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Authors' note: Still breaking down the fic. Man this is taking to long. Anyway, enjoy.

Chapter 3: Zeltrax's Surprise

"I just got off the phone with Hayley," Anton Mercer said as he came down the stairs into the Dino Lab where the Zeo Rangers, DinoThunder Rangers and Elsa Randall were sitting around worried about what had happened to Tommy. "She said that she is going to return home as fast as she could; in about three days."

"Good!" Adam said. "We can use all the help we can get."

"I still can't believe that you're a Ranger, Katherine," Elsa said.

"And I can't believe that you were fighting against the Rangers at one point," Katherine said. "Hard to believe."

"Yeah. Well, it's not like I had much of a choice in the matter."

"Ok, we need to do something," Conner said as he paced the Lab worryingly. "Who knows what Zeltrax will do to him?"

"I know Conner, but who knows how to use Tommy's computer?" Rocky said.

"I do," Anton said. "Hayley gave me the password to get into the computer." Anton went up to the computer and typed in the password.

"Asuka?" Tanya asked. "What does that mean?"

"Beats me," Anton said as he continued. A screen of Reefside and all the neighboring towns appeared. Anton started the scanner and waited to find a reading on Tommy's whereabouts. Nothing came up at all. "Damn! Nothing!"

"Keep trying Anton," Elsa said. "He helped us out. The least we could do is help him."

"Man! I hate sitting here waiting!" Conner yelled.

"What can we do Conner?" Kira said. "We don't know where he is or Zeltrax's location either."

"Do you think that Zeltrax would kill Dr. Oliver?" Devin said.

"I hope not Devin," Anton said. "I hope not."

"We will find him," Tanya said. "He is stubborn! He will pull through this."

"I am so worried about him," Katherine said as she as she began to shake a little.

"We all are," Rocky said as he came up to her and put his hand on hers.

"Wait!" Ethan said. "The invisa-portals! Have you tried the network?"

"What are invisa-portals?" Cassidy asked.

"Oh my god. I didn't think of that!' Anton said. He began the scan to see if there were any portals. "Ethan, I doubt that there are anymore since Mesogog is gone, but I'm willing to try anything." A few seconds later, they got a reading. "Bingo! Found him!" Everyone crowded around Anton to look. "Damn it! Mesogog's old hideout. Damn you, Terrance!"

"What?" Adam asked. "What is wrong?"

"Zeltrax has main control of the invisa-portals right now. I have done a scan of the portal where this reading is coming from, but he has put up a firewall to block us."

"So you are saying that we can't get in, Dad?" Trent asked.

"Yeah," Anton said. "As long as this reading is active, we know that he is alive. The scan is locked onto his energy from his morpher. If he were to die, we would lose the signal."

"We have to do something," Elsa said. "Anton, we need to break through the firewall."

"I know, but we can't do anything without first trying to find a way to break through it first."

"That is why we need Hayley," Ethan said. "She is a whiz at this stuff." Adam looked at the monitor and then to the surrounding crowd.

"Ok, Anton, Elsa, can you try to make a device that can break through the firewall?" Adam asked.

"Yeah, but it might take us a few days to do it," Anton said.

"Then you start work immediately. Tanya, Rocky and I will take turns watching the scanner to see if anything changes."

"I need to run the school and find a substitute for Tommy's class," Elsa said.

"I can do it Elsa," Katherine said. "I just need his notes and everything."

"Thank you. They are upstairs, Katherine," Ethan said. "I will show you." The two went upstairs to find Tommy's school papers.

"What about us?" Kira asked.

"You have to go on with your lives as if nothing is wrong," Rocky said.

"We don't want your parents too worry about you," Tanya said.

"Guys, I will keep you informed. If anything changes or if Anton gets that device running, you'll be the first to know," Elsa said.

"Okay, guys," Tanya said. "We have work to do."

Tommy groaned and grunted as he tried to fight the pain. A few times, Tommy would scream out because of the torture that Zeltrax was putting him through hurt so much.

"Painful, isn't it, Tommy?" Zeltrax said satisfyingly. "Now you know what Elsa and I had to go through."

