passed quickly as Goldar and the soldiers with him passed by. Tommy and Laran could hear them talking.
"Yes the Emperor is sending me back to Earth with a large army to crush those insepid Power Rangers." Goldar said proudly. "I will crush them like I did all those years before and then bring the head of the White Ranger to our Lord on the tip of my sword."
Tommys rage began to build his armor but he continued to hold it in check. Goldar and the soldiers soon passed completely but Tommy was now very worried about what was going to happen on Earth. "We have to warn the Power Rangers." he said. "Is there a communications room around here somewhere?"
"The only place that might have that type of equipment it the room where we sent Jayna and Aron your planet." Laran told him.
"Good lets get over there now." Tommy said in a rushed voice.
"What about the mission?" Laran questioned.
Tommy looked her over for a second and then moved closer to her. "Look I know that we came here to get equipment but let me assure you that contacting the Power Rangers is far more important because in the end they will be the ones that save us all."
Laran became very quiet and nodded her head. "Queen Xanya isn't going to like this but let's go." she said.
The stranger hit a vandairre in the chest and then sprung off with a roundhouse to another soldiers head. When those two went down a three more soldiers come in to take their place. "These guys just don't give up do they?" stranger asked.
"Yeah well maybe this'll make them reconsider. ICE BLADE!!!" White Ranger said. "Now let's see how they like this."
"I was wondering when you were going to do that. Now let's show you what I've got." said the stranger as he reached under his cloak and pulled out a large black axe that had a stylized mammoth symbol shaped somewhat like his own Lynx Power Coin and what looked like the barrel of a cannon.
"Wow pretty impressive!" White exclaimed. "Where'd you get the hardware?"
"A friend gave it to me." the stranger quipped as he fired the weapon at a soldier and sent him crashing through a door behind him.
"Must have been one helluva friend." White commented under his breath.
"I think what we're looking for is through that door." the stranger informed his young companion.
"What makes you so sure of that?" White asked.
"Because my friend. In case you haven't noticed those jerks are being really overprotective of that door in particular." stranger answered.
White Ranger thought about it for a second and then he realized that the soldiers did seem to be trying to keep them away from the door. "Okay then if they don't want us in there then that's where we're going." White said holding his weapon over his head. "ARCTIC SLASH!!!" White Ranger lifted his weapon high above his head, twirled it and then brought it down with a slashing motion.
A wave of clear mist flowed out from the weapon, covering the Vandairre and the door that they were guarding. A moment later the mist soldified and compressed crushing the door and soldiers.
"Very impressive!" the stranger remarked.
"That's nothing. Check this out." White said. "ICICLE BOOMERANG!!!"
White Ranger pulled his arm back and launched his Ice Blade. The weapon spun in place for a second the shot out and cut through the door that it had just frozen. It then started on a return path towards its owner it hitting and shattering each of the soldiers that it had frozen along the way. White caught his weapon and nodded his head towards his companion.
"Now that was cool." the Stranger quipped.
The two ran through the door as Vandairre soldiers scattered out of their way.
Tommy and Laran passed by the throne room and took a quick peek inside. There were only a few soldiers standing guard inside but Tommy didn't want to take the chance that they would sound an alarm if he moved in. "Laran I want you to go back for the others." he whispered to her.
"What are you going to do?" Laran asked.
"I'm going to stand watch here. Get back here as quickly as possible. We're going to bust in." Tommy informed her.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" she questioned.
"Not by ourselves it's not, but I think that if we all went in it'll work." Tommy assured her.
"Fine, then I'll be right back." Laran said as she took off to go get the others and prayed that Tommy didn't do something to get himself killed.
"Look at this place." White gasped as he burst into the control room. There were control panels and monitors all over the cramp space. He could hardly believe that all of those soldiers had come from this room.
"We have to find the controls to shut this thing down." the stranger said.
"Why not just blast the place?" White questioned.
"Becuase that's no guarantee that whatever is jamming your communicator will be deactivated." the stranger told him while looking over the control panel.
White looked down and started to work on the controls. There were hundreds of buttons, switches and knobs as well as readouts and displays. The White Ranger let out a sigh and went about trying to figure out the controls.
