Part 4
Jarrold rolled over at the sound of his communicator beeping and looked at his clock. '3 in the morning. What could the problem possibly be?' he wondered as he picked up the beeping deviced and strapped it to his wrist. "This is Jarrold." he replied.
"Big brother you need to get to the Command Center." Tara said from the other end of the connection.
"What are you doing there. You're supposed to be in your room sleeping." Jarrold chastised as he stood up and pulled on his robe. He hoped his little sister wasn't working on anymore of her projects. If she was it would more than likely mean trouble. "Bryans supposed to be there."
"That's the problem. I'll explain when you get here." she returned.
Jarrold stood up and stretched then yawned before pressing the button that activated the teleporter and took him to the Power Rangers base of operations. When he arrived the rest of the rangers were present, with the exception of Bryan. "What's going on?" he asked.
"Bryan didn't show up for his watch." Tara replied.
"Ayi, Ayi, Ayi he's 5 hours late." Alpha added.
Tara frowned at the little robot. She hated when he cut in on her like that. But the fact was that he was right. Bryan was 5 hours late and there had been no word from him.
"And you haven't been able to reach him on his commnunicator?" Jarrold asked suddenly fully awake. It wasn't like Bryan to be late for his shift. He was a joker and irresponsible at times but he was a team player and never shirked his duty as a Ranger. That was probably the only thing that he took seriously.
"I gave him over an hour before I tried calling him and then Alpha set the console to beep him at 5 minute intervals." Tara replied.
"Why did it take you so long to call us squirt?" Ashlyn said.
Tara hated the Yellow Ranger with a serious passion and she wasn't doing anything at the moment to change that. "Because I thought that maybe he would come on or that he was just goofing off." she answered barely holding back from carrying out her desire to jump on the older girl and rip out her throat.
"We have to find him." Leslie said. "He could be in trouble."
Aron looked at the girl that looked so much like the princess that he had followed to Earth and nodded his agreement. "Alpha can you pinpoint the location of his communicator?" the Red Ranger asked.
"Yes I can Aron." Alpha said as he moved to the console and brought up the information "I have his position now."
Jarrold moved closer to Alpha "Teleport us to him." the Power Rangers leader said to the little robot that his sister had assembled.
Alpha did as instructed an in a matter of moments that Rangers found themselves streaking towards the location of their comrade as multispectral beams of light.
Tommy rolled over and looked at his wife as she slept soundly. Just hours ago they had been in the middle of an enemy camp that they had barely escaped with their lives. Much like their old days as Power Rangers. Now however they carried out their missions without the benefits of Power Morphers or Zords. Now they were just a man and woman. Sure they had experience with fighting alien invaders, they had been doing it since they were nothing but kids. This was different however, before they had always been fighting to stop the invaders from taking over their planet. Now on the other hand they were fighting to free a planet that was already enslaved, a planet that had been conquered in a matter of days.
Katherine Oliver opened her eyes and saw that her husband was staring at her, watching her. "What's wrong Tommy?" she asked.
"I don't know... this is strange. I mean being here and fighting again." Tommy said almost ruefully. "I didn't think that I would ever have to do this again. I mean are we doing the right thing? We could be making matters worse."
Kat frowned at him slightly. "Thomas Ian Oliver how can you even suggest such a thing. Did we make matters worse when we were fighting Zedd? How about Mondo or Divatox for that matter."
"Yes but they were small time compared to Nicandros. I mean he was the first to ever beat the Power Rangers. No matter what we did we couldn't stop him. Remember the stories that I told you about Mesagog? Well he wasn't anything compared to Nicandros."
"Tommy you beat Mesagog and we can beat Nicandros." she responded not entirely sure that it was the right thing to do. "Plus what about the Rangers on Earth. I'm sure that they're holding their own."
"I'm sure that they are but they're still new at these. We had been Rangers for years and Nicandros was able to beat us. I mean poor Rocky is gone and I thought that I had lost you too." Tommy said regretful that one of his best friends he died at the hands of Nicandros and his soldiers.
"Well Tommy I know that at least one of the Rangers will be able to hold his own. After all how could he not with the Great Tommy Oliver as a father." Kat said with a slight smirk.
"God Kat I miss our son." he said.
"So do I Tommy but we'll see him again. For now we have to concentrate on our mission and let him worry about his." Kat said.
Tommy opened his mouth to say something in response but was interrupted by his wifes meeting them with her own.
The Rangers appeared in a small warehouse just inside of Angel Grove city limits. This area had become known alternately as the Demolition Zone and Monster Alley based on how many times it had been demolished by various attacking creatures over the history of the city. This area was hardly frequented ever by the most disreputable of characters. It was just to unsafe for anyone to be in.
