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Authors' note: Still breaking down the fic….almost done. One more chapter after this. Enjoy.
Chapter 4: Revenge
The other Rangers finally finished off the Triptoids a few minutes later and they too made their way to the Abyss. When the Rangers got to a cliff nearby overlooking the Abyss, they saw Zeltrax waiting.
"What is he doing?" Cassidy said.
"I don't know," Ethan said. Just then, Tommy came running up to Zeltrax.
"No!" Rocky said. "He made it here."
"Tommy, use your power to open the Abyss," Zeltrax said.
"Right, master!" Tommy said.
"What is Dr. Oliver doing?" Cassidy said.
"He is going to do an attack," Kira said.
"Earthquake! Strike NOW!" Tommy said as he slammed the Brachio Staff into the ground. A huge crack formed in the ground where Tommy had struck and the Zeo Rangers were stunned as to how powerful Tommy had grown since last they saw him.
"DAAAAAMMMNNN!" Tanya yelled.
"Holy Shit!" Devin said.
"Whoa!" Cassidy said. "Our teacher has that much power!"
"He has another attack even worse than that," Conner said. All the Zeo Rangers, Cassidy and Devin looked at Conner. He slowly nodded in a sign of confirmation that sent a chill down everyone's spine.
"We have to keep him from pulling those attacks out!" Adam said. "Come on guys!" They ran down to were Zeltrax and Tommy were.
"STOP!" Rocky yelled.
"Tommy, stall them!" Zeltrax said and then jumped into the Abyss of Evil.
"NO!" the Rangers said.
"I am not going to let any of you passed me," Tommy said.
"Wake up, Tommy!" Adam said. "You don't want to do this!"
"Butt out, Adam! And by the way, aren't you the one that called me a newbie?" Tommy readied his Brachio Staff.
"Damn! I was hoping that you would have forgotten about that." Just then, a countless number of Triptoids appeared around the Rangers.
"MAN! Doesn't this guy know anything about variety? Where a good old fashioned Cog when you need one?" Rocky said, trying to bring some light-heartedness to the serious situation.
"Triptoids! DESTROY THEM!" Tommy yelled as he pointed at the Rangers.
"NO, TOMMY!" Katherine said. It was too late. The swarms of Triptoids started to attack the Rangers as Tommy laughed evilly. The Rangers gathered in a group in order to think up a strategy.
"What do we do now?" Cassidy asked. "There are hundreds of them!"
"If one of us doesn't keep Tommy busy, he will attack us when we are fighting the Triptoids," Rocky said.
"Who is going to do that?" Devin asked.
"I will," Adam said in a serious tone.
"You sure?" Tanya asked.
"Be careful, Adam," Ethan said. Adam nodded.
"Ok guys! ATTACK!" Adam yelled. The Rangers shattered in all directions. As Adam was running straight for Tommy, he took out his hatchets. "Zeo Four Power Weapon! Adam jumped into the air and came slashing down on Tommy, but Tommy blocked both the hatchets.
"Trying to prove yourself, aren't you Adam?" Tommy said.
"No! I am trying to take you down for your own good," Adam said as he disengaged the attack and tried to swing the axes across Tommy's body. Tommy barely dodged the attack and came in to counterattack with a slash. Adam flipped out of the way and the two squared off.
"Tyranno Staff!" Conner said as his weapon appeared in his hand. He twirled the staff by one end and started hitting Triptoids with the other end. He knocked them over like bowling pins. He then turned his attention to the ones coming up behind him, grabbed his Thundermax saber with his other hand and ran toward them. He hit and slashed at them taking them down two at a time.
"Cassidy, Kira!" Tanya yelled as Katherine came up to her. The two DinoThunder girls ran up to the Zeo girls. "Let's double team them!"
"Yeah!" Cassidy yelled.
"Nice!" Kira said as she pulled out her Ptera Grips. Cassidy pulled out her Dilopho Crossbow as the Zeo girls pulled out their weapons.
"Ready?" Tanya yelled. All the girls nodded. "GIRL POWER!"
"What the!" Rocky said as he, Ethan and Devin turned upon hearing the girls.
"TAKE THIS!" Cassidy yelled as started blasting the Triptoids like crazy. Kira ran toward the Triptoids and started to slice them like a hot knife through butter. Tanya came up from behind her with her nunchukas and started beating the stuffing out of them. Katherine used her shield like a Frisbee and chucked in a wide turn knocking down her opponents flat.