Laran burst in the room and started to move about and talk frantically. "We have to get going." she told the others.
"Where's Tommy?" Katherine asked.
"We overheard this guy named Goldar saying that he going to take a group to Earth and wipe out the Power Rangers. Tommy freaked out." Laran told her.
Katherine began to tremble. "Tommy didn't go after him did he?" she asked.
"No he's standing near the throne room waiting on us to come back." Laran answered.
"Why is he waiting there?" Audra asked.
"Yeah what about the mission?" Jerrin questioned. "Queen Xanya is going to be mad if we don't get that equipment."
"Jerrin you don't understand. If Goldar beats the Power Rangers on Earth then we'll be a lot worse off here." Katherine explained.
"How do you figure that?" Jerrin argued. "What's going on with a planet that far away has nothing to do with what we are doing on Keldeha.
"You have no idea how little you know about this Jerrin. First of all Nicandros has to spend considerable resources on beating the Rangers." Katherine started. "While he's busy trying to beat the Rangers he can't fully commit to his rule here. And in either case the Power Rangers are the only ones that will be able to beat the Vandairre."
"I'll take your word for it." Jerrin said. "But I'm not taking the blame for this."
"Jerrin shut up." Audra yelled. "We better get to Tommy. Laran lead the way."
Tommy stood outside of the throne room waiting on the others to show up. His intent was to just burst into the room and hopefully catch the soldiers inside of guard. Everything would have to go quickly and Laran would have to get them into the chamber that she was talking about. Once they were in they would try to figure out the controls and hopefully find a communications system.
The former White Ranger was starting to get impatient and about to enter the room by himself when the others came running down the cooridor with about seven soldiers behind them. 'What the hell?' Tommy thought. 'We're going to be screwed.' "What's going on?" he asked.
"Stop them!" one of the soldiers screamed out.
Tommy looked at them in shock for a second and then remembered he was wearing a Vandairre uniform. Thinking quickly he called out "Stop!"
The 4 froze in place when they got near Tommy and raised their hands above their heads. The soldiers approached and one of them stepped forward. "Good work soldier." he said, placing a hand on Tommy shoulder.
Tommy reached up and grabbed the soldiers hand and flipped him over his shoulder. "Yeah but that was even better." Tommy quipped.
"What did you do that for?" Jerrin asked.
"Well I bet it was a helluva lot better than letting him run you threw with his sword." Tommy countered as he took a defensive stance between his team and the soldiers. "Go in I'll be right behind you." he told them.
They group entered the room and saw three soldiers standing around. "Oh great more of these idiots." Jerrin said.
The soldiers stood up and moved in to take on the intruders. "Halt right there." one of the ordered.
"I'll take care of these guys." Katherine said. "You guys find the entrance to that room."
"You can't take them by yourself." Jerrin said.
"Don't be so sure about that." Katherine told him.
"Come on Jerrin help me get this panel moved." Laran told him as she moved towards the throne.
"Yeah I'll help Katherine with these goons." Audra added.
"No Audra. Help them. I can handle this myself." Katherine said. "Trust me."
Audra nodded her head and went to help the others while Katherine headed to intercept the soldiers.
Laran and Jerrin worked feverishly to move the throne but it wouldn't budge. "We could use a little help over here." Jerrin called out.
"Right here." Audra said as she joined in the effort.
"It's about time." Jerrin said.
"Do you ever stop complaining?" Audra asked her friend.
"I'm not complaining. Just pointing out the fact that this sucks." Jerrin answered.
With Audras added effort the throne started to move and they could see a small stairway underneath. "That's it!" Laran exclaimed.
They group looked over to see that Katherine had already finished off two of the soldiers and was making mincemeat out of the third. A sidekick to the head put him out of commission.
A moment later Tommy came running into the room and slammed the door behind him. "We better get out of here now!" he yelled.
"What's going on?" Laran asked.
"About fifty soldiers outside of that door." Tommy told her.
"Well we've got the throne moved so lets go." Laran told him.
"Get in I'll be right there." Tommy ordered.
The ran down the stairs while Tommy held the door closed. Tommy could feel the soldiers pushing on the door and let do to run to the stairs. The soldiers burst into the room just in time to see the throne slide back into place behind the former Power Ranger.