"Guys…." Tommy trailed off as he slipped in and out of consciousness. "Help me…"

"I will make you suffer, but first I need you to do something before I kill you."

"What….is…that?" Tommy said as he was finally losing consciousness. Zeltrax chuckled evilly as Tommy lost the fight to keep his eyes open.

About fifteen minutes after the morning bell rang to start class, Elsa came into Tommy's class with Katherine. The room of students was throwing papers everywhere. The class stopped when they saw Elsa come in.

"Class, Dr. Oliver is sick with the flu," she announced.

"Again!" the whole class complained.

"That guy is so sickly that is not even funny," a male teenager said. The rest of the class except for the DinoThunder Rangers laughed. The Rangers were too worried about the truth than to joke at the situation.

"That isn't nice, Eric," Elsa said. "Class, this is Ms. Katherine Hillard. She will be substituting for Dr. Oliver today. I want you to be on your best behavior. She is going to be your new drama teacher next year."

"Nice to meet all of you," Katherine said.

"Ok, I am going to leave you to teach them," Elsa said as she headed for the door. "If you need any help, call me."

"Thanks Ms. Randall," Katherine said. She turned to the class. "Okay, since Dr. Oliver has made the final already, I will give you your assignments and for the next two days. If Dr. Oliver hasn't gotten better by then, I will prepare you all for the final." A girl raised her hand. "Yes?"

"Is Dr. Oliver going to be here for the final?" the girl asked.

"I am not sure," Katherine said. "He is pretty sick." She saw the DinoThunder Rangers with very troubled looks on their faces. "Don't worry. I am sure Dr. Oliver is fine. He will get better." The Rangers were very somber through the whole class. The bell rang and the Rangers slowly made their way out to the door. "Don't worry. We will get him back."

"Thanks Katherine," Conner said sadly.

"Call me Kat."

"Thanks….Kat." The Rangers went off to the other classes for the day while Katherine taught the rest of Tommy's classes.

Back in the lab, things weren't going any better.

"Any change on the scanner, Rocky?" Adam asked.

"Nope, just the same annoying blip as always," Rocky said as he started at the screen zoning out.

"Rocky, get serious!" Adam said. "Anton, any progress?"

"It is coming along," Anton said, "but I still need the part that I ordered. It won't be here until Thursday."

"And Zeltrax might do something before then," Adam said. "We need to work as best we can until then."

"What do you think Zeltrax is planning, Anton?" Rocky said.

"Who knows guys…who knows," Anton said. For the next day, nothing happened in terms of getting Tommy back. The signal was still there and Anton was able to finish what he could of his firewall breaker, but he still needed the crucial part in order to get it to function at all.

On the third day since Tommy's disappearance, the Zeo Rangers and DinoThunder Rangers were starting to worry more and more about Tommy. If he didn't return the next day to Reefside High, Katherine would have to give the students their tests. Conner and the DinoThunder teens were still moping around depressed. They looked up to Dr. Oliver as a great friend and teacher. Not knowing what was happening to him really tore them apart. Adam, Rocky and Tanya waited impatiently for any changes on the scanner. Anton told the Rangers to go and meet the others so that they could take a break from patrolling the portals. The Zeo Rangers met the DinoThunder Rangers as they were waiting for Katherine to lock the door.

"What are you guys doing here?" Trent said as he saw Adam, Rocky and Tanya coming up the stairs.

"Anton told us to take a break," Rocky said. "He said that he would watch the scanner to see if there's any change in Tommy."

"Man, I hate waiting like this," Tanya said. They saw that the teens were very melancholy.

"Where is Principal Randall, Katherine?" Devin asked.

"She went to Tommy's house right at three o'clock," she said. "I think she's just about there right now."

"Now to gain more power to defeat those pesky Rangers," Zeltrax said as he laughed evilly. He prepared the invisa-portal to transport him to just outside the school.

"Anton! Where are the Zeo Rangers?" Elsa said as she walked up to Anton who was sitting at the computer.

"I told them to hang with the kids," he said. "Trent has be so down lately because of all this that I thought that the older Rangers could help cheer them up in someway."

