Sometimes The Truth Hurts

Zordon had just teleported to Lilia's ship. "It's good to see that you are alright, Zordon." Lilia said walking into the room, Zordon had teleported in. "I'M AFAIRD THAT THE RANGERS ARE LOSING TO ZEDD, AND I STILL HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND THAROS." Zordon replied grammly.

"It's alright old friend." She replied. "Damn it you old fool, why does this seem so hard for you to do," she thought.

It was a beautiful day on earth. Specifically, in the small city of Angel Grove, California. Birds were singing, the sun was shining, and kids were running through the park. All in all a lovely day. Of course, that was on earth.

But for the three teens, it was one of the sads days of their lives. They where standing at the ruins of the command center. Theyjust had to watch asCommand Center burned to the ground. "Ok what just happened here?" Jason asked sitting on the ground.

"Not really sure about that Jase." Tommy replied sitting down beside him. "Were losing, it's just the three of use now." He added.

"Just the two of you." Kim/Scorpina said transforming back into herself.

The two boys turned when Kim's voices changed. The look of shock, and horror was wroten all over their faces. "What the Hell." Jason yelled jumping to his feet. Both boys take three steps back and fill into a fighting stances.

"Where is she?" Tommy asked, but it sounded more like he was yelling at her. "What have you do with my Wife!" he added.

She only laughed at him. Whiched enraged him even more then he already was.Her laughs echoed in his mind, and also the ruins. All seemed quite until their was the sound of feet steps on the soft earth. "It's hard to beleive that you didn't even see the differences between the two of them," Tomias's voices rang out.

He soon stepped out form behind a rock, arms acrossed his chest.

"What took you so long."Scorpina replied walking over to him. "Zordon isn't here, he was able to get away." she added. when she stopped she was standing at his side. Tomias stood their for a moment, before back handing her. "You damned fool,I know he isn't here, he's with Lillia by now."

The two boys looked at each other before, saying. "We're going to finish this now. It's Morphin Time!"

"White Tiger."

"Tyrannosaurus."

Both Jason, and Tommy run forward, but before they could reach them, the two where teleported away.

Moon...

When Jason comes too, he found himself in a large, open chamber that had sufficient lighting despite the absence of a light source or even an open window. The inward-dome ceiling of the chamber was considerably high and there were various scaffolds hanging above Jason, all of which looked as though they were about to fall at any given moment. Jason looked around and found the chamber to be completely empty, but he did have a feeling that he wasn't alone.

"Where the hell am I?" he asked himself. He looked down at his hands, he was still morphed. 'Where's Tommy?' Shaking off his thoughts, he approached the sole opening in the chamber and walked towards it, but soon he took a few steps at a time and then completely stopped. He stared ahead at the doorway with conviction, hoping that the emerging obstacle was just an illusion created by his mind. But it wasn't; it was real and Jason soon found himself in a fighting stance.

Blocking the doorway, standing before Jason, was the master of this domain, Tomias. his signature sword (Sword of Darkness) that had been instrumental in many dark spells and attacks. Jason knew that Tomias was a strong opponent physically and his magic attacks made things much more difficult. That victory made Tomias cocky, so Jason could use that to his advantage.

He still had the power coin,thatZordon gave him on hand and thought of morphing, but knowing what happened with Zack and his Power Coin. He positioned himself in an offensive-minded stance, his right hand clutching onto the sword. On the other side, Tomias also assumed fighting position, holding his patented staff with both hands firmly.

"You're hopelessly outmatched, Ranger," Tomias taunted, "I just hope that you will provide more of a challenge that I won't take pity on you."

Jason smiled. "Then I'll try not to disappoint, Tomias."

The two warriors dashed at each other and soon the fight was on. Tomias blocked each of Jason's many kicks with his own sword, but each attack was causing him to recoil a step back. The two would make their way up a flight of stairs connected to one of the elevated platforms in the chamber. Occasionally, Jason would attack with the knife, which Tomias would block, but each sword shot blocked was causing damage to the Tomias sword. This occurred for several seconds until Tomias was nearing the edge of the platform. Noticing that the green ranger was cornered, Jason unleashed a hard sidekick to the side of Tomias 's face with enough momentum to knock Tomias off the platform and crashing down on the main floor. Tomias quickly got back on his feet, only to get knocked back by Jason's flying tornado kick attack.