"Damn!" Ethan said.
"Remind me never to get them mad when they are PMSing," Rocky said.
"Ditto!" Ethan and Devin said at the same time. Just then, the Triptoids attacked the guys checking them off guard. They however made short work of them. All of the Triptoids had been dealt with.
Adam chucked one of his hatchets at Tommy as he was running parallel to him. Tommy hit away one of the hatchets and came in to hit Adam. Adam was barely able to block Tommy slashing down on him with his remaining hatchet. Adam knocked Tommy sideways and sliced at Tommy hitting him in the side of the ribs. Tommy backed off.
"You're still fast as ever, Adam," Tommy said.
"So are you," Adam said. At that moment, a laser blasts came flying in and hit Tommy sending him to the ground.
"That is for hitting me earilier, Dr. O," Trent said as he came up alongside Adam.
"Nice of you to join the party."
"Glad I was invited."
"Mmph! I will destroy you both!" Tommy said but was about to attack, but then heard a loud rumbling noise behind him where the Abyss of Evil was.
"Uh oh," Katherine said.
"That is not good," Devin said. Just then, they saw a figure coming out of the abyss.
"Oh no!" Conner said under his breath.
"Crimson Zeltrax!" Kira said. Zeltrax came walking toward the Rangers.
"Zeltrax!" Tommy said he ran up to him, but was then sent back by a charged sword blast. Tommy went flying into Trent and Adam knocking them all to the ground. "Sir, why! Why did you attack me?"
"Because I have no need for you anymore, Dr. Oliver," Zeltrax said. "I searched for a way to out do you Tommy! To overpower you, but since your students would come to your rescue if there were any trouble, it prove to be troublesome. I had to gain more power. My crimson form was used up when I use it's power to replicate myself and escape."
"So that is how he escaped being destroyed," Ethan said.
"Quite boy! I had to gain that power back and then more. When the Dino Gems were taken away from me, my first plan was ruined. I decide that in order to destroy you Dr. Oliver I had to separate you from the other Rangers, but that plan was botched when the Zeo Rangers stepped in. I knew my last resort was the Abyss of Evil, but I needed someone that could open it. That was where you came in, Tommy!"
"So you turned him to your side," Devin said.
"Bingo!"
"Does it seem that almost everyone of the villains that ever existed have a thing for Tommy?" Tanya whispered into Rocky's ear.
"Seems like it," Rocky said, "It must be the hair."
"But Zeltrax sir!" Tommy said pleading with him. Zeltrax hit him again and Tommy fell to the ground.
"DR. O!" the DinoThunder Rangers said. Trent turned Tommy onto his back to see if he was okay. Tommy had been knocked unconscious.
"YOU!" Adam said as he started running toward Zeltrax with Rocky right behind him. In Adam's path, he saw his other hatchet and as he ran by, he picked it up and chucked it at Zeltrax. Zeltrax knocked it away effortlessly and Zeltrax sent it back at them, but Adam and Rocky jumped up to avoid it. Rocky took out his Zeo laser pistol and started shooting while he was coming down. When he landed, he braced himself just as Adam landed on them and jumped toward Zeltrax with his remaining hatchet. Adam successfully slashed at him.
"Rahh!" Zeltrax yelled. Cassidy came running in with her crossbow and started shooting repeatedly. Rocky joined in with her with her axes as well as Kira and Ethan. Zeltrax blocked almost all the shots and flipped over the Rangers to the other side of them. The Rangers now had their backs to the Abyss. "Chew on this!" Zeltrax sent an gale wind at the Rangers. All of the Rangers went flying to the other side of the Abyss... all except for two of them. Adam and the still unconscious Tommy were hanging over the edge of the Abyss. At that moment, Tommy began to fall in, but Adam grabbed his arm with one hand and braced himself with the other. He was having trouble hanging onto him.
"Tommy! Wake up! WAKE UP!" Adam yelled. "I can't hold you!"
"Adam!" Conner and all of the other Rangers yelled.
"Tommy!" Katherine and Tanya yelled. Adam was grunting and straining to try to pull Tommy up.