"Yeah, I understand." She hugged Anton to give him comfort. He was looking rather tired and worn out. "It looks like you need the break."

"Maybe." At that moment, an alarm went off. Anton checked the computer.

"What is happening?" Elsa said as she looked at the screen.

"Another invisa-portal has opened!" Anton said. "Looks like Zeltrax is up to something."

"Where though?"

"Oh no! The school!"

As the Rangers were walking outside, they said goodbye the remain students that were there using the soccer fields to practice. When they were about to get into the cars, an explosion came from the soccer field and the students down there fled for their lives.

"Look!" Kira yelled. They saw Zeltrax and Triptoids attacking the students.

"Come on out Rangers!" Zeltrax yelled. "I have a surprise for you!"

"Aw jeez!" Rocky said. "Doesn't this guy know when to quit?"

"We've got to morph!" Katherine said.

"Right!" Adam said. Cassidy looked around to see if there was any one watching the group.

"We're clear," she said.

"Ok!" Adam said. "Ready?"

"Ready!" All of the Rangers said.

"It's Morphin' Time!" Adam yelled.

"DinoThunder Power Up, HA!" the teens said.

"White Ranger, Dino Power!" Trent said.

"Zeo Ranger One, PINK!" Katherine yelled.

"Zeo Ranger Two, YELLOW!" Tanya yelled.

"Zeo Ranger Three, BLUE!" Rocky yelled.

"Zeo Ranger Four, GREEN!" Adam yelled. All of the Rangers were morphed into there suits.

"Power Rangers…ZEO!" The Zeo Rangers said.

"Tyranno Power!" Conner yelled.

"Tricera Power!" Ethan yelled.

"Plesio Power!" Devin yelled.

"Ptera Power!" Kira yelled.

"Dilopho Power!" Cassidy yelled.

"Drago Power!" Trent yelled.

"Power Rangers…DINOTHUNDER!" The DinoThunder Rangers yelled. The two groups of Rangers confronted Zeltrax and the Triptoids.

"Well now," Zeltrax said. "I didn't think that you were going to show up."

"Where is Dr. Oliver!" Ethan yelled.

"He is alive. You are all so pushy!"

"Damn you Zeltrax!" Conner said. "If you have hurt Dr. O in anyway, I will…"

"You will what? Your pathetic threats mean nothing to me," Zeltrax snapped. "Triptoids, attack!"

Meanwhile, back in the Dino Lab, Anton and Elsa were staring at the Ranger fight through the computer.

"What do you think Zeltrax is planning, Anton?" Elsa said worriedly.

"I am not sure," Anton said. Just then, the blip for Tommy disappeared. "What! NO!"

"Oh no," Elsa said as she covered her mouth with her hands. "Tommy is gone! No…"

Back at the fight, the Triptoid fight didn't last long at all. The ten Rangers made quick work of them. This left Adam a little suspicious of what Zeltrax was doing.

"That was easy!" Ethan said.

"A little too easy," Adam said.

"What do you mean?" Devin said.

"You think that was it, Rangers," Zeltrax said. "I have more in store for all of you!"

"What, your own monster?" Kira said.

"Not exactly."

Anton desperately tried to get a reading from Tommy, but couldn't.

"No! He's gone!" Anton yelled.

"Who's gone?" a woman said from behind Elsa and Anton.

"Hayley!" Elsa said as she ran up to her, hugged her rather tightly and started to cry.

"Elsa? What's wrong?" Hayley asked.

"It's Tommy! He's dead!"

"WHAT!" Hayley yelled. She ran to the computer. Anton moved out of the way to let her sit and use it.

"We were tracking him through an invisa-portal that had a firewall on it," Anton said. "The signal is gone... which means he's…" All of a sudden another blip came up but in a different location.

"Who is that?" Hayley asked herself as she scanned the blip. "…It's Tommy!"

"It is!" Anton and Elsa said.

"Where is he?" Elsa said.

"He is..." Hayley said. "I don't believe it!"

"What do you mean not exactly?" Cassidy asked with annoyed tone.

"Yeah!" Devin agreed.