"I think I have it." White Ranger said.
"Great then shut down the communications jammer and lets get out of here." the stranger said.
"Alright give me a moment. These control sort of look like the ones in the Power Chamber but there are still a few differences that I need to figure out." White told him.
"Okay but we don't have much longer before they storm this place." stranger replied.
Tommy and Katherine stood in shock staring at the room that they were in. It was like they had moved through time and into the past.
Audra stood next to an instrument panel and was examining it when Katherine moved next to her and began to hit keys on a control panel. A display appeared in the middle of the room.
Tommy stood on the other side of the room and began to work on another panel. Audra, Laran and Jerrin stood back in utter amazement as they watched the two working on the alien controls.
After a few moments Tommy turned around to face Katherine. "It's almost exactly the same." he told her.
"It's incredible. I wonder how it got here." she replied.
"We can figure that out later. For now lets get the communications up." Tommy instructed.
Katherine looked over the controls and then activated something on one of the control panels. "Tommy it's not connected to the Grid. We have only enough power for a short burst to Earth and hopefully teleport us out of here before those soldiers burst in." Katherine informed Tommy and the others.
It was then that everyone realized that the Vandairre were pounding at door that they entered and it was only a matter of time before the place was flooded with soldiers.
"What do you mean teleport?" Jerrin asked.
"It's really difficult to explain and we don't have the time. Needless to say we can be out of here and back to the camp in a few seconds." Katherine explained.
"How is that possible?" Audra questioned.
"Later!" Tommy exclaimed in response to the questions. "Katherine open a channel to the Power Chamber."
Katherine worked the controls and then looked up at her husband "I'm getting some kind of interference. It looks like my signal is being rerouted."
Tommy moved away from the teleporter controls over to the communications panel "Where is it being routed to?" he asked.
"I don't know but it's still somewhere on Earth near the Power Chambers coordinates." Katherine said.
"Somethings coming in." White Ranger said.
"It might be something that we can use against the Vandairre. Try to open it." The stranger told him.
White Ranger pushed a few buttons trying to catch the signal that was coming in. After a few seconds of button pushing he looked up. "I got it. Looks like a video transmission from another planet." he looked puzzeled at his readings. "They were directed to the Power Chamber. It's coming through now."
A blond woman appeared on the viewscreen and the White Ranger could see that there were four other individuals. "The woman let out a gasp. "It's a Power Ranger." she said.
"Ma'am can I help you?" White Ranger asked.
"I need you to get a message to the other Ranger." she said with an Australian accent.
One of the people in the background moved closer to the screen and then stared at the stranger.
"DAD!!!" The white Ranger exclaimed while pulling his helmet off.
"Jason!" Tommy said as he looked at his son in the viewscreen. "Where are you?"
"We found a Vandairre communcations tower near the Power Chamber dad. Where are you?" Jason asked.
"Look I don't have time to give you much of an explanation but I just want you to know that I'm okay." Tommy was silent for a moment and then grabbed the woman standing next to him and pulled her in front. "Jason I don't know when I'll get the chance but I will explain this to you but I want you to meet someone."
"Tommy is that him?" the lady asked.
"Yes it is." Tommy answered.
The woman started to cry and placed her arms around Tommy. "He's beautiful." she said.
"Dad who is this?" Jason asked.
"Jason this is Katherine Oliver your..."
"Mom..." Jason gasped.
"Jason we need to get going." The stranger said. "Their busting the door in."
"Listen Jason, Goldar is bringing a massive army to Earth you and the other Rangers need to be ready." Tommy warned.
"Hi there boss." The stranger said.
"Adam!" Tommy said excitedly.
"Who else would it be?" Adam responded.
"You have to help the Rangers." Tommy told him.
"I'll do what I can from my end. Just try to get back here safely." Adam said.
"We don't have any more time. We'll try to get in touch with you again. Tommy out." Tommy told them.
The screen went black and Jason deactivated his end of the connection. "Let's blow this place and call the Rangers."
"I figured it out." Adam said as he hit a combination of buttons that turned off the communications jamming equipment. "That's it, call the others in."
"I'm all over it." Jason said.
"This is Alpha." the little robot said as he activated the viewing globe.
