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All of the Power Rangers slept for the majority of that day, a few of them waking only long enough to go to the bathroom and eat some food to quiet their rumbling stomachs. The next morning, Jason was the first to awake and began working on what was left to be done on the morphers, as his mind needed something to do. He had been thinking of things that he knew should never have crossed his mind, but he couldn't help it. He hadn't expected to have to deal with these sorts of feelings on this mission.
Over the next few hours, the others woke up; some were more grumpy and groggy than others. They all hoped that their day was going to be rather peaceful, but unbeknownst to them Nicarni-Aso had a new opponent for them to try and conquer.
"It can't be morning already," Billy said, rolling over on top of Trini, before he realized what he had done and quickly moved away, "sorry Trini."
"It's alright," Trini said, as Billy moved even further over to the side and she sat up. After sleeping on the floor, she was quite sore, but knew that she would get over it after walking around for a little while, "we need to go ahead and get their morphers on line."
"I've already done that," Jason said, walking over to them with a smirk on his face. He was going to at least have some fun toying with the two of them about the relationship that no one knew about. He had thought that he would have been able to figure it out since he saw Billy frequently, but that did not seem to be the case. "I woke up about an hour ago and decided it was worth going ahead and doing this."
"That's great," Billy said, who was truly relieved to not have to deal with all of that mess now, as his mind was not functioning, as of yet.
"Yeah and I had some spare time to figure out what has been going on between certain people since I have not been talking to them lately ," Jason said, with raised eyebrows, as he looked at the two of them.
"We didn't say anything, did we?" Trini asked, as the pair of them turned red.
"No, but is there something you want to 'fess up to before the others get all of their senses about them? You know I don't mind making this loud," Jason said, as most of the others seemed to be struggling with the reality of actually having to wake up. It seemed that none of them were quite sure if their nightmares would become reality, since they did not know what was ahead. That was always the worst thing about these missions, the uncertainty.
"Maybe," Billy said, vaguely remembering Jason interrogating Kim and Tommy some years before when they were still trying to hide their relationship.
"You awake?" Tommy asked rolling over, feeling the full effects of having his powers drained for the first time. He now couldn't help but wonder if he had ever had them completely taken away before now and the only conclusion he came to was that he most certainly had not.
"Yeah, even though I don't want to be," Kim said, very slowly rubbing her eyes. "You think Jason's figured out what's going on between Billy and Trini?"
"Maybe, looks like he's interrogating them," Tommy said, sitting up and then immediately lying back down. When he sat up, he had become extremely dizzy and had only been able to hold himself upright by gripping the edges of the bed. "Don't do that, you'll faint again."
"So all we can do is lay here?" Kim asked, rolling herself over and feeling the aches that had set themselves into her body. "God, I'm sore."
"Yeah, so am I. We better get Billy over here so we can go ahead and get our powers back," Tommy said, hoping that would make them feel better, at this point he thought that almost anything would help to make them feel better, especially a re-infusion of powers.
"Billy, come on and get this going," Kim said trying to sit up, but soon she found herself lying on the cold, hard floor and she felt a bruise that was going to develope on her left hip. 'Why didn't I take Tommy's advice?' She thought to herself as she looked up at Tommy's bed, helplessly.
"I told you that it wasn't wise for you to try and sit up," Tommy said, standing, unsteadily, to help her up.
"But you didn't fall," Kim said, propping herself up against the bed, miserably. "This just isn't fair."
"Well in all honesty he is a little bit bigger than you and that counts in something like this, Pinkie. Here drink all of this and then we'll let you morph into your new powers," Billy said, bringing two drinks that looked like chocolate milk over to them.
"Oh, chocolate," Kim said, with bright eyes and then took a sip. Her face contorted into a disgusted look, as she dared to glance at Billy, who was struggling not to laugh. "Well, it looked like chocolate."
"The faster you drink it, the sooner we'll be able to get this over with," Billy said, laughing to himself at the look on both of their faces.
"Cheers," Tommy said and they both gulped the substance down. "That was horrible, what is it?"
"An energy drink," Kim said, having an unreadable expression on her face. "They used to give me these in Florida, but they weren't nice enough to try and disguise it."
"Sorry, but it had to be done," Billy said, knowing that he had brought back a memory that would have best been kept in the far corners of Kim's mind, at least for the time being. There would be a time when she talked about Florida, but that time had not come for her, yet. "Here's your morphers."
"Okay," Tommy said, as Billy handed them their morphers. "What do we do?"
"Same as when we were all rangers, except we're going to use our colors. We don't know what our Zords will be, yet," Billy said, looking at both of them. "Go ahead, it'll make you feel better, I promise."
"Alright, it's Morphin' Time," they said, in unison, "pink, white, power up."
"Now this is how it's supposed to be," Kim said jumping up and down. They had only a few minutes to celebrate the new powers before the alarm, showing a breech of security, went off. They had expected to have some problems, but not right after they had recieved their powers. "This feels great. Who are we going to have to fight?"
"Those," Jason said, nodding his head towards the viewing globe. They were now scrambling to get the rest of the morphers on line, so they would be able to help as soon as possible. "And if you can buy us some more time, we'd really appreciate it."
"How long do you need?" Tommy asked, from under his helmet. The white ranger suit, looked almost identical to the first he had ever worn, except for one difference, he did not have the chest shield that had been there in the years before they had to get the Ninjetti powers.