Jason stepped in for another attack, but the Green Ranger quickly struck the Red Ranger's stomach, disarming the Ranger of his sword. Jason stepped back and clutched his stomach area in pain while Tomias looked on, ready to take advantage of his stunned adversary. Before Jason knew it, he felt the full brunt of Tomias' fist across the jaw that would have been enough to dislocate it. Jason managed to recover quickly to block another punch from Tomias and counter with an uppercut that caused the dark prince to stagger back several paces. Jason quickly grabbed the sword and tossed at Tomias, who managed drop to the floor so that the sword would impale itself into the wall behind him.

"Come on, Tomias!" Jason called out as the Green ranger slowly recovered, "Where's your bag of tricks?"

"Foolish human," Tomias growled, "That can easily be arranged..."

For the past fifteen minutes, Jason had been on the defensive, narrowly blocking and dodging many of Tomias quick strikes and vicious blows. He was almost amazed that he was able to last this long considering Tommy was beaten in roughly half the time. Even Tomias was impressed and genuinely surprised that this human - this Red Ranger - was able to last as long as he did, although the cold mask hid this from his opponent. After a crucial mistake by Tomias, Jason landed several palm strikes to Tomias 's stomach and followed up with several kicks, but a mistimed roundhouse allowed Tomias to aim the edge of his staff at Jason. Before Jason could react, he was struck by lightning from the staff and knocked to the ground, his body smoking and aching in pain.

"And so it ends," Tomias proclaimed. "It's time to end this once and for all."

Tomias stood valiantly over the fallen Jason, who was trying to build enough strength just to get back on his feet but couldn't. Tomias held the staff over Jason's head momentarily to "take aim" then slowly swung it overhead as far back as he possibly could. Jason waited for the proper moment to block, but felt a surge of energy the likes of which he had never felt. His instinct was forcing him to extend his fist overhead for no reason as Tomias began to swing the staff down at his foe. As the staff made its way to Jason, Jason let out a war cry as he swung his closed fist at the sword, hoping to block the blow. When the staff was extended horizontally over the Red Ranger, Tomias knew the end was near, but what followed was a loud sound of two metal weapons clashing against each other. Tomias looked on as Jason suddenly had a familiar sword in his hand and he thought it was a figment of his imagination, but it wasn't. It was real.

Tomias' sword clashed with the Power Sword, the weapon of the Red Ranger. It was an enchanted weapon that was thought gone along with the powers of the original Rangers - something Tomias had personally seen to - and yet here it was in this Jason's hand. Tomias couldn't believe it... he wouldn't believe it. No words could describe the absolute shock of seeing this weapon again, the weapon that could destroy him in his weak state. Jason could hardly believe or understand it, but at this point, he didn't care. What matter was that the odds were now even?

With the Green Ranger stunned by the sudden appearance of the sword, Jason delivered a quick kick to the sternum that knocked Tomias back a couple steps and stood up. Tomias attempted another swing with his staff, but Jason blocked the attack and began his own series of sword swipes and kicks, all of which Tomias was able to block. Soon after, the attacks came out much faster and hit much harder, not giving Tomias any chance to strike back because he was busy blocking all the attacks with his staff and taking steps backward. Tomias was quickly being overwhelmed as the attacks of Jason were executed with more speed and ferocity than humanly possible, almost to the point where Tomias would see triple-images of Jason attacking and trying to counter all that was being thrown at him. After what seemed like eternity, a well-placed sword strike from Jason shattered Tomias' sword and the Red Ranger knocked down the Green Ranger with a fierce sidekick to the head, cracking the visor at the same time.

Jason looked down on his feet and saw the two sword pieces turn into a single serpent snake, roughly four feet in length. Slowly, it was slithering away from the Ranger and back to its master, who was lying against the wall with a cracked visor. Jason held the Power Sword downwards with both hands and in a split-second, drove the enchanted sword through the serpent. Both he and Tomias could hear the sickening squeals of the serpent as it gasped to retain whatever life was quickly leaving it. The snake tried to wiggle free but to no avail, and Jason twisted the sword around to cause more pain to the snake, as blue blood started gushing from the wound. Soon, the serpent was motionless and turned to dust; the source of Tomias 's power destroyed for the moment.