"WIND STRIKE!" a voice yelled. All of a sudden the wind picked up and the attack hit the Rangers and Zeltrax. They all fell to the ground.

"Watch where you are aiming, you idiot!" Zeltrax yelled.

"What the hell?" Adam said surprised.

"Who did that?" Katherine said. They heard footsteps coming from the edge of the field on the gravel. They turned to find the person walking towards them slowly with his weapon drawn.

"DR. O!" the DinoThunder Rangers said.

"He escaped!" Cassidy said happily.

"Something isn't right here," Adam said.

"Energy Orb!" Tommy said as he prepared for the attack. Conner knew then that he was attacking the Rangers.

"RUN!" Conner yelled. Tommy threw the attack at the Rangers and it hit Conner from behind while he was shoving the others out of the way. He fell to the ground. "Ouch…"

"Conner!" All the Rangers said as they crowded around him.

"Are you alright?" Tanya said as she helped him up.

"What is the deal?" Ethan asked stunned. "He attacked…us."

"He is being controlled," Rocky said in a serious tone. "He is very dangerous right now." Kira then began to quiver in fear.

"What's wrong, Kira?" Trent said.

"He can destroy us when ever he wants!" Kira said in a frightened tone. "If he uses Fire Strike, we are finished." The DinoThunder Rangers gasped in shock. They realized what Kira was getting at. They knew how powerful Tommy was.

"We can take him down," Rocky said. "We have done it before."

"We have fought him like this before," Adam said, "when he was being controlled by the Machine Empire." The DinoThunder Rangers looked at the Zeos as if they were nuts. At that moment, Tommy had walked up to Zeltrax.

"Surprised, Rangers?" Zeltrax said. "Surprised to see your precious Dr. Tommy Oliver fighting you?"

"What have you done to him!" Katherine yelled.

"He is my slave now. He will only listen to me. I used what Mesogog used to control Elsa. The only difference between Elsa and Tommy is that he wasn't infected with Mesogog's evil like she was. Now Tommy, keep the Rangers busy while I go retrieve my prize. When you are finished with them, meet me there."

"Prize? What prize?" Devin said.

"Yes, Smitty," Tommy said as he lunged at the Rangers.

"CRAP!" Trent yelled. He stepped in front of the group to block the attack. The two collided and Trent grabbed the punch that Tommy was going to punch with. "Guys! Go after Zeltrax!"

"But, Trent…." Conner said.

"Go! I can hold him off!"

"Let's go!" Conner yelled and the other Rangers ran after Zeltrax.

"Wait!" Adam yelled to Conner. "It isn't a good idea to leave him like that. Tommy's pretty powerful."

"I know….but so is Trent. I believe in him. He is stronger than he looks. He has beaten him before."

"I don't believe it!" Elsa said. "He attacked his own students!"

"I don't think he can help himself, Elsa," Anton said. "Zeltrax must have found that mind controlling agent and used it on Tommy."

"The one that Mesogog used on me?" Anton nodded yes.

"What do you think Zeltrax is planning?" Hayley asked. "Why would he need Tommy?"

"Who knows….TRENT!" Elsa said as she looked at the screen. "Don't try to take him on alone!"

"What is he doing?" Hayley said.

"He knows the risk he is taking," Anton said. "He is buying the Rangers time to defeat Zeltrax without Tommy interfering."

Tommy threw Trent back as he tried to run after the other Rangers. Trent was right on his heels as the two of them ran into the forest.

"Dr. O! Stop!" Trent yelled. Tommy turned around and swung at Trent, but because of the momentum, Trent has to slide between Tommy's legs in order to dodge him. Trent flipped up, but then found Tommy's leg coming straight at him. It hit his stomach and Trent slid back. He looked up at his teacher as he said to himself, 'He is faster than before! What's different now? I beat him the last time!'

"Power down!" Tommy said as he demorphed.

"What the!" Trent was surprised. Tommy then lunged at him, but to make Trent even more cautious and on guard, he became invisible. "Damn it! Where did he..!" Tommy kicked him in the chest, making Trent fall back. A second later, he was met with a kick to the leg, another to his back and then a punch to the head. Trent fell over onto the ground. Tommy reappeared and looked at Trent on the ground.