"Alpha this is Jason. I found a Vandairre communications tower. I've deactivated it from the inside but we need the Zords to bring it down."
"Ayiii, Ayiii, Ayiii, I'll send in the other Rangers." Alpha said.
"Oh and one more thing. There's someone else here with me. I need you to teleport him to the Power Chamber. He's a former Ranger so it's cool." Jason said.
"Alright Jason teleporting now." Alpha said.
In a flash of dim gray light Adam dematerialized from the communications tower.
"I guess it's my turn." Jason said as he pulled out his blaster and fired at the control panel. A shower of sparks flooded the room. "Now that's done so I can bring this place down around these soldiers head." Jason grabbed his helmet and tucked it under his arm. "BACK TO ACTION!!!"
"Okay I thinks it's time to go." Tommy said.
"Okay the coordinates are in." Katherine told them. "I set a lockout on it. The only ones that can activate it are the two of us. Even thought there'll be no more energy for a teleport after this."
"Go work Kat." Tommy said. "Punch it."
Katherine smiled, it had been a long time since anyone had called her Kat and she liked the memory. The former Pink Ranger hit the button to activate their teleport and the group vanished from site just as the soldiers entered to room.
"Wait! This isn't going to hurt is it?" Audra asked, but it was to late they disappeared into a streams of gray light.
A few moments later they reappeared in the camp near Queens Xanyas tent. Several people were standing around and became startled but stood in amazement when they realized that it was their teammates that had appeared out of thin air near them.
"That was quite a rush." Audra said.
Jerrin felt himself over as if making sure that he had been put but together completely. "Just promise me we'll never do that again." he said.
White Ranger stood and watched as the other Zords came charging in 'Well better get this over with' he thought to himself. "WHITE RANGER, LYNX, TITANZORD POWER!!!" he called out.
A few moments later a the Lynx Zord appeared and the White Ranger jumped into its pilot compartment. "Okay guys. I've had enough of this place. Lets bring it down."
"Jason this is your deal. Call it whenever your ready." Jarrold said.
"Okay, we need Mega TitanZord Power now!!!"
The TitanZords came together to form the Mega TitanZord. The White Rangers looked at the others "Lets take this thing down."Power Sword Now!!!" Jason commanded.
The Power Sword appeared in the Mega Zords hand and with just a couple of swings the communications tower fell apart into nothing but fragments and broken circuitry. Soldiers scattered everywhere trying to escape the giant robot.
"Lets finish these guys off." Bryan said.
"Naw, just let em go for now." Jason responded. Everyone looked at the White Ranger curiosly.
"Okay like I said it's your call." Jarrold reinterated.
"I just wanna go home. I have to tell my mom that my dad is okay." Jason said.
"How do you know that?" Tara asked.
"Becuase I talked to him. And even better my mom is alive." Jason told them.
"We know I was at her house when Alpha called." Leslie said.
"I meant my real mom. She's with my dad on a planet that according to the instrument panels in that tower is called Keldeha." Jason informed them.
Aron sat a little lower in his seat upon hearing the name of his planet. 'I hope that everythings okay at home.' he thought.
"Well guys I'm outta here. I'll talk to you later. I have something to do in the Power Chamber." Jason said.
"YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU HAD THEM BOTH RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM AND YOU LET THEM ESCAPE!?" Emperor Nicandros screamed at the soldier.
"There were several of them and we chased them down into the chamber below. When we got in they were gone." the soldier whimpered.
"I'm not going to destroy you this time. Everyone makes mistakes. But you are now personally responsible for recovering the former Rangers." Nicandros said as he said down on his throne. "I just hope Goldar doesn't disappoint me like you have."
Jason sat his helmet down as he entered the Power Chamber and looked around for his now friend. When he didn't see him he began to walk through the Command Center searching until he found Alpha working on some high tech device. "Where's Adam?" he asked.
"Your friend left. He said that he had something important to take care of but that he would be around keeping an eye on you." Alpha answered.
"Did he say where he was going?" Jason asked.
"No he just left and didn't say anything other than that." Alpha said as he went back to working on his device.
"Why can't I ever get a straight answer from that guy?" Jason chuckled.