Jason slowly turned his attention to the fallen Green Ranger, who had gathered his bearings and stood up firmly. Jason extended the tip of the sword to Tomias neck, who did not put up much of a fight anymore and was breathing heavily. Jason's eyes were affixed to Tomias 's visor and for a brief moment, both were silent as the two continued to stare back at one another.

"Where is he, Tomias?" Jason asked.

"Fighting my Father right about now," the Green Ranger stated, panting heavily, "he should... be in the... the main throne room."

Jason dropped the sword and took a long, hard look at Tomias before speaking, "Take this chance to leave this place and never come back."

Tomias huffed and stared at the man who had beaten him cleanly. He still hated him for what he was and what he had done, but then there was a new sensation hitting Tomias that replaced those feelings of hatred. Something he hadn't expected to feel towards anyone since his younger days, but something he couldn't properly identify with. But if he had to give this feeling towards Jason a name, he would have to call it respect.

"You've proven yourself to be a worthy opponent, Jason Scott," he said, "I just hope you're prepared for the war that awaits you in the coming days."

With that said, the defeated and humbled Tomias vanished in red lightning and smoke, leaving Jason alone in the large arena. Jason left through the main exit and proceed to search for the main hall that he was told about. However, the last bit that Tomias mention got to Jason.

"War," he thought, "What war?"

When Tommy awake, he found himself, in Lord Zedd's Throne room. ' Where's Jason.' He thought. "Well, Well if it's isn't the mighty White Ranger." Zedd called. Tommy's fists tightened. "You're going to lose, Zedd, Just like the last time."

"Doubtful. Let's get this over." With those words, the battle had begun.

Zedd pointed his staff at Tommy, where various beams were unleashed and struck the Red Ranger. Tommy stood his ground and leapt at Zedd, but the Lord anticipated the move and swatted towards a wall with a fierce swing from his staff. Tommy's slumped onto the concrete floor, leaving a hole in the wall he collided with. Flipping back to his feet, Tommy dodged another of Zedd's bolts and managed to score a hit on Zedd with a kick to the chest.

Tommy's first idea was to break away Zedd's staff, which had won him the battle before. So he took our his Zeo Blade and tossed it at Zedd. However, Zedd managed to deflect the sword with his staff. The move was enough for Tommy to pull out his blaster and fired several shots, most of which Zedd blocked. One lucky shot managed to stun Zedd, causing him to drop his staff. Tommy began to aim for the staff, but when he had a clear view of it, he saw that the staff was broken. When he returned his gaze to Zedd, he had a strange blaster in his hand and fired three shots at Tommy. Tommy managed to dodge two of the shots, but the third shot hit the back of Tommy's head. Tommy, almost surprised that he felt no pain, smiled behind his helmet as he took a defensive stance against Zedd.

"Your toy gun didn't work, Zedd." the White Ranger said smugly.

Almost worriedly, Zedd fired another shot which landed on the White Ranger's chest. Almost instantly upon the blast's impact, the Ranger suit quickly disintegrated, leaving behind Tommy in his civilian form. Tommy looked over himself to find his Ranger suit gone and when he turned back, he was met with a quick jab from Zedd. The impact of the jab was enough to knock Tommy against a nearby wall.

Zedd let out a faint laugh. "How do you like my new Polaron Disruptor, Tommy-boy? One of my little souvenirs from a scrap yards. The polaron properties is a weakness in the Ranger's morphing matrix, so much that it not only dissolves a morphed state but also drains the source of its power for a momentary period." Zedd shook the weapon for a moment before tossing it away. "It's out of ammo, but it's already useless to me because it accomplished what I wanted."

Tommy winced, shaking the headaches away. "What do you want, Radiator Face?"

"I want a fight." he said, ignoring Tommy's insult, "No magic, no powers, no weapons. Hand to hand combat. Straight-up brawling. The way it should have been before you decided to cheat!"

"Fine!" Tommy spat, "I'm gonna beat your ass to the ground!"