"Wake up!" Adam yelled. This call echoed in Tommy's mind. He began to stir. When Tommy looked up, he didn't see Adam grabbing him. Tommy was remembering the time when he grabbed Jason from falling into the lava pit on Muiranthias.
No, Jason! Don't let go! Tommy remembered.
"Tommy! I can't pull you up!" Adam said. Adam looked back and realized that he was sliding closer to the mouth of the abyss. "Wake up man!"
"Adam!" Tommy said as he looked up at him. At that moment, Adam's hand that was holding Tommy slipped and Tommy began to fall. "Aww….ma…!"
"NOOO!" Adam yelled. He watched as Tommy fell into the Abyss and disappeared into the purple fog that was hovering in the abyss.
"OH NO!" Conner yelled.
"NO!" Adam said as he hit the ground in anger. He was furious at himself, but more so at Zeltrax. "I…I……didn't save…him."
"Adam," Rocky said sadly. He knew his best friend was hurting inside.
"YES! He is finally gone!" Zeltrax said contentedly. "Now to get rid of the rest of you!" Adam turned around to Zeltrax.
"YOU WILL PAY!" Adam yelled in rage as he ran at him. Along the way, he grabbed his other hatchet and in a blind rage, tried desperately to hit Zeltrax. Zeltrax was having trouble trying to dodge his attacks. Because of the skill and speed Adam had and the addition of him being outraged, Adam was giving Zeltrax a tough time.
"Guys! We have to help, Adam!" Conner said determinedly.
"Right!" Rocky said in a pissed off tone. "You will not get away with killing my friend, Zeltrax!" The other Rangers got up, jumped the span of the abyss and ran full speed toward Zeltrax.
"Super Dino Mode!" Conner and all the other DinoThunder Rangers yelled as they upgraded to the next level of their power, impressing the Zeo Rangers. Conner and Trent jumped up and came down on Zeltrax, followed by Katherine and Cassidy and then Tanya and Kira. Adam and Devin came in and slashed him with their weapons and then the two Blue Rangers came in with their blasting. Zeltrax was hit hard. He backed up.
"How?" Zeltrax said astonished. "How are you beating me!"
"How would you feel when your best friend is taken away from you!" Tanya yelled.
"But the Abyss is suppose to intensify my power! Why? Why can't I beat you?"
"You thought that you could get away from the darkness, didn't you?" a scratchy deep male voice said.
"Who…?" Tommy asked.
"You served me and now you will do it again…." a high annoying female voice said.
"Who are you guys? What do you want?"
"You want power…..we can fell it." A sultry female voice said.
"…..yes….I do…." Tommy said.
"We can give it to you, even though we hate your guts!" a cold machine-like female voice said.
"You caused us nothing but grief and annoyance, but now we see that we can use you," a reptilian male voice said.
"Like when you were my Green Ranger! Embrace the darkness in your heart, Tommy!" the annoyingly high female voice said.
"No! I don't want this!" Tommy's good side said to himself. "Stop! Please! Help me!"
"Please! Give me power to destroy Zeltrax!" Tommy's evil side said. "He will pay for turning his back on me."
"Then embrace it!" all of the voices said. Tommy's good side began to feel whatever hold on reality he had left in himself slip further and further away. Tommy's evil side could feel more power being poured into his body. He began to laugh evilly as he could feel the changes in his body. The horrible, familiar feeling had returned.
"Hayley!" Elsa said. "He's gone."
"I know," Hayley said as she sat back. She had given up. "We failed to get to him in time."
"And Zeltrax was able to get power from the Abyss," Anton said sadly. "Do you think that they could beat him?"
"Possibly," Hayley said somberly. "They are so angry at him right now that they are letting their anger and sorrow out on him." An alarm went off.
"What is that?" Elsa said.
"Checking," Hayley said as she looked at the screen monitor. She went wide-eyed in fear. "Oh no!"
"What?" Elsa and Anton said.
"The Abyss! The energy coming from it is growing! This isn't good! The energy increased when Zeltrax when down into it and the level fell when Zeltrax came out of it. That must mean that the Abyss is giving power to the person that goes into it."
"I don't understand," Anton said. "Why is it doing it again?" Elsa gasped.
"It's Tommy!" Elsa said.
"What do you mean, Elsa?" Hayley asked.