"I wonder what Bryans doing here." Jason said as he scoped out the area. He got an uneasy feeling just being here. His father and adopted mother, both former Rangers had told him about this area and how dangerous is could be. He felt like at any moment a monster was going to knock a building over on him.
"I don't know but lets find him and get out of here." Jarrold said.
Jason nodded to his best friend and leader of the team. A few people still found it weird that he was the teams leader. After all the Red Ranger traditionally lead the Power Rangers and the only time that wasn't the case was when the White Ranger, his father led the team. Still he respected Jarrold and was more than happy to serve as the teams second in command. He recognized that he could lead if need be by he really wasn't the right person to d the job on a full time basis. "We should split up so that we can cover more ground."
"Agreed." Jarrold said. "Ashlyn, Aron, you're with me. Tara, Leslie, Mark, you're with Jason."
'Figures' Tara thought to herself. 'He's always doing whatever he can to be near that red headed...' he thoughts trailed off as she saw a figure approaching them seemingly rubbing its head.
Mark, the Black Ranger and second youngest of the group approached the figure as it emerged from the shadows. "Bryan are you okay?" he asked as he caught the Blue Ranger before he collapsed.
"No." Bryan answered.
He looked like he had been through a train wreck and felt like he had been stepped on by a Zord.
"What happened?" Jarrold asked as he approached.
Tara found herself increasing happy that they had found Bryan now. More so for the fact that her big brother wasn't going off practically alone with Ashlyn. She was also glad that Bryan was alive but not having Jarrold searching with her was a bonus.
"Becky and I were ambushed and... Damn! They got Becky." Bryan said as he brushed Mark off of him.
"Who got Becky?" Leslie asked in concern.
"This monster. It came with soldiers, said that it was going to use Becky to take down the Rangers." Bryan said all in one breath. "I morphed and tried to fight it but it was really strong. Didn't even have time to call for back up."
"Did she see you morph?" Aron asked.
"Not that it matters at this moment but no she didn't" Bryan answered. "Look we have to go after her."
"I agree." Jarrold said as he reached over and activated his communicator. "Alpha we've located Bryan. Please lock on and teleport us to Captain Sawyers communicator."
"Yes Jarrold." Alpha said.
"We're probably teleporting right into a trap." Aron said.
"Then I guess we better be prepared. If this monster wants the Power Rangers then lets give him the Power Rangers." Tara said.
"Then I guess there's only one thing to say." Jason chimed in.
Jarrold nodded and placed his hand behind his back. "It's Morphin Time."
Each Ranger followed his lead and pulled out their Power Morphers.
"Panther!"
"Cheetah!"
"Fox!"
"Lynx!
"Phoenix!"
"Bull!"
"Dragon!"
"Eagle!"
With their transformations complete the Rangers were swept away in the teleportation beam and deposited at the location that Alpha had detected Beckys communicator.
The Rangers landed in what appeared to be a junk yard. Things seemed quiet, a lot more quiet than they should be, even for an abandoned junkyard late at 3:00 in the morning.
"Spread out and look for Captain Sawyer." Green Ranger said.
"Maybe you would prefer to find me." The Dra-Mole said as it appeared out of seemingly nowhere.
This was the second time that they found that they didn't have to seperate and that suited The Green Ranger just fine. "Where is Captain Sawyer?" he asked.
"I can't really see how that would be any of your business. She's fine just where she is." Dra-Mole replied.
"Tell us where she is now." Blue Ranger demanded.
"She's my guest." the monster said. "She'll be here for a long time. Especially after I destroy you." With that the monster waved its claws in the air and soldiers started to come out of the shadows of the rundown junk yard.
"How many of you jerks do we have to destroy before you get the message that you can't beat The Power Rangers?" Purple asked arrogantly.
The soldiers charged at the Rangers.
"Purple, Black, White, Pink... Take out the soldiers. Yellow, Red... Take the monster. Blue your with me." Green Ranger instructed.
The Rangers moved towards their assigned duties and began to take out the invaders as instructed. Green and Blue seperated from the others and began searching the junkyard.
Tommy stood and pulled on his shirt. He had a bad feeling about something and couldn't quite figure out exactly what it was.
"Where are you going Tommy?" Kat asked as she watched her husband.
"I'm just going for a walk." Tommy replied and then leaned over to give her a kiss.
Kat smiled and rolled over. Tommy was going through something that he would have to figure out for himself but now that there were together again she was sure that he would be just fine.
