Part 3 Things definately hadn't been going Bryans way. Not only did his commanding officer think he was a traitor bent on taking him out but now a monster was trying to kill them both. To make matters worse Becky was still standing right there next to him so he couldn't go with his first instinct and morph.
"You're not going to turn my in to your master traitor." Becky said accusingly "It doesn't matter how many monsters you bring in."
There was only one way that Becky was going to believe that he wasn't a traitor and that was for him to take the monster down. "Hey ugly why don't you let me and the lady go and no one has to get hurt." he said, trying to get the monster to focus its attention squarely on him.
The plan didn't seem to be working however and the large mole like monster lept over Bryan and directly at Becky. "You're coming with me." he scowled.
Bryan let out a look of shock, up until now all this thing did was snarl and drowl. "Whoa you can talk?" he half gasped. He hadn't expected something this ugly to be able to formulate a coherent thought much less speak.
"Yes and both are of you are going to see Emperor Nicandros." the monster said.
"And what makes you think that I'm going to let that happen?" Bryan asked arrogantly.
The monster lifted its arms to reveal what appeared to be large nozzles of some type. "This." it said as a fine mist shot out of the nozzles.
"Sorry you have to do better than that." Becky said "Neither one of you is taking me to see your boss." With that she moved back and tried to circle around the monster but was cut off as it moved to the left and blocked her path.
Bryan countered by moving to the right and trying a sweeping kick with his left leg. The monster lost its balance and started to stumble at which time Bryan reached for Beckys hand. She met him with a punch to the jaw that sent him sprawling to the ground.
"What was that for?" Bryan yelped as he collected himself and watched Becky run past him.
"I told you that I'm not going anywhere with you Cranston." Becky yelled back.
"But you will come with me." the mole monster said as it lept over Bryan to reach her.
Bryan jumped up and tried to sack the monster just as it reached her but the mole monster throw a punch and sent him crashing into a wall. Bryans anger almost overtook him and as he stood he placed his hand behind his back, about to grab his Power Morpher. Just as quickly he caught himself realizing he couldn't morph when Becky could see him do it. Instead he charged at the fiend and tried to tackle it from behind.
The monster didn't even seem to feel Bryans hit and kept moving after Becky as though Bryan weren't even there.
"Surrender now if you want to live." the lead soldier threatened.
"You can't expect it to be that easy." Tommy said as he looked first to his left and then right. He realized the situation was almost hopeless but only needed to hold the attackers back long enough for his team to make a get away. Now more than ever he wished that he could morph. Red, Green or White it didn't matter at all. He just wanted the power to get out of here. "Are we going to do this or what?" he taunted.
"Take him." the lead soldier ordered.
The monster grabbed Beckys arm just as she reached a door and pulled her back to him. "I said you're coming with me." it said.
Becky let out a yelp and through her free arm back in an effort to force herself free. "Let go of me." she cried out.
The monster lifted its left arm and a mist of blue gas came out of its nozzle. The gas covered Becky and she soon drifted out of conciousness. "Now you're mine."
Bryan stood up and dusted himself off. After taking a quick moment the size up the situation he saw that the monster was carrying Becky under one of its arms. Bryan ran towards them and called out. "What do you want with her?"
"If I take her to my master your resistance will be crushed." the Dra-Mole said. "And when the Power Rangers try to rescue her they will be destroyed too."
"So you want to destroy the Power Rangers huh?" Bryan asked while taking a look down to confirm that Becky was out.
"With this girl it will be easy." the monster bragged.
"Then why don't we see how easy it'll be." Bryan said arrogantly as he throw his hand behind his back. "It's Morphin Time!" Bryan pulled out his morpher and held it out in front of him. "FOX!" The Morphin Grid engulfed Bryan with its energy, charging his body with the power and transforming him into the Blue Ranger.
The Dra-Mole stepped back and dropped Becky to the ground. It was apparent that it hadn't been expecting to take on a Power Ranger.
The Vandairre soldiers charged in on Tommy as he took a fighting stance and prepared to take some of them with him. Just as they reached him an explosion shook the entire building.
Everyone in the cooridor tumbled to the ground. Tommy looked up to see what was going on to find the soldiers stumbling over each other in a mad attempt to recover.
"Tommy are you going to stay there or get up and come with us?" came a voice that he was all to happy to hear. As he regained his footing he looked across the cooridor to see Kat and the others fighting their way to him through a group of down soldiers.
"If it's all the same to you I'd rather get out of here." Tommy answered as he hurried to his feet and started moving towards the others.
Kat gave her husband a slight nod and then grabbed his hand as he past by her.
Leaning close Tommy gave her a kiss. "I love you." he said.
"I know." she said with a grin as they joined the others heading down the corridor.
The Dra-Mole looked at Bryan, slightly trembling. The last time it had taken on a Power Ranger things hadn't turned out so pretty and incidently it had been a previous Blue Ranger that had lead the charge in his destruction.
"Not so tough now are we?" Bryan said with an unseen smirk.
"I'm not scared of you Ranger." the Dra-Mole said. It of course was lying. The creature was nearly terrified. It hadn't counted on having to encounter a ranger just yet. It needed more time to prepare.
"The enough talk creature. Why don't we see how tough you are when you're not hiding behind someone." Bryan said.
"How about we don't..." Dra-Mole said as it turned to run.
"You're not getting away that easily Blue Ranger said as he launched himself into the air and over the monsters head, landing gently in front of the creature and cutting off its escape route.
"I'm leaving now and there's nothing that you can do to stop me Blue Ranger." With that the creature charged at Bryan, tackling him to the ground.
Blue Ranger tried to stand but quickly went down again as the creature started to maul him with his claws and then hoisted him over its head before throwing him into a wall. 'Maybe I should have let it go.' Bryan thought to himself.
In another second the Dra-Mole monster displayed an amazing act of speed and prowess that didn't seem possible for such and awkwardly built creature. It pounced on the stunned Blue Ranger, slashing it him with its massive claws then grabbed him by the legs and spun him a circle, taking every opportunity that presented itself to bash him into the walls and ground that.
As Bryan struggled to free himself from the creatures grasp he saw soldiers swiftly enter the room and move towards Becky.
"Take her." the creature said as he slammed the almost helpless Blue Ranger to the ground with such force that it caused him to demorph and curl into a tight ball. "We'll finish this later." Dra-Mole said. "I have other things to worry about for now."
As he lost conciousness Bryan saw the Dra-Mole monster and soldier take Becky and leave. The only thing that he could do was wonder why the creature hadn't taken the opportunity to finish him off.
Tara found herself pacing the floor of the Power Chamber along with her little robotic companion. Bryan was late for his watch, something that he rarely did. She actually found herself starting to worry about him. "Where the hell is he?" she asked no one in particular.
"I don't know." Alpha replied, completely oblivious that it was a rhetorical question.
Tara let out a grunt "Try contacting him on his communicator." she told Alpha.
Alpha moved over to the control panel and activated the communications relay.
Tara watched as the robot that she had pieced together from spare parts began worked. After about 3 minutes of trying he turned to her.
"There is no response." Alpha answered. "Ayi, Ayi, Ayi, where could he be?"
Tara shook her head. He was probably out having a good time and had decided to leave someone else to cover his shift. "Contact the other Rangers. Someone will have to go look for him." she said, slightly peeved.