"As long as you can give us. It's gonna be harder to restore everyone else's powers," Billy said, as he handed out the morphers to the others.
"Okay, we'll do that, let's go," Kim said, preparing to teleport to the battle site and her hand was pulled away from her wrist by a black gloved hand.
"I'm coming too," Zack said, appearing clad in all black, next to the other two rangers. "I was drained, just like the two of you. Now, what are you waiting for?"
"Nothing, let's go," Tommy said, and the three of them teleported to an old abandoned building on the outskirts of Reefside. Nicarni-Aso did not appear to them immediately, but she soon came out from behind a pile of crates with an army of new creatures walking behind her.
"Nice to see you again, but I've brought a new challenge for you this time, so to speak," Nicarni-Aso said, motioning to the amephors that were standing around her. "These are some friends of mine, I hope that you can handle them without too much trouble."
"The riods must not have done a good enough job for her," Kim said, looking at these creatures that seemed to have a hard, almost metallic looking skin covering. She, as well as the others, knew that in this business usually the book cover was in fact the book and these did not look like they were going to back down easily. "Good Lord and to think we have to try them after just getting our powers back."
"Yeah," Tommy said, as they continued to size up their newest opponent and it suddenly disappeared on them. This couldn't be a good sign if they were not able to see the things coming towards them. "Where'd they go?"
"They have some special powers, invisibility being the least of your worries," Nicarni-Aso said, and right before she disappeared continued with a maniacal, "have fun."
"Billy, do we have any specialties we don't know of?" Tommy asked, into his communicator, as Kim tried to keep him from pacing around. The last thing they needed was for him to be ambushed by a being that they couldn't even be sure to hit if they tried. "Namely the ability to see invisible creatures."
"Holy shit," Jason said, seeing that the screen was blank of the creatures that had been there mere seconds before. "Who has that one?"
"It's me, isn't it?" Rocky asked, and Billy nodded quickly. "Well, come on. They need my help, here."
"Tommy, hold your ground. We'll be there as soon as possible," Billy responded, skipping over the others and going to work on only Rocky.
"You don't have to worry about that," Tommy said, pacing around, while ignoring Kim's outstretched hand,"but we're going to need back up soon. These things will surely be able to figure out that we can't see them any time now."
"Don't worry, we'll be there soon," Jason said, as Billy showed Rocky how to activate his power. The activation sequence just like everyone else's only had to be done once and then the powers would come and go at the will of their owner.
"We better stay together," Kim said, bringing the pacing Tommy back to the reality of the situation.
"Yeah, you're right," Tommy said, walking back over to where Kim and Zack stood, back to back. "So much for taking this battle there."
"Let's just worry about getting rid of these creeps first," Kim said, smiling to herself at how this was the one thing he could think to talk about at a moment like this. Most people would be losing their lunch just thinking that they were going to have to fight these things in the first place. "Then, we'll worry about having to change our plan."
"Tommy, we're sending Rocky in. He'll be able to help you," Jason said, as the green ranger teleported in beside Tommy.
"Oh shit, we're in trouble," Rocky said, seeing a small army of amephors with his power. "Let's see what'll pull them out of hiding."
"Tell me where to aim," Zack said, bringing out a modified power axe that Billy had assigned him.
"At the center of that oak tree for starters," Rocky said and Zack fired, which left the amephors disarmed and useless because of the new powers that weapon had been given.
"Get ready for them," Tommy said, as the small army began charging towards them.
"I am. Let's do what we were all brought back here for," Kim said, engaging in a battle with the first amephor that approached her.
"Oh hell no," Zack yelled, as one of the amephors ripped his suit to shreds, with its powerful claws. He had never been one to like when this happened and it had happened far too soon if you asked him. "You're going to pay for that."
The remaining rangers continued to teleport in as their new powers were given to them. The amephors proved a much harder challenger than expected, but were still being easily dispensed of by the nine of them. Then, Nicarni-Aso must have had the Earth shattering idea of trying to capture one of them and bring the rest into a trap of her own.
"Little purple ranger, not doing so well now, are you?" Nicarni-Aso asked, having grabbed Trini by the arms, as the amephors filed in front of her, being able to keep the other rangers away. They could all see where this was going to lead if they didn't get through the wall soon. "Doesn't matter, really, I'm sure someone here will care. Amephors cease your attack and come with me. If you ever want to see your friend again, you'll come to my planet and fight, my way."
"No. No!" Billy yelled, as Nicarni-Aso disappeared, still holding Trini hostage. "You can't take her!"
"Billy!" Jason said, half-heartedly grabbing one of his arms while Tommy grabbed the other, in an attempt to restrain the blue ranger from running himself out as he tried to find where they had taken her. "You've got to calm down, man. We'll be able to save her, but for the time being we are going, to have to do as she says. Come on, let's get back to the command center."
"I promise you, she hurts one hair on Trini's head and all of this following her plan bull shit will go out the window," Billy said, as they turned him loose and looked at him, shocked by what he had said. "All of you ready for the power that Zordon wanted us to hold back?"
"Yeah, we are," Aisha said and they all teleported back to the command center, to begin there work.
AN: That's it for this one. I know that it's a little bit of a cliffhanger and I'll try not to do this too often, but sometimes it can't be helped. Hope you enjoyed and feel free to review!