Tommy left their quarters and walked out among the site of the resistance base. People seemed to pay a lot of attention to him. A lot more than he was used to. Back on Earth no one had ever known that he was a Power Ranger or what he did for the world. Here however was a different story. Everyone know who he was and what he did. They seemed like they were starting to depend on him to save them single-handedly. It was hard to have so many people count on you to do something that you had failed at before.
Tommy stopped and looked over the gate to the compound. The ground began to rumble ever so slightly and then he realized what the uneasy feeling that he had was. It was the same feeling that he would get before the invading alien of the day would send down their latest monster. They were about to be attacked.
Tommy turned and darted towards the closest people that he could find. "Wake everyone up. Put the camp on alert. We're about to be attacked." he shouted to them as he ran past. The only thing that he could think of was getting to his wife.
"Plasma Bow!" Purple shouted as she held out her hand. Her power weapon materialed and she opened fire at the soldiers. Taking out several in rapid succession.
"Phoenix Fire Whip!" Pink called out, summoning her weapon. In what looked like an almost suggestive dance she twirled the whip around her body and lashed out with it before pulling it back in and letting it fly again.
White watched as the Pink and Purple Rangers decimated the outmatched Vandairre soldiers. It seemed to him that one of two things was happening. Either the soldiers were getting weaker or the Rangers were getting stronger. Either suited him just fine as they would have the same result. "Ice Blade!" he said summoning his weapon and then running to join the girls in their attack.
Black followed up a roundhouse kick by holding out his hand and summoning his weapon. "Elemental Staff!" he called out, forcing the weapon from its extradimensional space and causing it to appear before him.
"You hit him high, I'll go low." Yellow said to Red. The two worked well as a team but then again Yellow worked well in a team with all of the other Rangers, even that spoiled brat Tara much to her chagrine.
Red nodded and he ran towards Yellow. Yellow knelt down slightly and cupped her hands together, forming a 'step' which Red jumped on and was catapulted into the air towards the monster.
As Red flew towards the monster Yellow charged towards it then in perfect unison they both hit, Yellow with a leg sweep and Red with a flying butterfly kick.
The Dra-Mole flew back into a the rusted shell of an old car and then slumped down from the impact.
"Quick Blade!" Yellow called out, summoning the Power Weapon that The Purple Ranger had modified for her. The weapon appeared in her hand and she charged at the monster with all the speed of her token animal the Cheetah. With a quick slash of her blade she cut deeply into the monsters chest. "Your turn Red." she said to her companion.
"Flame Sais!" Red yelled. His twin fiery weapons appeared and he held onto the them delicately as he propelled himself into the air and then plunged the forked daggers into the monster.
Dra-Mole howled in pain before letting out a furious roar and charging at the two Rangers and tackling them like that were nothing more than small children.
"I think we made it mad." Yellow said as she fought to get back to her feet.
The Blue and Green Rangers scoured the area searching for Captain Sawyer. The monster had targeted her for a reason and it definately couldn't have been good. It wanted something from her, what they had no idea but they were going to find and rescue her before the monster got the chance to do whatever it wanted.
As they passed what seemed to be a small shack they heard a slight groan. Green turned to his fellow Power Ranger and motioned towards the shack with his head.
Blue nodded and drew his blade blaster before moving slowly to the rickety, rundown looking building. Green followed him as he approached a door. With a swift kick that shook the entire building the door fell off of its hinges. Inside, barely conscious and tied to a chair with a strange looking mask over her mouth and nose was Captain Sawyer.
Blue quickly ran to the chair and pulled the mask off of her face. She let out a gasp and collapse, fighting to breath.
Green lefted his arm next to his mouth and activated his communicator. "Alpha teleport Captain Sawyer to the Power Chamber immediately. Somethings wrong with her."
"Ayi, Ayi, Ayi." Alpha said. "I'll teleport her with away."
In a streak of light Captain Sawyer disappeared from the rundown shack in the middle of a junkyard and was on her way to the Power Rangers base of operations.
Blue clenched his fists and charged out of the shed "I'm taking that thing out now." he said.
Green followed him, her was sure that there was going to be serious trouble, after all it was not a good idea to upset a Power Ranger and the monster had done just that.
White, Pink, Purple and Black had successfully dispatched the soldiers and had joined the fight against the Dra-Mole and had just as quickly been bowled over and slashed by his huge claws. It seemed as if the beast was a lot stronger than his look would have indicated.
Dra-Mole was on his way in for a second attack when he was tackled to the ground by blue blur. When he finally got back to his feet and looked up the Blue Ranger was standing over him looking down from a stack of cars.
"Dra-Mole monster. You messed with my friends. You turned Becky against me and you made me have a really bad day. For that you're going to pay." Blue said with his arms crossed and power weapon in hand.