"Is that the best you can do, Trent?" Tommy said. "Pathetic!" Trent looked up at him. He could see that his teacher's eyes were pitch black and glazed over.

"Dr. O! I don't want to hurt you!" Trent said as he put his hands up in defense.

"What makes you think that you are stronger than me, Trent?" Tommy said angrily.

"I beat you the last time! Before I encased you in the amber!"

"I went easy on you! Do you want to know why Trent? You're just a child. Being foolish I felt compassion for you. I knew the other kids couldn't handle losing poor little Trent. But now?" Tommy chuckled to himself in a cold tone. "Now Zeltrax has graciously removed those weak emotions from my body. Class is officially in session, boy."

"Fine! Power Down!" Trent yelled and demorphed. "If you want an all out fight, Dr. Oliver, so be it!" Trent got into a fighting stance.

"Heh!" Tommy scoffed. "You really think that you can beat me?"

"Yeah!"

"I would like to see you try!"

At that moment, Tommy went invisible again. Trent laid flat on the ground and he blended into his surroundings with his chameleon power. The two of them began to try and track the other as Trent started crawling along the ground near the bushes. Trent looked closely at the ground to see if he could see any movement on the ground. He saw the grass in front of him swish and he figured that it was Tommy and swung his leg at the grass. He felt his leg hit something and then a loud thud. Trent came out of chameleon mode and jump on to where he had heard the thud. He landed on Tommy as he became visible again and Trent tried to pin him down. Tommy threw Trent off him and then went invisible again. Trent put his back to a tree and went chameleon again. Trent saw a stick near by and grabbed it. When he did, the stick also blended in with Trent. He waited until he saw the footsteps in the grass come closer and closer to him. He jumped out to swing becoming visible again, but he missed.

"No!" Trent said. He knew he made a mistake. A split second later, he felt Tommy kick him in the stomach and Trent went flying back into the tree. Trent began to cough. Tommy then came up becoming visible, grabbed his neck and shoved his head to the tree.

"Sloppy, Trent!" Tommy said. "Very sloppy!" Trent kicked Tommy in the chest to back him away from him and he went chameleon again. Tommy quickly tried to punch Trent before he tried to disappear, but his fist met the tree instead. "You can't hide from me forever!"

"Neither can you!" Trent said as he kicked Tommy from the ground up. It hit Tommy's chin and he fell back into the tree and rolled off it into the clearing behind the tree. Tommy got up and went invisible and waited. Trent waited for Tommy to move, but he didn't see any movement. Finally, Trent became visible and walked out into the clearing. "Where is he?" Tommy waited a few seconds more, then came in and punched him in the face, kicked him in the chest and then did a spinning jump kick to Trent sending him flying to the ground.

"Dr. Mercer!" Conner said into his communicator. "Can you find a lock on Zeltrax? We lost him."

"Let me search for a second Conner," Hayley said as she tried to can for him.

"Hayley! You're back!" Ethan said.

"Yeah. Guys, he is heading northeast. I will try to figure out where he is going." All of a sudden, an alarm went off. "Damn! What now?"

"What is that for?" Elsa said. Hayley checked on the alarm. She did not look very happy when she turned up the results.

"The Abyss of Evil," Hayley said. "Evil energy is starting so leak out of it. This isn't good. It looks like that is where Zeltrax is heading." At that moment, another alarm went off.

"What is that?" Anton said.

"A transmission from Ninja Ops," Hayley said and pulled up the call.

"Rangers! This is Cam!" Cam said as the image of him and the Wind Rangers came up.

"The Rangers aren't here. They are fighting Zeltrax. What's wrong?"

"It is the Abyss of Evil. It has become active again."

"We know," Anton said. "We are sending the Rangers there to stop Zeltrax from getting

there."

"They have to stop Zeltrax," Sensei Watannabe said as he came into view. "If he uses the Abyss, he will grow powerful enough to conquer the Rangers. If anyone evil goes into it, they will grow in power."

"If we had our powers, we could have helped you," Shane said.

"But we don't so we're not much got to you" Tori continued.

"Major bummer man," Dustin added.