"If it gives energy to the evil person that goes into it, then it is giving Tommy power! A lot of it from what your computers are saying!" Anton and Hayley were horrified. "God, poor Tommy. He still has evil inside of him, no matter how much good he does."
"We have to warn the Rangers!" Anton yelled.
"Z-Rex Blaster, Hunter Mode!" the DinoThunder Rangers said as they finished the blaster. Cassidy's crossbow had taken the place of Tommy's Brachio Staff in the configuration and Devin's axes were turned with the handles facing Zeltrax to reveal guns at the bottom. He put his weapons underneath Ethan's Tricera-Shield.
"Ready!" Devin yelled.
"Aim!" Cassidy yelled.
"FIRE!" all the DinoThunder Rangers said as they fired at Zeltrax. The shot had hit its mark and Zeltrax fell to the ground.
"Yeah!" Conner said.
"You did it!" Adam said as the Zeo Rangers came up to them.
"This can't be happening!" Zeltrax said as he managed to get to his feet. The Rangers had done a real number on him. His crimson armor was cracked and falling off in some places and he could barely stand correctly. He ran towards the mouth of the Abyss of Evil. "I can't let you win!"
"Funny!" Rocky said angrily. "You were singing a different tune when you killed Tommy!"
"Rangers come in!" Hayley said frantically coming from Conner's communicator.
"What is it Hayley?" Conner asked. "We are about to finish off Zeltrax for good!"
"You guys have a bigger problem!"
"What do you mean?" Trent said. At that moment, the ground began to shake violently. All the Rangers and Zeltrax fell to the ground.
"What is going on!" Tanya yelled confused. A huge explosion along with a large amount of fog came bellowing out of the Abyss.
"THAT is NOT good!" Rocky said as he stared at the explosion in frightened awe. Just then, a figure came walking out of the fog.
"What the?" Katherine said.
"NO WAY!" all the Rangers said. They recognized the figure.
"Tommy!" Katherine yelled. He looked much different now. His suit seemed alive. Golden veins came out all over his body and the diamonds on the side of his suit along with the DinoThunder emblem was distorted beyond recognition. His visor was no longer black, but instead blood red. That last image shook Trent inside.
"Oh shit…" Adam said under his breath.
"I destroyed you!" Zeltrax yelled in utter shock. "You can't be alive!"
"But I am," Tommy said slowly. His voice was also distorted. So much so that it frightened the Rangers. They couldn't recognize Tommy's kind voice through the malicious sounding tone. Tommy lunged at Zeltrax as Zeltrax tried to block his attack. It proved to be futile when Tommy swung the Brachio Staff and hit him sending him back into a tree.
"Aww man!" Conner said as Zeltrax got up.
"Guys! We have to do something!" Adam said. "If we don't fight Tommy, he will kill us."
"We can't fight our teacher!" Cassidy and Kira said at the same time.
"Yeah!" Ethan said. "We can't hurt him!"
"If you don't hurt him, he will KILL you!" Rocky said seriously. They saw Tommy holding Zeltrax by the collar pulling him up to his face.
"You wanted revenge so much, Smitty," Tommy said snidely. "And now it is biting you in the ass."
"No, no! Have mercy!" Zeltrax said frantically.
"Mercy? You didn't show me mercy when you tried to kill me!"
"NO PLEASE!"
"Goodbye, Smitty!" Tommy saw that Zeltrax was about to replicate by giving up his crimson suit. "Oh no you don't!" He grabbed Zeltrax's real body when he replicated and punched him in the head. Both the replicant and Zeltrax himself fell to the ground. Tommy jumped up into the air and prepared his attack. "Energy Orb!" Tommy unleashed the attack and he destroyed Zeltrax with a huge explosion that caused a small crater the size of normal Energy Orb attack.
"Oh my God!" Devin said. Tommy looked at the other Rangers as they backed up in fear.
"What's wrong, Rangers?" Tommy said in a satisfying tone. "You don't recognize your own friend? How about a hug?" If the rangers could have seen Tommy's face under his helmet at that moment, they would have been horrified by the sneer that owned his face.
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Zeltrax is finally gone, but it wasn't at the Zeo Rangers or the DinoThunder Rangers that destroyed him. Now they have a new and terrible fight ahead of them. Fighting their own teacher. What will happen? Find out in the final chapter: Getting Schooled