"I didn't turn your precious captain against you. She already didn't trust you. I just brought her true feelings out." Dra-Mole responded.
"You lie and now you're going to die." Blue returned as he flagged for the others to form up behind him. "I think this guy can use a shot from the Power Blaster.
Green nodded. "Alright guys then lets bring em together.
The Rangers each contributed their weapons to the formation of their combined Power Blaster and just as she had done before The Pink Ranger pulled the weapon out of the air with her Fire Whip. Just as she fired however the monster pulled out the growth vial that all of the other monsters had and broke it on the ground.
Everyone looked at Purple to make her usual smart-alecky comment but were surprised when it was Blue that said it this time. "Looks like this guys going to be big trouble."
Once again the group let out a collective groan.
"Then lets show him the power of the titans." Green said.
"Right!" the Rangers exclaimed simultaneously.
"Red Ranger, Bull, TitanZord Power!"
"Black Ranger, Panther, TitanZord Power!"
"Purple Ranger, Dragon, TitanZord Power!"
"White Ranger, Lynx, TitanZord Power!"
"Blue Ranger, Fox, TitanZord Power!"
"Yellow Ranger, Cheetah, TitanZord Power!"
"Pink Ranger, Phoenix, TitanZord Power!"
"Green Ranger, Eagle, TitanZord Power!"
The TitanZords came charging and diving towards the scene of the battle. The Rangers jumped towards their mecha and faded through and into their cockpits. Once inside they took control.
"Looks it's really late and I'm tired so I say we just get it over with and take this thing out fast." Purple said from the cockpit of her DragonZord.
"Alright then... Everyone combine into the Mega TitanZord." Green ordered.
The Zords came together into their ultimate form.
"Bryan you do their honors." Jarrold said from their mutual cockpit.
"Thank you." The Blue Ranger said while moving his hand over the control panel in front of him. "I have just the thing for him. Power Sword!"
The Mega TitanZords weapon dropped down from the sky like a meteor falling from the heavens. The giant Zord caught the weapon and charged at the Dra-Mole.
"No wait... I can tell you how too..." the monster started to say but it was too late. The MegaZord cut deeply into the monster, unleashing all of the power that it's weapon contained and in a massive explosion the Dra-Mole was no more.
The Rangers teleported into the Power Chamber and Bryan immediately removed his helmet and ran over to Captain Sawyer who was laying unconcious in the medical bay. He frankly didn't care if she was concious and found out that he was a Power Ranger, at least that way she would trust him again.
Alpha entered to medical bay and approached the Blue Ranger. "She will be fine." the little robot said. "The monster gas that the monster used on her would have altered her brain chemistry to make her fearful of humans and trust the Vandairre but you got to her in time."
"He said that she never really trusted me." Bryan said as he placed his helmet next to Beckys bed and leaned down to look at her more closely.
"They lie..." Alpha said simply as he turned to walk away.
Becky woke up with a start and jumped from her bed. She looked around and realized that she was in her room at the old Nasada Complex that was being used for the headquarters of the human resistance. How had she gotten here? The last thing that she remembered was trying to shoot Bryan and the monster "Oh my god... Bryan." she reached down to her communicator so that she could call the Rangers for help but just as she was about to touch the button someone walked into her room.
"Looks like you're awake."
"Bryan you're okay!" she exclaimed as she ran over and gave him a hug. She quickly stepped back and blushed.
"I'm just fine. How are you?" he returned.
"I thought you were... well I'm sorry for what I did to you it's just that... well all those things that I said..."
"Not to worry. When the Power Rangers rescued us they explained that the monster used some type of gas that worked on fear and paranoia. It's not you're fault." Bryan said.
Becky let out a sigh of relief and then turned to her friend. "There is one thing that I can't explain though. When monster was trying to carry me off I could have sworn that I saw you standing there and as I faded out I saw The Blue Ranger appear right where you were standing. Bryan are you a Power Ranger?"
Bryan let out a chuckle. "Come on Beckers if I was a Power Ranger don't you think that I would tell you?"
Becky frowned and picked up a book "I told you not to call me that." she said as she hurled to object at him.
"Emperor the attack on the rebel compound is underway. Thomas Oliver and his wife will be your soon." Vaard snivelled to Emperor Nicandros.
"Excellent." Nicandros replied.
"What shall we do with the others? They will make excellent slaves."
"No they are more trouble than they are worth. Besides if we kept them as slaves they would simply try to escape and restart their silly little rebellion. Better to get it over with now. Destroy them all." Nicandros commanded.
"As you command sire." Vaard retured as he moved off to carry out the Emperors orders