Tommy rushed forward with a spinning heel kick, which Zedd managed to dodge easily and counter with a side kick of his own, to which Tommy also dodged. Tommy followed with a hard right hand that smashed against Zedd's metal mask, bending the mouthpiece slightly inward. Zedd blocked the follow-up roundhouse kick and countered with a sweep kick that knocked the Red Ranger to the ground. Zedd felt a bit of choking that forced him to cough, then he noticed that he spewed a crimson liquid from his mask. He looked down at Tommy as he struggled to get back on his feet.

"My congratulations, White Ranger." Zedd complimented while breathing heavily, "You're the first being to make me spit out my own blood."

Tommy puffed without answering. He dashed at Zedd and tackled the Lord to the ground, following up with several hard punches to the head, all of which Zedd managed to block with his arms. After a missed jab, Zedd landed a hard right to Tommy's stomach and knocked him down with a stiff head butt. Tommy hit the ground hard, aching in pain. Zedd soon merely walked up and delivered a hard, unassuming kick to the grounded Red Ranger's chest, causing his adversary to recoil towards the end of the room.

"Don't give up, Tommy!" he said in a mocking voice as he landed two hard stomps on Tommy's head, "You can do it, Tommy!"

Zedd walked over to the fallen human with the intent of another kick, but was met with a hard elbow to the chest, which momentarily stunned him. Now on his knees, Tommy threw hard punches at Zedd's lower abdomen, stunning the Lord. Slowly, Tommy was up on one knee, but still continuing with the rapid-fire barrage of quick jabs to the chest. When he was fully standing, Tommy threw an uppercut that made Zedd recoil a step back. Another uppercut made the Lord recoil further back against the stone wall. Tommy kept up with this relentless assault of hard jabs and uppercuts that Zedd all took, wincing in pain. Finally, a jumping spin kick seemed to be the killing blow, but the Lord crouched down to avoid the kick and delivered a fierce uppercut of his own across Tommy's jaw. Zedd slowly approached the dazed White Ranger and wrapped his enemy's head with his left arm. Despite a couple of hits from Tommy's elbow, Zedd did not let go. After a moment, Zedd fell back-first the ground, driving Tommy's head into the pavement with excruciating force. The maneuver stunned Tommy for a moment, who was groaning in pain.

Not satisfied with the beating, Zedd grabbed Tommy by the neck, his grip so tight he was practically choking. When Zedd got Tommy back to his feet, he tossed him towards the wall. The Ranger's body practically shattered through the stone wall into another chamber, hitting the ground with a sickening thud. Zedd walked through the newly created hole in the wall to see Tommy struggling to breathe and to get back on his feet, but the Lord would not allow it, as he would kick Tommy's stomach, the force practically lifting the human's body off the ground before landing. Confident that the human was finished, Zedd proceeded to lift his right foot slowly over the Ranger's head and quickly brought it down, but Tommy instinctively rolled out of the way.

With the missed stomp, Zedd left himself open to Tommy, who capitalized with a hard kick to the chest. Slowly managing the strength to stand, Tommy headbutted Zedd's stomach and as soon as he was standing, he threw a hard right across the Lord's mask, slightly cracking the visor. With Zedd staggering, Tommy kept pounding on the Dark lord with closed fists, not giving him a chance to block or counter. But Tommy made a vital mistake by attempting a roundhouse, in which Zedd managed to block away with his fist. The next move was Zedd's and he capitalized with a hard right to Tommy's face. Now Zedd was delivering the hard blows. Tommy tried, as hard as he could, to block his blows, but they were too powerful. Eventually, Zedd stopped and took one hard look at the Ranger, who stood there dizzied, his right eyebrow cut open, and his nose bloodied. One fierce backfist later, the White Ranger crumbled to the ground in a heap. Zedd waited for the Ranger to get up, but instead the Ranger laid there, a beaten man.

Lord Zedd was triumphant over Thomas Oliver, his long hated enemy.