"There is another Ranger team helping the DinoThunders," Elsa said. "They can stop him."

"They had better hurry," Sensei said.

"Thank you!" Hayley said and the transmission ended. She opened the communicator to Conner again. "Conner and Adam, you have to head to the Abyss of Evil. Zeltrax is trying to harness the power of the abyss to grow more powerful."

"Thanks Hayley! Hurry guys!" Conner said as they summoned their raptor riders. The Rangers got onto the riders. "We don't have much time!" As soon as he ended that sentence, two hundred Triptoids surrounded them.

"Oh jeez!" Devin said. "Don't they know when to quit!"

"Just what we need!" Tanya said.

"We need to do this quickly guys," Adam said. The Triptoids began to attack.

"I knew that if I waited long enough you would come out, I would get you," Tommy said coldly as he reappeared in front of Trent. Trent got up and went into a fighting stance. "I thought you were smarter than that. Guess I was wrong."

"Oh that is it!" Trent said angrily. "White Ranger, Dino Power! HA!" Trent morphed.

"Mmph! So you resort to morphing when you are about to lose? How cowardly!"

"Shut up!" Trent said. "Dr. Oliver, you have to fight this! I was able to turn good from being evil. Come back to us!" Tommy began to laugh in amusement.

"You honestly think that you are the only Ranger that started out evil, Trent? I was evil, too. I was the first Ranger to ever go evil."

"I hear something... about a Green Ranger?"

"Oh yes, I was the original evil ranger before it was in style. I know what's it's like Trent. I know what you felt. How you knew what was going on around you? How you're biggest fear wasn't that you were hurting your friends but that deep down inside... you liked it."

"SHUT UP!" Trent yelled as he went to try to jump on Tommy to pin him again.

"It's Morphin' Time, Trent," Tommy said very calmly, but coldly with a sharp, evil tone at the same time.

"No!"

Tommy took his key and yelled, "DinoThunder Power Up! HA!" He morphed just as Trent tackled him, but Tommy used Trent's momentum to flip Trent over him. The two got up and squared off. Trent took out his Drago Sword as Tommy took his Brachio Staff out and they ran at each other. They started sword fighting not letting each other get the best of them. Trent pushed Tommy back and summoned up his Laser Arrows.

"Hiiii-ya!" Trent said as he flung them at his teacher. Tommy hit away all of them, but as soon as Tommy hit away the last arrow, Trent used his speed attack to hit him. That attack hit Tommy pretty hard. Tommy dropped to one knee. "Dr. O, you can't beat me morphed. If I learned one good thing while I was evil it was that four-on-one, I can beat my own team."

"Don't get cocky, Trent," Tommy said. "You haven't won yet." Tommy got up and readied his staff for another attack. He ran toward Trent to initiate another round of sword fighting. They pushed back each other.

"Laser Arrows!" Trent said as he drew them out.

"Energy Orb!" Tommy said. They both looked at each other holding their attacks steady.

"FIRE!" the two said at the same time and they sent each other's attacks at each other. The two attacks collided, but Tommy's attack overpowered Trent's and the Energy Orb hit Trent with a big explosion. Trent fell to his knees and then to the ground unconscious.

"Detention time Trent," Tommy said as he went up to him and kicked him in the ribs. Tommy then ran off to try to catch up to Zeltrax. A minute or two later, Trent woke up, busted and embarassed.

"Damn!" Trent said. "Conner, come in!"

"What is going on?" Conner said. "Did you stop Dr. O?"

"No, he is heading towards something. And FAST."

"Shoot! He is heading toward the Abyss of Evil!" Conner said.

"And we have our hands full here," Katherine said as she sent a Triptoid into a nearby stream.

"Trent! Come in!" Anton said. "Are you okay, son?"

"Yeah I am fine," Trent said. "Just fine, dad."

"Hurry and get there Trent!" Elsa said

"Right!" Trent headed toward the Abyss of Evil.

Ok, the Rangers have no time to waste. Zeltrax is on his way to the Abyss of Evil and what is worse is Tommy has turned on them. How will they defeat Zeltrax and get Tommy back? Read the next chapter: Revenge