There was a long, pained silence between the two of them, aside from the human's heavily breathing. Zedd reformed his recently discard staff in his hands and positioned the sharp, bladed edge over Tommy's head. Whether he was aware of Zedd or not, he couldn't tell nor did he have the energy to do anything. Zedd held the staff firmly with both hands, his arms almost shaking as he prepared to deliver the killing blow. But rather than thrusting the bladed-edge of his staff through the Red Ranger's skull, Zedd tossed the shiny weapon away and backed off without removing his gaze from his fallen enemy, who managed to gain some movement in his hands.

"It's over, Tommy." Zedd said, an almost sympathetic tone lurking in his words.

"It's not over!" Tommy growled, fiercely. He tried to pull himself back to his feet, but would collapse to the stoned ground. His eyes would shut, but he was still breathing heavily.

Zedd stared down at the beaten human who was struggling to get back to his feet, but kept falling. After three attempts to get up and fail, Zedd sighed. Even a being with as much hate and/or evil as Zedd felt a bit of pity for the Ranger.

"Zedd stop please." A soft voice called making the Lord Of Evil turn to look at her. Lillia stond their looking at the two of them. "You can't kill him…His your son." She added taking a few steps forward.

Before Zedd could do anything, Lillia had disappeared only to reappear at Tommy's side. Then the two of the teleported away. The two reappeared outside of the Angle Grove Hospital. Lillia walked inside and got the help her son needed. Before again teleporting away, and back to her ship.

Three days later.

Tommy awake form his coma. For the past three days the only thing he could remember the battle, then a woman appearing saying that Zedd was his father. ' If that's true then, that means Tomias is my brother….' "DAMN IT ALL THE HELL." He yelled. Just the Mrs. Scott walked into the room

"What's the matter Tommy?" she asked walking over on his right side. She placed her hand on his forehead. "You have a slight fever. It's a good thing the woman bright you here. You where blooding internally, with a lot of broken bones. What where you doing, and do you know where Jason is, he hasn't been home in three days." She added moving her hand away form his forhead.

Tommy looked down at his feet. "I'm sorry, but I haven't seen him." He felt bad lying to her. But he couldn't tell her, he had promised Zordon and the other rangers that he would tell anyone.

"It's ok Tommy. I just hope his ok. Were going to keep you here a few more days alright, just to make sure your alright." She said walking out of the room. "Oh, one more thing, I've gotten a few calls form Zack, Trini, Kim, and Billy's parents, something not right here. Out of the six of you, you're the only one that is still here." She final lift the room.

Later on that day

Tommy was standing at the base of what remained of the Command Center. Come on "Zedd, I know you watching me, just come down here and get me. I give up, their nothing I can do." He screamed. Felling to one knee.

In a flash Tommy found himself in a cell, along with all of his fellow rangers, plus one. "Zedd bet ya." Zack said walking over to him. Kim was already at his side, her head resting on his shoulder.

"Hey beautiful." He said looking down at her. He placed his free hand on her chain. "It's all over. Zedd's won." He added. Before he could say anything more, Tomias walked over to the cell doors.

"Looks like a full house." He said with a laugh. "Enough with the small talk,Let's get the trail over with." He added, and with a wave of his hand. The rangers and Andy found themselves in a court room, Zedd was seating, where the judge would be.

"For the Crimes of opposing the rule house of Kaimizu. All of you have been exiled to the planet Gaia." Without warring the six of them disappeared, leaving only Tommy standing their. Rita and Goldar had already left. Zedd stood their looking over, at him. "Why don't you join me. Your mother will never see you has a son." He said.

"Who's my mother?" Tommy asked not moving form his seat. He stilled didn't what to believe that Zedd was his father.

"The same woman who saved you three days ago. Lilla." Zedd replied. 'Her…Damn it, she could have helped me.' "So want do you say, well you join me."

"No. Theirs no way in hell that I would help you." Tommy yelled.

"So be it." And with a wave Tommy to was gone.

After eleven hours of labor, Rita was able to give birth given birth to her and Zedd's twins. One was a girl the other was a boy, Nephillm and Nicholas. When Goldar eyes fell on little Nephillm, he fell in love with her. He know that the two twins would grow up without the worry of the rangers stopping their parents. But what he didn't know is that he was died wrong.

It would be more then 17 years before the ranger that had protected earth for so long would return, but with more help….